Saturday, December 18, 2010

Exploration!

Well, at last the Orca is bought, fitted and flying round with all my goodies stuffed in it. Eggs all in one basket? Yes! But it has over 200k EFT so it would take quite a gank fleet to take it down in high sec. Anyhow, it is there to serve as mobile base for Slayfoe's Bull with gang links specifically there to help the passive shield rides he is currently using (Shield Harmonizing +% to shield resists and The one that reduces your ship signature radius.)
So last night I took my mini fleet down to the bottom of Sinq Liaison where the number of pilots in the last 24 hours seemed smaller, climbed into the Helios and threw out the probes.
Bollaire: nothing
Ney: First hit - empty cosmic anomoly - I presume someone had already done it - and had forgotten his ogres in the last room.
Ney: Second hit - jackpot! Of course I forgot to mark  down the name... however the relevent points - on about the third wave a named individual pops up - target - shoot! As soon as he goes down up pops another window - I have an escallation. Good thing I hung round to loot thoughw, he dropped some shadow serpentis ammo and a low grade snake implant. His then ship salvaged for some tech 2 salvage - three firsts in one night. The bounties don't come to too much but the place is silly easy in a passive shield Ishtar, might be time to drop some tank for some gank. So of to Brybier Slay trots leaving Carraig to follow up in the Hulk.
Brybier: once I figure that you can just warp to the escalation using the journal Slay pops up in a high sec booster gas cloud. Serpentis Harvester guards are a bit harder and floating among them is another named dude (or was he just Shadow - I can't quite remember). Either way I take him out first and get another escalation to Vylade but not before picking up some more tech2 salvage, a serpentis module and shadow serpentis tag.

Lessons learnt:
  • I need some other ships in the Hulk that can Gas Harvest, Hack and Decode;
  • People in the same fleet but not in the same corporation cannot web each other without Concord!
  • Atrons cannot tank gate guns;
  • Atrons can go wickedly fast (over 5k when MWD is overheated!).
  • This exploration gig is good fun - or again maybe I got lucky...

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