War Party

War! Recently R1FTA declared war on Rifterlings for two reasons.

1) Content!
2) And we felt Rifterlings doesn't kill enough stuff with Rifters, so we dec'd 'em in the good name of the Rifter and Wensley!

A manifesto listing our grievances was sent to the CEO, and the response was a manifesto from their CEO Fintarue. The war wasn't the Rifter action packed slug fest I had hoped. One of our Prospects fired the first shots in a Rifter against a Rifterling Comet, signaling the beginning of the conflict. Not to be deterred by a mere faction frig, he reshipped into a Merlin and charged right back into the fray. Uncertain Fate's gung ho blaze of glory was the last engagement between us. For a few days R1FTA roamed searching for Rifterlings. One was spotted nearby Isho, but he was docked in station and remained there for a couple days. A few of us ventured into Metropolis to their home system Sirekur, but no luck. I got into the war by heading over there myself and saw a couple of them in system.

I offered in local 1v1's inside the novice, and Vincent Caerbannog accepted my request. The first fight I suffered a defeat due to poor management of my SAAR (damn shakes!) and beginning the 60 second reload of death mid fight. I returned in another Rifter and asked if he was willing to go again, and he agreed. This time I was ready! We orbited each other close and danced as we rained the holy fire of projectiles at one another. I noticed I was dual webbed, so I overheated my afterburner to stay close. He was also firing away with 150mm's, so I worked to stay on him to deliver the full punch of my 200mm's. I was able to manage my reps properly and still have some left over after his Rifter exploded. We were one for one so I offered a rematch since he gave me one. The final battle went the same way as our Rifters orbited close and exchanged volleys. That's when he hit me with the neut! I immediately overheated my afterburner and began to pull range, but he managed to cap me out and all I could do was keep firing and spam my repper hoping to get a rep or two off as we tore each other's Rifters apart. Although my cap was empty, the extra damage my rockets were doing put him in hull early in the fight as my Rifter was approaching deep armor. The gunfire was too much and overwhelmed his tank as he exploded. Good fights!

The war ended a day or two afterwards, and unsatisfied with the lack of fights between the two of us, R1FTA renewed the war. Hopefully more of them come out to play this time :)

The War Party

The following took place a few hours before the war officially ended.

It was late (for me at least) when I logged in. I was back in Minmatar Space with the hope and intent of killing more Rifterlings. The Rifter duels earlier from one of them was badass and was hoping to get some more good fights. A friend of mine and fellow Black Jacket Amand Caldurik recently returned to New Eden from a long break, and was also online. We celebrated the occasion by taking our Rifters together to hunt some war targets. Early in our roam we spotted a lone Slasher in a plex, with only myself, Amand and Priestess Melisandre.

The Priest warped off as we landed on the gate.

Amand Caldurik > ahh, this chick is cool
Amand Caldurik > i spoke to her a while

I don't know if it was because we were in a good mood, if it was because it was only us three, or if it was because we had a main target we were after, but we extended an olive branch in local,

Sem Skord > Priestess Melisandre o/
Sem Skord > Wanna roam with us?
Amand Caldurik > 0/
Priestess Melisandre > hi




A while went by. I switched to corp chat,

Sem Skord > think shes wary of us
Amand Caldurik > she should

I tried again.

Sem Skord > Wanna shoot stuff with us?

Amand Caldurik > it will be worth you time

Priestess Melisandre > really? as long as that stuff ain't me

Sem Skord > haha deal

Nice! We continued on our hunting party with our new pal. We searched the local constellation but no targets presented themselves. When we entered Frerstorn, d-scan detected a Merlin. I narrowed it down to a novice plex and warped off while I informed the gang.

Sem Skord > xxx
Sem Skord > Frerstorn
Sem Skord > novice outpost

The Merlin had just landed on the gate moments before me, I set a 5,000 meter orbit as I mashed ctrl+click to lock him up. The Merlin was pointed and I let loose with a barrage of bullets and rockets.

[ 2015.10.27 06:49:29 ] Sem Skord > point
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:32 ] Amand Caldurik > good
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:39 ] Sem Skord > shoot him :)
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:52 ] Sem Skord > priest
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:53 ] Sem Skord > come shoot him
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:56 ] Sem Skord > warp to one of us
[ 2015.10.27 06:49:58 ] Priestess Melisandre > omw

Amand's Rifter landed on grid and joined the fun with his trio of 200mm's but Priest was no where to be seen. Cmon Priest! Finally a Slasher warped in as Priest arrived just as we put the Merlin in hull. Moments later the Merlin exploded.

[ 2015.10.27 06:50:49 ] Sem Skord > chasing pod to sun
[ 2015.10.27 06:50:49 ] Amand Caldurik > gj

I chased the pod to the sun but no luck.

[ 2015.10.27 06:50:53 ] Sem Skord > grab loot someone
[ 2015.10.27 06:50:56 ] Sem Skord > Kill: Peter Shvec (Merlin)

I checked out the killmail and noticed Priest wasn't on it. Before I can ask why she didn't fire,

[ 2015.10.27 06:51:17 ] Amand Caldurik > getting loot
[ 2015.10.27 06:51:24 ] Priestess Melisandre > had safety on
[ 2015.10.27 06:51:30 ] Sem Skord > lol
[ 2015.10.27 06:51:30 ] Amand Caldurik > lol

I laughed as I remembered I did the exact same thing in my early days of spreading the pew pew! We told her to set it to red, docked, repped and continued on our way to Sirekur.

We hit Sirekur, and no Rifterlings in system. Ah well, we could investigate the rest of Metropolis on the way to Heimatar. System after system we went through looking for something to shoot but found nothing. We entered Heimatar through the top from Dal and explored the rest of the constellation. When we entered the Ghetto of New Eden, Amamake, I was surprised at what I saw.

[ 2015.10.27 07:07:27 ] Sem Skord > wow this is the least amount of people ive ever seen in amamake

Seven! SEVEN! People in the entire system of Amamake! On top of that, D-Scan was clean of POS trash. Wow! We pressed on to Auga, where there was some activity in space. We scanned the center of the system where the plex's were but found nothing. Just as we were about to warp towards our Auga, I noticed someone went flashy in system, and the only other plex was a small outside scan range.

[ 2015.10.27 07:11:01 ] Sem Skord > gonna check that small outpost
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:05 ] Sem Skord > someone just went flashy
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:17 ] Amand Caldurik > i see
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:18 ] Sem Skord > cruor punisher
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:19 ] Sem Skord > lets do it
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:22 ] Sem Skord > primary cruor
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:34 ] Amand Caldurik > wait
[ 2015.10.27 07:11:37 ] Sem Skord > oops

When Amand had said wait I was already taking the acceleration gate into the plex. Overheat everything! I was greeted by the sounds of battle as the Cruor had caught the Punisher and was finishing it off. They were fighting about 12km from the warp in, so I burned towards the Cruor. The Punisher exploded just as I scrammed the Cruor and my Rifter let loose with a barrage of bullets and rockets. I set an orbit to 5,000 meters knowing this thing can neut or something, and within seconds I was capped out! Shit! 

[ 2015.10.27 07:11:55 ] Sem Skord > xxx
[ 2015.10.27 07:12:21 ] Amand Caldurik > stay alive

[ 2015.10.27 07:12:24 ] Amand Caldurik > im close

I aligned towards the sun as the Cruor was in deep armor, but with my capacitor unable to keep my repper going my Rifter was dying a slow death. Seconds felt like minutes as I wondered where the gang was! Lasers were blasting holes into my beautiful hull but my projectiles and rockets were returning the favor. The Cruor entered structure as I neared deep armor! Oh man! Oh MAN! My afterburner was still going, but I still didn't see my backup on short scan. Evasive maneuvers! I overheated my afterburner and spammed warp as the range between us was slowly increasing. A laser blast wrecked my armor and damaged my structure pretty good. His repper kicked in as he was in half structure. 8,200 meters ... 8,600 meters .. 9,000 meters! Rifter on fire and smoking, I saw my backup on short. Aura's voice reassured me that we were safe and outta there!

[ 2015.10.27 07:12:56 ] Sem Skord > wooo got out
[ 2015.10.27 07:12:58 ] Sem Skord > kill him
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:00 ] Sem Skord > hes almost dead
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:12 ] Sem Skord > 38% structure left
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:29 ] Sem Skord > he escaped?
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:35 ] Amand Caldurik > he did
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:43 ] Amand Caldurik > before i landed
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:52 ] Amand Caldurik > i got someones pod
[ 2015.10.27 07:13:53 ] Sem Skord > lol man
[ 2015.10.27 07:14:01 ] Sem Skord > we were both in hull

We couldn't get that Cruor, but that skirmish between us was intense as hell! I've never fought a Cruor before, but now I know those things can neut you out real quick. We lingered in the system for a while watching Svipuls and cruisers come in and out before finally moving on.

The next system over we saw a cyno, and after explaining how to do the bounce, we warped to it and did a drive by. Except our drive by was interrupted by an Archon with the cyno having a sliver of hull left! Ah well! Comet on scan!

[ 2015.10.27 07:28:21 ] Priestess Melisandre > comet
[ 2015.10.27 07:28:24 ] Sem Skord > warp to me
[ 2015.10.27 07:28:41 ] Sem Skord > station

A flashy comet was sitting on the undock, so we fired on the frig and punched through his shield. As we began to work through his armor, he must of noticed he was getting shot at and docked up. *sigh*

Amand docked up to repair some damage while Priest and I waited at a safe. I saw a Comet on scan again, this time I opened a novice and waited outside the gate with Priest. Instead of a Comet, the Amarr rookie ship landed on the plex inside. No time for questions! Shoot it! We locked up the rookie ship and proceeded to destroy it. Woot! Explosions! I spammed target locked for the pod, and succeeded >:)

[ 2015.10.27 07:29:13 ] Sem Skord > shoot it
[ 2015.10.27 07:29:25 ] Sem Skord > priest
[ 2015.10.27 07:29:28 ] Sem Skord > shoot the capsule
[ 2015.10.27 07:29:40 ] Sem Skord > Beautiful :)
[ 2015.10.27 07:29:41 ] Priestess Melisandre > yay
[ 2015.10.27 07:29:44 ] Sem Skord > Kill: Koshei Vestov (Impairor)

An image of Chancellor Palpatine telling Anakin to execute Count Dooku when he had two light sabers on his throat entered my head at that moment.

[ 2015.10.27 07:32:18 ] Sem Skord > priest can you link the km?
[ 2015.10.27 07:32:20 ] Priestess Melisandre > Kill: Koshei Vestov (Capsule)
[ 2015.10.27 07:32:24 ] Sem Skord > ty
[ 2015.10.27 07:32:26 ] Priestess Melisandre > my first kill!
[ 2015.10.27 07:32:29 ] Sem Skord > <3
[ 2015.10.27 07:32:35 ] Sem Skord > a pod too :) and a war target for you

Mwahahahaha! We had roamed throughout Amarr space for the next twenty minutes as plexer's warped off on us and had some false alarms with possible targets. Our trigger fingers were getting jumpy.

[ 2015.10.27 07:52:00 ] Sem Skord > Oyonata nothing
[ 2015.10.27 07:52:37 ] Amand Caldurik > something wil pop up soon

As we were nearing the last few systems of our roam for the night, a catalyst called us out in local. All four of us landed on the out gate, and we watched the Catalyst warp back to a small plex. Let's do this! I warped off to follow the catty and informed Amand and Priest where to go. I landed on grid and the Catalyst was waiting. We locked each other up at the same and exchanged gun fire. My shields fell in the first volley so I activated my repper. I noticed my speed had dropped dramatically but I wasn't pointed. Another volley put me in half armor but my repper did it's thing and patched me up. The Catalyst was in half armor as I began to align to get out of there. Each successive volley was a devastating hit to the Rifter, and as Amand and Priest landed on grid, the destroyer was in hull as I warped off. Another close one! The Rifter and Slasher will finish off the Catalyst.

[ 2015.10.27 07:55:17 ] Priestess Melisandre > wow
[ 2015.10.27 07:55:21 ] Priestess Melisandre > got me

Huh!? I checked d-scan and saw Priest's capsule in space! My repper was still going as I turned my Rifter around and warped back to the small plex.

[ 2015.10.27 07:55:50 ] Amand Caldurik > qhe got me too

Noo! I landed on grid with the smoldering wrecks of my brethren in space and the Catalyst's blasters ready to keep spreading the love. I locked him up and orbited at 5,000 meters. His shields were gone, was in half armor, and had some damage to his structure. I let the guns and rockets loose as I was double webbed again and rocked with a volley blast. My SAAR coughed out its last two reps as the Catalyst exploded my Rifter.

[ 2015.10.27 07:55:52 ] Priestess Melisandre > did you get him?
[ 2015.10.27 07:55:54 ] Sem Skord > same here
[ 2015.10.27 07:55:56 ] Sem Skord > nah he got me
[ 2015.10.27 07:56:00 ] Amand Caldurik > lol podded
[ 2015.10.27 07:56:01 ] Sem Skord > went back to die in a ball of fire

I typed a gf in local and we were impressed with the Catalyst on how easy he swept us under the rug!

[ 2015.10.27 07:57:27 ] Amand Caldurik > that guy did well
[ 2015.10.27 07:57:33 ] Sem Skord > yea man i wonder what that fit is
[ 2015.10.27 07:57:41 ] Sem Skord > the dps was insane
[ 2015.10.27 07:57:44 ] Priestess Melisandre > hull?
[ 2015.10.27 07:57:52 ] Priestess Melisandre > well, he is a destroyer...
[ 2015.10.27 07:58:29 ] Sem Skord > true

Fair point Priest, fair point!

I had some ships about five jumps away as myself and Priest made our way over there so I can compensate her with a Rifter for the Slasher she lost. Amand was back in Isho.

[ 2015.10.27 08:02:15 ] Sem Skord > im in station, rifter is rdy when u get here
[ 2015.10.27 08:03:07 ] Priestess Melisandre > docking
[ 2015.10.27 08:04:23 ] Priestess Melisandre > thanks
[ 2015.10.27 08:04:31 ] Sem Skord > np, theres some t2 mods on it
[ 2015.10.27 08:04:39 ] Sem Skord > so if you need to swap out stuff for meta 4's feel free
[ 2015.10.27 08:04:50 ] Priestess Melisandre > I can't run the rocket, but the rest is fine
[ 2015.10.27 08:04:57 ] Sem Skord > cool
[ 2015.10.27 08:05:08 ] Sem Skord > alright priest, nice flying with you. see ya around o7
[ 2015.10.27 08:05:20 ] Priestess Melisandre > thanks for everything!
[ 2015.10.27 08:05:24 ] Priestess Melisandre > great night
[ 2015.10.27 08:05:39 ] Sem Skord > if you ever wanna shoot stuff again
[ 2015.10.27 08:05:45 ] Sem Skord > let us know :]
[ 2015.10.27 08:06:01 ] Priestess Melisandre > I will
[ 2015.10.27 08:06:25 ] Sem Skord > cool, gonna hit the rack. have a good night o7
[ 2015.10.27 08:06:38 ] Priestess Melisandre > thanks, u too

Got some kills, went out in a ball of fire and glory. Good roam :]

Just in time!

EVE Is a Cruel Mistress

EVE has not been good to me lately. After returning to New Eden from a small break of losing at FIFA 16, I went out looking for explosions. The day prior yielded a few good skirmishes where I was able to warp off in low structure, and a farmer kill to ease back into the groove of things. Afterwards, I tried to beat a Svipul + Hyena gate camp (I lost). Determined to bag me a decent kill I reshipped and almost got ganked by a number of frigates, but was able to escape. I was feeling confident, so I opened a novice and waited. All three entered, and my Rifter fought bravely. I was not to be deterred from my goal! Went back out and found a Condor nearby in a large plex. I died a slow agonizing death. Surely EVE was punishing me for playing a different game! I was happy when he finally exploded me so I could dock up and try again later in the day.

That Same Night

The calm ambiance of the station didn't interrupt my episode of CONCORD. I finished the episode and hopped in my Rifter as I slammed down a Quafe.

Alright baby, round three! Caldari space still felt a bit alien to me as I headed off into my usual route. One of our new Prospects, Alex Splinter was out and about looking for stuff to explode. We greeted each other in local and chatted a while as I scanned around and moved on to the next system. 

The constellation of Kurala is where I usually find a few fights without venturing far from home. This cluster of systems leads off into more low sec through Okkamon, and from there even more hunting grounds. I entered Ikoskio and scanned around and noticed something good.

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:00 ] Sem Skord > hey

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:03 ] Sem Skord > Ikoskio

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:06 ] Sem Skord > vexor at a belt

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:24 ] Alex Splinter > i can take a vexor ?

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:26 ] Alex Splinter > we*?

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:28 ] Sem Skord > yes we can

[ 2015.10.09 07:34:29 ] Alex Splinter > omw

Once I landed, through the floating debris of rocks the Vexor was sitting 200km off the belt. Ah poop. I scanned around some more and noticed an Orca out in space. It wasn't POS trash because I've never seen it on scan before, so I figured what the hell and scanned the planets. Once I pinpointed him, I warped off and loaded my Phased Plasma and Inferno rockets. I exited warp and was pleasantly surprised to land right on top of an Orca! What the shit!? Immediately I locked him up, scrammed and webbed the big beast and fired away! 

[ 2015.10.09 07:37:55 ] Sem Skord > xxxx

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:03 ] Sem Skord > Ikoskio V

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:05 ] Sem Skord > customs office

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:09 ] Sem Skord > planet V

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:11 ] Sem Skord > orca pointed

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:38 ] Sem Skord > cmon man!

[ 2015.10.09 07:38:47 ] Alex Splinter > omw

Alex landed on grid with his Incursus and we proceeded to chip away at the Orca's shield. Very slowly but surely we were doing enough damage to break his shields. 

Alex Splinter!

[ 2015.10.09 07:40:05 ] Sem Skord > once we punch thru his shields

[ 2015.10.09 07:40:08 ] Sem Skord > hes dead

[ 2015.10.09 07:40:39 ] Alex Splinter > why the hell is it here

[ 2015.10.09 07:40:57 ] Sem Skord > was doing PI maybe

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:05 ] Alex Splinter > ?

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:12 ] Alex Splinter > clear on dscan

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:29 ] Sem Skord > rgr

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:33 ] Alex Splinter > omg just overloaded -.-'

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:34 ] Sem Skord > planetary interaction

[ 2015.10.09 07:41:44 ] Sem Skord > watch the heat damage :)

[ 2015.10.09 07:42:26 ] Alex Splinter > is there anything i can do to repair here ?

[ 2015.10.09 07:43:11 ] Sem Skord > go 1 system over and rep at a station

[ 2015.10.09 07:43:17 ] Alex Splinter > yup

Even with just four of us in system, I continued to mash short scan and keep a nervous eye on who was coming and going in local. As Alex went a system over to repair his guns, a small spike of three pilots occurred. Oh no. Backup has arrived. I continued to mash short scan and to my relief saw nothing, but the pilots were still in system.

 [ 2015.10.09 07:44:18 ] Alex Splinter > whos angle?

[ 2015.10.09 07:44:22 ] Sem Skord > dunno

[ 2015.10.09 07:44:29 ] Sem Skord > not showing up on short scan

[ 2015.10.09 07:44:31 ] Alex Splinter > watch out

[ 2015.10.09 07:44:36 ] Sem Skord > rgr

[ 2015.10.09 07:45:07 ] Alex Splinter > all good ? just about to dock

[ 2015.10.09 07:45:11 ] Sem Skord > yea im good

[ 2015.10.09 07:45:27 ] Sem Skord > almost thru his shield

[ 2015.10.09 07:45:36 ] Sem Skord > just us :)

[ 2015.10.09 07:46:02 ] Sem Skord > shield broken

[ 2015.10.09 07:46:25 ] Alex Splinter > omw back

[ 2015.10.09 07:46:28 ] Sem Skord > rgr

The group had moved on and we were both shooting the Orca once again. Once the shields fell, the armor was crumbling fairly quick. 

[ 2015.10.09 07:47:37 ] Sem Skord > shoot it

[ 2015.10.09 07:47:40 ] Sem Skord > almost in hull

[ 2015.10.09 07:48:02 ] Alex Splinter > bulkheads

[ 2015.10.09 07:48:21 ] Alex Splinter > firetail in ystem

[ 2015.10.09 07:48:23 ] Alex Splinter > system

[ 2015.10.09 07:48:25 ] Sem Skord > rgr

A pair of pilots that had been chasing Alex entered system. One was in a Coercer and the other in a Firetail. We stayed on the Orca and watched short and long scan. The duo was on long, most likely looking for us but fortunately haven't succeeded. The Orca was now in half structure as its reinforced hull gave us trouble. I had gone through 3/4's of my shield ammo and rockets to break its shield, and was on the last two reloads of my armor to finish off the big beast. Ammo was running very low. Fortunately the Orca had no drones out (not sure if they can or not) so our only worry was having enough bullets to blow this bad boy up. Just then;

[ 2015.10.09 07:49:30 ] pugthetraveler Antollare > anyone want to help on gankers near V

Ah man! Almost three quarters of the way through his structure and he asks for help in local! Now the Firetail/Coercer duo know where we're at. Minutes later, both ships land on grid with us but 100km off. Not wanting to abandon this Orca, I extended a bloody olive branch.

[ 2015.10.09 07:51:38 ] Sem Skord > Help us kill it :)

The Firetail burned towards us at MWD speed. I informed Alex if he attacks one of us to focus fire on him. We continued to fire away on the Orca as the Firetail got closer and closer. At 30km I held my breath and waited to see what he'd do. 25km .. 23km ... 16km. The Firetail went suspect as his autocannons let loose on the Orca!

[ 2015.10.09 07:52:36 ] pugthetraveler Antollare > Rhight so you can take all the lot from others.  Piss ants.

[ 2015.10.09 07:52:48 ] pugthetraveler Antollare > Of course I was stupid to stay in system that long

[ 2015.10.09 07:52:50 ] Sem Skord > Ya'll can have the loot when he pops :)

[ 2015.10.09 07:53:00 ] Sem Skord > Just wanna see this guy explode

Yes! Happy that these fellas were helping us bring down this Orca faster, I told Alex to stay on his guard and get ready to warp off as soon as the Orca explodes. The Coercer was slow burning at afterburner speed towards us as we continued to fire on the ship. A couple minutes later the destroyer lent his guns to the destruction and I watched as lasers, autocannons, rockets and blasters came together for one glorious purpose. Pew pew! That's when Richard the Longshanks logged in.

[ 2015.10.09 07:53:41 ] Richard Averald > o/

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:03 ] Sem Skord > o/

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:03 ] Alex Splinter > o/

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:05 ] Sem Skord > shooting an orca

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:08 ] Sem Skord > Ikoskio

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:09 ] Sem Skord > Ikoskio V

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:25 ] Richard Averald > long left?

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:31 ] Sem Skord > quarter hull left

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:33 ] Alex Splinter > firetail and  Coercer

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:38 ] Richard Averald > nice

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:44 ] Alex Splinter > 2/3 intro hulll

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:46 ] Richard Averald > I'm shipless at Nisuwa

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:50 ] Richard Averald > have a ship in Okkamon

[ 2015.10.09 07:54:52 ] Richard Averald > coming



The Orca was approaching the last bits of life in its hull. Fire and smoke began to engulf the ship as I reminded Alex of the plan. I typed out a message and hit enter in corp chat, but got a weird ding sound. Maybe I'm typing too much. I hit enter again. Same sound. Hmm that's weird. I hit short scan again, and the Scan button stayed pushed down after I released the click from my mouse. No.

The Socket has been closed. EVE is kill. No. Not now! Not now!! Why EVE! WHYYY!!?? 

EVE definitely punished me for playing other games that night. I scrambled to log back in but was getting errors that connection wasn't there. I couldn't believe it. Seconds seemed like minutes as the launcher was back up and I opened up the exe file to log back in. Did Alex make it? I missed the Orca explosion. Is my pod ok? I probably got podded by those two. The character menu showed I was in a pod but still in system, so I didn't get podded. I entered space and landed on the Customs Office where the huge Orca wreck was floating like a fallen monument. The Firetail and Coercer were there with the engagement timer on 'em. I warped off to a safe.

[ 2015.10.09 07:57:49 ] Alex Splinter > sem ?

[ 2015.10.09 07:58:18 ] Sem Skord > Dam game D/c'd

[ 2015.10.09 07:58:23 ] Sem Skord > I got d/c'd

[ 2015.10.09 07:58:26 ] Sem Skord > in the middle of that shit

[ 2015.10.09 07:58:43 ] Alex Splinter > they both targeted so i warped and missed :@

[ 2015.10.09 07:59:00 ] Sem Skord > good job man

[ 2015.10.09 07:59:12 ] Sem Skord > im feeling mixed emotions

[ 2015.10.09 07:59:20 ] Alex Splinter > mmmm annoying. wanted kill

[ 2015.10.09 07:59:36 ] Alex Splinter > those two have been following me all day

But Richard the Longshanks wasn't gonna take this lying down. No. Because he is AutoKill Averald, The Face of Death. 

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:11 ] Sem Skord > well, we almost got an orca alex :)

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:19 ] Alex Splinter > richards aggressing

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:27 ] Sem Skord > im getting a firetail

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:35 ] Richard Averald > got both

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:41 ] Alex Splinter > richard...show off :L

[ 2015.10.09 08:02:45 ] Sem Skord > uwutm8

Richard had arrived to the battlefield in the aftermath, and with the element of surprise killed both the Firetail and the Coercer who were still at the wreck. Beautiful work! R1FTA VICTOR!

[ 2015.10.09 08:03:36 ] Sem Skord > Richard the Longshanks!

[ 2015.10.09 08:03:38 ] Richard Averald > Kill: Turok Alar (Coercer)

[ 2015.10.09 08:03:50 ] Richard Averald > Kill: Brayne Ded (Republic Fleet Firetail)

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:12 ] Sem Skord > fucking beautiful man

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:17 ] Richard Averald > we need transport

I was in another Rifter making my way towards the Orca wreck to see if I could get the loot from my destroyed Rifter; 

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:45 ] Richard Averald > golem entered

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:45 ] Alex Splinter > whats that ^?

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:51 ] Richard Averald > same guy

[ 2015.10.09 08:04:55 ] Richard Averald > want a golem kill?

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:02 ] Alex Splinter > i need ammo

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:02 ] Sem Skord > omw

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:12 ] Richard Averald > I need repairs

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:18 ] Richard Averald > going asakai to return

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:23 ] Richard Averald > he's at planet V

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:27 ] Richard Averald > probably taking loot

[ 2015.10.09 08:05:50 ] Sem Skord > yea omw ill help ya

[ 2015.10.09 08:06:49 ] Sem Skord > whats a golem?

At that point in time all I knew was that Richard was shooting a Golem at the planet where our Orca wreck was located. Alex and I were a couple jumps away burning towards him to help Rich out. By then Alex had linked a Golem ship in chat and all I saw was that it was a Marauder and its usually shield tanked. I loaded EMP ammo and Mjolnir rockets. We finally reach the system and land on grid with Richard and the Golem, and it seemed to be caught in the wreck of the Orca! Just as Richard had said, it was the same pilot! I locked him up and began firing away where his shields were falling relatively quick. I went to point and web him but got a message saying there was external factors preventing me from successfully carrying out those actions. What the?? Chat was fine since Alex and Richard were talking, all the numbers on the screen were good, nothing was freezing up or giving me the signs that I was going to get d/c'd again. I activated them again. Same message. Really odd. 

[ 2015.10.09 08:13:29 ] Sem Skord > i cant point him
[ 2015.10.09 08:13:42 ] Richard Averald > m,aybe he doesnt try to warp
[ 2015.10.09 08:14:30 ] Alex Splinter > we warped off for good ?
[ 2015.10.09 08:14:30 ] Sem Skord > thats so weird
[ 2015.10.09 08:14:34 ] Sem Skord > it wont let me point or web him
[ 2015.10.09 08:14:46 ] Richard Averald > hacked?
[ 2015.10.09 08:14:51 ] Sem Skord > maybe cuz the ship type??

The Golem was firing big missiles at Richard that would force him to warp off and repair. His shields were three quarters of the way gone. Richard warped off to repair and the Golem targeted me and the smoke trails of its delivery were heading my way. The explosion rocked my ship but the damage wasn't significant. My tank would hold for a good while.

[ 2015.10.09 08:15:04 ] Sem Skord > im good
[ 2015.10.09 08:15:07 ] Sem Skord > his shield is almost gone
[ 2015.10.09 08:15:13 ] Richard Averald > coming in again
[ 2015.10.09 08:15:15 ] Sem Skord > rgr

That's when Alex shed light on why we weren't able to point him.

[ 2015.10.09 08:15:21 ] Alex Splinter > Bastion Module I

That's why! Hey I'm just a frigate pilot! At that point we knew we would need something big and fancy to hold down the Marauder and take him down before he warps off. Problem was that it was only us three on in corp chat and we didn't have a bat phone to peeps who could drop the heat on something that big. Richard and I switched over to the Bastards public channel since they had some people online and calmly requested assistance.

[ 2015.10.09 08:17:48 ] Sem Skord > Golem
[ 2015.10.09 08:17:50 ] Sem Skord > pointed
[ 2015.10.09 08:17:53 ] Sem Skord > Ikoskio V
[ 2015.10.09 08:17:56 ] Sem Skord > need deeps
[ 2015.10.09 08:18:13 ] Richard Averald > golem pointed a planet V
[ 2015.10.09 08:18:13 ] Sem Skord > and something that can point it :)

Nothing. We continued to fire on it. Minutes later I had to warp off to repair while Alex and Richard took turns repping and shooting. I returned to the battlefield where the Golem was getting out of the wreck. My fellow Black Jackets were dry on ammo and in need of reps, so I was alone with the big ship. I had already gone through all my EMP and Thermal ammo and was firing my Fusion and Nova rockets at him. With the consistent stop and go of our fire, the Golem's shield had returned to full strength. Seconds later, it warped off.

[ 2015.10.09 08:21:42 ] Sem Skord > he warped
[ 2015.10.09 08:21:47 ] Richard Averald > noes
[ 2015.10.09 08:21:47 ] Alex Splinter > fudge
[ 2015.10.09 08:21:59 ] Sem Skord > lets loot the hazmat stuff?
[ 2015.10.09 08:21:59 ] Alex Splinter > take loot
[ 2015.10.09 08:22:03 ] Richard Averald > yea

There was 480 Hazmat Detection Systems worth 30 mil, so we began to fill our frigate hulls to the max with the stuff and ferry it a system over and repeat. We were only doing around 15-20 at a time.

[ 2015.10.09 08:26:23 ] Alex Splinter > is there a frighter or something in a local station ?
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:19 ] Sem Skord > you mean corp freighter?
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:25 ] Richard Averald > I can't fly anything like that
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:28 ] Sem Skord > same here
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:28 ] Alex Splinter > or a cheap industrial
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:36 ] Alex Splinter > itll easily pay off
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:47 ] Richard Averald > samanuni has badgers
[ 2015.10.09 08:27:54 ] Richard Averald > but that's highsec
[ 2015.10.09 08:28:13 ] Sem Skord > yea we'll get popped
[ 2015.10.09 08:28:23 ] Sem Skord > alex you can get away with it.
[ 2015.10.09 08:28:31 ] Alex Splinter > ill try

At this point Richard and I guarded the wreck as Alex was returning from high sec four jumps away in an industrial to expedite the process.

As Alex loaded the Hazmat stuff into the cargo hold of his industrial and ferried it back and forth, I went over what had transpired in an hour. It was awesome :]  It's pretty crazy how things fall into place or have that domino effect. The Orca pilot wanted to do some PI in low sec, Alex and I were roaming nearby, scanned down the Orca, pointed it, then two guys who were following Alex earlier found us, exploded the Orca, then Richard arrived and EXPLODED THEM! Orca pilot returns in a Golem, we do our best to fight him, he warps off, R1FTA pilots putting their heads together to get this loot out of the wreck and in our hands in a timely manner. Crazy!

Beautiful ain't it?

Alex loaded the last of the Hazmat materials into the cargo and ferried it to the station a system over. We sorted out the details on how to get it to high sec and were chatting about the events that just transpired when Alex shared an interesting piece of information with us.

[ 2015.10.09 09:01:35 ] Alex Splinter > err that guy we killed
[ 2015.10.09 09:01:45 ] Alex Splinter > hes lost 2 orcas now
[ 2015.10.09 09:01:46 ] Alex Splinter > :L
[ 2015.10.09 09:01:48 ] Sem Skord > lol
[ 2015.10.09 09:01:58 ] Alex Splinter > lost one on the 4th :L
[ 2015.10.09 09:02:01 ] Richard Averald > not learning the lesson

Hopefully we can continue to teach him >:]