Crime & Punishment

So .. well, I realize most, if not all people here will see this as a minor thing, but anyway:

So I decided to be a thief. I got myself some skills for scanning, bought myself an expanded probe launcher and some combat scan probes and fitted those to the Imicus I got from one of the tutorial missions, together with an afterburner.

Then I went to Dodixie since I've read there might be a lot of mission runners there.
After 10 tries, or even more, of following some battleship to its destination system (several stargates being right next to each other and me often warping to the wrong one *grumbling*) and scanning them down (oh gosh, I feel so clumsy when thinking of my attempts) I managed to see a Vargur warping off to someplace above the star in a neighbouring system of Dodixie.

So I sent my probes out, trying to catch that thing. Luckily Marauders seem to be easy to scan down, because I found the Vargur pretty quickly, and 5 minutes later I had a warp-in.

So in I warped.
Accelleration gate.
Okay.
Warp again.
Vargur, many red crosses, some lootable wrecks and.... another ship, which upon inspection said it was a T3 battle cruiser of the type "Tornado", in the same corp as the Vargur.

At that point I almost warped out again, but then decided to take at least a look into the wrecks. I mean .. only looking doesn't make them able to shoot at me, right?
I was careful not to draw attention of the red-marked ships, and.. once peeked into the wrecks, I couldn't help myself and grab some things that my AI told me were expensive.

Heart thumping, ready to warp out.. but.. nobody shooting at me.
So I continued zipping from wreck to wreck, grabbing something here and there, and suddenly...
Half my armor gone.
Dammit, why was I so careless? Warp! Warp! .. and.. after two more misses of the large .. artillery? of that Tornado, I was warping out.
Phew!

Sold the stuff I got, at least worth several times my Imicus.

It was really exciting. It might sound silly, but it was really exciting.

One question, though: I could have shot at that Tornado, right? How long could I have?

I was playing with the thoughts of warping back with my Tristan, trying to shoot that thing down, but then decided against.
Because I didn't know how long I'd be able to shoot at that thing, because I was fairly sure I wouldn't be able to deal enough damage to kill it, and most of all because there were two ships, fairly far apart from each other, of the same corp, and I suspect the other one could have blown me away easily.
And now that I think about it, I didn't have a warp disruptor either.

.. Well, that's it. Nothing special, I just wanted to share, since this was my first illegal activity and being shot at.

Yes. 15 minutes from the last aggression. Once you warped away you'd have 15 minutes, but once you re-engage, the timer would be reset, and you'd have all the time you need to kill him.

This is why ninja-ing will always be legal. The fun!

Ahhh, it warms my heart to hear about new pilots like this :p

Keep going, you are on the right track, though you should of went back and blew the sht out of that Tornado :)

Oh.. I heard you were flagged to everyone of the same corporation you .. ninja from, but not that you could be flagged to everybody else, too.
That's good to know! I'll have to be more careful, then.

I approve of this.

You are on a promising way. Keep us posted.

Next time, if you are anywhere near that Tornado when he shoots you, plz kill it. Large arty doesn't hit moving frigates for crap. Especially AB-fit ones. Just don't fly straight in. Spiral in. Oh, and make sure to fit a warp scrambler.

In a few years you will look back at this post and think........ahaa....... here is were it went "wrong" and became an EVE L space warrior...

Good show \o/ The universe of EvE is wide open to you now