ArKane™

Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government.
-- Local-body politics explained
(Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

A curious afternoon, I was busy scouting a Freighter run into lowsec with POS fuel whilst keeping an eye on the local Intel channels, news of a POS coming out of reinforced soon got my attention.

I started trying to get as much Intel from the small group already assembled, they were going to drop dreadnoughts on the POS when it came out of reinforced and asked if I'd like to come and play, it was lightly armed with the majority of defences already downed.

Freighter safely in and out of Gusandall I decided to give it a shot, gave Keira a call, told her to get into the Archon and I got into a POS shooting Armageddon.

Turns out all attempts to contact the POS holding corp to offer terms of a ransom were met with silence so "Grand Theft Mobile Lab" was the order of the day. Three dreadnoughts were assembled, a Moros, a Naglfar and a Revelation, together with the NovaKane flagship Archon, the ArKane™, it was quite a site for someone who spends most of their time in a Rifter.

A cyno was lit just off a station and the caps jumped in with little fanfare, we docked up and waited the fifteen or so minutes before the POS was shootable again. I had in this time gotten into system with the Geddon and waited patiently.

The time came, we all undocked, my Geddon warping in first, closely followed by Keira's carrier.
The two remaining sentry guns took a liking to my Geddon and I had to warp out as Keira couldn't get the remote repairer on me quick enough, the Geddon sporting only a Damage Control as its tank not up to the task of tanking sentry fire on its own. By this time the three dreads had arrived and gone into siege. I warped back in, Keira dropped a large flight of Bouncer IIs and I took place just beneath her, dropped a flight of Bouncer Is and set my Mega Pulse IIs to work.

Keira's perspective:



The view from my Geddon:




The shot itself was very uneventful, no defence fleet and only the two online sentries taking a fancy to my Geddon. It went down without much fanfare and the labs and assorted mods were unanchored and scooped.

The CONCORD generated killmail was curious in that the third Dreadnought didn't appear on it, so here is the correct killmail as it should have been:

2009.10.29 16:21:00
Corp: The Society of Intergalactic Gangsters
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Destroyed: Minmatar Control Tower Medium
Moon: Sotrenzur VII - Moon 1
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3
Damage Taken: 9105721

Involved parties:

Name: ASSSASSIN X
Security: -10
Corp: Mean Corp
Alliance: Mean Coalition
Faction: NONE
Ship: Revelation
Weapon: PURE AWESOME
Damage Done: OVER 9000

Name: Galgor Thale
Security: -9.4
Corp: Hellequin Inc.
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Naglfar
Weapon: Naglfar
Damage Done: 3917629

Name: nominruil
Security: -10.0
Corp: Mean Corp
Alliance: Mean Coalition
Faction: NONE
Ship: Moros
Weapon: Moros
Damage Done: 3618592

Name: Kane Rizzel (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Corp: NovaKane Incorporated
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Armageddon
Weapon: Mega Pulse Laser II
Damage Done: 940290

Name: Keira Rizzel
Security: 4.9
Corp: NovaKane Incorporated
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Archon
Weapon: Bouncer II
Damage Done: 629210

Thanks to the Mean and Hellequin guys for letting us tag along, I think Keira was very happy to finally use a ship she had trained so very long for. Thanks too for the cyno back home guys.

Back home for a smoke and a cup of tea before heading out, hopefully Kenny remembers to fuel his POS later.