I haven’t had much access to a good connection recently to indulge in my favourite pastime of flying internet spaceships in Eve Online. I do think about it a lot and catch up on the eve Blog-pack every morning before work which keeps the imaginative part of my brain mulling over possibilities through-out the day.
Ships I have flown and ships I have loved.
Being a Gallente patriot, Slay supported Roden and Duvolle from the beginning flying the
Atron and
Tristan before graduating briefly to a
Catalyst destroyer on the way through to cruisers. Rushing through the tutorial in Eve is a mistake, I hadn’t even realised I had been given a ship as a reward but money is easily come by at the beginning and Slay was flying a sturdy
Tristan until he could afford the tough Gallente Thorax cruiser.
Unusually for a special forces Gallente (Drone specialist) I didn’t see the attraction of the
Vexor, after all, the
Thorax also could put out 5xHammerhead II AND have a kick-ass tank. It was in my
Thorax that I first got PVPed. I won’t even pretend it was consensual, an
Azaru warped into my mission in low-sec and left my Thorax as space dust slowly drifting in the light of Sharuveil’s sun. Picking on beginners is not something pirates seem to shirk from in padding out their kill boards.
In the way that I jumped into a
Thorax, I jumped into the
Myrmidon. The
Brutix never even got looked at, it must have been covered in dust sheets in the battlecruiser showroom that day. How I love my
Myrmidons! Tougher than the
Thorax, able to store more drones and with it’s bigger power-grid I could fit more on. It also looks like a creature of space, this ship could never land on a planet.
I had joined MNEE by this point and everyone else was running level 4 missions making more money that I could even dream about. So I had to join in and as such fitted out a
Dominix battleship as soon as I could. Three missions later that ship was also slowly spreading out through the void as I got caught by warp scrambling frigates in a level 4 mission when someone else warped out. The person very kindly gifted me a new
Dominix that was carefully bubble wrapped and put away for when my skills caught up with my ambition.
The workhorse of wormhole space is the battleship and in our case, the
Dominix. So it was back into this battleship that I went to reap the rewards of exploring the domain of the Sleepers. Generally it serves as part of a remote armour repairer gang with sentry drones providing the dps. She also has a PVP role where she can suck the cap out of anything within 20klicks of her while laying down the hurt with a collection of drones.
Though the
Dominix does the heavy lifting in Sleeper space, Slay spends most of his time behind the controls of the
Helios, the Gallente Covert Ops tier 2 frigate. This machine is the invisible scanning eye of the gods, where anomalies are found and wormholes tracked down.
Not forgotten is the
Myrmidon though. She still serves me as a very able gas mining ships complete with a tank in her lows, dps with her drones and 5 gas miners II in her highs. She can engage the defenders of a class 4 ladar site and be round to mine the gas after.
Who knows what the future will bring, Slay has the skills but not the money to fly an
Ishtar, he loves his
Iskur appropriately named Slay’s baby which carved it’s merry way through the first epic arc that came out with Apocrapha. He has 2
Brutix that he uses in the same way as he uses
Thoraxes, up close and personal with heavy neutron blasters and drones laying down the law. The
Nemesis requires missile skills which in the interest of improving his current skills Slay is ignoring but certainly plans to invest in the future.
The immediate plans call for maximising his drone and sub battle-ship skills: Drone interfacing 5, combat drone 5 being the top of the list with various guns skills immediately after.
