Crime & Punishment

I underestimated Marlin's boys, and they noscope360dunked my Deimos

3 more days of work and then I will try to take a few more ships off your hands

Just to be clear, we are all Zeus’ boys. I’m just one of the directors with some time on my hands.

[Day 80 of the 300 Day War]

So the Derp Alliance war has been going ok. We have killed 105 ships with a total value of 8.4 billion without a single loss. This update is on a somewhat related wardec. It’s important to note that no Derps were involved in the battle report that follows.

Since the rate of kills on our Derp war has slowed down a bit, we decided to wardec some of their blues that have been offering them some refuge/protection: (1) Friendly Forces (Name changed to protect the innocent) is a lowsec alliance that guards the Derp’s entry into lowsecc, and (2) Reset Corp (name changed) is the assumed industrial corp that lives in that same entry system on the highsec side.

One of the downsides of doing what we do is that people generally run away from us. Because of the recent warp changes, to catch anything you have to have interceptors in your fleet. To improve the chances of locking down a system and to deal with multiple warp core stabilizers, we use multiple interceptors with multiple points. Since we’re a small corp, if most of us are in interceptors, who’s left applying DPS? One guy – Solj.

In our first battle with these new war targets, we engaged the fleet that was perfectly set up to counter us (i.e., two logi against our laughable DPS). Since we couldn’t kill anything, we re-shipped in anti-logi ships (plenty of damps and ECM, one tackle and two kite ships). Their fleet was made up of two corporations that were at war with us, so when their scimis tried to rep an out of corp fleet member, they immediately went suspect. Safety failed? Immediately some neutral locals jumped into the fight killing the scimis leaving the other war targets vulnerable to us.

After that fight, we stopped getting any fights, so we shipped back down into our interceptors. Big Mistake! Solj, one of our best pilots, pointed a war target on a planet in his tengu. As we warped in to help apply what little DPS we could, additional war targets landed on grid, forcing us off field one by one. However, when a rapier uncloaked right on top of Solj’s tengu….well, why re-open old wounds?

We took the bait and fell for that trap. We underestimated our opponents! We paid for our mistake with the loss of that ship! To add insult to injury, the industrial corp (Reset) got the final blow to one of our best pilots. I can’t even remember the last time Solj lost a fight.

Reset Corp, you should frame that kill mail! They are extremely rare. gf

But I am already there dammit!!

How'd I get here, and why haven't we done those mining ops yet? It's been months