Screen shots

just a few shots of what we've been doing

Camping

a trio of drakes

roaming

Death, with relish.

This is my entry to the Inspired By Images Of Eve Competition 3. More details and links to all entrants can be found at Starfleet Comms.

After camping the 4 gates into our systems for a few hours we had managed to kill a few cruisers and a BC, nothing shiny and the drops were your standard T1 junk, only good for recycling, life as a pirate can sometimes be a hard and frugal existence, so a kill is a kill, and you salvage what you can. We had all been hoping for that juicy prize, the expensive faction ship, with dead-space mods and a pilot with some good implants in his cranium who would pay us lots of ISK not to send him home on the podless express.

Excitement rose when a CNR (Caldari Navy Raven) appeared at our low sec entry point, our cloaky eyes alerting us with a squeak of tension in his voice, we primed our weapons and points, but the flashy warning on the gate from hi-sec obviously changed his mind, he sat there contemplating for a while and then turned his treasured carebear beauty around and warped away. We cursed on comms and settled back to waiting.

There had been a rifter on d-scan for some time, and the guy didn’t seem to be moving. I had gently suggested that I swap out to a probing boat, but the FC had decided against it, too much effort for such a small reward. He obviously wasn’t at an immediately obvious celestial such as a belt or planet, we knew he was either in a deep safe, mission or anomaly. The FC finally relented for lack of juicier targets, and I was given the go ahead. I docked, gave myself a quick once over in the mirror of my quarters, if this went well I may reward myself with monocle from the Nexus store.  I reshipped into my Buzzard covert ops probing ship, normally a Rifter is hard to probe down, but I had a good feeling about this one.

As my little frig was catapulted into space, I dropped sisters combat probes, set the four of them at 8AU scan range, in my usual diamond formation and warped them over to the area of space we knew him to be. I got a hit, but a weak one, lowering the scan range and setting my formation more precisely got him to 76%, one more shift of variables and pop….100%, there was my warp in point.

I warped to him at 10km, still cloaked, blood beginning to pump, to find him perfectly stationery, sitting just off some weird looking asteroid, home to a deserted landing pad. I manoeuvred my ship so the target was directly between me and planet 4, which was 30AU in the distance.  The FC gave orders to the interceptor pilot, "warp to planet 4 and then warp to Reli at 10". Perfect. I sat cloaked, observing, sometimes you have to take one for the corp, this was one killmail I wouldn’t be on.

In came the inty like lighting, landing directly on top of the rifter, within seconds he was locked, pointed and webbed. The Rifter’s only reaction was to start slow boating towards a distant planet, an unusual reaction under the circumstances, maybe he was hoping the lock would drop and he’d be able to warp out.

I’m still cloaked and just turn my ship and slowboat away from the scene, activating my camera; this would be something worth watching later. The FC warped in the boys and they quickly reduced his noble frigate to space dust, surprisingly they even caught his pod and the FC opened a comms line up to him. “Got implants buddy?” …..no response…..strange. Then WTF!

A Widow black ops battleship uncloaked 30km away and within seconds 30 stealth bombers appeared from the ether like bats out of hell. Shit, this was not good for the fleet, the FC popped the pod, “fuck him, the devious little bastard, why is it always a trap?”  The FC had done everything by the numbers, everything was perfect, “Christ, here comes another clusterfuck” he didn’t sound happy. The FC screaming on comms, “GTFO” A few of the guys were laughing, …’but they are only frigates boss”, they were still quite new at this and didn’t realise the damage 30 stealth-bombers loaded with torps could do.  “Lets just kill the black o….”

”Shut the fuck up…get the fuck out, or I’ll pod you myself” he screamed.

I sat cloaked, camera running as we lost one ship after another. The guys were pointed, and sensor dampened before they knew it, the Widow unleashing electronic warfare hell, disabling targeting systems rapidly. Unable to lock this little swarm of frigs orbiting at 30km, the torps raining down like righteous justice, such a beautiful but deadly light show. The BS went first, a maelstrom with large artillery is useless against this fleet and the widow already had 3 ships locked out with ECM.  Faster than we would have thought possible, the BCs then started melting, damage from 4 or 5 SBs each is a mighty amount of DPS, they quickly followed the BS. This was not a good day for the corp; only the interceptor pilot and I were still in our ships. The FC was raging in that completely silent, if I open my mouth only filth will come out, kind of way.

Most of the guys got their pods out and redocked, for some post match analysis, which would not be a courteous affair. I docked up, got out of my ship and stepped from my pod. Feeling the usual disorientation and that awful sense of being deaf and dumb, when one goes from god-like perception and neural-boosted reactions, to normal human being; I went for a beer. I needed a drink, my hands were shaking and I couldn’t talk on comms or look the other guys in the face right now, I knew I wouldn’t have the self control to not betray my feelings.

The beer tasted great as I looked out into the dark, eye-sucking infinite beyond, a small smirk starting to appear at the side of my lips, my hands slowly calming. Maybe one day…. Maybe…. when I’m about to quit the corp, I’ll tell them about my alt, and his sacrificial Rifter….but maybe not.  

Religiosa

And another one down....

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11891891#lostLoadout

Yup, yet another Tengu and 37k SPs down the crapper thanks to the lovely Northern Coalition boys. Then they sent me on the podless express back to hi-sec, minus a set of +4 implants. Joy!

Liquidated lots of assetts, sold a few ships (4), and have replaced the ship and the implants.

Joined my first 2V pocket defence fleet, looking forward to lots more in the near future.

Hopefully keep this Tengu a little longer.

Character Update

Sometime a few days ago, I passed 20 million SP. Never thought I'd get this far, I remember being a complete noob (still a bit of one now) and chatting with the old timer who had 30 and 40 mill SP, thinking, 'OMG' how will I ever go head to head with these people and win, and the answer is (most of the time) you don't, but I now have lots of skills, 36 of which are at level 5, I can take pain and dish it out. Caldari Frigs 5 finishes in 3 days and then it's cov ops, electronic attack frigs and all the other fun fun t2 frigs. can't wait.
I'm still with the same corp (alliance anyway) that i joined 15 months ago, and doubt I'll ever leave them. We are getting better and better we've divided into specialties, we have training programmes and graduation etc, a great bunch of people and some good leaders.
Eve life goes on, though I really need a kick up the arse to start PvPing, I'm crap at it. Stupid really, it's a game, what can I lose?

Aaaarrrrrghhhhhh!

I was amazingly calm, I should have been punching myself in the face, I should have been smashing the keyboard over my head and putting my very foul mouth to full use. Instead I slowed my heart beat down, relaxed, got my pod and implants to relative safety and then logged and watched the Alliance Tournament for a while, before logging back on and getting my pod back home to settle into a slightly less expensive ship.

It all started with Mericus in Aspire main chat announcing WH op. Stupidly I thought "why not?" been looking for something more fun than low sec ratting or mission running, here it was.

So loaded the hold with all 4 dmg types of missile....it had been over a year since I was last in a WH, forgot what they tanked etc. so took everything including nanite paste, and mods to swap in / out depending on the circumstance. On the way out to the op start place, I had a bit of low sec to traverse, so fitted a cloak and sisters probes.

We found an occupied C3, but no-one was at home, so we went in (just the 2 of us) and cleared out the 2 anomalies. Not a single nanoribbon in the place :( We then started exploring the other exits, and found a C4 entrance from the first WH.  Now....Meri was in a Legion and I was in a Tengu, we knew that trying to do a C4 with just the two of us would be hard, so we called for re-enforcements. Yumirion and Devinaty offered to come in BSs. So we killed time and waited for them to arrive.
Eventually they were at the low sec entrance to the first WH so Meri went off to lead them down the rabbit hole. I waited at the entrance / exit of WH No.2

Now I should explain, AT8 was on, I'd missed the previous days matches and was waiting for the Final days matches to begin, anyway my mind was elsewhere and not really paying attention, as I was watching 2 screens at the same time. I had relaxed spamming the d-scan.
In hindsight....what a ridiculous place to wait. It was like sitting on a nullsec gate with a target on my ship!
I had removed the cloak and probes for more launchers, so wasn't even cloaked up.
Out of the corner of my eye, a flash of orange, Shit! too late, 4 ships had landed at the exit, 2 BSs (I think) and two frigs. Locked in seconds, scrammed and webbed and then as I hit the A/B and Shield booster my ship melted. 550 million isk worth of ship lost in seconds. Why didn't I just jump through? I don't know, I panicked at first and my first thought was get to one of the other BMs I'd made around the sys. Wrong choice! I got my pod and my Implants out of there, back through low sec and to my home.
Gutted, but Mazzy Dark et al, well done, GF. Hope next time I can make life more difficult for you.
Remember folks, be alert, especially in low sec / 0.0, your ship and your life depend upon it.
I suppose I'm grateful I've been put back on my toes.

So after the sad loss of my never flown Tengu, I ground my teeth for a while and eventually stopped feeling sick. Ran level fours for a while, sold some plex and had the money to buy something shiny. I had been training for the Tengu for the last month or so, so bit the bullet and flew to Amarr, Jita and it's contracts and suicide gankers can go to hell. I flew over, bought the shell and the subsystems separately, taking corp mates advice on fitting etc. and here she is. Flown home this time, fully fitted and rigged. 540 million or there abouts, for everything, bar the dread Guristas booster waiting at the home station that was due to go in.

Her name is 'Om Namah Shivaya', all my ship are named after Indian deities or have Indian themes. More on this later.
I'm not telling you the subs and mods, if you know about T3 ships, you can work it out.

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)