Intergalactic Summit

Hello guys! It has been a pleasure getting to know you all. Now that we have got some introductions down, I was wondering what everyone's fondest memory or story of your time as a capsuleer is.

I for one remember long ago, when I inhabited a different body, my time in the battle of Asakai. I was a member of a now defunct raiding corporation that happened to be a few systems over when the battle started. We were neutral to both the CFC and HBC at the time and decided to wreak as much havoc as we could. Well, as much as a 30 man corporation of pirates could do.

We flew into the midst of the battle about 45 minutes after it had begun. 25 of our 30 man group had managed to ship up in the vicinity. And so, a 15 Blackbird Cruiser wing assisted by a 9 man wolfpack and one Command Ship decided to jam anything and everything possible. We fired upon everyone without discrimination. Battleships lost lock. Logistic Cruisers were totally sidelined. We even managed to disrupt the fire of a dreadnaught for a short time.

Our glorious foolishness lasted all of 10 minutes before we were wiped out to a man. The only survivor being a lonely Wolf that warped out with 5% hull remaining. Luckily our staging system was not far off. And we repeated the process several times.

In the end we caused multiple billion ISK worth of damage and disruption. And our day was made. Alas, that old corporation has slipped into obscurity, likely never to return. But now I fly with new brethren. In a different body. Fighting for different goals. Now, as a member of Pandemic Horde Incorporated I will fly our banner high.

And hope once again that my skills will be needed.

***It was brought to my attention that this might deserve it's own thread so I started another***

My first victory in an old Racing Rivalry in the Subwarp Racing Venture league:

I piloted my Vigil to the start line, a bit on edge. The large amount of Quafe Ultra in my system, consumed
in an effort to be able to concentrate better had an adverse side effect: it was hard to keep my nerves
in check. Not that it would probably be any better if I had not done so. It was the first race of the Subwarp
Racing Venture season, so stakes were high. It was broadcast live over the GalNet, and all my
mistakes would be recorded.
To top it off, the race would likely demand top performance if I were to have any chance of winning. My
greatest rival, kabelsatan, had a nearly flawless track record, and I had never beaten him before, no
one had. I knew my chances of winning today were not that great. For one thing, kabelsatan's top
speed was about 18% above mine, but I was going to do my best. I had trained hard.

After I pointed my ship towards the first turn and stopped my ship at the start of the track, I looked
towards kabelsatan's ship, a Vigil, like my own. Would I be able to beat him this time?
I had little time to think about this, as the commentator, marshals and racers indicated that they were
ready, and the countdown for the first of three rounds quickly followed: READY. SET. GO!
About a second after I set full speed, the ship burned towards the first turn, and a
quick glance revealed that kabelsatan had started to move at the exactly the same
time. The first 4 seconds, we were close together, but as we arrived at the turn, he was in the lead by
1/3 of a second.
In the S-turn that followed, I managed to close the distance and we were neck and neck as we went
through the loop that followed. Then, as we arrived at the final turn, my rival managed to take the lead
again. This time I could not close the gap through the turn, so I overloaded my MWD for the final
straight before the finish. This raised my speed a lot, and we crossed the finish line almost
simultaneously.
As I cruised my way back to the start for the second round, I anxiously awaited the scores from the
marshals. They ruled that kabelsatan had finished in first, but that he had cut the S-turn, so he was
given a penalty, which gave me a 1-point lead. This gave me some confidence, but also raised my
nerves even more, as now I really had a shot at beating my rival, but I knew that my performance in
the 1st round would be hard to repeat.

The second round went almost exactly like the first until we exited the S-turn. Kabelsatan then took the
lead on the way to the loop and manages to increase that lead to over 3 seconds as he entered the
final turn. To make matters worse, kabelsatan decided to overload his MWD on the final straight this
time, and when I did the same, my MWD did not respond as quickly as in the last round, and I finished
6 seconds behind my rival.
At first, I thought we would tie for 1st place as we prepared for the final lap, but when the scores came
in, the marshals ruled that he had cut the loop, getting a second penalty, which was something that
kabelsatan had never gotten before. This increased my lead to 2 points.

Initially, this made me feel like I had already won, as I no longer needed to finish first in the last round.
However, quickly I realized something: that was only true if I also did not cut any checkpoints in the
last round, and out of the nine races that I participated in, in only one of those was I able to fly three
consecutive rounds without penalties. I considered playing it safe, but there were three other racers on
the track, and if I finished third, then I would be tied for 1st place in the final score, and I had no idea
who would be called the winner in that scenario. I had focused mostly on my rival during the races,
and I had no idea how much of a threat the other competitors were, so I decided to not play it too safe.
As I lined up for the start, some more things that could go wrong went through my head: my interface
could desync, my ship's OS could crash. I hoped that I could keep my steadily increasing nervousness in
check.

During the first few seconds of the third round, I managed to take the lead, but was quickly overtaken
by kabelsatan, and he kept getting farther and farther ahead. I lost my spatial awareness and my third
lap was my worst, and I thought that someone was close on my tail. I engaged the overload on my
MWD on the final straight and it broke apart as I crossed the finish in 2nd place.
Now I waited for the scores, not entirely sure if I had cut any corners. After positions 5 to 3 were
mentioned, it was between kabelsatan and me, and they said there was only a single point between
us.

At that moment, I suspected what was quickly confirmed; I was the winner! I had finally beaten my
previously undefeated rival!
To this day, it remains one of my sweetest victories.

Well, if I remember that correctly it occurred 07/24/116 at 5:34. right after my third time ever doing fleet combat. The fleet was a complete failure (largely in part because I couldn't land and hold tackle on anything that whole morning...... being the scout and unable to hold down anyone, ya they weren't happy). So after about a half hour of them explaining what I did wrong and how to better myself for next time I was told to take the minimal amount of crew and ammo (usually I carry 2500 rounds and 100 units of nanite repair paste, I only had 1000 and 50 respectively) and to not return until I came back with a kill or in a pod.

After about 5 minutes of randomly trying to bait, I honestly forget if I warped on you or you warped in on me but anyways I sat there for a minute or two until you engaged we fought for a min or two (I remember it felt like 5 minutes but I highly doubt that honestly) with me triumphantly telling my alliance how I landed tackle and got a fight, ect. As I hit structure my corp at the time's CEO SgtGel came in, landing secondary tackle and Phreak42x, the CEO from another corp in the alliance also warped in and finished the kill. We both blew up within the same minute. Either way it was an amazing learning experience and, aside from how it ended, was a decent fight.

I guess to say a story for myself I'll put down a first as well, happening a little under a month after Maria's story.

08/18/116 at roughly 2:46 I fielded a battleship for the first time in a fleet and also got my first capital ship kill. I guess the story starts in Egbinger where we formed a 32 man fleet, including two archons, a nidhoggur, a moros, 20 Neut/sentry Dominix Battleships, an Onyx, a Damnation, and a Malediction. The real story begins in U3K-4A in the Great Wildlands where we had I believe a small tower as a launching point towards us expanding into that system for ourselves. We were there to bash a Senex Legio small tower to continue on that goal.

As our fleet landed they only had a rapier, an eos, two naglfars, an archon and a moros there for the timer. we deployed bouncer sentries and began chewing through the smaller ships. As we destroyed the rapier the Eos lit a cyno and suddenly the 6 people were joined by another 36 ships. Within seconds the skies were full of interdiction bubbles and as that cyno ship popped our nidhoggur exploded in a flash. We pressed on and destroyed their archon, but lost our first Dominix and our moros. Our Sentries then turned to their moros and as we chewed away at its armor we lost our fc (in a dominix) and also our malediction. Finally the Moros exploded and I had my first capital kill on my record. The rest of the fight was a blur after that. I know that over the next 3 minutes our forces dwindled from 32 to 13, 12 dominix and the damnation. In the end I was one of the few who survived, jumping to our small tower in that dominix. Everyone got the order to Microjump out of the bubbles and my mjd finished spooling up just as a crow landed a lock on me. After about an hour of waiting they jumped an archon to the tower and gave me a crow to fly back in. I still have the crow in mothballs, I have the Dominix too though its locked up in H-W9TY. You all have no idea what I'd do to get it back....

Only other interesting story I got would be getting shot up by Karynn Denton and the dialog after that, but ya........ that's a story for another day.