Last night MNEE and friendly neighbours found a WH into an adjacent class 2 system. A fleet was formed, a scout sent in and a hulk located. The hulk was pointed (an Eve term: 1 point of warp scrambling was applied to the hulk preventing him from warping out) and a ransom demanded. The hulk pilot prevaricated and called in reinforcements in the form of a Domi. The fleet jumped in, blew the Hulk and the Domi up and assaulted the small gunless POS in system.
I am of two minds about the whole thing. I don't like piracy. Attacking the other corp (SPQR) and their base wasn't going to net the corp anything substantial. The bits and pieces looted from the ships are a prize but not a very serious one. It looks like the corp went out to ruin someone's day. It isn't as though we were going to claim their system as when the WH closes we'll never see it again.
A serious attempt was made on to kill the pods (not by me though). In wormhole space this has a perverted sense to it. Whereas getting from your WH system to kspace is easy, getting from kspace to a specific WH system is not. By podding someone it removes them from the WH space and the battle in a rather more permenent manner than would happen in kspace.
Unless someone attacks us first I don't think I'll be taking part in these operations again.
I am of two minds about the whole thing. I don't like piracy. Attacking the other corp (SPQR) and their base wasn't going to net the corp anything substantial. The bits and pieces looted from the ships are a prize but not a very serious one. It looks like the corp went out to ruin someone's day. It isn't as though we were going to claim their system as when the WH closes we'll never see it again.
A serious attempt was made on to kill the pods (not by me though). In wormhole space this has a perverted sense to it. Whereas getting from your WH system to kspace is easy, getting from kspace to a specific WH system is not. By podding someone it removes them from the WH space and the battle in a rather more permenent manner than would happen in kspace.
Unless someone attacks us first I don't think I'll be taking part in these operations again.
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