A Tengu dies at birth

EVESo, finally 20 days of training cruisers 5 came to an end, popped strategic cruisers in for lvl 1, 2 and 3. Had a good think, how to get 500mill of ship out of Jita? How to get there? Pod over? Or buy a disposible frig and slap a mwd in, for that super fast, semi-concentrating AP, with occassional MWD stabs to keep it intersting, trip to jita. But... It's my first T3 ship, never fitted subsystems, have seven waiting in Jita, which to fit? Which mods? Then try them out in Jita? Jita!!? I think not. So I need to get it somewhere I can experiment without drawing every suicide ganker from every toilet bowl in the area. I'll haul it out in my badger II, yes I thought I'd out fox them, shitty little t1 hauler that anyone a few days old can fly, nothing to see here, move along, just hauling my shitty worthless loot about.
So into my lovely little badger I slid, ECM across the board in mids ( I know, I know!) WCS in low, I thought I'd be safe as houses. Some tedious, but growing in excitement as I neared jita, jumps later. I arrived at the monstrous place, noting the swarms of oranges around the gates, and the occassional red. Docked up and quickly grabbed my precious cargo, 1 shining Tengu and 7 subsytems, into the hold, set course for sehmosh, and got the hell out of there. Cleared the first gate, and as I initiated warp to Urlen gate someone started to target me, I warped after about 1 sec, so it was no prob, I didn't get chance to see who it was, overview shimmered as usual in and around jita due to sheer numbers. I noticed a few orange dudes jump through as I jumped on contact. The grid loaded slowly, as soon as possible I initiated warp, the further from jita, the faster, the better. Then, before I could even see who was doing it, I was being targeted, I didn't panic, cos I had time, didn't I? As soon as he locked, id slap on the ECM and be out of there. Sadly, he instapopped me, one volley ready to melt me upon lock, good tip, activate guns before lock! That was it, heading spinning, afloat in my pod! Get the pod and the implants contained in the soft squishy thing inside, out of there! That done, the nausea kicks in, and the depression, I tell my Corp mates who are a mix of sorry and incredulous at my stupidity. I log off.



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Location:Urlen

Welcome to my blog

Welcome,

 I used to include stuff about Eve over on my other general blog (fruit60.blogspot.com), but as I quite often get my students to visit my blog, and I've started getting the urge to blog about Eve more frequently, I've moved the old posts over here and will be using this exclusively from now to blog about the game.

Hope I can maintain the momentum, I'm entering a new phase of gaming, thing are about to get a lot more interesting I hope. I have money and can afford to replace ships and fittings, this means I'm will to start taking a lot more risks and therefore probably have a lot more fun; we'll see.
I noticed that some of the posts didn't come across (pics especially) very well, I'll try to sort out those glitches ASAP.

Fly recklessly

Reli

State of play

Well, here I am, a little over 1yr and 1 month old, with a little short of 16 mill skill points. I had a few months complete downtime while my marriage fell apart and new people came into my life, and now manage to play a few times a week. In 7 days time I'll be sliding into a T3 Tengu, and am very excited after seeing a Corp m8 (NGResonance) tank a mighty difficult lvl4 in one and not go past about 10% shield dmg. Awesome, dps is a bit of an issue. I was all set to go for a marauder (golem) but have been side tracked. The marauder is a week or two away, once I decide to go for it. I have 620mill in the bank and a tengu and seven subsystems waiting in Jita for next week, that I got relatively cheap via a contract. All subsystem skills are already at lvl3, cruisers 5 finishes in 7 days, then strategic cruisers to at least 3 and I'm ready to rock.
Btw, joining my Corp (Aspire)  was the best thing I ever did in eve, I may not agree with everyone all the time, but I'm still here, knowing what I know, thanks to all of them, we get harder and less of an easy target by the day.
my Drake (Bahut Shakti)

Harry's Abaddon and my Raven

Harry an me just waiting for the next wave

Enemies abound lvl4

Here's some pics from recent missions: