Million Dollar Challenge

Well, a new corp, a new area of space.. time to blow each other up right?

The million dollar challenge is an in corp event, where each contestant who wishes to participate gets to spend 1,000,000.00 ISK, in any nearby hub system, (screen shots may be required) and fit any ship they want or can within that budget. a can is placed in dead space, and contestants scatter around a system , to any celestial or sub-celestial they like, and warp into the can at 50 or less, making a maximum play area of 100km in frigates and destroyers. and other cheap ships.

A Free-For-All ensues, with explosions and explosions and some explosions.. the winner (last one standing) is awarded 10Million ISK

This rounds contestants

Diamond Fury - Merlin
Darkness lighter- Thrasher
Broken Muse- Thrasher
Zanahyra- Vigil
Smash NGrab- Kestrel
Aaramon- Thrasher
Fujimoto- Rifter

Play by Play-
On the word, all contestants warped to their favored ranges, hoping to guess accurately, and trying to manipulate the small field as best as possible. Fuji, aaramon, Darkness and Broken all warped to 10 ~ and immediatly opened fire on each other, Diamond warped to 30, and Zanahyra to 20, while smash warped to 50.

Broken locked Fujimoto (last years winner) and ripped into her small rifter with 200mm machine guns, making short work of her. having already locked Aaramon she opened fire on him aswell..

Darkness lighter had been working Aaramons Thrasher already and it popped before her first cycle finished.

Diamond had arrived at 26 from Darkness, locked him and opened up with his Caldari fleet sabertooth missiles. and Zanahyra burned into close range of Broken Muse to take apart her shields with the small calibre guns.

Smash had landed at 50, 20km behind Diamond, locked him and started in with ECM style warefare, and long range bombardment.

Seeing the vigil in trouble against broken and darkness, Diamond activated his ECM modules on both, cycling out their ability to shoot , and giving the vigil some time to repair, it was all for naught when the vigil exploded under their fire.

turning on the ECM that they could see, the pair of destroyers tore into Diamonds Merlin, the ECM worked well against them, but their shields held out against the missiles well.. and Smash continued to disrupt and attack from long range, keeping himself well out of harms way, it was long and gruelling, but the Merlin Popped, and the Pair of destroyers turned on each other, Darkness emerging from the Clash. Facing only Smash and his host of ECM tricks and superior speed. it wasnt long before those tricks finished the job.

Smash NGrab wins.. you son of a ... 10,000,000.00 ISK Congratulations.

Where have all the Blog Posts Gone?

So I regularly peruse the following blogs:
www.mylootyourtears.com, www.ban.myloots.com, http://surfingtheeventhorizons.wordpress.com/, http://kokuryupirate.blogspot.com/, http://podlogs.com/findersandkeepers, http://scopslog.blogspot.com/, AND, more or less every site on their blog rolls, I am a pirate, ninja, blog junkie.

So my question is this... where have all the posts gone? some of these sites are nearing the 20 day mark with no updates or posts.. this wouldn't be a problem except that it is unusual for most of them, most of these sites post regularly, some of them twice a day. I'm bored.. is nothing happening in eve for anyone else either?

I'm going on a frigate roam nightly , I have a pile of Frigates, ima fit them all and go get a zillion billion kills with them. ... im serious.. i am !

I'm going to low sec, I'm going to high sec and grief, I'm going to fit thrashers and gank folk at gates, I'm going to blow up so many times that i don't care anymore ... then maybe i will start having fun looking for fights and setting traps, even when they go bad.

That being said, the new corp is still in the process of getting started, and we have no kill board yet, so lets go get some kills to make it worth our time. yeah?

Million Dollar Challenge is comming up again, I'm thinking for the friday combat op ...

Smoking Wreck

So, every Friday night the combat director tries to think of something fun and interesting to do in the pvp arena. its a standing corp event, every Friday at like 2200 server time. We have alot to learn about pvp, and i dont say that lightly. its not how to fly, how to Fc, how to fit or how to find and plan fights that we need to learn, see on the contrary, we are outstanding in most of those departments, we have a brilliant and dashing FC ... that's me :), and im trying to train others to work in that position, we have our pulse on fitting pvp, its pve that confuses us .. "what do you mean neuts don't do anything they are awesome!!" we have 5 stealth bomber pilots in a corp of 17 so we have no shortage of scouts and tactical bookmarks and warp-ins, and we have a studious group of core pvp'ers who have a firm grasp on mechanics and theory craft so that we can effectively create, spot and work around traps and bad combat situations.

Its the other part of pvp that we need training on, Combat awareness, communication, self reliance, and initiative. So we go out every friday traditionally, fully expecting to die, but trying hard not too, as it is Saturday morning when im posting this , i guess you know where this is going. We died... not spectaculary, not going down fighting a horde of angry reds.. just died, quietly, almost in our sleep...

Stealth Bomber Run 1-
Im calling a bomber op 1 because we learned stuff, and we have a deeper knowledge of the finer art of stealth bombers. Vanishing point, one of our bombers was lost when he got greedy, we roamed around a bit, but all the roam we knew we were headed to good pirating waters, Amamake, one of the hottest pvp low sec systems in the game. we gathered at 3-1 where a Titanic battle was taking place, 15 wrecks on the field, and a dozen more ships in the belt duking it out, we were all cloaked and hanging back watching the show. when the opportunity afforded itself, we marked a loot bin, and warped to 0 looted, and warped away, snickering at our dastardly , daredevil attempt while we counted our isk from faction fits, and t2 loot... (Read: exploded in balls of smoking ruin 7 seconds after uncloaking) Not a total loss, one of us didnt attempt, so we kept eyes on the battle, one of us lived through the first run and docked with a hold full of loot, but exploded when he undocked and returned for more. got uncloaked by a warp in.

After a while of working with warp ins for our non cloaky combatants (me for 1) we decided that a good old fashioned gate camp would be in order for the duration of the evening. so we jumped onto a border gate and camped out... it was slow time, Russians logging off, Aussies logging on, midnight to PST zone, and there wasn't alot of action on the gate, however I did manage to pick up a brutix on scan while turning a lazy orbit around the gate. i ordered the warp in and two of us screamed off, in a Drake and Devoter ... heh (an Anti-Primary gang FTW) we landed 13 km off the brutix ratting in a belt and melted him before his drones could get back and attack us. meh loot, but a rewarding kill after the loss of a bomber kill was about on par with the value too, so the kill-board hit wouldn't be too bad (only one bomber was in our corp, the other was a friendly)

Ammo type is king

Alright, so we start the night off with some innocent can flipping fun, as i previously posted about .. thanks for the killmails :)
But we followed that up with some ninja salvaging and looting, always a popular sport. we parked our orca, cloaked her up and set about scanning missions and shooting corpies off to them one by one.

I managed to nail down a hard to find thorax, 6 scans, and sent a cormorant in to loot and salvage, the cormorant lands, and sees the thorax immediately stop engaging the rats, and start looting, so naturally i assume some ninjas have been in the area recently, and send off a salvage thrasher to loot faster.. but the cormorant reports "no time" and starts looting what he can, and sure enough is yellow boxed right away.. then red, he calls out the engagement and warps to the orca for a swap to a very well fit caracal. I switch to my scimitar and wait for word. "hes gone" is the report.

"get the thrasher in there and salvage the mission then i guess?" I considered the possibilities, and replied.. "no, let him finish fitting his combat ship" so the caracal warps to the next mission scanned, and i leave a single probe on the that mission, and start scanning anew. Thorax hit! "hes back"

The caracal speeds off to the mission and lands on the thorax all flashy red, and opens fire, the fight is long: the caracal was packing only sabertooth fury's and was chewing through his stock fast. so the scimitar picked up another batch , but it was like shooting a wall with an paint ball marker.. the damage wasn't happening.. ill make this long story short.

the caracal was packing to little ammo, and only the one type, the Thorax, knowing he was dead, started in a direction, and hit his AB and faction repper, and LOGGED! about a minute later the caracal was down to 3 missile launchers and the thorax was healing ... the ammo run took a while, but I dropped a few thousand missiles as the caracal fired its last one, and very soon the tank broke again, slowly the caracal rattled through the armor with em missiles, and at 2% structure... the thorax disappeared.

MOAR missiles of MANY types is the lesson of the day, the ship would have been a very juicy kill, and easy with the right equipment.. score 1 for bad planning, but score 2 for lesson learned.

When Bears Attack!!

People Die...

When CareBears Attack.. people die ... laughing.

I have to ask the question.. what is it your thinking? you out there mining away, watching some TV maybe while your hulk mercilessly crushes rocks, just making some isk to buy that new shiny ship, or maybe your going to build that new ship, and your topping up your ore stores.. when SUDDENLY ! Flip, some guy comes outta no where, and tosses your can, the eve equivalent of running across the street, jumping over your fence and kicking your garbage can over, then digging through it and taking stuff!

you see him go flashing red .. you think i think ill shoot at him , and then warp away, as you slowly align your ore barge... and then fire a single drone.. bap! and warp away.

you figure.. what a jerk, well i'm going to get my ore, so you grab your industry ship and head back to your can so you can flip it back and take your goods right? wrong, when you arrive he is sitting there, flashing red, and in a different ship ... wtf, a CARACAL? i shot at a Cormorant... BOOM you explode in a ball of pretty lights, and warp off... thinking.. A caracal , i have a caracal ill show him! So you get back to the safety of your station, and grab your missioning cruiser, thinking better you refit .. with fof missiles, just in case, and undock , head back to where the fight was.. and oh good! he is still there! you'll show him!"

Guess how that ended... don't get me wrong, im thrilled you people do it! but seriously? you don't come out in a BC or a T2 Cruiser variant? you dont have a ship fit for pvp on standby just for this sort of occasion? if your answer is "i dont have the skills for one of those" then my advice to you is just to soak the losses and mine in another belt for a while... we do this for a living... your killmails fuel my ship much like your tears fuel theirs

Eve is a Harsh Mistress

Combat op fell on its face, we took a destroyer gang with a kitsune as support. The gang was fast moving and we were training a new scout, who was a jump or two ahead in a cloaked hound. Not alot of action at first, just moving, training the scout. but a few jumps into low sec, we find a battle site, a handful of wrecks in an asteroid belt. we set to work immediately and loot and salvage the field, hauling away about 40Mil in fittings and salvage. Paid for the entire load out of destroyer destroyer kitsune stabber. We picked up a vagabond and warped in on him, at 30km but he bugged out when he saw us land.(I don,t Blame him)but it wasn't long before he came back into system with his buddies and started baiting. a Huginn as bait with an Arazu and a Hurricane. a brief tussel and some bad warp ins led us to the better part of valor. we beat it, calling the day a win isk wise, and deciding that any loss at this point would be gratuitous, so we went to re-ship and deal with this group properly.

Though it wasn't meant to be, once we returned to HQ, we lost most of our fleet 3 of 5 and it left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Good money for the op, better than losses anyway, but no explosions. So The Combat Director and I reshipped into gank cruisers, and sailed off into low sec looking for some easy prey to satisfy the gank and get a good nights sleep.

More on that later

AAR - Ofage - Bogelek Roam

Assembling on our usual gate for another quiet night of mostly stealth ships passing through our neck of the woods. we ended up with a few more than usual attending our little gate camp. The gate camp being the default position until corp directors get on , and scouts are added to the group.

We decided to head into the Roniko Gauntlet in the Heimatar region. a minor mission route that runs through four-six low sec jumps. the low sec is of little value and so the mission runners move through the missions more or less without interruption, running courier missions from one station to another. Absolutely against that ... Horrible inc. decided to intervene for a while.

After we got into the system and scouted a bit with some cloaked scouts, we picked the most active route and set up shop, a BC Blockade in the station system, waiting for an unsuspecting Bestower, or perhaps a Bestower. But the real fun was having the logistics ship off grid, we would incur the wrath of the gate guns, and warp off grid to get repairs, then lay in wait with scouts, timing our return to the gate with a jump through. But someone scanned down our little logistics hole and decided to try his luck at taking out our logistics ship before we could get back.

A Fun attempt to an otherwise boring bestower roast. that resulted in my first Claw Kill Evar!

Some days are better than others PT 2

So after a short break, the crew was re-shipped into a 5 man gang as we lost hit nrun for the night. prophesy (fit for gate gun tank), cyclone,hurricane,drake,thrasher. and we jumped on our usual hang out gate while we debated our fleet status, roaming or camping after a few slow minutes on our minor pipe gate into low sec, we hopped over to the offikatlin through-way into tabbetzur and points 0.0 beyond.

Our scout reported a 5 man gang in tabbetzur headed our way , onyx, hurricane hurricane, sacrilege, Falcon.

The onyx came through, and jumped to our gate at 0, and held position....

Knowing the odds, I called a no go, and decided to hold position rather than jump.
of course the fleet was edgy and wanted to fight, so i acquiesced, thinking maybe we could take the onyx before the rest arrived, evening out the numbers a little bit.. 5 on 4 would have been ok ( by now i had forgotten that one of us was in a destroyer...)

gateguns? who was thinking about gate guns, as i dipped into deep armor, the gank squad was well on their way by now, and the onyx to our credit was already tank broken, but gate guns.. dammit! i forgot about gate guns, and ordered a withdrawal.. no point on the bait ship WTF ?? lucky day i called and we all warped off, of course we had a Global and couldn't leave system now ... so i ordered a web warp, all 5 of us, warping to 5 different locations in the system then 5 more different locations including safe spots... trying to get everyone organized till we could regroup, i ordered random warps, warp to me (while in warp) and keep moving, they will be scanning for us.

Aaramon... at a safe spot, managed to collect himself some wife aggro... I know right? so he went afk for a few minutes... just long enough, the pack of ships converged on the hurricane, and the cyclone who had just arrived at safe, the drake and prophecy were in warp, and the thrasher, not having a cooldown was long gone through a gate and in station. we decided to sacrifice the hurricane to a bad choice, and continue moving on, but thats not really how the group rolls.. cyclone opened fire with the hurricane, drake landed at optimal and opened fire on primary... all were lost... prophecy landed from warp as the cyclone went down, and decided to save the corp the money, and not warp in for a heroes defense...

The roam ... pretty much ended after that down six ships, no kills and a whole lot of bruised morale.

Some Days are better than others PT 1

So our Combat Director Smash NGrab a true scoundrel at heart, and more of a low down dirty griefer than salty pirate, has weekly combat actions as a Director and this week decided that a AF, Frigate fleet would be in order. Excited by the idea of a fast moving hard hitting gang I jumped into my Malediction and yelled "READY!!"

two wolf's a malediction, a rifter and an imicus flown by our younger pilots, and we had ourselves a little gang, actually, I noticed while we were gathering that we were pretty scary. fast moving, hard hitting, with about a dozen small neuts between us ... we could take quite a few targets... Then smash shows up in his Caracal, 45k ehp, and DPS of a rat fit drake ... 600-650.. damn... someone is gonna burn, we aligned and started our roam out of high sec and into low sec, empty, empty, empty, where the hell is everyone. one person, in four jumps we found one person.. i took off in my inti to go scout around spamming the d-scan and bouncing around, but rats showed up on the gate... we moved the small fleet to the other gate in the system (pipe system) and they landed.. rats on that gate too.. so keeping them from aggro, I ordered them back to the other gate.

and local bumped by two... i took off like a shot, and landed on the out gate, with the rats , then to the other gate with more rats and my fleet waiting patiently, when a drake and sacrilege landed on us all flashy red. it wasnt long before the fleet decided to start fighting, that didn't go well as i'm sure you can quite imagine, though the drake was more or less powerless to do any damage to us, and the sacrilege was neuted into oblivion, he swapped out his ammo and was forced to time his shots for when his booster cycled.. he had more than enough tank to take his time.. two shots the imicus, and two of our neuts, then a wolf and another neut. the group was already bugging out and the scram hit the interceptor.. poor me, I burned to get out of range but the sac had me webbed too and it didn't take much i popped...

Diamond Fury> Damn the luck running into you two.. GF guys

They dropped me a GF in local and went on their way... thankfully they left the wrecks and we looted them on the way out with our 3 ships and 3 pods. but the night wasn't over... oh no.. i needed to kill something now.. the pathetic insurance on an interceptor gives no satisfaction... i must taste blood.

All Quiet

Involved in an Empire war at the moment, but logged on late last night to find no war targets around.. not letting that discourage my desire to watch something explode i swapped out my interceptor for my Prophecy (gate gun tank) to go gank some poor sod in a low traffic low sec through way.

Traffic in the area mostly consists of a smattering of pirate corps, and Legion of xXDeathXx minor member corporations logistics. So it can occasionally yield some fun. Hanging on the gate with a Vexxor companion with his pile of drones (vexors last a while at the gates in low sec for all the drones they can spew forth and even if they don't they are cheap enough)

Hurricane jumps into system and arrives at our little gate camp at 0 on the gate... and holds. Hmmm I think, Nano fit Cane vs an all tank 103K effective Prophecy and cruiser ... drones or not, no thanks. I give the order to hold.

Cane locks me up, and holds... I smile to myself , Cane vs prophecy and vexor (nooo) cane vs prophecy and vexor AND gate guns.. hell ya! i wait patiently, and lock the cane.

Er1ck > cmon agro me
Diamond> nah, s'ok im good
Er1ck> 2*1? cmon, take the gate guns
Diamond> no.. im good thanks

The pilot then flew to a planet and announced his location "im at planet 1 cmon 2v1"
I responded Politely, "no we're ok"
The cane warps to 0 and jumps i thought, that was pleasant, i felt good about not fighting that fight, as there was no way to win. even if by some manner of fortune he was fail fit, he would have to be retarded to not get at least one of us, plus gates would kill drones and ... risk versus reward is what eve is all about right?
too risky.
Cane returns in seconds, i assume he checked to ensure we had no nearby friends. as he arrived he locked me up again. "so wut? you guys like mission running or something?" a fair question i thought, not insulted, normally a gate camp involves a gank right... normally. but i replied " no just not stupid, nano cane will take me, slowly maybe, but you will kill the cruiser, and me if i try and fight.
Well I guess he decided that there was a chance, and he red boxed, YAY!
knowing he was burning at me, i knocked on med neuts and blasted his cap into oblivion while Hit Nrun scrammed him up, shutting off his micro warp drive and throwing drones at him, i AB out to range and throw on a web to keep him back while i do, loading scorch and blasting away at his armor (shield was gone in second volley of gate guns) his drone cloud washed over my prophecy and then were mostly gone, he called them back with 2 remaining, gate guns instapop drones when they target them. Don't get me wrong, this guy knew his fits, he was chewing into my armor hard, and took me down to a quarter, before he realized that he wasn't going to take me, the incoming damage was too great, and switched to the vexor, hoping to take a kill home.. unfortunately for him , it was too little too late.
"nice dps, i like your cane"

Thats more like it...

After Action Report 061710

Mustering primary forces in earnest through the hours leading up to engagement, saw several opportunities for enemy movement, while most of the primary force was out of site, horrible operatives in stealth bombers trailed possible enemy targets in onga, elgoi and eram.

Finding a possible target in eram, the order to enter system and warp to planet VI customs office was given, enemy bestower was collecting his days PI, only Frankenstein was able to respond.

as he entered system, the bestower warped away, with eyes on, warp to IX customs office, the cyclone "Frankenstein" arrived on planet just as bestower began a quick align, and escaped to station.

Falnous >> Haha!

Having exposed their position, elements from Horrible Primary Force moved quickly to set on Order of the Shadow home station 6-2 Eiyfer and Co. where an enemy remained docked, as Falnous fled system and escaped. Shdop Forces were reinforced in station when a second member logged in, and they scouted the system with undock/redock tactics. Frankenstein was supported by Stingray VIII Mk II and Morbid Curiosity remained unseen. with Intel from Aaramon, two more war targets were located in Elgoi one jump over.

"Daywalker" moved into position and started advance recon in Elgoi attempting to asses threat levels from that system. locating one target in 5-6 Eiyfer and Co. "Daywalker" held position 50km off station to watch.

Alerted of the threat level, and prepared, horrible forces held position.

4:44 ST Elgoi station : Daywalker spots Raven undock, and alerts Horrible Forces, The raven begins aligning to Elgoi/Eram Gate.

DayWalker:>> Elgoi gate, Elgoi gate, Darkness, Aaramon and Diamond

Diamond arrived first, followed by aaramon, and Darkness, when 2 ravens uncloaked at the gate. Vicerall and Vindettar,Vicerall was called primary.
the three Battle-cruisers hammered at the Raven shield tanks as drones swarmed and a hellstorm of missiles was unloaded on Aaramon, taking the battle-cruiser down quickly as Vicerall was put into armor. Drones swarmed over Diamonds Morbid Curiosity, and plowed through his flimsy shield, but were held up in the thick layers of armor on the Battle-cruiser hull as Vicerall fell to the fire, Diamond warped to 9-2 Core Complex to effect repairs.
Diamond>> are you pinned?
Darkness >> no but hes melting my shields
Diamond >> warp away, Rendevous at alpha station.
Darkness>> are you sure? we can take this guy.
Diamond>> (exaspersated)..yeah... we will go right back , warp away
Darkness>> roger.

Alpha Station - 4:48
Diamond>> Warp to gate at 0, hopefully he was dumb enough to hang around.
Frankenstein and Morbid Curiosity arrive on 0 of gate, and engage the raven while it looted the corpse of its mate and Aaramon.
half way through shields it jumped through gate, not aggressing.

Having been aggressive, Morbid Curiosity and Frankenstein were forced to wait the minute cool down, Stingray VIII arrived on Elgoi Eiyfer & Co station in time to see the raven dock. Morbid and Frankenstein held a station vigil in Elgoi, while Aaramon reshipped and Daywalker put eyes in Eram.

The Raven pilot, assuming he was being camped in , presumably asked for eyes in Eram, as a scythe undocked, and remained slowly, lazily turning a tight orbit around the station.

"Stingray VIII scramble to Eram 6-2" was the order, and the little imicus, piloted by Hit NRun scrambled off to eram. "need a warp in" he said as he hit gate.

"Warp to daywalker at 10km" ... and Bam, Stingray lands 500 meters off the scythe, locks 'im up and tackles, "got im tackled, engaging"
Failfit scythe with his 1MN afterburner, and 2 650 siege cannons (1.5Mil each) Melted under the fire of the imicus, Stingray VIII called in support when his cap ran low, but with a little compensation Stingray would have taken the cruiser solo. it popped. "fast lock and spanked disruptor, put the pod firmly under Hit Nrun's gun and pop... capsule kill, Hit Nruns first 2 kill mails ever... Congrats.

Once the pod popped, the call went out for all ships to return to station to cover the raven. and eyes stayed in Eram.

Some "undock" games later, local bumped by two , as reinforcements arrived in the form of a scythe, and a cormorant. the scythe began working the warp ins, trying to draw fleet members off station. while the cormorant was spotted at the gate. Daywalker moved into system, and placed a warp in on the cormorant (same pilot as the scythe earlier) and Bam.. the imicus lands at 500m and spanks lock, and scram, the cormorant is pinned, but this time the little destroyer was fit to deal with the tackler. and the imicus shields disappear quickly, "I cant take this one" he calls out, and Armor tank aligns for warp in , and lands at 10km, after target acquisition, he unloads 20 assault missiles into the little ship, most of which pass harmlessly through the wreck, and Morbid lands on 0, locks and pops the pod. a second loss for Nomad Matt. (All ships return to station)

Again, a short while later, after a lot of smack talk and failed attempts to get the fleet off station, local spikes again, Nomad Matt has returned, but this time they dont give us a chance to take him off the edges. they warp in to our fleet, Cairo's scythe first, then a slasher with Nomad Matt. Instructions are given not to engage, we are holding primary for the ravens that are about to undock, and morbid alone locks up the scythe and the slasher, launching drones at the frigate and plowing into the slasher with lasers.

Ravens undock and primary is called, Vindettar, who escaped destruction earlier, needed to lose his raven and a fury of fire came down on him so hard, "he isn't tanked versus EM damage!" the cry went up and all ships unloaded EM hell into the sheild tank.

the slasher warped off, just as the scythe, and raven popped. fast lock and scrams, both pods were snagged. and the last raven collapsed shortly after the pods were popped. again, fast reaction time put the pod firmly in Diamonds hands as he slammed them shut.
Battle Report HERE
And HERE
type value killer
Total Kills Raven 182 000 000 smash
Raven 135 000 000 aaramon
Raven 134 000 000 darkness
Scythe 7 000 000 hit nrun
Scythe 5 000 000 diamond
Cormorant 900 000 smash
Capsule x5-Priceless hit nrun x1 diamond x4

Total loss Cane 45 000 000 vicerall's Raven

Disco Death... :(

After Action Report
00:00 PST

After completing successful operations against Merit Talon, the Horrible inc. Small Force Tactical Strike and Recon Team, "Kaleidescope" (Recon) "Frankenstein"Cyclone, "Morbid Curiosity" Harbinger. Located enemy Targets belonging to Order of the Shadow. After lining up a surprise attack, the Horrible inc forces where disappointed to see the enemy retreat to docking stations and commence local smack. Horrible Inc forces dispersed for the night, sensing that the dock up and smack tactic was all tha the order of the shadow was going to muster tonight.

12:00 PST

during routine Recon, horrible inc. operatives locate Merit forces in Teonesude 3 of 5 known targets. Expecting that the forces of Merit were retreating from alakgur, Horrible inc forces ceased pursuit, and focused attention to Order of the Shadow.

18:00 PST

Forces of Order of the shadow locate elements of the Small Force Tactical Recon and pursue to a neutral station, requests for assistance led to members of Primary Forces to log on to break the blockade.

Primary Force Alpha "Armor Tank" Drake "Stingray VIII"Atron "Morbid Curiosity" and "Kaleidescope" discover that (now divided) the force is camped in on two fronts, with elements from Merit Talon in Alakgur, and Order of the shadow in Elgoi, only "Morbid Curiosity" and "Collidascope" are free to move.

Planning to shock the Shadow forces, Kaleidescope moved into a warp in position off the small shadow foce Kestrel, Rifter, Thorax. and "Morbid Curiosity" entered system and warped to engage, first volley against the Rifter (suspected tackler) took the small craft into deep armor, and it immediately spooled up a micro warp drive to move away. Unfortunately this vital tactical information was missed, and "Morbid Curiosity spend five volleys on a target it could not hit. once this was corrected, the kestrel (armed with web's) was targeted, and instructions were given to "Frankenstein" to undock and engage the faction fitted Thorax. the Kestrel fell to drones, as "Morbid Curiosity"attempted to warp away (scrambled by the Thorax) and dropping fast, "Frankenstein" warped away. disconnected.
pinned, deep armor and fading fast. "Morbid Curiosity" was lost.
Diamond escaped in pod to a nearby station.

Smack Talk in local resumed. apparently having no idea that the Cyclone had discoed, and that they would have all died...

First FC Engagement for Diamond Fury

9:37 PST- 4:37 ST-Horrible Inc. After Action Report

The Action kicked off with a bang against The Merit Talon folks, at 4:44 ST our "Minor" Skirmish fleet Blackbird, Augeror, Rupture, Atron, Rifter held position on Alakgur side of Alakgur/Abudan gate. waiting for the fleet that we had anticipated on jumping in. As we warped away to shift position, the enemy fleet entered system. Immediate instructions where given to return to the gate, and engage the enemy fleet.

Smash "Who are we shooting at?"
Diamond"..."
The fleet landed out of position, and the early shock of fleet engagement left most of the fleet into armor within the first twenty seconds.Atron, Rifter,Augeror were targeted.

Diamond"Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone Primary is Cyclone"
Diamond "I have been primaried, i wont last long"
Smash "Roger Roger"
Darkness "K"
Hit NRun "I can't, I can't Target"
Zanahyra "Im Going down!"
Hit NRun "Im Going Down!"
Darkness "Im doing nothing, no damage on cyclone"

Diamond Fury "Scramble, scramble,scramble, abort target, New Taget, Rupture, new Target , Rupture"
Diamond Fury "Darkness get this guy off me"
Diamond "Hit nrun, warp out, zanahyra warp out, re-position, rupture rupture rupture"

Smash "Crap"
a swarm of drones envelop the blackbird, and red fills the overview as Merit Fleet engages the ECM ship, Blackbird is primaried.
Diamond Fury "scrub scrub scrub, all ships retreat... all ships retreat"

The fleet regrouped at 9-6 Asteroid belt, and kept frosty, while one at a time, we switched out to a more suitable fleet
Harbinger, Drake, Maelstrom, atron , rifter, avoiding engagement by cat and mousing with stations and belts.

Rev " I have Drake and malediction on 9-9 station, warp to abudan gate and then 9-9 at optimal -20
Diamond "warping to Abudan gate, warp to 9-9 station at optimal -20 drake is primary, drake is primary.

As the fleet lands and engages, the rest of the merit fleet warps in, and we discover that the Intel was off by 20 km, and the harbinger found itself sorely out of range, and primary. the malediction covered the distance , and Diamond quickly targeted it and warp scrambled.
Diamond "Drake is primary, ive got the malediction"
The drake got into 20% shields and warped away, as the other ships closed and began to open fire on several targets.
Diamond "Malediction is down"
the Malediction explodes in a ball of pretty lights
Diamond "scramble scramble scramble, all ships warp away"
the enemy had put their remaining fleet, cyclone, drake, rupture at 43km from Primary (Harbinger)
The fleet escaped again, and moved to a safe position to regroup.

The Merit Fleet took this opportunity to begin smack talk in local.
Horrible Inc. Maintained radio silence "a shark doesn't talk to its food"

Rev - I have warp in, 4 targets at 90km from station, lined up with abudan gate.
Diamond "set warp in to 9-9 station from gate to optimal -90
Darkness "Ill warp to 0 then?"
Smash "they are 90 from station?"
Diamond "warp on mark... mark" "cyclone is primary, cyclone is primary"
the fleet lands, but again, the ranges were off, and most of the ships are our of range.
Darkness "They are right on top of me, im screwed"
Diamond "warp to darkness at optimal, all ships warp to darkness at optimal , cyclone is primary"
The merit fleet engages the Maelstrom at close range, as the horrible fleet lands and repositions, the Maelstrom is tanked like a dread, and the Horrible fleet targets the Harbinger as primary.
Diamond " call in drones, prepare to warp"
Hit Nrun (had cyclone warp scrammed) im dead, im going down (explosion)
Diamond "Cyclones going down, get a point" (explosion) "Cyclones down, cyclones down, Scramble scramble scramble all ships warp away.
Darkness"..." (Darkness disconnects)
Diamond- "WTF?... Darkness just disco'ed, Darkness just Disco'ed, all ships warp to darkness at optimal.
All- Confused and WTF noises
Diamond- Warp to darkness at optimal, we cant loose that ship.
as the fleet re-positions, the Merit fleet break aggro and warp away.
drake drake rupture. warp to abudan gate and leave system.

Total kills - Cyclone - faction T2 fit - 40,000,000
Malediction - T2 fit - 14,500,000
abandoned drones 1,800,000
Took down 4 GSC containers XI-1- 2,000,000
Total Losses - Atron (Hit NRun - 20,000
warp distruptor- 15,000
(all other fittings recovered)