Demigodess with a Conscience

A couple of days ago I was on my way up the Kheram pipe and recieved a report that Catrina was somewhere along the pipe as well. I saw this as a perfect moment to teach my sister a lesson, so  I parked my Armageddon on the Unefsih gate in Kheram and waited. Sure enough, there she was! She didn’t say hello, nor did she make any effort to run. I locked her Omen up, and willed my laser batteries to fire! The disruptor shut her warp core down, the web hampered her sublight engines, and the neutralizer crushed her capacitor.

She wasn’t going anywhere, she wasn’t doing any thing and most importantly, she was going down! I’m not even sure if she shot back at all, but in a few seconds, her Omen was reduced to a smoldering wreck. She quickly got her pod out, and I actually received a sneering remark over local chat.

Seeing as I was now under sentry fire due to crimes, I decided to warp my Armageddon to a safespot in empty space and wait out the aggression timer. I felt rather pleased with myself as I told the tale of my victory to my corpmates, but noticed that Catrina was back in system. I couldn’t really help myself, so I made a teasing remark how she was back for more, but she didn’t reply to that. Rather strange, seeing as she usually always have a snide reply.

Only a minute or two after her entering the system, she decloaks right beside me in a Pilgrim! I didn’t know she could use probes, so I wasn’t even looking! I was locked up, neuted and tracking disrupted in no time. I didn’t even have drones to defend myself with as they were left behind at the gate and destroyed by the sentries. I yelled out to my corpmates to come help, but most of them were far off. In the Citadel, noone lifted a finger to help.

I couldn’t touch her! It was so frustrating. I fired and fired, but the lasers kept missing, and my capacitor was going down fast, in spite of my cap booster. As my corpmates scrambled to get a combat ship ready and fly to my position, I ran out of cap booster charges and Aura’s dreaded voice hit me: “Your capacitor is empty.” My repper turned off, as did most of my other systems. Catrina’s drones were still eating away slowly at my armor, and finally breached the plating, attacking my unprotected hull.

I screamed for my corpmates for help, and apparently, two of them were en route. I kept thinking that they can’t go fast enough, just as the local beacon recognized Isaac entering system. I yelled at him to warp to me, but it was too late. Only a second after him landing on the grid, my proud Armageddon exploded. I quickly got my pod out, in case Cat was in a really bad mood, but apparently she was only interested in Isaac’s Harbinger, and was soon locked in combat with him. I saw Isaac’s desperate cries for help in the Citadel as I limped back home.

Thankfully, Catrina made a mistake and Isaac could get away before being destroyed, but I felt quite humiliated. I traded a battleship for a cheaply fitted cruiser which wasn’t quite what I had in mind. Not only that, I traded thousands of lives for a cheaply fitted cruiser with NO crew.

You will pay for this, dear sister…