Dancing around...

It was fucking boring. Dancing around the system, waiting the other fleet to engage. Waiting them to attack our bait which was obviously a bait. They won't, for sure.
I got bored, left the system and started to kill rats. After a half an hour I have checked the fleet chat. The same waiting game. I decided going back to the fleet and die.

Warped to a belt and flying away from it. My Rifter is not a bait. Or at least not as obvious bait as a Ferox sitting in a belt. It will pop in seconds, so there is no danger jumping on me. The opposing fleet had a Stabber FI, a Cane and a Hookbill. I had to stand for 10-15 seconds while my fleet enters warp. With a bit of luck my mates would be able to catch a ship. This was my plan.

And the plan started to work. They jumped to the belt where I was. 150 kms. Me burning away. They chasing me. 140 kms. 130 kms. The Hookbill warps away. 120 kms. The Stabber is damn fast! Hookbill arrived, right on the top of me. I have to ask the guy how he did it...
Stay allive, stay allive! I don't know how, but I tanked the rockets. The big boys arrived, I had to turn to make my traversal as big as possible.
Warp to me, warp to me!
Alarm rings rang. Align to sun, warp warp warp! Ship's gone, pod in warp bubble. Arriving Sun, Hookbill on close range scan. I am not surprised, midwarp I have chosen the station I will dock right after arriving sun. Warping again, waving a goodbye to the Hookbill. My part is done, let's see, how the corpmates do their part.

As they arrived to the Rifter's wreck, they have found there the remaining part of the enemy fleet. No more dancing around for the Cane. To be honest I don't know, how the Stabber survived. If I have to guess, all of the guys scrambled the Cane.

The final part was fun. But the long "hunt" before… I hate this part. EvE is full of traps and overkill, I really know that this "I am afraid to attack, what happens if it is a bait?" attitude is acceptable and needed. But it kills fun.

Last thoughts:

• There were "This is Rita's kill" in fleet chat again.
• A Rifter for a Cane is a good deal.
• We did not use Ventrilo. The last phase would be easier for me if I could just yell int my mic the Warp to me! sentence.

Hero of the day...

I had a lot of stuff to sell so I went to Dodixie. I have chosen one of my Taranises for this purpose. Taranis, because it is fast. As I am under -4.0 I will be harassed by gate guns and police officers in the last 4 systems, so I need align speed and agility. Jurney went well, the usual "Criminals are not welcomed here"-stuff was OK for me. Docked, sold the stuff then bought a Vengeance. And fit. And ammo. Lot of ammo. You will see… Undocking. Airlock gate opens, ship enters space. Look to the overview to locate the gate I plan to warp to. Ships around. As usual. The Vengeance starts to turn. Slowly, as Vengeances used to. Ships around. Red ships. Flashy red ships! Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Station camp in highsec? It cant be… No matter what happened, the alarm sound in the ship informed me that my ship is under fire. Nononono…! Rep overheated and heading right to the station, spamming the Dock button. Late. Let's save the pod. Dock-spamming. That was a mistake.

Medical facility in Agoze, cloning area

Something went wrong, terribly wrong. Lost the ship, that is 20m ISK around. Lost my body including implants. Another 30m. This is at least 50m loss and I don’t know the reason. Additionally this is my first pod loss, as far as I remember.
As a polite person I opened convo with the guy who laid the final blow.
Rita Morel: - I did not expect the spanish inqusition. Gf anyway.
Magistrate Aribeth: - I did not expect you to be red. :P
Red... Me? Red? They were red, not me. ... ... Then the moment of enlightenment.

One day earlier

I tried combat scanning. I was bored and I wasn't in a go-to-a-long-roam mood. Manned my Imicus, warping to a safe, dropping the probes, activating the cloak, put some music into the jukebox. Then waiting, repositioning probes, waiting, repositioning the probes, wait... and chatting with corpmates. After a few minutes - or a few ten-minutes, who remembers - I found something. An Ishtar. In the middle of nothing. Calling back probes, calling backup and changing pants ship. An Ishtar, whoho! A fleet formed quickly.
I warped to the bookmarked position. Three acceleration gates. And Ogre II-s in dirscan. Sweet. I have chosen the middle gate. NPCs only. With heavy neuts. God, I need another set of pants… Warped away and midwarp reported the result. The result about my scouting and empty cap, not the non-empty pants. Top gate has been reported as an area full of wrecks. The bottom gate is the one with the Ishtar.
When I warped back the Isthar was tackled and hammered heavily. He dropped out Ogres II-s, then called them back to bay then Hobgoblin II-s, then calling back them. Very strange strategy, he should be scared and surprised. His shield went down slowly then the armor and the ship destroyed in few seconds. Pod escaped.

If you look at the fit there will be answers and questions. At first sight it is a strange fit. But if you remember what was in the other side of the middle gate… Doing that neuting-fest room is only possible with this shield tanked monster. This is the reason we had to spend our time breaking the shield but the armor went down fast.
The lack of weapons… That is a question. Maybe he was not able to fit weapons. He does not really need them tho, the drones could kill the NPCs for sure. Pirates, that is an another story.

After the battle there were "several good catch, Rita"-s in fleet chat and yes, that was a good and lucky catch. I was the hero of the day.

Medical facility in Agoze, cloning area

Yep, I was the hero of the day for sure. But that day was yesterday. Today I am the moron of the day. The kill dropped me under -5.0. My status was Fire at sight! in empire systems. As I left the station they immediately attacked me, so they went to red. Red for me, but not for the CONCORD since I was a criminal under -5.0. The Magistrate was laughing after I told him the story. Me too, but my laugh was a bit bitter.

I am an Outlaw. At the moment I write these lines my sec status is around -4.9 so I would be able to enter empire again. But I won't. That days are over. I am a pirate and empire is not my second home anymore.

And the last thought: when lose, do not dock. Align with the ship to something far away then warpwarpwarp. Warping is instant in the pod, docking is not.

Addiction...

Last night I was waiting for my taxi after drinking with friends. I had time to think about important things, such the meaning life and similar things. But the only thing came to my mind was that Ahhh, the training has been finished. I can fly a Vengeance! This is the major strength of EvE (aside from sandbox). You should not be online to progress in skills. I like love this.

Amnesia...

I had two losses in the past week.

The first one was the usual: ratting in a belt, Gaizka jumped on me. After his decloak I would have enough time to but... His sec status was not low, so no flashy red on overview. This made me more brave than I should be. So I checked what type of ship arrived. Then I was scrambled. Orbiting the  NPC, sucking the capacitor from it, overheating the repper and waiting for the drones. They arrived and it was over. I have talked about the fight with Gaizka. He was surprised about how long I was able to keep my ship in one piece. Yep, I can make fights long. But win them... That is another story.

I cannot say anything about the second loss. Seriously, I don't know when and how it happened. There are some impressions deep in my mind and I am sure that this loss made me thinking about the question: do I really want to use blasters in the future? The decision: I will make my plans more simple than before. I won't fly Taranis. I will fly Vengeance only. So no need to max out Gunnery skills, I can go directly to Missile Operation side. And armor tank and capacitor and targeting and... But before I will take 12 days with learning all the relevant Gunnery skills to lvl 4. I will fly Rifters until I feel myself confident about Vengeance and flying Rifter requires those Gunnery skills.

I had also wins in the last week. A Thorax and a Vexor in a M.E.A. roam.