Kill 12: The Roam

We went a roam with vlewandowski. It started as a short journey and to be honest I did not plan to stay online for a long time, I was (as usual) tired. The first trip through 4 systems were fruitless, so we decided to try a longer roam.

As we reached Vlillirier we have seen a lot of pilots on local but nobody was in scanner range except three AFs, which I located at one of the planets. Three non-negative sec status players. They did not want to engage my Rifter and soon they disappeared. There were a missioning Thorax in the system also but without a scanner ship we could not locate him. As I warped to the next gate I have seen a Rifter on scan. He was sitting at the gate. Yellow guy, so I turned back and warped to zero to a nearby belt. He did the same. I informed vlew about the event, then I locked, scrambled, usual stuff. What was unusual that I did NOT forget to overheat. I told to vlew that I do not need help, my opponent has lost the half of his armor when he finished with my shield. And I am armor tanked, so I was sure about the final result of our fight. As my guns started to aim the finishing volley vlew arrived and pulled the trigger, so the final blow is not mine.

Literally it is not a solo kill, but practically it is. I told Jason a gf and he said it was gf if the Jaguar wasn't my mate. He was but I think it was a good and fair fight. The result was clear before vlaw arrived and if I were vlaw I would pull the trigger too. He did not know anything about the status of my ship, so he wanted to be sure.

The remaining part of the roam was lacking any events, we went home then I started my Ishkur-disarament  project. It includes one Thorax too, in the beginning I was planning to use cruisers. Now the ship and its fit is useless, so I sold that too.

Moral

As I said, I did NOT forget to overheat, this should be the key parameter of the fight. On the other hand I DID forget to turn it off. I don't know much about how the guns behave if overheated too much, I have to collect information about it.
I did not informed my fleetmate about my and my opponents status. My in-fleet communication seems to be poor.
After the fight Jason asked me about the Jaguar arrived. I have told him that he is on my side. This is an error. I have to pay attention to being silent on local. With confirming that we are in fleet I was a friendly, social player, yes, but I was an intel idiot at the same time. Silence on local! No waves, no chatting!
And finally: the Rifter is a good PvP frigate, I like it.