Friday, October 30, 2015

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!



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