A Evening Egg Run ( an EVE pirate blog)

So today i logged on with hopes of getting a lot of kills. upon logging on and giving my greetings i find out a fleet has already been put together. As usual i am fast to request an invite. my wish was granted and an invite i was sent.

I undock from our Corporation office in the Egghelende system and warp to my safe spot after confirming this is where we are hunting. there are about 8 of us in the fleet if i remember correctly and we start to scan for possible targets. we spend a decent amount of time chasing possible targets. Soon a pilot of the Punisher ship we were chasing begins to catch on and shouts in local a warning to others that there is a band of pirates hunting. obviously talking about us, we all say things along the lines of "I have no idea what you are talking about, there are no pirates here :P"

The pilot of the punisher then begins to get cocky and starts talking back with obvious attitude. our Corporation leader who was also leading our fleet begins calmly exchanging words with him. our leader acting in a very respectful in calm way to our little alerter seems to only spark this persons cockyness even more. he then tells us to leave Egghelende as the system is his Corporations "terf" and we are not welcome there. as these words leave our cocky friends mouth a pilot completly unrelated to the situation or even the corporations involved says to the punisher pilot "look in local, they have several members of their corporation here, you only have your self, it seems this is actually their terf..." this in turn made me laugh quite a bit. our punisher friend replies with a simple " shut up, i'm getting on my main to pwn you" he was never heard from again...

after this little detour of ammusment we continue our hunt. after a while our fleet mate probes out a acceleration gate. we warp in and prepare to camp mission runners. we wait for a few and determine no one is coming, our leader warps out. after a few short moments we get the call, our leader orders us to warp to his location. i engage my warp drive with his location set as my final destination. warping in i find a my leader and a few fleet mates already in combat with a vexor. i set my ship to orbit, engage afterburners and begin to target, but before i could get in range my fleet brings him down with a very nice explosion.

just as we start to move in on the loot thinking the worst has ended, another pilot warps in. we orbit, target, scramble and fire. his ship lasts only seconds and is gone... but just as his ship blows up yet another warps in, with a repeat performance he is killed in seconds. you would think, ok thats it, but no yet another warps in, this time it was a Myrmidon class Battlecruiser. still feeling the adrenalin and excitment from the streak we just had, we engage.

his shields fell rather fast, but we would soon learn that his shields were not the problem that would soon present it self. somewhere around 8 of us all bombarding him with fire at once, we are melting his armor. slowly but surely it goes down, but upon reaching about 50% armor it starts to rise again untill it is near 100%. we take it down to half once more just to have it rise again... as we struggle to brake below 50% he is picking our fleet off one by one. we try and we try but his armor just doesnt fall below 50%. as it become apparent to me that we are not taking this guy down i begin preperations to warp out. better to run with my lucky ship and live to fight another day than to stay and fight a suicidal fight. i grab the loot from the closest wreck while firing upon our enemy and engage warp drive and try to warp out... but it was to late, by this time there were only 3 of us left and i was his target. I'm warp scrambled and all hope of escape is now a dream that wont come true. realising my fate i continue fire on him as i watch my shields fall. as he rips into my armor i active my armor repairer at about 50%, but it was not strong enough. his rockets hit me, over whelming my armor repairer and rip into my structure. over powered and with no chance of survival i prepare for destruction with escape pod warp drive on standby. seconds into my structure and my ship explodes. i warp my pod out as he turns on my friend.

after the fight i state in local "Good fight" and "you had a very very good tank." i was returned with "good fight" and "thanks" as a responce. over all the dude was cool and it had to be one of the best fights i've had, even if i lost :P

below is a video of the fight that i started recording about 1/4 of the way through, enjoy.

until next time, fly safe :)