What happens when you celebrate? Hulks die, that’s what.

Posted by prometheus09 on October 15, 2009

The Captains Log 15/10

 

Well all my uni assessment is done for the semester (apart from exams) so I thought this was a reason to celebrate and the best way to celebrate was to kill a macro miner, particularly XxBlack PearlxX. So I utilised my locator agent who reported that XxBlack PearlxX was now living in Sotrentaira after I had chased him out of Eskunen. Below you will find a diagram of the important parts of Sotrentaira.

 

The macro that he was using now warps him out of belts once it sees that a hostile as warped into system, though as soon as the Hulk docks it will undock again and warp back to a belt and then straight back to the station. Now from the diagram I drew for you can see a problem, most of the belts are located at one planet so when leaves the station I can’t tell which belt he has warped to. The only way to know which belt he had warped to is when he warped to one of the planet VI belts. So that is what I waited for, and waited and waited some more. Then he did it. He started aligning to belt VI-1, so I hit warp, landed and proceeded to overload my guns and deploy my drones, ready to deal death to him. As soon as he landed I was all over him, and then CONCORD was all over me. I stared in disbelief as I watched him warp away. This could not be happening. Not again.

Well there was only one way to rectify this mistake, bring a bigger hammer. Now I could go with a bigger ship like a Brutix or I could get help. Before I bought the Brutix I gave corp chat a go and found that Daquaris was ready to take up the call to arms. While discussing our plan of attack on vent another corp mate Maximus Sotar also decided to join us and try something new. However, by the time they both got to Sontrentaira, XxBlack PearlxX had stopped running his macro and wasn’t coming out to play.

— Warning! Below follows the account of the deaths of multiple carebares. Yes we were suicide ganking. Yes we were greifing. Yes it was fun. —

 YouTube – I.M.M Ganks Some Hulks

Well if XxBlack PearlxX wasn’t going to play with us we were just going to have to get our fun elsewhere. So we gathered up our Vexors and started hitting the belts to find us a juicy target. Static52 and Hago Mierdo were the first to be found, along with an orca pilot who, were mining peacefully away at a belt full of Veldapar. We split the team in to groups of two and proceed to take out both their Hulks, leaving a cloud of CONCORD in our wake. These guys weren’t very happy about this turn of events and ran off to get some PvP ships to take us on. However, once they realised that we were willing to fight them, with me in a Dominx, Max in a Myrmidon and Daquaris in a Caracal, they ran off with their tails between their legs.

Now that there was four of us we figured we could do this suicide ganking a little cheaper and proceeded to fit up Catalysts for the duration of our little party. These Catalysts did the trick and reduced St0necolds and a little latter Mc Cumaills Hulk to little more than scrap metal in no time flat. It was also interesting to note while we were doing all this XxBlack PearlxX was following use around in a shuttle watching. You would at least think he would try to warn them about what was going to happen.

With the success of our Hulk killing spree other potential suicide gankers came out of the woodwork, in the form of Stoned Runner, Hawkeye1221, Da Misses and K4R1K00. We even achieved corporate sponsorship with our CEO giving us 25mill to buy as many destroyers as possible which were to be used along with the ones we already had. Stoned Runner got his first bloodletting with death of Interfearons Hulk, while Hawkeye1221’s first kill was on Honny Dew. Now the interesting thing about Hawkeye1221 is that he is already an outlaw in high sec and CONCORD will try to kill him. So he would have to sit in station until we found a target, undock, warp straight to us then engage as soon as he landed. He also performed another neat trick. After killing the next Hulk piloted by Commander savor he managed to enter warp before CONCORD landed and led them on merry chase around the system until he was finally popped. Commander savor also didn’t like the fact we were looting and salvaging his wreck and brought out a Drake to shoot Daqauris in his loot scooper, which brought us all out in our PvP ships ready to play with him. However, as soon as he saw us bring in the big guns he ran away. Sigh what is it with carabares and them running away? He was also the first one to cry about his loss in local.

One Hulk pilot, Ankhov Kesvoya, thought he would be safe if he warped to a gate where there would be sentry guns to protect him. How wrong he was. Sure the sentry guns will shoot us, but if we put five Catalysts (and a punisher) onto you, you will be just about alphaed, reducing your ship to smouldering rubble cluttering up the gate.

After that kill Hulks were becoming hard to find. Those who were still in the belts tended to warp out as soon as they saw us or sat mining in belts of past atrocities where CONCORD was still present. Nevertheless we persevered and managed to kill Centir Maa, Saphir sargeone and Raven Pox, after which we ran out of Destroyers.

To put things into some perspective though not every Hulk we attacked died. Sometimes we botched it up and didn’t get everyone attacking at the same time. Other times the Hulk managed to align out. All in all, we killed 11 hulks totalling around 1.745 billion isk in damages and in process lost 5 cruisers, 32 destroyers, 2 frigates (those are known loses from the kill mails of the Hulks, we lost a bit more due to failed attacks).

Other little things that have came out of this is that my sec status is now -2.6, so I can’t enter any 1.0 sec systems. That means I’m going to have to do some ratting now. Sigh. Also I now have a bounty on my head for 2 million isk (that’s enough to buy, insure and fit two more destroyers). Anyway it was fun night. Do it yourself. You know you want to.