TLDR; We gank some people and record it.
I typically don’t write about all our ganks, usually just the
interesting ones. In this case Cylin went out of his way to actually push the
Faps record button, which is much more than I can remember to do in most
situations. BTW I want to call out here and now, he is a much better pilot than
myself. He makes far fewer mistakes. I’m bad and I wake up feeling bad.
We aren’t the best pilots in EVE, but our thirst for player
explosions is near the top. Yay Cylin for remembering to record our stuff!
Story 1.
We came across a c2/c3/HS connected to our c3 static. Cylin
was the scout for this and upon jumping in, he found an Ishtar on scan and a
cov ops. Following the first steps when hunting, he tried to get ‘eyes’ on the ships in their POS. In doing so, we saw
another ship on scan, a pod then an Abandon. This is good because it means
there is life in this hole.
We check for recent NPC/Player kills in the hole. Nothing,
but what we found strange was a floating can at the sun in the C3 we just came
from. The tags matched the ticker on the pilots in the POS in the C2. The can at the sun was filled with faction
missile ammo. ?? No idea.
So these guys in the C2 knew about hole we were in, knew
where the hole was and most likely had eyes in the C3. We had only jumped into
the c3 with scout ships, scanning proteus and scanning tengu. At worse they knew about those ships.
Remember in wormhole hunting, hiding your numbers is critical. People can POS
up at a drop of a hat and never come out for days, if they think you’re still
around.
We decide to keep our ships in Jim on the c4/c3 hole and
send in the bait. We were betting on
they may not have eyes in the c3, but if they wanted to commit to a fight, they
may try and pop a scout into the c3 from their c2 to see before they commit. We
couldn’t afford to give our numbers away to a gang of 2 guys.
Send in the bait.
I have been flying this gnosis around in low sec and baiting
in wormholes as of late. I’m going to work this lure till it stops producing,
but its far better IMO than “Bait Drake”.
There is a saying in wormholes. “The Drake is always Bait”. Soon after
we are done with her, “The gnosis is always bait”
The fit:
low slot
0" type="1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
low slot 1" type="1600mm
Reinforced Steel Plates II
low slot 2" type="Damage Control
II
low
slot 3" type="Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
low
slot 4" type="Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
low slot 5" type="Reactive Armor
Hardener
low slot 0" type="Experimental
10MN Microwarpdrive I
med slot 1" type="Warp Disruptor
II
med slot 2" type="Warp Disruptor
II
med slot 3"
type="Warp Disruptor II
med slot 4"
type="Warp Scrambler II
med slot 5" type="Sensor Booster
II
hi slot 0" type="Medium
Diminishing Power System Drain I
hi slot 1" type="Auto Targeting
System II
hi slot 2" type="Small YF-12a
Smartbomb
hi slot 3"
type="Core Probe Launcher I
rig slot 0" type="Medium Trimark
Armor Pump I
rig slot 1" type="Medium Trimark
Armor Pump I
rig slot 2" type="Medium Trimark
Armor Pump I
qty="5" slot="drone bay"
type="Hammerhead II
Tank with reactive hardener is 118k. I put a auto targeting
system on it, because I had the free high slot and it gives 2 extra targets. I
have since refit it with a WEB after what occurred in the video. The fit is a
work in progress.
I jump the bait gnosis into the c2 and drop tech 1 scanning
probes, good bait goes out of its way to not look like bait. I figured they
must know about the c2 and would be able to get eyes on me before they committed
with the abbaddon and the Ishtar. Just a newb out for a stroll scanning in my
gnosis… herp a derp…
Nothing, for almost 20 minutes they kept switching ships to
a scan ship, to a hauler, to a abbaddon, to a Legion. The legion warped out of
the POS and I hoped to me. Nope. It warped out and cloaked someplace.
I finished scanning down the C2 in my bait gnosis, and found
what must be the static High sec. It was the only hole other than c2. I didn’t
want to get too far from the fleet in our c4 in the event there were more
people in the c2 we didn’t know about, so I took a chance and moved the fleet to the c3 side of the c2 and
waited.
My only option at this point was to warp to the High sec and
play out the ‘lost WH guy scenario”. I did, and the legion uncloaked next to me,
at almost 0 on the hole. This was disappointing because no matter how many
ships we brought in, the legion would just jump out into high sec. Think
station games. I jumped out into the high sec and waited for my polarity to
pass.
During this time the corp was trying to think of clever ways
to get him off the hole that didn’t scream total and complete bait, convincing
tactics. There were no anoms to try and rat in, a newb wouldn’t have any reason
to sit at a planet or the sun.. so we were at a loss. We decided that a newb
may try and go back to where he came from. Convincing ? meh, its all we had. Maybe
they would miss the scam and warp after me, into the arms of the waiting fleet.
After polarity subsided I jumped into the c2 to find the
Ishtar at 40 from the hole and the legion on top of it. The legion had deployed
a medium warp bubble on top of the hole. It had not yet activated. I took my
chances and went into warp to the c2. Worse that would happen is, I get
scrammed and just jump back into the high sec. I made it in, and got the warp
before the legion could point me.
This bubble was going to work to our advantage. It would
trap my helpless newbie bait the next time I warped back to the high sec hole.
Better yet, it would trap me 20 k from the hole and I would be “forced” to burn
to the hole, or away from the hole back the way I came. If they wanted to “catch me” they would need
to get a web and a scram on me before I could get out of the bubble, thus
pulling the legion off the hole into my fleets landing arms.
I went into warp to the now active warp bubble on the high
sec hole. I told Cylin who had been watching the POS to warp to the HS hole and
the fleet to jump in and hold cloak.
I landed on grid and played my part to burn away from the
hole out of the ‘scarrrrryyy bubble trap’ these guys erected. Sure enough, the legion burned to me and the Ishtar
dropped sentry drones. The nuets almost made me lose point, but thankfully my
trusty NOS was able to maintain the point.
The video takes over from here. LINK
I was slightly short tempered in that fight because of how
long we waited to get this fight/gank. Almost 45 minutes of us fucking around
with them for them to finally commit. I almost avoided giving them a chance to
save their pods with a Haiku. The legion being so close to dying and still
getting away was frustrating. I have
since put a web on my gnosis to avoid this crap in the future.
Also after talking with the legion pilot after the fight,
they totally knew the gnosis was bait, they just thought they could pop me
before the fleet arrived. Good on them for at least trying and not POSing up.
Story 2:
Our newest member Jack Miton formerly of AHARM was diving(using
k-space as a platform to jump into wormholes looking for targets) from high sec
during the previous stories gank. He came across multiple battleships and two
neut legions he was tormenting with his scanning proteus.
**side note about Jack** He is an avid fan of the podcast
and a reader of this blog. His reasons for leaving the notable c6/c6 wormhole
corp are his own. He assured me it wasn’t for nefarious reasons and we all know
it wasn’t for giant fights or massive isk SUSU could provide. He is a great
pilot and I used to be in ducks with him in the past. Stand up guy, knows his
shit, very helpful and super friendly. He is also infinitely more wealthy than
the entire corp put together. We as a
smaller growing corp, are gifted with his presence and whatever wisdom he will
bring. Anyone who has an issue with it,
can talk to me personally.
After Jack was chased out of the c3 wormhole he found the
ships in, I think they closed the wormhole behind his ship, trapping his combat
ship outside in K-space. I may have my facts wrong, but I think he still had a
scanning alt in the system and he found the new high sec quickly and jumped through
it. The battleships, and legions I guess
never bothered to find the new high sec, and went about their business shooting
at a POCO.
Bad choice on their part.
The high sec connection was 23 jumps the high sec we fought
the legion on, but it was a chance to fight/gank some ships, so we burned full
speed across high sec. Jack was the FC for this, and instructed us wait one
high sec system out, in the event they had managed to get a cloaked ship
outside of the hole in the high sec. They would see us in local chat, and
perhaps put 1 and 1 together than we were coming to murder them.
After 23 jumps in high sec, we massed and waiting for Jack
to get us a warp in. Cethion the mass murderer of the Gallentee had to station
up in the target system to avoid the police.
Jack told us to jump in to the target high sec, and warp to
the hole. Once our ships were on the hole he managed to get us a warp in for
the two raven battleships and 2 oracles that were bashing the POCO.
Cethion in his assault frig and new recruit Lotor in his
interdictor.
Mad props to Lotor for keeping that oracle pinned down long
enough for us to get more dps on him. He is also another great pilot from
another wormhole corp we recruited.
Oracle: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Oracle: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Raven: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Raven: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Oracle: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Raven: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Raven: http://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...
Again, our Haiku offering to save his pod was ignored. O
well, shots were fired.
Special thanks to Jack Miton for getting us those kills.
O and I never figured out why those guys were set to blue on my character... Damn I have been playing this game too long.
O and I never figured out why those guys were set to blue on my character... Damn I have been playing this game too long.
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