The Life of a Pirate Queen

Been a while - we're in Fade

2011-08-27T23:47:00.000-07:00

So Fatal Ascension moved to Fade. From Fountain.
So, we ground sov. We've killed stations and POSs. In stealth bombers!

It's been the same routine most of the times, we fleet up in SBs, start shooting whatever space junk is needed to get destroyed and eventually Pandemic Legion gets a cyno ship in, light the cyno and in jump anything from 4-10 caps and super caps.
Upon which we cloak and get out of there. Rinse repeat. Untill PL drops the ball and nothing happens and the structure dies.

Lately we've coordinated with Goons welpfleets. Which means that things go faster, and PL caps dies horribly. It seems to me that PL is failing with most defences these days. They've lost caps in the dozens lately, I think the weeks result (!) is in the neighbourhood of 15 caps and a super. Wtf is up with that?

Anyway, lots of POS and station shoot recently, but we're almost done I think. All PL tech moons are now former PL tech in the safe hands of FA. Unless I miss something. We're getting organized - and I think stuff can go back to normal now. Just need the roams.

Oh, and yesterday I was in on two dread kills. When logged on there was a hysterical Zagdul on alliance chat yelling for welpfleets in K4 to get on the titan and jump to save a tech moon of Goons. Apparently another dozen of PL dreads had gone into siege (which for the uninitiated means they are sitting ducks while dishing out tremendous damage at what the target). Welpfleet was to jump in to system and kill off the ducks, and support fleet.

There was a big scramble to get organized but I managed to get on the titan eventually, jump over to KLY and ... where the feck was the fleet? Lots of confusion, lots of www in fleet as people where gathering in VFK and K4 with www's aplenty drowning the location in the target system. When I finally got on grid, most of the dreads were already dead - the remaining support fleet were retreating and only a token few dreads still alive. One died as soon as i got there, but got in on the other two.

VFK "Leet" pvpers and all that

2011-07-18T23:31:00.000-07:00

So I'm on holiday from mayhem.
And that's when a group of people calling themselves "LEETPVP" or somesuch thinks it's ok to attack Deklein. As we are part of the Deklein coalition we are ordered to deploy up north for a few. The supercap heavies start their invasion (Ev0ke, NC., PL, Raiden., IRC) and manage to gain a few system - partly because

a/ Mostly Harmless decides to consider defection (and later actually does it seems) dropping all their space. A couple of weeks later MH disbands.
b/ "Leet" pvp apparently involves supercap blobing. And we mess up the cyno jammers on a system or two.

Then "Leet" make a push for VFK, DKUK and other vital systems. Stuff is reinforced all over the place, hostile staging POSs go up and off they log. Some of them, others jump their supers back to their homelands.

This is obviously a mistake, either you invade full scale and stay there (6VDT anyone?) or you don't invade, or at least jump out all your supers from Goon space. What happens when you try a "trickle invasion" leaving unprotected staging POSs in hostile mainland, is ... yes you guessed it - 6VDT again. The horn of Goondor is blown, main Goon space is turned into a blue Jita and the pitiful remains of the invading forces are bubbled to hell and back in "rape cages". Every single hostile POS is bubbled, every single gate is bubbled, home space is filled with blues 23½/7 and all gates are camped. The systems are cyno jammed. The remaining invasion forces are trapped ....

Don't forget 6VDT - "I was there" =)

We hell camped it for days on end. Goons, Test and FA (the 3 main alliances forming the fleets out here) will hell camp Deklein until the invasion forces are obliterated. Or the "Leet" forces manage to turn the cyno jammers off.

From what I've seen of rescue attempts (and breakout attempts) the "Leet" forces are seriously underwhelming when it comes to subcap battle.

Following on all this, we had an Awoxer in our midst (again). It's out of our corp, but we are now scrambling to reorganize as our CEO stood down in the aftermath of the event.

To celebrate the holiday

2011-07-07T13:21:00.000-07:00

And to cheer me up after losing a shitload of ships this week.
I got the last Ashimmu in Fountain (at least for now).

I've ordered my faction mods, will have Amarr cruiser V when I'm back and dear God don't get near this beast of a heavy tackler on gate camps, With 18km 90% web, 3 med neuts and a gang backup, you will be so dead =)
Really looking forward to take this out for a camp or two.

That it looks so sexy doesn't hurt any either =)

A bitch of a miserable week

2011-07-05T13:34:00.001-07:00

3 ships in a week. I'm going back to mining...
1 Maelstrom in the defence of DKUK where we completely routed evoke and friends. I managed to warp out (it was lagging badly) and back in on top of the evoke fleet. Not a good manouvre. Another Maelstrom in defence of VFK for god knows what reason I was primaried. And now, bad to extremely bad luck we managed to warp into a red bomber camp and my Huginn went bye-bye. I take some consolation that the Huginn is my least like T2 ship.

I'm off on holiday soon. When I'm back I get a Zealot and/or an Ashimmu for armor roams. Ashimmu looks so nasty I really want to have one.

Deklein

2011-07-02T10:12:00.000-07:00

We're ordered to join the fight in Deklein. So fight we do.
NC., Evoke, Raiden, PL and whatnot is trying to take Deklein from Goons and DekC. This is an outrages provocation. It cannot be tolerated and they will be pushed out, back where they belong.

First blue kill

2011-06-29T23:16:00.000-07:00

Oops ...

But it was not really an accident, nor some awoxing activity. More like body guard duty. We were chasing a small fleet together with Test and sandwiched them close to PNQY. So while we were camping a gate there we get on comms that someone was shooting our mighty leader. As he was in a faction frigate he was getting pretty worried about it all.

Turned out it was a newbie Test guy with fucked up overview. Down goes the little Jaguar.

As to the neut fleet we were blue balled by Test ... after much excited voices on comms it turns out the fleet flew straight into the Test gate camp, and swiftly lost several ships. They ran just as we got into warp to the gate where the fighting was ending. The next 45 mins was spent roaming Fountain without much luck and playing log offski games with the reminder of the neut fleet.

It's been a terrific week

2011-06-17T13:39:00.000-07:00

The battle of CIS was a blast. It's a bit hard getting my head around how we spanked the fleets out there. Amazing - in a fine way.

A whole bunch of new kills today. Not on the CIS level, but nevertheless, spankingwise we are now running the show. Keeping the lesser entities out of our space, or punishing them if they for some misbegotten reason try roaming in it. This time it was a motley fleet from "Monkey Circus" that got severely punished. Call went out in alliance that a camping gang expected a hostile fleet close by. So, reinforcements were added to the campers and off we went.

We caught them off PNQY and chased them into a neighbouring system. Faced by either continuing deeper into DekC space or trying to get home again, they chose the latter. When trying to escape we caught their seemingly disorganised fleet on a gate and swiftly proceeded to obliterate it. We had 8-10 kills to one 1 loss, while only very few ships got away, basically because of lack of bubblers on our part.

Earlier in the day I had two kills on my "Super wolf" which is, unfortunately no longer. It has lived well passed the expected time-to-live date anyway. Need to replace it now. No Wolfs in 9r4 to be had though. My sniping Muninn set-up seems to work really well, even if there no sniping involved in today's activities - it's still a powerful HAC doing at least as much damage as battle cruisers.

The Battle of CIS

2011-06-12T22:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday.
It was completely awesome. Although the fleet invite was nothing out of the ordinary - as standard "Strat op" to win a Tech moon in CIS. During dinner time. Fortunately it all was a bit delayed, so I got back from dinner in time to join. As I haven't had the time to move my alpha maelstrom from YI- yet I had to sign up with my sniper HAC - which turned out completely brilliant.

We were titan bridged onto unsuspecting enemies and their POS and after a few confused seconds where a corp mate managed to lose his Scorpion we warped off to regroup and engage in an orderly fashion.

So we went back, and meeting a fleet of our own size local was filled with 230+ pilots fighting for the moon. In the middle of our FC calling out primaries, secondaries and tertiaries - which we swiftly proceeded to kill off - news came of a tackled enemy Titan. It managed to kill two of our carriers but as everyone wanted in on a titan kill, it fairly rapidly got into mid armor - and did a logoffski.

Having lost a juice titan kill we were immediately distracted from it as the remaining enemy fleet continued to fight. My little sniper HAC (a Muninn, 110km range standalone, 121 with fleet bonuses) faught, heavily and dodging in and out among the battleships, getting under fire - taking damage, getting repped by our logis, sniping away at the enemies, T2 cruisers, battleships and whatever was called. At one point it looked like I was going to die, as I had gotten too far away from our logis, and was taking bad shield damage bleading into armor. Turning on the micro warp drive and burning out to sniping distance kept the ship alive to see the end of the battle, while killing everything in sight.

What a difference to the last time we engaged Rooks and Kings. That time my benefactor lost his Scimi, and the entire fleet was spanked pretty badly. Now, this time, we did the spanking.

First kill for -FA-

2011-02-19T12:32:00.000-08:00

Former allies and general shoot everything that flies, Godfathers, came visiting in our new home a pocket from V6 on out in Fountain. We had them trapped in two dead end systems and after a bit of gate camping trying to probe them down, they got reinforcements from NPC space and decided to make a run for freedom. A cry went out from our scout in a neighbouring system, and our probers at the same time - and then they all jump out of the trap.

Vagabond was called primary, bubble went up and we got him to structure when reinforcements warp in on the gate. So while I finished off the vaga we were at the same time getting the f- out off the gate. While I - again - watched as my shield and armor melted rapidly away from my poor hound...

This time I got out of the bubble with the luxury of 90% structure left. Second battle I almost died in it, but it survived - I love my trusty Wolf =)

Waiting ...

2011-02-14T13:01:00.000-08:00

So we are moving from Convicted (A.I.F) to Fatal Ascension (FA). Will be interesting. Hopefully only a few hours left until I can undock tomorrow morning and start getting all my stuff the last few jumps. Benefactor has been doing silly missions, got a 100m+ implant as a reward, as well as a 3x blueprint of stuff 40-60m a piece. Maybe I should pod him?

And yeah, the move went all according to plan. Not a red in sight, even when flying the Noctis the last few.

Moving ...

2011-02-13T00:52:00.000-08:00

I'm moving all my ships to a system closer to the action. After having flown 2 HACs, a battleships and a covops over to PNQY using the jump bridges from TN- I now have only a Noctis to get some 20 jumps over. The plan is:

1. Jump back to an empty clone in Geminate
2. Suicide that to get to TN- without moving a ship
3. Fly a shuttle from TN- to 9-4
3b. Load all crap into the Noctis
4. Fly the Noctis from 9-4 to PNQY
5. Set med clone to PNQY

Phew ... 6 hours to wait to jump.
And that will most likely be all that's done until Tuesday. At the end of this mini-op I'll still have a stealth bomber in 6VDT. Need to figure out the best way of getting that thing out of there ...

And yeah, almost forgot - I got myself a new HAC. Rather than the Vaga I've flown a couple of times, I had to re-ship in a hurry at one time and the only thing I thought good enough was a Muninn, sniping fit apparently. Got some solid 80-90km range on that thing ... very neat. Already got a kill on it as well, when bashing a tower in Syndicate. Need to fly it more to know how to handle it, as the name of the thing reveals "Wtf is this thing" =)

Well the war is over

2011-02-10T23:22:00.000-08:00

more or less anyway.
IT is ground into dust. Fountain has largely been taken, and there there is only token mop up operations to be done. Time for roams. And make iskies maybe.

I've done two recently, both in Fountain. One success full with 4 kills in the first engagement. I brought my little trusty Wolf out to null. And seeing the tank evaporate to battlecruisers and other ships I somehow managed to hold on and kill four of them before they were all itsy-bitsy. Left the field with 30% armor left - woooohoooo =)
Second roam, was on for one and a half hours - got 1 pod. Stupid targeting was bugged or whatever, maybe need to replace bits and pieces of it ... again ... And of course, just as I leave (or bit after really) there is this large battle with lots of murder and mayhem =( Bugger.

Even considering joining in the Hulkageddon, just for giggles. We'll see - there's a thrasher waiting to be fit.

I fired that painter

2011-01-22T01:33:00.000-08:00

Got a photographer instead. And that pic was a few years old anyway.
Hectic few days away, so nothing much happening at the moment. My benefactor got in on 8 (!) kills in one campaign ... that's not fair. He is the industrialist.

But I think the pic is much better, I wonder what will happen when Incarna strikes. We've been having weird discussions all week.

So now we are in Cloud Ring/ Fountain

2011-01-10T22:52:00.001-08:00

Took a week getting all stuff out, or at least most stuff. Got some of it still in 9-4 and some in my old corp. Anyway, finally got in a the usually slightly chaotic Goon fleets. Flying about Fountain shooting space tins. Hopefully we'll find some flying space tins to shoot as well.

Day 1 - second outing

2010-12-26T07:41:00.000-08:00

And there goes my Hound ... should have bought a second set of mods when I was at it tbh. Now I've got a hull, and assorted mods, but not a space worthy Hound. A pity, oh well at least I can give parts away to mates who might be able to assemble something of it - and sell the Hound if the worst comes to the worst.

We made the news at least : http://www.evenews24.com/2010/12/26/nc-revolt-c0nvicted-attacks-dem0n-hunters/

and battles are now 1-1 only because RAGE are incompetent enough not to handle a much smaller alliance on their own. It's actually pretty pathetic, I think we had 60+ vs 220+ when we had the second encounter. And a large part of that was NC allies, like MM, Systematic Cha0s, Mostly Harmless and other lesser enteties .... not. Truly pathetic. Well, RAGE is one alliance I won't join - please remind me of it if need be. I now know how it might have felt when my benefactors first null alliance got chucked out of Insmother ...

First strike

2010-12-26T00:36:00.000-08:00

So we attacked first. Turned Demon Hunters red and attacked 4KON. Lucky I got all my shopping out of their outpost before (I think it was theirs ...). Things turned a bit interesting null politics wise with an attack on Geminate from Drone regions and an attack from within NC space.

Unfortunately couldn't contribute all the time. Back for more action later.

Tomorrow we are game

2010-12-25T13:06:00.000-08:00

So, it's back to the roots again eh?
Bring it on then ... Chiana has done this before. The carebear is out of harms way for now. All valueble assets (that ratting Maelstrom is something like 200m+ even if not faction fit, and the skillbook is also in empire) - damn I sold one for 130m in Cloud Ring, me and business ... It took a bit of a gamble and a pair of scout eye to get big slow Maelstrom out the door. Fortunately the pipe from LR to Aldik is short and has been fairly quiet during early holiday days. Still a few nerve wrecking moments with an afk-neut (who might or might not come alive) and another couple of hostiles in Eurgrana who were not on the gates. The afk cloaky neut is flying a Loki by the way. I happened to gather that, didn't pass it on. Let the fucktards find that out by themselves.

Got a few cheap ships still in Geminate, nothing to feel sorry for if/when they go poof ... Question is now what the carebear is going to do for a living. As the CEO said, it didn't exactly turn out as planned ...

We'll see how the plans with the alliance and with the budding indy section fares through all this. Won't do much anyway during the next few holi days =) OK, so - so far the top alliance beings have been still pretty quiet about everything, I still don't know exactly what's going on, and why and when things will be happening - apart from that tomorrow there is one planned op.
I am discovering - the hard way - that C0nvicted is not -7- I just wish it wasn't so bleeding obvious.

Oh well ... let the hostilities commence ...

Almost Christmas and frell I know what is going on

2010-12-22T09:37:00.000-08:00

O, joyous period of the year is approaching. Not. Rather than merriment and hostilities, it's frell I know what and hostilities.

Geminate - the place in space we currently call home is being invaded. It was clear that is would happen from the start. Drone russians thought Geminate would be a good Christmas gift to their guys (and gals). About the same time the russian invasion starts, RAGE thinks it is a good time to chuck C0nvicted out of Geminate...

The reasons why are .... let's say slightly obscure. And C0nvicted top guys seriously lacks communications skills .... Everything will be explained on Friday is the now too familiar explanation as to why the f* we should evac. Or not. Or what the hell. I don't know. I guess I'll try to find a contract to get my ratting ship out then. That's about all I've managed to get in so far. Oh, and then there is the rumour that we are out of NC (which seems logical as we are there as guests of RAGE). But checking my old corp - we are still blue. So no reset. Yet.
Then we had a rumour that RAGE changed their minds and we are not to be chucked out after all. Maybe.

And then there is the comforting thought that NC is going to drop a fleet on us any second. Althoguh I believe NC is involved in Fountain at the moment, which is at the other end of their space.

Null politics at their muddiest.

It's all very confuddling - there's an invasion of Geminate going on, and no one gives a sh** even if they should - maybe - save their home space - or RAGEs home space or NCs southeastern border, or whatever it is.

Come Christmas Eve we know, maybe. I'll know Christmas Day. I might be surrounded in red space when I sign on next =)

A new start

2010-12-14T12:44:00.000-08:00

First things first.
The war against againt Ev0ke (or eJoke as they were called) is over. -7- took over large parts of Cloud Ring, and Ev0ke left to harass other parts of the universe. Lots of fights was had, and the benefactor eventually settled on flying logistics. And stopped losing ships.
DRK ended up with a two systems in Cloud Ring, a gazillion POSes that needed constant feeding and good ratting. Also, lots of pew.

Unfortunately most of it were in times, this being was asleep.

So ended up ratting. A lot. Easy ISK making given 3-5 1.2 BS rats. But in the end a bit boring. And my benefactor managed to lose or misplace his hulk. So ...

To cut a lot of unnecessary text, I'm back in my first corp. Sons of Odin ... EU-based pirates, going null sec. There are apparently a couple of options, one being getting back into Pure Blind =) Which is a bit ironic as DRK moved out of that space ... If that's where we end up it'll be partaking in the Fountain campaign I guess. In EU-time hopefully. That'll be interesting.

Apparently also, SoO will put up a indy operation. I guess dear benefactor will enjoy carebearing in null again. He'll just have to stop misplacing his hulks. And get that Rorqual he has trained for...

War endless war

2010-10-24T18:51:00.000-07:00

Me and my benefactor (although at the rate he's losing ships at the moment, I am the benefactor) are in null sec war. NC is pushing into Cloud Ring. In the process our corp got one of the best systems in Cloud Ring as a "thanks for all the fish" pressy.
And the corp is providing all the CTA ships as a fish thingy I think. I even called one of my CTA ships "Pressy".

It has been a lot of action - I'm trying to be there, my kill ration in D.R.K has gone up from the other corps (I'm actually plus now). Blob warfare is new though - most frustrating when a FC calls out primary left right and centre while you ship behaves as drugged snail on downers. "It was not too bad" they said with 400 in local (500 according to those who kept better track). I went 3-1 while able to do something latest op.

My benefactor is 1-13, dunno what he's doing. Not anything right anyway. Think he got in on incaping a pos gun or four the other day before being hotdroped by 4 supercaps with fleet.

Back from holiday

2010-08-24T13:17:00.000-07:00

A long one. And the corp moved, and changed alliance. In the nick of time apparently.
Our old area in Insmother is in the hands of Red Alliance nowadays.

We are now in Sev3rance up north. Some of our pvp-ers have been taking top spots in killing stuff for some time now, which is cool. And for some reason - I've found a bit of time for pvp as well.
we're having a nasty battle for D2-HOS on at the moment, and I thought I'd join up in a fleet a few days ago. Unfortunately familly business and other RL got in the way, so I missed the formup and leaving of fleet. Not long after our fleet left a largish red fleet came through the system I was fitting my spanking brand new Vaga in. Apparently the idea was to catch our fleet between reinforcements for the POS bash and the BC fleet. Fortunately our support caught up with the reds and engaged them en route while the main POS bashing gang went about their business.
A few late comers set up an "impromptu" gate camp behind the red support fleet, in effect cathing them between our support and a camped gate. Joining in, it was picking candy from a baby. Either killing off pods trying to escape from the system, or preventing reinforcements reaching them.
Got 8 kills off of that.

Another battle ensued for D2-HOS today. Brought a stealth bomber to the party, but the party got pretty laggy with 600+ in system. I guess we'll see tomorrow what damage I did, at least one kill - a logoffsky Drake apart from the possible mayhem some bombing runs did.

This was the first time I got home in the same stealth bomber that I left with - cool =) And the score in Sev3rance is now up to (at least) 9 kills 0 losses ... weird that.

The Spire II

2010-06-03T03:44:00.001-07:00

Disappointment.

Nothing to pew but faction drones, red blobs or docked cravens.
Rumour has it that red is coming to me instead. We'll see what happens first, there will be another attempt in a bit.

The Spire I

2010-05-31T23:04:00.000-07:00

I heard about some new ideas in one of our channels so I thought I'd go out and do a bit of naughtiness before I leave on holiday. After setting off from X5 I put my goal at the first system in The Spire and off I go... only to get caught in a blue bubble after a few jumps. And discover I forgot to put an Microwarp drive on the ship. So I head back towards a station (the one in C-J) and get myself a MWD.

Then from there I again head towards the first system in The Spire, but instead of travelling through our own space I have to visit Red Alliance. Nothing in particular happened, apart from finding two Dominition spawn camping gates ... how good a spawn they are in Drone country I have no idea, and I don't have a ship to take them on anyway. I'd leave my for the carebears instead.

I'll venture further out in next stage.

More action

2010-05-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

As usual these days, time have been lacking. But the action is here in Insmother if you know where to look and dare to participate.

The other day HTA decided to take down a hostile POS in their space. They had eliminated a hostile TCU a week or so earlier but the POS they had managed to defend (if it was Solar Fleet or Red Alliance I don't remember). We managed to assemble a group of caps and a largish support fleet and headed off. We waited on a gate for a few minutes while listening to intel of the approaching fleet. And warped in they did, together with a main group of somewhere between 10-15 super caps. At one time there was a total of 250+ reds in system, and our FCs went down pretty fast as the super caps started making themselves felt and anhilating our caps.

It was a horrible rout. And I lost yet another ship, my BS this time. Atlas turned up a bit later and help getting the reds out. We managed to get a revenge fleet going where I got in on a small revenge kill - through my benefactor.

Today, tho - we've been seen a Solar fleet guy flying around our home systems. when he left I went shopping in C-J, hearing that the Solar guy is in the adjectant system. So I say I'm leaving C-J for 88a and ... there he is - on the gate, in a Merlin. I tell the people on our home channel this and leave him for a while to let the guys get there. When my invisibility timer reaches 0 I decide to engage - approach, mwd, scram, shoot ....
My Wolf is making good progress through the shields when Michelle in a Vaga reaches the gate. The Merlin is dead, but he gets off with his pod anyway...

Still a nice difference from losing all sorts of ships out here in null.

another kill =)

2010-05-04T11:19:00.000-07:00

The first in ages. A mighty shuttle, a first red kill. I will not go into details on the thing as it was not particularly honorable - lol. More like a sever parking ticket. Maybe that'll teach him not to park whereever he wants, especially not in our systems. But prolly not.

There has been rumours of war and invasion of our home. And after a day of increasingly frequent fleets roaming around, making my head spin, and a day full of reported blackops around the major centers out here (and we live only 3 jumps off from 2 of them) we saw another wave of blobs forming up from Red Alliance and Solar fleet. Fuckturds even bubbled on of the stations. Then we saw an alliance mail about a diplomatic solution to the situation - we'll see what happens in the near future.

Back to ratting and getting my ships out then.

No, didn't work out

2010-04-22T23:21:00.000-07:00

Empire simply got too boring. My former corp broke out of my next to former corp. Originally to start a PvP corp, which turned out to be not so much PvP corp (rather a copy of the original, sans CEO). At least I got to run a few ventures into Placid low sec and Syndicate null sec. Nothing to report from those, apart from getting blown up once. Made a bit of iskies ratting tho.

And got corp mates blown up ratting.

So eventually I joined up with my benefactor in Insmother. We are both now out in null sec, which is great fun. I just need to get all my stuff out here somehow, a couple of skillbooks (all my drone skills, and cruise missies), my Tempest and ceptor. In a couple of days I'm done training for an interdictor, then I'll consolidate my supportskills. And go on PvP ops =))
(So I'll be up to 2x Cane, 1x Ceptor, Dictor, Tempest, Hound).

Did a bit of isk ratting in Insmother in my PvP fit Cane, more, actually than with gazillions of L1 and L2 missions... in 2 minutes.

Wars =)

2010-03-01T21:56:00.000-08:00

I was starting to get bored in empire.
But then we war deced the shithead and his alliance. People left... other people simply docked up. Including Dani and the army of alts.

And now, we are dec'ed by a pro merc corp - lol.
More pew for the win =)

Moar EVE drama

2010-02-06T21:02:00.000-08:00

Why does EVE bring out all the worst in people?

We had this guy in corp who didn't like management. So he leaves corp, and as a parting gift kills and pods the one guy who at all costs dislikes PVP. So much so that he logs and stays off during wars.

That was such a chicken thing to do Dani, wasn't it? What had Beka done to you Dani? You feel better destroying 700m ISKies for someone not involved in your personal problems?

So instead of agressing someone who would give you a fight. You are so fail as to target the one guy who officially wants nothing at all to do with pvp and such things. And doesn't suspect someone in his own corp to be such a shithead.

Fucking pathetic is what it is ... honest.
Let me the fuck out of the wormhole and I'll pod your sorry ass.
/me hates baby sitting wormholes at the moment.
/me hates Concord even more - the fuckturd would just go sit in safe space =(

Wormhole pirates

2010-02-05T23:32:00.000-08:00

My corp moved to a class 5 wormhole a few weeks ago. After having lived in a dried up class 3 patience ran out of the powers that be, and the move was made. A few mining ops and some pew situations (I managed to lose a Cane to a Proteus) later real bad shit happened.

3 days ago I log on to find a discussion about the traffic in the hole. Apparently no one has done anything to stop it, but there was industrials and various combat ships around. A tower went up. And then - shit happened -.

Not one, but two Dreadnoughts were on scan. Then as fast as they could register the fact, the pos was attacked. Not much else to do but to negotiate - and a horrible sum of ISKies changed hands.

Now for 1+ days I've been hauling crap and fail fitted ships out of the hole. The more hilarious one was a BS with long range weapons, a scan booster and .... stabs .... wtf. Or a BC with short range guns and stabs (risk of hitting your own ship there...).

Oh well .... dunno what I'm going to do now. Corp is talking about restructuring, refilling corp wallet. I hate missions - and don't mine ...

Report from 0.0 - part 2

2010-02-02T22:49:00.000-08:00

Wanted to post this as a comment, but it was too large...
This is EVE in a nutshell. Anything goes in this game, and anything can and will happen. On a daily basis... It's a bit sad though. When my benefactor joined Nightmare and Undivided (the alliance) Nightmare was 130+ pilots and Undivided quite a few corps. Now Nightmare is down to 50 and Undivided has 6 corps, plus the shadow blue killing alt corp I guess.

[ 2010.01.29 05:07:08 ] Ruxandra > o/
[ 2010.01.29 05:07:24 ] Heofz > hows it going
[ 2010.01.29 05:07:25 ] Ruxandra > What can I do for you?
[ 2010.01.29 05:07:30 ] Ruxandra > Not bad.
[ 2010.01.29 05:07:52 ] Heofz > just wanted to ask u something if thats ok
[ 2010.01.29 05:08:02 ] Ruxandra > Sure.
[ 2010.01.29 05:08:42 ] Heofz > did dave pay you to do what you did?
[ 2010.01.29 05:08:53 ] Ruxandra > Nope.
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:04 ] Heofz > not the corp thieving thing
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:11 ] Heofz > but before that
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:31 ] Ruxandra > Yeah, I know what you were asking - it would be stupid for him to pay me to rob someone elses corp.
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:35 ] Ruxandra > But no, Dave didn't pay me.
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:38 ] Ruxandra > An external party did.
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:53 ] Heofz > lol
[ 2010.01.29 05:09:56 ] Heofz > may i ask who? :)
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:10 ] Ruxandra > The confidentiality of my clients is a part of our agreement.
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:19 ] Ruxandra > I do have a price, though.
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:30 ] Ruxandra > If you were to pay me some isk, I could disclose their identity.
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:37 ] Heofz > how much :)
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:44 ] Ruxandra > How much is it worth?
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:52 ] Heofz > not a great deal tbh
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:55 ] Heofz > i'm just curious
[ 2010.01.29 05:10:55 ] Ruxandra > I could give you information to attack them with, as well.
[ 2010.01.29 05:11:04 ] Ruxandra > I will tell you their name for 10 million isk.
[ 2010.01.29 05:11:30 ] Ruxandra > I'll also include some interesting information.
[ 2010.01.29 05:11:38 ] Ruxandra > That may help you in returning the "favor"
[ 2010.01.29 05:11:49 ] Heofz > 5 million now, 5 million after
[ 2010.01.29 05:11:59 ] Ruxandra > It's 10 million, I'm being fair, man.
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:03 ] Ruxandra > I could've asked you for 100.
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:13 ] Heofz > but how can i trust u lol
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:23 ] Ruxandra > Well, if I lied to you, you go kill ten rats.
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:27 ] Heofz > how do i know ur not gonna just take the 10 mil and laugh
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:30 ] Ruxandra > Thats just stupid to rip you off for 10 million isk.
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:34 ] Heofz > true
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:51 ] Heofz > ok what the hell :)
[ 2010.01.29 05:12:52 ] Ruxandra > Considering I could gain future amounts for more isk, if you like what I tell you.
[ 2010.01.29 05:13:09 ] Heofz > 10 mil for a name and that extra info?
[ 2010.01.29 05:13:16 ] Ruxandra > Yes.
[ 2010.01.29 05:13:24 ] Ruxandra > I will give you their name and their information.
[ 2010.01.29 05:13:40 ] Heofz > lol ok
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:00 ] Heofz > check ur wallet :)
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:06 ] Ruxandra > Okay.
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:39 ] Ruxandra > First, you didn't get this from me.
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:44 ] Ruxandra > Or I won't give you more info.
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:45 ] Ruxandra > Okayt?
[ 2010.01.29 05:14:53 ] Heofz > of course
[ 2010.01.29 05:15:13 ] Ruxandra > I was hired by Riley. I don't know if it was Dave on her account. However, she was the person who initially contacted me.
[ 2010.01.29 05:15:25 ] Ruxandra > The job was easy because of my past relations with Lost Packet.
[ 2010.01.29 05:15:47 ] Ruxandra > After that, Dave became the contact, his intentions were to force your corps from the alliance, give him the edge with ATLAS, and reform.
[ 2010.01.29 05:16:15 ] Heofz > i suspected as much, lol
[ 2010.01.29 05:16:38 ] Ruxandra > He couldn't make such attempts without first corrupting the leadership infrastructure and getting people on his side.
[ 2010.01.29 05:17:25 ] Heofz > yeah
[ 2010.01.29 05:17:31 ] Ruxandra > He had talked very boldly about how Viod Hawk was a fool, etc. He would regularly bash him in private conversations with me.
[ 2010.01.29 05:17:40 ] Heofz > by establishing himself as the leader right?
[ 2010.01.29 05:17:54 ] Ruxandra > Well, he didn't have control of the Executor corp.
[ 2010.01.29 05:17:56 ] Ruxandra > Packet did.
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:07 ] Ruxandra > So, if he attempted to take control, Packet would just kick him - which packet did.
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:11 ] Ruxandra > However, packet did it too late.
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:19 ] Ruxandra > After people were already prepared to "jump ship."
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:24 ] Heofz > yeah
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:51 ] Heofz > i cant believe it lol
[ 2010.01.29 05:18:55 ] Heofz > i worked all this out myself
[ 2010.01.29 05:19:02 ] Heofz > well, not myself
[ 2010.01.29 05:19:08 ] Heofz > but i put the pieces together
[ 2010.01.29 05:19:17 ] Heofz > and you've confirmed all my suspicions
[ 2010.01.29 05:19:29 ] Ruxandra > The funny part is - once GoonSwarm reinforces NC and makes a push into Insmother - no one is going to take Davet517s check.
[ 2010.01.29 05:19:42 ] Ruxandra > He's going to lose the space anyway.
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:03 ] Heofz > lol
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:07 ] Heofz > he spent billions
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:09 ] Heofz > xD
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:15 ] Ruxandra > He purchases isk illegally, also.
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:18 ] Ruxandra > That is true.
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:28 ] Heofz > how did you know about that?
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:36 ] Ruxandra > Bobby Atlas was also given a "bonus check".
[ 2010.01.29 05:20:45 ] Ruxandra > To let him have the space.
[ 2010.01.29 05:21:20 ] Ruxandra > I knew he purchased isk for a while.
[ 2010.01.29 05:21:49 ] Ruxandra > It's obvious. He even boasted about it in Mostly Harmless.
[ 2010.01.29 05:21:55 ] Ruxandra > To people he trusted, anyway.
[ 2010.01.29 05:26:54 ] Heofz > lol damn
[ 2010.01.29 05:27:21 ] Heofz > so you knew packet for a long time?
[ 2010.01.29 05:29:25 ] Heofz > dave must've paid you a lot to sever ties with him D:
[ 2010.01.29 05:29:59 ] Ruxandra > I actually was never "friends" with packet. I had just conveniently been in his corp before. I met him through Marcus Malos.
[ 2010.01.29 05:30:22 ] Ruxandra > It was easy to get in, especially considering he had a huge need for a US TimeZone Director.
[ 2010.01.29 05:30:32 ] Ruxandra > I was the one close enough to being trust worthy.
[ 2010.01.29 05:41:17 ] Heofz > i have to say
[ 2010.01.29 05:41:28 ] Heofz > the whole operation was a beautiful piece of work
[ 2010.01.29 05:41:55 ] Ruxandra > It was alright. It would've come out better if Packet wouldn't have kicked him so soon, there was a larger plan at play.
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:01 ] Ruxandra > What occured was a contingency plan.
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:38 ] Heofz > larger plan? :o
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:47 ] Ruxandra > Yes, there was a larger plan.
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:51 ] Heofz > i cant imagine him getting a better result tho
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:55 ] Ruxandra > The "true" plan.
[ 2010.01.29 05:42:56 ] Heofz > he got the whole pocket
[ 2010.01.29 05:43:02 ] Heofz > all to himself
[ 2010.01.29 05:43:16 ] Ruxandra > Yes.
[ 2010.01.29 05:43:17 ] Heofz > unless he's referring to the destruction of everyone else too
[ 2010.01.29 05:43:38 ] Ruxandra > It was along those lines. It was more epic than what occured.
[ 2010.01.29 05:44:04 ] Ruxandra > It probably would've resulted in multiple people not only leaving BADWOLF and Nightmare Inc, but also, quitting the game.
[ 2010.01.29 05:44:33 ] Heofz > i think i know what you're talking about
[ 2010.01.29 05:44:48 ] Heofz > he wanted to put everything in a holding corp
[ 2010.01.29 05:45:32 ] Ruxandra > No, it was more diverse than that.
[ 2010.01.29 05:45:38 ] Ruxandra > If I told you, you'd be surprised.
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:03 ] Heofz > lol is that so
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:12 ] Ruxandra > Yeah, you'd be shocked, maybe.
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:22 ] Heofz > i dunno, eve is full of surprises :P
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:25 ] Ruxandra > Just to find out what was going on internally in your corp, not just the alliance.
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:45 ] Heofz > in badwolf eh
[ 2010.01.29 05:46:51 ] Ruxandra > In every corp.
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:16 ] Heofz > guess... isk farming?
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:19 ] Ruxandra > Aside of Dave's, which wasn't necessary.
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:20 ] Ruxandra > No.
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:25 ] Heofz > damn
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:27 ] Ruxandra > I can tell you, for another 10m.
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:42 ] Heofz > hmm okie dokie
[ 2010.01.29 05:47:56 ] Ruxandra > It would greatly improve your corps ability to survive at this point.
[ 2010.01.29 05:48:10 ] Heofz > paid :)
[ 2010.01.29 05:48:33 ] Ruxandra > I was told to make contact with a director in each corp.
[ 2010.01.29 05:48:50 ] Ruxandra > I was supposed to determine which seemed like they'd be easiest to follow-the-lead.
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:03 ] Ruxandra > I had to find someone not devoted to the corps they were in, but with proper roles.
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:14 ] Ruxandra > Money talks and BS walks.
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:20 ] Heofz > so i hear
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:30 ] Ruxandra > Within your corp, as well as, other corps - save for Malice inc. They came into the game too late.
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:42 ] Ruxandra > There was a mole, if you will.
[ 2010.01.29 05:49:54 ] Ruxandra > A person prepared to not only kick multiple people from nightmare, like I had.
[ 2010.01.29 05:50:04 ] Ruxandra > But simultaneously, everyone they possibly could from each corp.
[ 2010.01.29 05:50:14 ] Ruxandra > Then drain the wallets, the corp hangars, and get out of dodge.
[ 2010.01.29 05:50:18 ] Ruxandra > They were paid a fee by Dave.
[ 2010.01.29 05:50:25 ] Ruxandra > Not nearly as much as my fee.
[ 2010.01.29 05:51:06 ] Heofz > interseting
[ 2010.01.29 05:51:08 ] Ruxandra > On the night that Packet ejected Raata Invicti from the alliance, it was too early.
[ 2010.01.29 05:51:17 ] Ruxandra > I needed about two more days to have them all simultaneously on.
[ 2010.01.29 05:51:56 ] Ruxandra > But rather than have them all on simultaneously, because of what packet did - sooner than expected, I pretended to be on board with the TCU killing thing.
[ 2010.01.29 05:51:59 ] Ruxandra > I even was on the kill mail.
[ 2010.01.29 05:52:13 ] Ruxandra > This would distract any and all attention from me, while I did what I had to do - when Packet slept.
[ 2010.01.29 05:52:35 ] Heofz > yeah i noticed that
[ 2010.01.29 05:52:36 ] Ruxandra > Since I was the last possible person to undertake what was supposed to be done - and get my final check.
[ 2010.01.29 05:53:16 ] Ruxandra > The director in your corp that was supposed to be on board with us was immediately severed from our op.
[ 2010.01.29 05:53:43 ] Ruxandra > We offered to keep his name a secret in exchange for him to not disclose our plan, until we finished what we needed to do, tell ATLAS the story - send logs, etc.
[ 2010.01.29 05:54:10 ] Ruxandra > He's still in your corp right now.
[ 2010.01.29 05:54:28 ] Heofz > i see
[ 2010.01.29 05:54:42 ] Ruxandra > He's probably not a threat, though.
[ 2010.01.29 05:54:50 ] Ruxandra > Just a guy who was given an opportunity to make some isk.
[ 2010.01.29 05:57:32 ] Heofz > hmm
[ 2010.01.29 05:57:40 ] Heofz > so what do you recommend i should do?
[ 2010.01.29 05:58:30 ] Ruxandra > Should do about what?
[ 2010.01.29 05:58:50 ] Heofz > well
[ 2010.01.29 05:59:03 ] Heofz > how much of a liability is this director
[ 2010.01.29 05:59:34 ] Ruxandra > I don't know, that's really how you perceive it.
[ 2010.01.29 05:59:56 ] Ruxandra > Is it safe to keep him in the corp, assuming, you would've done the same, if a number that large was proposed to you?
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:00 ] Ruxandra > He was offered a lot of isk.
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:13 ] Ruxandra > Not just chump change.
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:17 ] Ruxandra > A considerable amount.
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:21 ] Heofz > is there any way you'll give his name?
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:27 ] Heofz > considering this is just between us
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:39 ] Ruxandra > You can disclose that he's in your corp, that's up to you.
[ 2010.01.29 06:00:47 ] Ruxandra > I don't care if you keep it secret.
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:11 ] Ruxandra > But as for the name, I'm really tied on that.
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:31 ] Heofz > could i just have something vague then
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:34 ] Heofz > like a timezone or something
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:44 ] Ruxandra > I mean, for a fee, I'd give his name out - but. . . I don't really see us coming to an agreement.
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:51 ] Ruxandra > Well, the lot of your corp is US Tz. lol.
[ 2010.01.29 06:01:56 ] Ruxandra > Oh, you mean distinctly.
[ 2010.01.29 06:02:41 ] Heofz > heh
[ 2010.01.29 06:02:55 ] Heofz > so he's US tz
[ 2010.01.29 06:03:10 ] Ruxandra > Yes.
[ 2010.01.29 06:04:40 ] Heofz > so i take it your transaction between dave and yourself is complete
[ 2010.01.29 06:04:57 ] Heofz > so you no longer have any ties with him
[ 2010.01.29 06:05:05 ] Heofz > ?
[ 2010.01.29 06:05:34 ] Heofz > unless i misunderstood when you said you received your final payment
[ 2010.01.29 06:05:58 ] Ruxandra > I can always be rehired. But it would be very difficult at this point, my voice is compromised.
[ 2010.01.29 06:06:16 ] Ruxandra > But yes, I have been paid in full?
[ 2010.01.29 06:06:20 ] Ruxandra > You could say.
[ 2010.01.29 06:06:55 ] Heofz > so going back to the first bit of info for a second
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:06 ] Ruxandra > Yeah.
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:18 ] Heofz > dave buys isk illegally
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:28 ] Ruxandra > Which you couldn't prove.
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:30 ] Ruxandra > But yes, he does.
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:32 ] Heofz > of course
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:43 ] Heofz > but is it such that isk will *never* be a problem for him
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:43 ] Ruxandra > He buys it from an exclusive company, he claimed.
[ 2010.01.29 06:07:52 ] Ruxandra > Which is private and not known publicly by too many people.
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:00 ] Heofz > as in, he has a seemingly unlimited supply of isk
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:04 ] Ruxandra > No, isk could be a problem for him.
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:13 ] Ruxandra > It would depend on how much he would pour into the game.
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:35 ] Ruxandra > He's probably worth around 60 - 70 billion at any given time.
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:40 ] Ruxandra > Assets redacted, just liquid.
[ 2010.01.29 06:08:58 ] Heofz > i see
[ 2010.01.29 06:13:56 ] Ruxandra > He's not nearly the richest player in the game nor even close - he's up there, though.
[ 2010.01.29 06:14:24 ] Heofz > i always knew something was up with him lol
[ 2010.01.29 06:14:50 ] Heofz > smells like a goon to me
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:02 ] Ruxandra > Not quite, he's actually an idiot.
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:12 ] Ruxandra > Mostly Harmless is as far as he goes.
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:16 ] Ruxandra > He has limited PVP experience.
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:19 ] Ruxandra > The guy is a carebear.
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:22 ] Heofz > yeah i noticed
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:38 ] Heofz > he got killed by a pos in a stealth bomber not too long ago
[ 2010.01.29 06:15:48 ] Heofz > one of ours :)
[ 2010.01.29 06:16:02 ] Heofz > with nobody else around
[ 2010.01.29 06:16:09 ] Ruxandra > That's funny.
[ 2010.01.29 06:17:09 ] Heofz > gotta love it
[ 2010.01.29 06:17:31 ] Heofz > i knew there was cloak & dagger stuff going on in eve
[ 2010.01.29 06:17:44 ] Heofz > but i never thought it went to such depths
[ 2010.01.29 06:17:47 ] Ruxandra > Oh, this stuff is new to you?
[ 2010.01.29 06:17:56 ] Heofz > i'm a 4 month old player :)
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:10 ] Heofz > but like many people tell you i learn things quickly
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:19 ] Ruxandra > http://eve.klaki.net/heist/
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:27 ] Ruxandra > That is much more impressive than this little op.
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:35 ] Ruxandra > That was a year long expedition.
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:44 ] Heofz > oh yeah i knew stuff like that happened
[ 2010.01.29 06:18:53 ] Heofz > but i never thought i would be involved in it
[ 2010.01.29 06:19:05 ] Heofz > let alone uncover part of an op
[ 2010.01.29 06:19:14 ] Heofz > almost singlehandedly
[ 2010.01.29 06:19:19 ] Heofz > sheerly out of curiousity
[ 2010.01.29 06:19:58 ] Ruxandra > Yeah, I've been doing things like this - for quite a while.

Report from 0.0

2010-01-27T22:21:00.000-08:00

My benefactor got into a 0.0 corp after having lived in wh-space and trying a high sec indy corp - it all just felt too safe and boring. We'll still have to see how things work out.

Before going to this corp though, he was in Nightmare Inc, with the indication that it was not to be a pvp only alliance/corp. Quite soon it all turned out to be just that - a pvp corp/alliance. So he got out. And quite soon it appeared not all was as it should be in the corp and alliance.

Just over a week ago Atlas found out that Undivided were killing blues, not just killing blues but had created an alt corp "fallen knights" with the explicit intent to kill blues.

Atlas contacted Davet517(the leader at the time), lost Packet (EU diplo) and Viod Hawk (US Diplo and creator of the alt corp), Davet517 gave the assurance that Undivided would stampout the blue on blue killing and atlas decided to leave it in his hands.

Davet517 called a meeing within undivided, where he communicated to undivided that blue on blue killing must stop or Atlas would evict undivided. Void Hawk took exception to this and using his director ship in the holding corp kicked Davet517's corp from the alliance, then started a campaign of mud slinging against Davet517 and Atlas Prelate (all lies and all instantly provable as so)

Atlas decided undivided would be evicted from their space and at the request of Davet517 they were given a long period in which to evacuate their assets (2 weeks, normally 48 hours) on the condition they hand over Sov and the 2 stations they held, after 24 hours they had not complied, so the notice period was reduced to 1 week and a deadline for handing SOV and station over was set at 6AM today or the would be reset.

6AM passed and they started shooting blues, they have now been reset and I guess they will be evicted shortly.

The die hards are still out there in my benefactors former home space, EUU, Q3 and 3AE in Insmother. Nightmare Inc has shrunk from 120+ to 66 pilots, and Undivided is now completely just that with only 7 corps still there. Weird things seems to happen to the alliances my dear benefactor is in - hopefully Green Alliance will survive him.

In wormhole

2010-01-27T22:17:00.000-08:00

I'm now in a wormhole class 5. I'm supposed to be the guard dog to a bunch of pinatas =).
First encounter didn't really end well at all, as we had a visit by a Proteus during a mining op. My poor Cane died ofcourse, but I got a new one now. Hull upgrades V and then on to a HAC or a Broadsword. Probably by way of a Sabre first.
Cruiser V is not a skill to be looked forward to ... but it's for the good of all I hope. I'm also getting a Tempest in, just need the iskies to fit it and a support crew and I'll be able to help out clearing belts and stuff.

I'll be back :)

2009-09-27T01:28:00.001-07:00

Murder and mayhem :) My benefactor is now firmly entrenched in his new POS in wormhole space. They are taking over a wormhole from the current occupants, so in the change over 2 weeks, they'll do research on blueprints in there. So while he is otherwise engaged, I'll slip out of station and do a bit of damage :)

Queen of the Pirates!

2009-07-31T11:01:00.000-07:00

Well sort of.
I'm CEO of my one-woman corp. So yes, I'm queen here. It's not too hard though. I'll resign and return later on in a bit. Meanwhile my benefactors sons character will add corp and take on responsibility.

On a brighter note, I'll get my Interceptor in a bit. Wtih T2 fitting I'll be even more deadly if I get the time to go ganking =)

Extended holiday from the Yarr

2009-07-28T03:52:00.001-07:00

I quit my corp.

I didn't really want to but my daytime bring-money-to-table life got out of hand, and after being killed unnecessarily a couple of times I decided that enough was enough. My poor corp would look bad with me in it...

I joined my corp.

I didn't really want to at this time, but as a favour to my benefactor, I needed to start it up and do a bit of research. The research has taken me into Derelik low sec, which is home at this time in life. My new corp has it's head quarters in there as well.

Still, no low sec without an adventure. First couple of times into Dysa was a walk in the park. Last time I almost got killed. Apparently some lowlife is camping the system unbeknowst to me, and when undocking (noticing that some dozen of the systems 21 in local was in station) the aforementioned lowlife shot at me. Luckily I've trained up for this kind of situation and me and my Rifter got away from the T2 equiped Zealot in a flash and repaired in a safespot. Getting in on the gate to Arena I meet a napping Drake pilot and zip by him. No pursuit and the rest is the infamous walk in the park scenario.

Now I just need find time to go back to Jar to upgrade my ship after training for a 'dictor.

Semi-retirement

2009-07-08T12:51:00.000-07:00

Due to forces outside of my control, I've been forced into semi-retirement. I haven't been able to fly much - and when I've done it has ended in tears and anguish (mine that is). I've been training constantly, and skillwise I'll be able to apply to Bloodmoney any day now. But .... practice. Oh well, that's another story altoghether.

I'm going for small, fast, deadly T2 ships at the moment. My new home will know the wrath of Chiana after the holidays. I hope.

Epic fail

2009-06-19T05:37:00.000-07:00

Getting my Cane out of Ouelleta was a spectacular failure. Logged in just after DT and finding only three people in station of which one - apparenlty - undocked at the same time as I. In a HIC as I was totally scrambled the moment I actually saw anything outside the station. Was making some progress through the shields when his corp mate got on. Bloody hell. At least I didn't pay anything for the Cane as my benefactor built it - so it's a total gain of 30m ISK - but still ... fuck wits.

And this total chaos broke out during my abscence from anything more advanced than doing L3 missions semi-afk and shooting rocks in belts.

Apparently the alliance voted on a move from Ouelleta and in moving were bringing neutral haulers in to get shit out of there. Some dimwits - who didn't care to check intel info - kill a hauler ... twice .... For a total loss of 120m+ ISK. And then refused reburse the guy... fuckwits.

Then all emo space ships hell broke out and the alliance split in two camps and half us moved off to live happily ever after - while the other half has us as sworn deadly enemies. And that's why I lost the Cane ...

Relocation

2009-06-14T03:20:00.001-07:00

As I've been busy with a day-to-day job in IT I've been missing a lot of not so fun action. Apparently the old home system is being harassed by various dick heads (I lost my Rupture the other day trying to get home). So the alliance has decided to move on to reorganise.
Last couple of days has been spent runing through high sec and escaping Concord. Has worked so far, although today to got a couple of hits on my new Rupture.

Need to get all my loot, my Cane and Wooly E relocated, which will not be through the high sec systems on the penalty of my losing both ships and loot :( Need to check out an alternative route.

Moar disappointments

2009-05-23T21:00:00.000-07:00

Haven't had the energy to go hunting much lately. But for the few opportunities that has arised I noticed that my favourite haunt now has been taken over by piwates and other ebil beings. Not fun. Not a victim in sight for a noob like me. Especially since both times I've passed through I've been in my Rifter. Not much point in going up against PvP battlecruisers in that.

As I write this I'm waiting for two intended victims to stop hugging their stations and come out and die like real men ;-)

Eternal podding

2009-05-20T21:25:00.000-07:00

There's an episode in the famous Sandman epos where he escapes from the Burgess clan after being trapped for dozens of years. The punishment for Burgess muchly junior is "eternal waking" (believing himself waking up from nightmares, only to wake up in a new one).

Yesterday was like eternal podding.

My dear benefactor is in a war and was moving some of his stuff to a new location outside of previous known WT grounds. He was in a Bestower when jumped by 3 guys and their drones. Chickens.

Later during the day I joined up with one of his mates and another bunch of probably decent outlaws (or former honorable outlaws). We went on a roam in a program called "daily pop". I sneaked out of base and ended up around Orvolle waiting for the rest of the gang. Fleeted we set out for a suicide cruise down Syndicate. Due to communication failure I missed out on killing a Ishkur and later internal crew communication made me drop back. Coms sorted I set off down after the rest of the gang which now were a few jumps into Syndicate. Not knowing if the path was clear and getting system calls from my mate I jumped into lawless land. First jump clear, ship on overview.

Speeding on to the next gate I make it there jump, and ... wtf .... like a fly on flypaper. Frelling bubble up apparently.

Await inevitable end.
Await cloning station.

Why the frell do I have my cloning station 14 jumps out from my home base?

Sorry for the lack of content

2009-05-16T09:55:00.001-07:00

Something caught up with me.
It's called "over worked in real life" I think.
Chiana is sorry to say that the RL person - the puppet master if you will - has only been able to muster energy to do a bit of "killing rocks and small red crosses in belts" lately. And taken Chianas alt out for a station camp in a war in Jita.

Chiana will be back with more news when her interface is fixed (computer disk crashed).

A day of frustrations

2009-05-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

I just dumped my trusty Rifter for the Rupture. Added more tank and now the thing was too slow :( A noob piraty being in frig got away just because my AB was too bloody weak tangled into a bunch of roids. That might have been a bit lucky though as just seconds later a Hurricane descended on the scene. And off they warped. So I've upgraded. Earlier the reason for ditching the Rifter was another new one venturing out into low sec in a drone factory, a.k.a Thorax. Until I'm flying my BC low sec I'll keep away from those when in my Rifter. It seems though that theres been slight increase in people getting into low sec with better ships - at least where I am. So - upgrade time. Need to figure out how to set this thing up for speed though.

Earlier, my benefactor went camping in high sec as he's war deced (... again). The rag tag fleet trapped and chased a "Dictor" into a station, but the intended victim undocked with a pod and got through. His new Scorpion battleship hasn't seen any real pew pew yet, much to my benefactors great sorrow.

I'm baack!

2009-05-07T20:10:00.000-07:00

Hello dear future victims, Chiana is back.
Unfortunately the systems that were unpronouncable and deserted on the way out were as unpronouncable and deserted on the way back - so nothing much happened. Spent some time hunting a few (even more) minor players but they hid up when I got near. The little chickens. Now I'm pretty confident I've got the hang of the scanner so yes, I'm fairly certain they hid (last time I had this problem, any reason was a valid explanation as to why I didn't find them).

Something else recurring this time was that the autogenerated route - my own ship - tried to kill me. Looking at the 20 something jumps back home, I noticed that the last couple of dozen were a boring high sec. Checking more carefully I again got three 0.9 and at least one 1.0 systems ... jeez.

Quick change of settings to "Shortest ... ignore security".

Much better, and shorter =]

Chiana lost in space - part 3

2009-05-06T21:02:00.000-07:00

OK, decided to try to get home again. I've been having a bit of fun - my first null sec access. Hey guys! You aren't claiming that area for yourself I hope. You know there is a back door just two jumps off from where you usually camp. Seems a bit daft to me - watching the front door and ignoring the back one, but what do I know of 0.0-tactics.

My Rifter is no match for the rats down here at the bottom of the pit, though so no rat kills for me. I did a plex (or sorts) which I got through the first two rooms with right tactics and not much trouble, but then face a swarm of rats, as well as a swarm of real people in local so had to abort that thing. Pity the keys are consummated when entering a new room though. Anyway, there's not one DED out here, but two. It seems however that in practice there is only one - the key wielding overseer alternates between the two. Anyhoo - on the track home-ish, hopefully without too much hassle and a kill or two ... I'll rejoice in the thought of saving a mill a jump all the way home. Pity Don doesn't pay me the same, I'd be rich enough to buy my Wolf when getting back.

Chiana Lost in Space - part 2

2009-05-04T23:40:00.000-07:00

A had a go at the plex while I was here, and after a lot of jumping in/out and keep an eye on local I finally got the key from the overseer. Not much loot, but the bounties were very nice given the level (2) of the plex. No ordinary rats these. Buying a better armor tank I'll be a grapling with these rats again. Due to where this is (Tamo is 0.3) I'll have a small window very early EVE time to get these over and done with. I'll go out and fetch the new armor in a few hours.

Chiana lost in space - part 1

2009-05-04T13:14:00.000-07:00

I tried retracing our steps from yesterday, but I ended up in suburb to godknowswhere called Tamo. I set out from Eugler in my little frigate late Monday afternoon after stocking up on a few thousand rounds of ammunition. The thought was to get to my favourite haunt where we killed the Brutix the day before. Unfortunately, without maps (as I was to lazy to bring Ombeys excellent work in that regard) I was soon lost.

So wandering around space, drifting aimlessly from unknown, unpronouncable and muchly deserted system to the next unkonwn, as unpronouncable and as deserted system I found myself wishing for anything to happen. Encouraging words of "no, that's not on the map matey" from my corp mates and seeing no one (except for a fleeting glimpse of a alliance companion) to ask the way I all of a sudden found myself in Black Rise. And here I find, on the ships map system, the first traces of something interesting a null sec area. Unfortunately the first obvious entry point is heavily guarded and camped, as is evident by the number of ships killed. Completely lost in low sec I suddenly saw land, the "Isla de la Muerta" of the endless, lawless sea of (as it now was) Lonetrek low sec. Three or four empire systems suddenly lay before me, and reaching the first I thought I was in Turtuga. Bustling with life, the system was all of a sudden filled with gazillions (well at least 8) low sec pirates, mercs and hard core industrialists. It was like stumbling in on a scene from Pirates of the Caribean. Befitting that impression was the fact that the only other systems with ship kills was "Isla de la Muerta". This would have been a very nice time of actually been able to walk in station or visit planets or the like. I could have killed for the opportunity, a beer or whatever. Not able to I hope I didn't catch anything on the way here, as one of the areas I passed through had the ominous name of "Malariya", at the same as they were talking talking about Dengue fever on the radio.

But my goal was null sec. Studying the ships maps, whatever the state they are in, I seemed to have found a way past the heavily camped gate, going in a roundabout route down to the cryptically named systems, more akin to register plates than the friendly Turtuga, that signifies 0.0. On my way there, I had to dock up in Tamo for the night, finding in the process that there was a level 2 DED complex in this system. But I saved that for another day.

An ebil piwate :}

2009-05-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

Family thinks I'm an ebil piwate. Really. My son, an avid WoW player thinks its ebil putting an Brutix out of its misery. Well, my take on that is that if the Brutix pilot misconfigures a perfectly good battlecruiser and takes it low sec - he's getting what's coming to it. Me and a corp mate were out and up to no good when we got my favourite system of late. Everything good (to me) happens here for some reason. Jin then says "Brutix on scan" and later "On top station", so after decrypting the messages I set off to the top station. And find Jin and the Brutix staring each other down. Apparently the Brutix got away from Bloodmoney trainees, even killed one of them. We sat there looking at each other for a few secs. For some reason he didn't think to dock, protected by sentry guns. I mean, jumping a ship with two cruisers just doesn't work in sentry gun range. Seriously wounded the pilot instead took the ship down a roid belt. Baad decision.

We warped in, scrambled and that was the end of the poor thing. At least he managed to warp his pod off before I got a lock on it. Decent loot was shared by both anyway. All those hours ratting and missioning down the .... I'm even further down the road to -5 now. But what the ... the main thing is having fun.

I'm waiting for my Cane to be T2 fit before taking her down low sec. That'll give me time to get all supporting skills up as well. And get an insurance... 10 mil insurance is a bit insane I think. Oh well. But maybe not as insane as I would be if I lost an uninsured battlecruiser. More missions coming up with a bit of money I hope. My Pink Roach will handle those easily...

My Cane arrived

2009-05-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

My trusted benefactor got my Cane delivered. He built it himself so is happy with that. I'm happy too, really happy. I'll be deadlier than ever. Especially as I'm training Gunnery V and will be done in a week. Now I've finally got something to go in gangs with, or something. At first, while I get all my skills on par I'll use it as a mission boat. Only got a lot of loot (or my benefactor has) so need to do a kind of weird setup that not something you'd want to PvP in. Now is the time to start looking for the setup, it'll have to be T1 for the time being though. And insurance, and decoration. Why not a pink Cane? Nice :) With flowers on.

Coming to think of it looks a bit like a roach. Hehe, my pink roach is going to spread fear into it's enemies :)

EVE blog roll

2009-05-03T00:55:00.000-07:00

Just got a nice message from CrazyKinux, this blog is now on the EVE blog roll. Nice - on my way to alternative fame and glory :) Or not. Which is more likely.

Many a thanks though.

Missions, missions, missions ...

2009-04-30T23:57:00.000-07:00

I'm so poor I need to do missions. Well, truth be told - I need a sec rise as well to get the Cane my benefactor built for me. He can't fly the thing, and I'll blow up spectacularly on my way back. Once I have it though - I can start killing stuff again :)
But missions are so boring - although I'm up to level 2 mishes at least, so getting slight increase in income. Which is good.

The war ended - so I only need worrying about rats and sentry guns now. I had to stop doing the Epic Arc for the time being is a relocation took me through two 1.0 systems and umpteen 0.9 ones. Heh, I could go through there with a shuttle, but actually doing the mission in one, would be a bit too suicidal even for me. So I turned to a lowly common agent for whom I've been doing things the last few days. Now on to greener pastures, once I get to level 3 my sec status should have been raised enough to actually use the Cane as a mission ship.

Epic mission arc

2009-04-27T09:42:00.000-07:00

My benefactor had a mate in his previous corp that did the epic mission arc. At the time, he thought it quite far away from where he was, and he also probably had to train diplomacy a bit to be able to complete. I on the other hand don't have that problem :) Doing it during a war dec, with a substantial sec hit, is another thing all together...

A new thrill; will I be blown up by war targets, sentry guns or rats?

Being blown up by intended victims is only an occupational hazard - this is new. Nice thing to do while training all the skills I've got books for though.

Training

2009-04-26T00:27:00.000-07:00

I'm taking some time out from killing stuff at the moment. I feel I need to train my supporting skills a bit, and do a few missions as well as kill a few rats (rats are not stuff, they're lemmings). I'll be back ...

Meanwhile my benefactor has been down his second wormhole. From a high sec system he scanned down the wormhole leading to a class 3 wh-space system. At first it all seemed quiet, but using probes he found a nest of Sleepers. Got to kill off a couple of them, but then they started getting pissed and birnging out their battleships he got out of there. He says he never wanted a battleship himself until now. May even go get the goddam fugly Raven just because...

Spanked

2009-04-22T21:44:00.000-07:00

Got home late yesterday and thought I'd end the day with a bit of damage dealing. Scanned down and found a Caracal in system, but the little turd got out his drones (both of them) and I ended up being badly spanked. Got myself a new Rifter this morning. Going to work on my skills a bit.
I've got a couple of skill lists from PvP corps to work from. Went on a shopping spree and got a gazillion books to use.

Apart from that the only thing I got out of it all was a sore bum and a sec hit. Sulking ...

War! What is it good for?

2009-04-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

Some of our guys poped a battleship the other day. :)
Apparently the poped party didn't think it was :)
Apparently only they may have :) poping battleships.
So they war deced us. :S
Mynxee wrote some time ago about Hellcats being war deced, and was a bit confused, like "Hey, we're pirates - we're in low sec. Shoot away. Why war dec? Whats the point?"

It's like, "Heads up guys, we're out to get you". Well thanks, I'll be even more paranoid (dunno if it's possible, I'll give it a try).

Was trying to do something about my sec status by doing a few missions and after a gazillion level 1s I got a boost. + 0.01.... oh well. Apparently, as a corp mate pointed out, I need some more skills for this to mission grinding to actually matter. I'm off to get it before war kicks in.

The thankless task - take 2 and a life without ISK

2009-04-18T07:57:00.000-07:00

I'm getting to develop a fav hunting ground. The guy I scanned down the other day and todays ground breaking kill - my first destroyer - both happened in the same system. First stumbled in on a Probe loitering about in the roid belts, but before I got a lock on that one (should I go scrambler or disruptor? With a disruptor I'd had two kills already) it warped off. Then in on scan came the Cormorant. Apparently rating, but got mixed up in a fight with King rat (a Corpi Baron). Apparently thought it'd take it on and was getting to look pear shaped when I simply helped it out of it's misery. Poor Cormorant, mishandled like that. I should really send half my kill mail to King Rat (nice book by the way - the one by China Mieville that is).

Then locked up the pod, but Mr Noob didn't reply to my friendly reminder of a possibility of saving his pod. Not even a slight touch by autocannon got him out of a chocked silence. With King Rat constantly blasting away (although not near hiting anything; Rico indirectly pointed out yesterday that they are not as horribly threatening as they may seem) and time running on I helped Mr Noob to reincarnation.

And now, Ouch, hurty ..., I'm barred from 1.0 sec system :)

Still no more ISK though :( First ransom attempt down the drain. Which means more utterly tediously, boring (but hopefully) bloody missions... god, I hate missions. Let the lemmings stand up to be counted...

Thankless task

2009-04-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

Found a Tristan in system today, scanned it down and warped in. ([Insert diety] I'm getting better at this) approached and scrambled the little bugger. Attacked - in the run in I had to get past a cruiser rat firing away, apparently the victim didn't notice for some reason... Halfway into armor it happened. As I had the disruptor mounted rather than the scrambler (+1 rather than +2) the victim managed to warp out and become unvictim - to me. Apparently he warped to another roid belt (bad move), where he rapidly became victim of another pirate :( Couldn't have been much of a sport without shield and most of the armor ...

Hey! You should send half the killmail to me .... :)

Grim times ahead

2009-04-15T13:15:00.000-07:00

My benefactor is looking for a new corp. Woe me, woe me :( The begging and stealing just lost half the strategy. There are grim times on the horizon. I'm hungry.

Another one bites the dust

2009-04-13T04:58:00.000-07:00

It was some time ago I posted. Now, with a second kill - this time of the mighty noobship (wasn't really aware that that was I was killing off) I feel like posting. A couple of days ago I was roaming my fav places in Placid and had trapped a cruiser, when it simply warped off. Due to my overly consumption of spirits at dinner, I had forgot to scramble the thing and kicked myself for a few hours over that. Especially as a destroyer simply warped off at first site a few moments later. Apparently a different coloured background on overview is enough to scare people off nowadays. Chickens :)

It's been a fairly meager week for the corp though. Not too many kills. So I'm still hard of cash - and helped my benefactor hauling ore for an hour or so, got a courier contract for my trusted Wooly Elephant (which I got out of Auner) to just make a few ISK. It was while getting Wooly out of Auner I took a peek at my old home ssytems. And found a noob mining around in Resbroko. Totally not paying attention until it was all too late. He saved his pod though.

If this cash crises continues for much longer I'll have to resort to running missions again. Otherwise my plan is to wait for -1.0 then do a bit of missioning.

Another kind of flashy thing

2009-04-08T21:19:00.000-07:00

Lesson 1: Don't trust anyone in low sec. (Well corp mates are OK hopefully)
Todays lesson is: Lose all carebear attitude if you intend to stake out a criminal career.
Particularly don't attack noobs too near high sec gates.

Flash .... where is ship?
Oh well, standing is now -0.4 :)

(Pity the pirate noob.... or not)

1st kill :)

2009-04-07T21:34:00.001-07:00

I'm sooo proud. My first killmail in the career and a minus standing to boot :). Kestrels simply aren't for lowsec, my benefactor says. Decent high sec mission boat for level 1 - no more. What happened today was that I stumbled into a roaming gang. Some 3-5 pretty hardcore pirates in higher tech ships were in system, or rather jumped into system seconds after I undocked. Had good use of my safe spots there. Jumping into neighbouring systems, they were there too. So thought the morning venture was a waste, but still gave it another try as I noticed there was a highsec indy corp member in system, somewhat less noob than me. Eventually the roaming gang left, and the indy came back ratting in low sec.

What went down was almost identical to what happened when I got podded some days back. Although she had managed to finish off the rats and was looting when I struck. Never had the chance of getting a defence in order probably, might be she never saw what happened until it was all over. Never relax in low sec. Ever.

I'm such a frelling noob :(

2009-04-06T23:04:00.000-07:00

My first golden egg found today, and I let it slip away. Going hunting in my new home area, and while setting up a few safe spots I stumble in on a system where the first thing I see is a flashy red ship. Off onto a moon - then the insight hits me....

Shit he was in a pod.
I let a handsome ransom off like that.
WTF am I doing???

Back to the gate where I saw my ransom, and a few secs before I get there he leaves the system. Where did he frelling go? Searched all three possibilities, but no where in either system. He got away...

I'm such a frelling noob :(

Before that I found victims in another system, but the were probably roaming together so it wasn't an option in my little eggshell... A day full disappointments so far.
And they continued. Later on during the day I went hunting for another noob in a Probe. I saw him three times, and all three times he got away. The last time he managed to warp before I got lock and could scramble him. A wee bit miffed with the day then.

Oh and btw, I got the video "Clear Skies" and watched it all. You should be able to not look too closely as the technical irregularities (character motion etc) are obvious if you do, but otherwise are really fine effort. And, and I didn't know this, its around my old home systems in the Metropolis/Heimatar area. Neat. And god Ravens are fugly.

New corp?

2009-04-04T07:24:00.000-07:00

Following my untimely death and resurrection and two subsequent unsuccessful hunts, I again reinvestigated getting into a corp that can show me the road to killing mastery. And I'm in a new corp. At the moment based not very far from my current home base, so will be able to keep an eye on the goingson in Metropolis as well. This time it's a part time pirate corp, looking better that far.

Podded :(

2009-04-02T21:45:00.000-07:00

The bastard podded me. ME! Chiana! Outragous ... :)
Thing went down as follows: two noobs in the system today. I went after one of them but he apparently got podded before I found him. Then the second guy turns up, and I go after him. Don't find him at first so go to belt where attacked by rats. Then Mr Noob turns up. Back to base to regen, and out to find him again, but not around. Got attacked by more rats and the Mr not so much noob jumps me. Cheating that is. They were two of them, that's not fair :)

My bullets got your name on 'em Mr not noob....

Went hunting

2009-04-01T23:28:00.000-07:00

My first hunt today. Noob didn't know how lucky it was. The prey holed up somewhere (because it def wasn't me not knowing how the scanner works, oh no, can't be, at all) and I had to leave for other duties. Still the apetizer did show what a rush of adrenalin the Real Thing (TM) might be once it happens.

Welcome back little noobie, come to mama Chiana :)

Settled in again

2009-04-01T04:01:00.000-07:00

I'm back in my neck of the woods, so to speak. A brief visit to my old home, and some mission running for the Thukkers. Would be a suitable restart to my Minmatar area. Contacted "the other corp" again. We'll see if anything comes of it - else another campaign is on the cards. Could have died for the first time today. Managed to mis-dial a guy in a neighbouring corp and seeing that he was a "real pirate" and was camping my station could have died horribly instead of completing the mission I took. Guy must have been a morning mood. Not warmed up enough - or it's my neat bio putting people on the wrong footing. Whatever, thanks mate. I did manage to bring my Wooly into lowsec, so now I've got my new loot with me as well.

Preparing to say goodbye?

2009-03-31T07:54:00.001-07:00

I'm recovering all my stuff from all over the place. Spent a good part of the day going to a system 24 jumps out, only to discover that all it had was my noob ship and it's crap equipment. Memory, memory. ... :( 24 jumps back to collect my first frig instead. Assembling everything now in Amarr space. Deciding to take the jump to reapproach my other corp or not... Risky, no return thingie mefear. But anyway, I'm moving out - if there is to be no action, I'd rather have it solo rather than as a drowned rat in an overstuffed corp. Still I've got a new toy to play with during my stay - an industrial. Impressive specs too. Bye bye safe empire? We'll soonish know.

Late last night I stumbled into a gatecamp when trying to get to my - now probably slightly cobwebby - home. My plan was to bring Wooly Elephant into a lowsec system, unload my smaller boats there and start moving things down home. So I docked in the nearest highsec system, unloaded one of the boats and checked my star maps. WTF? 14 ships down in the last hour? Here? It's usually quiet here. OK, no way of getting through here I think, especially not with Wooly E. Move on to the lesser entry point. Same dance, doc, unload, check map. Hmm, not as bad, 1 downed ship I can live with, doesn't mean it's at the gate. Weird there is a gazillion pilots in the system though.... it's usually fairly quiet here as well, although this is a slightly more risky entry system. But what the - recon time. In my smaller boat I went to gate, it all started with the fairly obvious giveaway of a very obvious pirate spy on the empire side of the stargate (note to pirate corp - do put a trainee as spy, it's not so bleedin' obvious what's going to happen) sitting near the gate but at least moving away from it to give the temporary impression of someone leaving rather than camping. What the f... I jumped, and the few moments of blackness lifted to reveal - the entire overview filled with pirate ships, drones and their ilk. Pick a station at random and get the fuck out to it. Close shave there. Wonder who they were, in hindsight - it might have been these guys who camped the first system, bringing the stats way up. Could have been as safe to go through there as it usually is...

Perfecting a kill

2009-03-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

Waiting for something to happen, I got round to do a bit of belt ratting. Which is incredibly boring unless you try to perfect your PvP technique for you smallest ship. Which is a speed freak really. Amazingly blazing thing, although it needs to be as if it is hit by a paper clip it disintegrates, leaving you out in the cold dark. Rats are a no-brainer though, the only thing remotely amusing with rating, is the time you manage to down them in. At least in highsec. Lowsec is a different matter altogether. We don't have battleship rats in highsec. Oh well Oh well.

I talked to someone yesterday. Looking to go nullsec another road. This one seems to lead absolutely nowhere. And slowly at that. So this being belongs to a nullsec corp which could mayhaps would take me on with a corpmate living in lowsec at the moment. Lets see whatever comes of that. I'm not too optimistic though.

Mission running in PvP setup

2009-03-27T06:09:00.000-07:00

It's an interesting thing. One on one is no problem. However, try taking on a whole gang when the optimal range is c 500 m. Hehe, not too easy. I'm going completely bonkers over here, wher absolutely nothing happens really. Methought it would be a bit more orgagized but it's still more or less a corp waiting for your own stuff to happen. Which is training. There's an op on tomorrow. If I'm not able to get in on that I'm outa here I think.

Been a bit quiet here of late

2009-03-23T04:05:00.000-07:00

Which is because not much has been happening as yet. I am still trying to get up to speed in this corp and waiting for some training classes in which I can participate. So far no such luck. But I'm willing to give a few more before chucking things in.

The worst part of this all is the mission running. In high sec no less. God it's boring. There's an op coming up this week apparently anyway - so maybe that add some little action. At least it'll be a break from tedious missions. Cows for Gods sake, cows - shipping frelling cows across systems.... The horror of it all ...
Bring back the dolls.

In training again

2009-03-20T22:02:00.000-07:00

Back to school sort of. Need to get a cash flow and know-how for my future career path. So I decided to go to a training corp for null sec deployment. That'll hopefully be interesting. So far I've been reading up on materials, mails etc for the corp. There'll be some extensive training before going null sec, apparently, so not quite sure how much I can report from here. They are rather strict with that shit. As long as I'm here and do the wrong thing I "just" get chucked out. Later on shot on sight and podded. Good fucking luck to that then.

Nice :-) I'll note that for the future.

Don't trust anyone - not even your computer

2009-03-19T22:08:00.000-07:00

There's a piece of wisdom I picked up just now. You autopilot setting may be wrong, or influence the course you get when select "Set destination" or whatever. Going from Resbroko to Taff its suggestion was to kill me. Going Hror-Hek-Uttindar-Bei-KABOOM as Hagilur had a 10+ destroyed ships, 15 active pilots and 3+ podded people in the last hour. WTF, 2001 all over? Lucky I was awake (but not awake enough to see I was already in Resbroko, my fav border system). The other route - which is entirely low sec, is (strangely enough) usually much more secure. Check your settings, check your map, check local, scan your environment = stay alive (for at least 1+ week) in low sec.

Then someone suggested going ratting in Taff. Unknown person, unknown risk = good chance of getting podded. Oh well another day when I feel a bit more suicidal mayhaps.

Might take a brake from the pirate path

2009-03-19T08:44:00.000-07:00

For a time, I applied to a corp to learn a bit about low/null sec and PvP. Lets see if anything comes of it. Until now, I've done a bit exploring around here, a bit of thieving, a bit of (boring) mission running. Nothing that brings any ginormous amounts of much needed cash. Stumbled upon the legend that is Mynxee, and close by the map says 2 ships blown up in the last hour. Coincidence? Fuck that. Headed other way. Waiting for answer a few days. See what happens.

Didn't need to wait long. Now debating whether to follow up on it or not. Need to be seen as post-graduate schooling for my intended occupation later on I guess.

Petty thief

2009-03-18T00:05:00.000-07:00

I graduated business school, but end up a petty thief. Oh well, there are ways to manage this as well - in another world they're known as La famiglia, among other things. Life's strange. But perhaps I should look what at from whom I nick. Managed to nick from a corp with a 500 mill bounty guy in it. And he was out the next roid belt too. Hehe, slight hickup. Nah, fuck that - what ever happens is carma. Not much you can do about it.

Second time targeted today too and another night with downed and podded ships in the system. Not as wild as the other day though. Need to get a cash flow going - need to step up the "bad things". Or mine the Hedbergite around here. Or both. Probably both. Most likely both. Maybe.

Mission grind commences

2009-03-16T22:45:00.000-07:00

Did two missions on the morning, one in Taff and one in Uilkin. Appart from blowing up pathetic rats, you have to keep and eye on local to see whoever is in the system, and not linger more than necessary. Fortunately this neck of the universe is more or less friendly most of the time. Apart from yesterday. Inspired by the war in Delve hell seem to have erupted in my area as well. Apparently however, Nakugard, which had the shitload of podkillings is in Empire space, although close by. So probably was a war dec being played out there. Today I've seen three people total - probably the survivors of yesterdays events :) Or not. Whatever.

Anyway halfway decentish pay for starter missions today but it's heck doing it in a "blow shit up" fitting. My pathetic guns need a range of like 5K but then they really do damage. Unfortunately being surrounded by umpteen rats also causes a bit of damage... Eventually fit a medium armor repper to complete the noob hunting kit, but absolutely do need longer range guns for missions.

I found a roid belt with some decent amount of Hedbergite as well today, I'll need to get my other ship back from Empire to fit as a miner and go get some cash.

Chat among rats

2009-03-16T11:09:00.000-07:00

Training continues and now my "blow shit up ship" is getting to be a bit of a menace to rats. At least those less than battleships. At least those less than battle cruisers, of which I still haven't found any. For some reason. Dunno why.

So went in search for high sec rats. And found a few which was disposed as quickly as possible. But I need something a bit more long range than my autocannons. These are pretty pathetic, although killing off rats is a no-brainer even with these mounted. My thought was devilishly cunning, but unfortunately the plan failed. I got to a system where someone else was rating, but came just a sec after me. We had a short chat there among the roids. Apparently he'd been chased out of Resbroko by a gang. Not too kind a thing to do I think.... Either he was chased or the chicken got him :) Dunno which. Having seen the usually deserted part of this low sec area, prolly the latter.

Having said that it seems that my home system is populated by the entire population of German mercs. But Taff is usually pretty quite, dunno what they're up to today. Possibly never will know either. Oh well, tomorrow will be another attempt at noob catching.

Pretty interesting, scary stuff goes down here at the moment. For the first time since I moved in here someone tried to pick me off. Checked him out, 25 mill bounty guy. Going after little me... almost pathetic if it wasn't a bit scary - but I got away. Something is definately going down though. Might be that Mr Chicken was pretty right about things in the end. There has been a bunch of ship kills round the system Egmar counts 3 and Resbroko, my usual entry point, as many, all within the last hour. And Nakugard has more than 20 poddings the last hour. Holeing up, covering under a blanket and putting out all candles around the place. No telly tonight. I'm not a home, so don't call. Someone might hear.

A new ship

2009-03-15T10:48:00.001-07:00

I got myself a "blow shit up" ship. Which makes me wonder about the ship designers in this universe. This one, I've got now, looks like as if a 18th century warship and an Israeli Uzi met and had a child together. The Bestower looks like a medieval trading ship turned up side down, sans rigging. The Raven - the ever so popular BS - is simply fugly. Damn fugly even. I'll never have one - you may shoot me if I'm ever found in one. It's that ugly.

I've gotten myself into a stash of loot. Won't have to buy ammo for a bit anyway. Which is good. Got a lot of other stuff to play with and fit this beast I've got. So my training queue is up to Tuesday lunch or something like that. Then I'll really be a menace to all misguided noobs on auto into my home. :->

Today

2009-03-13T22:04:00.000-07:00

I killed someone, Enlil Bel, is no more.
I got that on contract, but apparently my client changed his mind when it was already too late.
As he said - "What have I done?"

Chasing dolls

2009-03-13T01:51:00.000-07:00

I think I'm going to drop my current agent. I've been chasing dolls for four missions now, and mining for dolls in one gaining a total of 25 units of Veldspar. And a doll. And not enough money to make it worthwhile really. Hopefully I'll find another low sec agent shortly.

Talking of money, I found a stash of dead rats in here today. Was about to relieve them of their cargo when the rightful owners appeared on the overview. Getta the heck out of there. Not healthy playing shoplifting (ratlifting?) in 0.1 sec when sitting in this duct tape wreck of a ship. Oh well, oh well my time will come. Need to figure out how to make some cash in this low sec "pocket". Getting slightly desperate and starving. Not really up to join a corp in here just yet. In a few I'm piloting a cruiser anyway so mayhaps I'll go into a bit of "blowing shit up-ing".

Oh my.... I'm a thief, I stole stuff from wrecks. But what is a poor girl to do in a harsh lawless world without any means of making money. I am forced to steal stuff like ammo for my ship and various things to improve it. Can't afford to buy it.
Oh shit ....
............
............ I'm a thief :-)

My benefactor is moving base so I might be a little late with the next report. But hopefully not. Oh shit - there's a really bad man in here at the moment. I'm holeing up for the time being. Hope to see you later.

Close encounter with a rat

2009-03-10T23:16:00.000-07:00

Usually rats aren't a problem. Just use a bit of rat poison or a cat. Or fly a decent ship. In low sec, as I came to understand today, a decent ship is something a wee bit closer to a battle cruiser than the piece of junk I'm hauling about at the moment.

Short note to self
"Don't go rating in a frig. Train to at least a cruiser. Pester benefactor for more cash."

I'm almost not hauling the junk around anymore, but am still stuck to it. So after making the mental note I went off rating in my home system. And I got one! I almost got caught myself, but still... I'm soooo proud - my first low sec rat :) (Why does this make me feel like Gollum fishing?)

Did a bit more exploring today too. In one system I found an active gate to a room filled with annoyed rats. All of them aggroed at the same time. Got the hell out of there.

Short note to self
"Come back with something closer to a battlecruiser and teach the rats proper behaviour."

Went down into .2 sec - extremely uneventful. I see people in local chat. And that's the only place I see them. Or rather him/her. Again it's almost empty around this system. It's like moving around in a ghost system, the Bermuda triangle of this area or something alike. Scary.

This surely can't go on, or it's mine for the taking. (She said hybriotically, 2 days old in low sec).

Life of a Pirate Queen

2009-03-09T22:01:00.000-07:00

This blog will be about my life as a pirate queen. (As if you haven't got that already).

My ultimate goal in life is to manage a trading/mining/r&d corporation somewhere in low sec. By reading this blog you will know how I succeed. I graduated from business school just a week ago, and inspired by a friend of my benefactor quickly headed off into unknown territory. I am currently living somewhere in Metropolis, which, at least for the time being, seems like a decent place to start my career. It is, barely, Minmatar low sec, but still quite empty of people (at least as far as I've had the time to explore). This leads to a - probably - false sense of security. As there are fewer people around here than in a mid sized corp chat, you tend to gate jump without checking pod kills and such trivial issues. Anyway, when venturing closer to more contested space, that needs to end I guess. I've got quite a bit of exploring to do around here first though.

Still, it feels a bit cool, jumping in and out of Empire space like it's nothing to it. Pitty there are no other noobs around to watch this mindless bravado. I noticed yesterday that someone was camping one of the gates to a .4 sec system. Had him in systems trailing a bit behind but I managed to keep one step ahead of him all the way home. That's the upside of having a fast ship, although I need to fix it up so the cap doesn't shut down every two secs or so (my ship, by the way, reminds me of a Farscape episode in which one of the characters had a junk yard ship - and, much like this one, it shut down at irregular and highly inconvenient times). If it was me he was after even, I don't know. Another upside of being noob and having a junk yard ship is that it matters shit if I get blown up. The value of this thing is such that my benefactor could pay for dozens of the silly things in a mornings mining session.

There are quite enough mineral resources close by my station so eventually - if I decide to stay - it could be that it is a very good place to put up something of my own. Who knows. Getting into low sec mining would probably be an easy way of getting a bit of cash flow (apart from blowing up noobs mishappenly dropping into low sec). So far I've gotten by with a donation from someone in another corporation. But as I am completing my first set of missions I am starting to make a bit of cash on my own.

More will follow shortly. I've only been around for a day yet.