What a Nightmare!

Our lowsec area has some incursions, and I was pottering around minding my own business.  A neut appeared in local and moments later a Nightmare appeared on dscan.  It jumped out and I see it get reported again.  There are a few of us online so we form a flash fleet, Proteus, Legion, Loki with some Guardians, Armageddons and an Eos.  This guy is moving fast for a Battleship and we end up in NPC Nullsec at a fork in the road.

Where we're up to and where we've been.

It has been both an active and quiet year or so.

I haven't published much as I've dabbled in some Nullsec, Lowsec and Highsec fun:

• as part of the Kadeshi.
• Some Nullsec renting from NC.
• Some Nullsec Sov aligned with the StainWagon.
• Some Nullsec Sov with Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Some Lowsec Funtimes.
• Some more Nullsec Sov with Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Some more Lowsec Funtimes.
• Some Highsec Wardecs.
• Back again to Lowsec Funtimes.  

I'll publish some of the stories from the last 12 or so months over the course of the next few weeks.  It should close some gaps.  Originally I thought I'd leave it looking like I was still wormhole based but I don't think I'll bother now.  I'll insert more updates between the current stories so you're aware of the alignment at the time.

Cheers,

Lusky

POS Bash anyone?

Well we've had a bit of fun recently tagging along with some other corps roaming Lowsec.  We got asked if we could form up and bash a POS in Lowsec.

Fucking Entosis

So our alliance was going to have a station timer come out of RF.  This was going to be at the plumb time of sleep o'clock.  ie early in the morning our time.  It was now just after downtime.

Assaulting a LowSec Gatecamp.

It's Friday night and I have been online for a few hours.  My RL has allowed me to get on again after DT and I just did a quick mining operation.  I thought I'd take it easy for a while.  I was listening to TS and heard word that another corp's FC wanted to pick up some implants.  We had a lowsec wormhole from a C1 we were connected to.

POS RF

So Goonswarm decided to RF all of the POS in our area that had Capital Shipbuilding capabilities.  That meant that one of our POS and an alliance member's in a neighboring system were both Reinforced.  These came out of RF about 20 minutes apart, the first one about 40 minutes after Downtime on Monday for the alliance corp.

The Jamming Scorpion

So I've had a Scorpion with a Jam/Neut fit for months and haven't actually ever had a need to employ said countermeasures.
We use this as part of the Wormhole closer fleet so if we are jumped by other people while we are closing our wormhole the Scorpion can jam everyone out to try and ensure the escape of the other battleships and itself.

The New Wormholes

Tonight I was pottering around Nullsec in my Helios when mention of a Wormhole nearby was mentioned.  A corp member scanned it down and linked the system.  It didn't appear on Static Mapper.

Starting a new Chapter.

So the general consensus of the group was to get the fuck outta dodge.  We were sneaky bastards and got everything out of the Wormhole and began to chill out for a while.  We'll give wormhole life a break for a while before we go back in.

To combat the seige

It has been 1 weeks so the ransom deadline has passed.  We still have the threat of siege hanging over us.  We have removed excess ships from the POS.  We have also made sure that we keep our loot flowing out of the Wormhole.  We know that a few of the siege accounts have left the hole.  As soon as our wh picket accounts saw them leave we mobilised and closed the holes behind them.  We are still very wary when we run the combat sites just to make sure that nothing surprises us.

Our corp CEO has been in contact with one of the siege leaders again and we have decided that we aren't going to pay the 1.5 billion ISK ransom.  We no longer have 1.5 billion ISK of ships and equipment in the POS so blowing it up won't give these guys anywhere near that amount in loot.  Getting that out was fun when we had 2 wardecs on us as everyone was a spy!

We've also heard from other sources that even if we pay the ransom they'll evict us anyway.  We have all trained Starbase defense 4 on our accounts.  It's a corp pre-requisite for wormhole participation once anchoring 5 was no longer required.  We actually want to give our pos defenses a test run.  I'm interested if we can Alpha some of the ships with a dozen accounts all controlling 4 defense batteries focusing dps on a single target.  These guys rekon they'll school us in POS setup.  I'm hoping they come to do some schooling and we get to surprise them with instapopping a few Battleships.

I have also fit 2 ospreys for shield repairs and Gerond has fitted 1 so we have 3 shield reppers we can use.  We are now itching to test this stuff out.

Our first wormhole was a Wolf Rayet C3.  As this gimped shields most of the corp members never really trained them.  We used guardians to run our sites before we'd skilled in armor resists enough and then used Augorers once we didn't need the reps that much.  We hardly use them these days as a bit of ship pimp and some proper skills and most of the damage from sites can be absorbed comfortably.

So in the end the CEO said "come and get us fucktards" (or he should have) and we'll now wait to see if they still have anyone in our hole to come and get us.  I have a feeling that none of their mains are in the hole as killboard watching and saving them to contacts has shown that they're in other systems.  They could still have an alt account that can scan out though.  Time will tell but now the losses aren't going to be too much we are prepared to lose the POS and give starbase defense a go.

Bring it on!

Oh and the fact that we've been in contact with some other corps and alliances that have requested us to join them over the last 6 months and we now have access to a tengu fleet on the batphone if we ever need one.

A Conflict Spilleth Over

It's was 20 minutes after DT and I managed to get into Eve last night.  I'd been doing manual labor all day (which is unheard of for me) so it was time to wind down with some gaming.......

The Wars are over.

Both of the Wardecs will be over soon.

Blog Updates....

While new content might be slow at the moment, the unpublished events will be published when the time is right and will be slotted in the timeline as if they were done the day after those events.

We have a seige

So the call went out on our forums and Google Hangouts that we had been threatened with seige and eviction from our hole by HAHA.

We have had skirmishes with these guys in the past and they'd invited us to join them because we had the right attitude providing good fights.

Now they either don't know what each other are doing or they are bored and want more good fights.  We've seen a few ships on dscan and I think we've same the same ship (being renamed between cloaks) on grid at what he thinks is his safe spot quite a few times.  This guy is a total wanker and obviously hasn't been around his corp long enough to know of our history, and if he's tried to do his research using killmails has only ever seen our deaths as we don't post ours.  While some of us may be new to this game, we are not stupid.  With us all being friends IRL we have years of gaming history with each other.  This means that communication between us both in and out of game is clear and quick. We know how we play and seeing this guy try to be misleading right infront of our faces shows he's obviously amateur hour proficient and clueless as to who he has picked a fight with.

We are a small group and have done plenty of stupid shit.  We do however feel that if the worst comes to worse we'll fight it out.  We'll run some of our excess ships out right away and bring back the Catalyst Gank fleet that we had intended to unleash in Highsec before the wardecs and get them in for transport of goods to an Evac system.  With this as a basic plan it was time to mobilise.......

We jumped a fleet to the Lowsec exit for security.  We had eyes in Lowsec.  I had Lusky in the Proteus and Luskette in the Phobos.  Lan was in a curse, Dan in a Nightmare with a few stealth bombers and 6 Oracles.

OK we're here guys, bring on the good fights.  Uncloak the 30 ships you say you have in the system and let's go.

Our evac went well.  While we waited for HAHA to bring us a good fight we got numerous ships out of the hole and quite a bit of ISK of PI and blue goo.  After about an hour of being out in the open waiting for them they're obviously bullshitting on their numbers.  At this stage we retreated and warped the fleet off.  I stayed on grid for 20 minutes or so and saw one guy, the bullshit artist himself land on grid in his Loki 50km from the hole.  He cloaked again before uncloaking with a new ship name and cloaking again.  When he uncloaked again with a new ship name he zoned out.  This was confirmed by our Lowsec picket and we once again mobilised and closed the hole.  He wasn't coming back in that way.  With that Loki gone, we still thought we had a Legion or 2 plus a stratios.  These were the ships that we saw either on dscan or on grid at a womhole exit.

Let's see what happens over the next week before their deadline.

The Threat of Seige

Well you may have noticed that updates have been slow.  This is because we were threatened with siege and the purge of our wormhole by the HAHA alliance last night.

Returning to the Hole

So i'm logging in late tonight.  It's nearly 11pm and no one else is online.  I jump on Lusky and grab some skill books that Luskette will need.  What the hell I'll buy 2 of them all incase Lusky needs them too.  I swap to the Helios and then log Luskette in.  Let's see where the static goes tonight.

As I land on grid something isn't quite as I expected.

WarDecs...

OK so our Alt Corp earned themselves a WarDec.  Not a big deal really.  There are no real ties so everyone just leaves the corp.  No Dramas.  As one of the Orca Pilots reported getting bumped within 12 hours of the WarDec being declared we figured it was something to do with that.  An alt corp of 1 created less than a week ago by a toon created a week ago.  Carefactor = 0.

Looks like it is Alt time in Highsec

I got on late last night, 10:30pm AEDST.  No other Corpies were online and I decided to just check my alts in Highsec.  After running a few trips of Highsec Mining Ore to the refining station I jumped into the Helios to check out what was going on in some of the local HS systems.

The one that got away?

So Gerond told me a story from the weekend.  I thought it was worth posting.

It was Saturday 25th October and I was having a bit of me time in Lowsec killing rats for random drops in my Legion.  I'm just minding my own business on my own in the LS system and another name appears in Local.

Hisec Invasion - Part 2

Following on from Hisec Invasion - Part 1

When Tranquility came back up after DT, we were straight in there.  We held the guard for 20 minutes or so and no Imicus appeared.  Bugger.  People started logging off until I was on my own in the wormhole with 2 characters.  I was on both of the wormholes in close orbits cloaked.  I was mashing DSCAN like crazy.  It took about half an hour.......