The day that started out so well continued in the same manner through the evening. I took some well needed R&R in station before waking up to continue my adventures in the wormholes. As I signed on I found several of my corpmembers online and was greeted by several nasty grins. Apparently, they’d read my logs. Yeah, yeah, you wannabe bad guys.
I kept sifting through wormholes and found six (!) of them in Rephirib. After having looked through five of them with not a single piloted vessel in them, I started losing hope. Is wormhole space really this empty? As I entered the sixth and final wormhole, my sensors registered two vessels in the vicinity. A Hyperion and a Raven. After the previous wormholes where every ship I came across was safely parked at a POS, I wasn’t too excited, but I dropped my probes and got to work nonetheless.
My heart raced a bit as I narrowed them down. They were nowhere near a moon! This meant they were certainly piloted and active. I quickly recovered my probes as to not spook the pilots, and warped to 50 km off their position to observe. What met me was a glorious! Two enemy ships, marked red by our standings, were battling a Sleeper battleship and it’s frigate escort. I knew they would probably had killed the battleship and be off if I left now, so instead I observed, waited for them to move on.
And they did. Once the sleeper battleship exploded, the Hyperion aligned for warp out in the void, and I retreated to a planet, decloaked and redeployed my probes. After less than a minute, I had pinpointed his location, again nowhere near a moon. I opted for simply bookmarking the spot and hurried back to K-space.
As I entered Rephirib again I blared across the corpchannel for people to get ready. Reds were to be destroyed! Unfortunately, most of my valiant corpmates were in no position to join up as they were 30+ jumps out, but Isaac and Klown were ready and willing. Isaac mounted his Armageddon and Klown jumped into his newly acquired Onyx Heavy Interdictor. Sweet, a bubble!
I opted for firepower and jumped into the Asmodai. Those pesky reds would get a real surprise when this Sansha monstrosity warped in on them. We formed up on the Rephirib gate, I was given squad command and issued the interlinked gang-warp. We landed at the mouth of the wormhole and slid through into the class 3 system. Silently and quickly we aligned towards the Hyperion’s position and I again iniated gang-warp.
We landed almost right on top of them. The Raven were 15-18 Km out and I quickly put my warp disruptor on him. He wasn’t going anywhere. The Hyperion however, was 37 Km off, too far off for either of us to get a point on. Klown valiantly engaged his microwarp drive and sped towards the Hyperion, catching it with his infinitpoint. We opened fire on the Hyperion, but when I attempted to reload my guns with Scorch crystals for range, I recieved an error message.
Apparently, I was out of cargospace and there was no room for the crystals to be moved back for the swap. Crap! I forgot to drop off the loot from HOPTOH earlier. Damnit, oh well. It didn’t matter much, since just as Klown got ready to deploy his bubble, the Hyperion somehow jammed him and warped off to a safespot only 300 Km away. Furious as we were, we turned to the Raven and Klown deployed his bubble around it. He was certainly not going anywhere now!
The Raven was well in range for mymultifrequency crystals and it didn’t take many volleys from me and Isaac for the Raven to evaporate. The pod was swiftly destroyed and it’s pilot sent home to the vats. The Hyperion glared at us from a distance, but there was no way we would catch it, so we returned home.
As we were about to dock in our home station, a red undocked a Drake straight into us. We couldn’t believe our eyes! Klown quickly locked it down while me, Isaac and some LEGIO guys opened up on the Drake. It buckled in less than 10 seconds. It was completely obliterated and it’s pilot sat dimbwitted in his pod looking at the smoldering mess of metal that used to be his ship. Tydcrims made short work of his pod, further killing his security status. Tyd has gone from 5.0 to 1.33 in one day. Well done there Tyd…
A few hours later, we spotted a red gang of two Abaddons, two Guardians, an Absolution and some other escort rabble. We formed a fleet together with some other guys and got hunting, but by the time we caught up with the red gang, they had been joined by a Megathron, a Golem and carrier support in their staging system. There was no way we’d be able to break that, so grudingly we returned towards Hoshoun. As we landed on the Hoshoun gate in Mamet, we saw a red Drake in tackle range! Points were issued, weapons were fired and the Drake was beginning to buckle.
But he was already 20 or so Km off when we started, and we had no really fast ships, save for Klown’s Onyx. As the Drake was speeding out of my overloaded disruptor range, I feared he might escape, but Klown was on his tail and kept his infinipoint on it, and eventually the massive shielding on the Drake dissipated and it was short work from there on in. (The killmail went to someone else who has yet to share it)
In short, this day has seen more pewpew than I have had in the last month. In spite of the obscene amounts of lives lost in all this, I can’t help but feel absolutely fantastic!
Ancy Denaries