Revenge is Sweet

Posted by prometheus09 on July 19, 2009

The Captains Log 19/7 13:14

-      Fossa77 > lol my guess is if you are not in there alliance you will die

So the alliance ran its first Black Ops op over the weekend. The target system was K1Y-5H, part of Cold Steel Alliances domain and the same constellation were I lost my Manticore and close to where I lost my Arazu. After being beat up on by Burn Eden and their Black Ops fleet it was nice to get out there and make someone else suffer. After doing a couple of practice jumps through low sec to our jump location we bridged in our scouts who quickly found a Orca outside the station who looked like he was going to go outside docking range. Fortunately, for him he didn’t venture to far, though an Abaddon also docked and warped too a belt.

 

Our scouts followed him into warp, the Stealth Bombers primed their torpedoes and the Arazu’s cycled their points. The Arazu followed the Abaddon into a belt and soon yelled out “I have point!!” “Cyno lit” “Jump Portal up, all ships bridge through now.” With the jump portal up the Stealth Bombers jumped through and immediately entered warp to the belt the Abaddon was sitting in. With five Manticores pounding on its hull it didn’t stand a chance, with the resulting explosion taking place 34 seconds after the first volley of torpedoes was launched. Next an Imperator was killed as it was trapped in a bubble.

For some reason this seemed to aggravate the locals and they dropped a large fleet into system to hunt us down, rather ineffectively. After this I powered down my ship to get a bit of rest while the rest of the fleet continued their rampage and succeeded in killing a Drake, 2 Myrmidons and a Griffin until the locals started to leave their system.

I was also able to use my Widow to Jump a few people into the target system, which is the first time I have ever done this.

A few hours later our Crane pilot was putting up bubbles on the station when four Cold Steel Stealth Bombers uncloaked and started shooting him. The Crane got away and the Stealth Bombers started shooting our bubbles. At this point dinner was called so I left for a little bit. Upon coming back the rest of the fleet had killed a Manticore and a Nemesis as they were shooting the bubbles. The Cold Steel response to this was to undock three carriers, two Chimeras and the Minmitar one, and kill all our bubbles.

So after camping there system for a day and a bit I think our OP can be summarized by the words of one of Cold Steel members, who was running a gatecamp in a attempt to capture us. (why would we use gates with have Black Ops?)

sha LiGeng > Jaggermeister leave the system

sha LiGeng > K1 closed

A pity really, Jaggermeister was flying a Paladin

 

During my sleep time the rest of the managed to kill a Caracal and a Punisher. As for me I am now leaving the system as I am going on a vacation for a week. The rest of the fleet though should still get some more kills. Upon getting back ill write a discussion on this op and what could have been done better.