Crime & Punishment

I warped to the station to see if he was there. My newbro jumped through and I told him to go dock up at the station and tell me if he was there. After a few moments, he said he wasn't there. Still in system, I then thought he had to be at one of the gates. I picked a random gate and warped to 0.

Sitting 12km off of the gate was the Orca with about 30% shields and the 52% structure. I turned and activated my two Sensor Boosters with Scan Resolution scripts to get the fast lock and started throwing torpedoes at him again while slow boating towards scam range. I saw that he was turning and aligning to a gate.

Morgan: "Hey man, where are you? Warp to me and help me kill this Orca before he runs!" The Orca lost his shields again and started to lose structure. I got scram on him and did a baby bump into him.

Newbro: "How do you warp to you?" I shook my head and filed into the back of my mind to teach him how to warp to members effectively and quickly.

Morgan: "I got him." As his structure went down to 4% and I knew the next shot would take it out, I then overheated both of my Sensor Boosters to try to give me instalock for his pod. The Orca exploded in delightful goodness.

Orca: https://zkillboard.com/kill/49738531/

Then as soon as I saw the pod, I attempted to lock it up.

Pod: https://zkillboard.com/kill/49738537/

I sat back in my chair, contemplating that I just mostly soloed an Orca. My last and only solo kill was in FW as a pirate against a pitiful Reaper. A couple of moments later, my newbro landed 10km off of me.

Morgan: "We need to talk about your fleet skills. See that large wreck next to me? Loot it and lets get out of here. We will do fleet practice later." I cloaked my Hound up and started to slow boat away when I pulled up the kill mail.

I was disappointed that my newbro, who was shooting at him in Tar, did not get on the kill mail. Not sure why. I did promise that we would try again before the war ends to get him on a kill mail.

(ok I know that my storytelling skills don't match up to some of the other ones but this was my first one, so give me a break, huh?)

Within a few moments, I was shot out of the station and plotted my course to Zororzih. I sighed as my HUD displayed the 14 system jumps needed to reach my destination. But with the 20 AU per second warp speed, I know I didn’t have long to plan on what I needed to do.

Within 10 minutes, I arrived in Zororzih and got out of the green seed. I took the couple of steps and pulled up the list of the combat ships I had there. I had a few choices available to me. The Incursus would be an interesting one to fly, but I wanted something a bit bigger. I hesitated since I couldn’t decide between the Arbitrator and the Stabber.

I pushed the buttons on the console to have the Stabber summoned. I used a Minmatar stealth bomber against the Orca and decided I would keep to my roots as a Minmatar and fly their cruiser for this hunt. As I waited the couple of minutes for them to retrieve it, I pulled up my agent listing to look for the nearest high level locater agent that somewhat liked me. I noticed that there was a newer agent I had dealt with once before in Malduier that hasn’t blocked my transmissions lately. I jumped back into the green seed and entered the Stabber.

As the cruiser exited the station docks, I entered in a course to Malduier. The HUD revealed it would only be four jumps, which made me smile. I turned and initiated warp to the first gate. I looked back on my watch list and smiled again when I still saw the green dot next to his name. As the stargates came and went, I started to plan on what I was going to do. Upon entering the Malduier station, I came upon my friendly agent in the hallway heading towards his office. He rolled his eyes upon seeing my lithe frame and crooked smile.

“It’s you.” He groaned, trying to walk past me. I stopped him with a hand on the wall, putting my other hand on my hip.

“I missed you too. Find someone for me.” I cooed to him seductively.

“Who?” He stared at me, not really impressed. Maybe I had the wrong plumbing, who knows? I don’t judge as long as he does his job. Hell, I think Boom Boom Longtime is a hottie. I handed him a piece of paper with my target’s name on it. He looked down at the paper for a moment. “Give me a few minutes. Transfer 250,000 isk to my account.”

“Gotcha, sweetie.” I smiled as I turned and headed back to my quarters. I sat down on the couch and typed in the transaction for the 250k isk to find my target to his bank account. I leaned back and looked at the watch list with the green dot still staring at me. While waiting, I clicked on the corporation tab to see if my newbro, Baldur Fett, was around. I frowned as I saw the red dot next to his name. “Great, this would have been a perfect opportunity to teach him a few lessons in hunting.” A buzz at the door startled me for a moment.

“Enter.” I said happily as my friend came into my quarters. He walked over and tossed down a piece of paper on my table.

“Don’t contact me again, Morgan.” He said flatly, heading out the door. I frowned at him and reached for the paper. Written on it was my target’s name and his location: Du Annes. I leaned back a bit, since I did not really know this system. I knew it was in Gallente space but that was about it. I put the paper in my pocket and walked down the bannister towards my green seed again. Strapping myself in, I charted a course to Du Annes while undocking my Stabber. As I settled into the seat, I turned my cruiser towards the first of nine stargate jumps to my destination.

Upon landing, I was greeted with a flashy red war target Retriever happily mining. I squealed in delight as I stopped 23km from his ship, just within my warp disruption range. I turned and locked on his ship, noticing that he had four Tech I Warrior drones orbiting him. I scoffed as my disruptor activated and my guns started to blast at his shield, which was already half damaged as my first volley landed.

“What the…” I said, looking out the side window to see four pirate rats orbiting him also, happily shooting at his shields, with the drones of my war target doing nothing. “Is he asleep or what?” I didn’t plan on using them, but the anger rose within me as I activated my two Rapid Light Missile Launchers upon his mining barge. I laughed as the offending mining ship exploded.

Retriever: https://zkillboard.com/kill/49815393/

I furiously started to lock onto his pod while entering the system of Duripant into my HUD for a destination. I knew that if I got his green seed, that is where he would go. One volley from my autocannons sent him back to his home station.

Pod: https://zkillboard.com/kill/49815396/

Duripant was only two jumps away from where he just died, so I looted his Mining Laser Upgrade I module quickly from his wreck and entered warp to my new destination, leaving his helpless ‘children’ behind. After a couple of minutes, I entered Duripant, one of the rookie systems. Normally I would never come to a rookie system but I was hungering for more vengeance from his non-chalant attitude with mining and hauling during a war. I felt like he was purposely mocking me, daring me to come ‘get him’.

I quickly docked and pulled up the guest manifest. I saw his name in the middle of it and I immediately requested to undock. I flew out for about 15 seconds and then stopped and turned my ship back to the station. Last time I was here, I did not have much time to devote to camping him but this time it was different. I had hours.

Thankfully, I did not have to wait long as he came out of the station, in a new pod. I started to target him but for some reason the console would not let me. “Dammit, lock on him!” I yelled at the console as I repeatedly tried to initiate lock onto the smaller green seed. After what felt like forever, but more like 15 seconds, my lock landed on his pod and I fired one volley of autocannon fire.

Pod: https://zkillboard.com/kill/49815477/

I leaned back in the seat, still fuming. Someone in local asked me why I shot at him. I was half paying attention to him and his conversation all the while watching the station exit when my war target messaged me. “Really?” was all he typed. I shook my head as I responded that the war was still going on for four more hours. Yes, really.

About this time, some guy wanted me to merge with his corporation since he witnessed me kill another capsuleer with brutal fashion. Apparently, he was impressed. I struck up a conversation and I warped to the stargate to exit, but I held there, still talking to this guy who was now talking about an alliance.

+1 would read again

+1 nice work.

Tackle after they jump, not before.

Us vultures and our vulturing ways!

Grr how on earth are these high sp characters supposed to be able to compete with noob corps. CCP must do something to fix this gross imbalance. (Am I doing this right?)

All battle reports should be highly biased for entertainment purposes. +1

Heh. This is free. Recruitment adds are a good source of Intel. Even ask a recruiter what it is their corp does. Use an alt for the inquiries