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.