Crime & Punishment

So i start the night off in my trusty duel web republic fleet firetail. I check my ammo to make sure its topped off and set a course for Tama from Gultratren.
A couple of jumps in, I encounter a lone Throax sitting on the large in Todifrauan. Without question i order my ship to warp to the plex at zero. You see, Im a crazy fool who hunts for those famed outmatched fights. The thorax should make short work of my ship with duel webs and blasters, coupled with tech II drones.
Im a fool for attacking him. But there is no room for fear when your a Black Jakcet.
I land right on top of the thorax and quickly tell my ship to orbit at 500. One cylce of mwd lockes me into close orbit fast, and i lay in with republic fleet fusion and nova rockets. I only put one web on him though and a scram. He launches drones, and i quckly switch my aggro to them. web, ac, rocket, BOOM. Web, ac, rocket, boom, web ac rocket boom, webacrocketboom warb! Now the thorax is defenseless against me. He is shield tanked. I neglect to load em ammo.
I get him down to low armor and a hookbil lands on top of me. So i let loos one web ac and rockets on him. Again without switching ammo. https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004280/
The fight is lost, with the thorax in deep armor and the hookbil's shields stripped away. If only i had switched to em or therm ammo.. Owell.

Determined not to let this derail me, I pick up a retribution from Gultratren and head back twords tama hoping for a rematch. I didnt find that thorax and hookbil duo.. but i did find a beutiful death.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004678/
On my way to Tama, I find a Rifter and Hawk in Arnher. The details of how the battle begain are fuzzy to me, but i do know i found two of em at the large outpost. I warped in at 100, turned 180 and burned away. then a third laned, and a fourth, and a fith. They seem like they wanted the fight. Their FC chanting taunts in local. my tactic is working. In a bid to catch me, they are all burning at me at dfferent speeds. The Tristan was the fastest. He got within 30km and the next closest opponent was 65km. I shut off my mwd, and wait for it to cycle. Then i turned and burned with an overheated mwd right at him. I know that with that speed, he is set to kite. He is cought well off gaurd with my retribution 1km off his tailpipe resculpting his hull quickly with conflag. Im able to pull off shooting conflag at him, which usuly kills tracking, because i know he wants nothing more than to get away from me. He does pull out to 11k twords the end of the fight, and im forced to fit scorch and oh mwd and scram to catch him again.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004587/
The next fastest is a Rifter. I fly away from the blob after my first kill with my micro warp drive screaming.
i pull a 30k separatioin on the rifter, and use the same move to slingshot back on top of him, conflag heated and ready to go. It takes all of two orbits to completly destroy him.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004616/

Burn away from the bob you fool! oh yea!

I pull straight up and light the MWD again. this time. This time, i notice the kestral and punisher are far enuff away (90km) for me to have a nice long fight with the hawk. So i turn back onto him. The hawk does nice bits of damage to me, but my pulse lasers and conflag coupled with approach and some manual piloting to keep my nose pointed right at him melt away his shields. I hear an alarm and look down. My armor is 20%! so i have a moment of weakness, load scorch and start to pull away with the intent on leaving the fight. Its not going well though, as he has a web. But i notice his shield stopped repairing. I had tasted victory, I needed only to turn back into him to ensure my destiny. Conflag loaded, i burned all the way out of scram range in order to cycle my mwd and approach. It works nice! I swing right at him passing 500m from his bow. as i pass, he showers me with a beutiful explosion!
https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004638/

Im really hurting at this point, but i want them all. With less than 5% armor i turn and burn for the Kestral, who is within 20k of a punisher. I know i probably wont survive.. but i dont care. I never care.
I make a running pass at the kestral while really working my way into a tight orbit on the punisher. I know i can get under his guns. Punisher is the primary target, but i wont ignore the kestral while i have a shot on him. I pass the kestral at 1.3k peppering him with scorch on the approach from 14 to 6k and conflag from 6k to 6k and finaly scorch again from 6k to 9k on the opening vector. He, to my suprise, could not handle the attack and melted.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/48004668/

my move works well, Im right up next to the punisher just like i want to be, But sadly cannot establish an orbit like i want because of my lack of ab or web. I started the fight in 40% structure after the kestral, and got the punisher down to under 10% structure.. One more shot!!! but it was not to be.. With 40% structure and sevier heat damage to all my mods, i was out of tricks. Great Fight!

The guys are really cool about the fight, and i explain to them not to be discouraged. Ive been doing solo for years, and designed this ship to fight sivpuls. We chat in local a bit, many good fights where exchanged and i learned that the FC(hawk guy) was getting people to folow him to lowsec to pick up fighting. I offer to pay for all their losses, and make some new friends... well. such as friends are for me.. Im likely to shoot my own tail if i can ever catch the damn thing.

Not my bag baby

Good story. Use the pirate story thread though it needs love

Thanks. Reported it there

Go away, Sol.