My Loot, Your Tears

In a new attempt to cut down my turn-around time when looking for juicy mission runners to exploit, I fitted a salvager and an afterburner on my Anathema. This lets me drop right onto a likely target and start salvaging and looting right away.

I was pleased that the very first hit I tried with this new setup fell for the bait. Niickollas of Triton Dynamics LLC wasted no time in opening fire with his Abbadon.

I quickly returned with the GankAbbadon, but Niickollas was just out of overheated disruptor range, and fled to the Auvergene gate. Captain Charismatic and I made chase, until we had him camped in a station. We then fled system in the hopes he’d return through the Dodixie gate and be open to fire – well off the gate.

Indeed he did! But by this time my aggression timer had run out. Niickolas went back to his mission and we went back for our salvaging ships for further harassment.

Apparently not aware of ‘once bitten, twice shy’, Niickolas fired on me once again. Captain Charismatic stuck around as a decoy, until he too was on the receiving end of laser fire. To up the ante, another Triton Dynamics pilot, Garil Xolte, warped in with a RR Dominix to back up Niickolas in an Abbadon.

Charismatic has a gank Raven. I have a gank Abbadon. This was going to end badly for someone, and that someone was not us.

While Charismatic was retrieving his Raven, my Abbadon arrived and started blowing large sections off the Dominix and holding out against their combined fire – I love having a massive buffer tank. Don’t forget to fit your resist against the other guys’ weapons, kids!

Fellow ninja Onilan answered the call for help and arrived with cruiser-sized RR, which was much appreciated. Garil Xolte’s Dominix soon vanished in a puff of smoke. Seconds later Charismatic’s Raven dropped onto Niickolas’ head, and the Abbadon became so much scrap metal. I gave Onilan a 10M ISK “hazardous duty pay” bonus, we grabbed all the drops, high-fived, and went off to celebrate.

No tears to be had from these fellows, but we left the usual “don’t shoot at ninjas” advice in Dodixie local. One thing I was surprised about was Niickolas did not prealign to a station and warp when it was clear the Dominix was going to die. I had only one point and Charismatic was not yet on the scene when the Dominix went down. Niickolas could have saved his Abbadon, but I suppose his corp have an e-honor “fight to the death” code or something silly.

No good pictures this time, but Charismatic got good video from his point of view. It starts after he’s arrived in the Raven and the Dominix has already died. You can hear me on vent, and only me apparently. I ended up forgetting to turn off my afterburner and got so close my lasers were missing, as well as capping out even with my cap boosters running. Next time, I will remember to use ‘orbit’. =)

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