[Jester's Trek] Kill of the Week: Unexpected outcomes
Kill of the Week: Unexpected outcomes
Sometimes the unexpected happens. You tackle an Orca, you don't really expect to kill it. But then you do.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=18068141
In a Velator.
I don't even want to think about how long that took. ;-) But it's a fun little kill nonetheless. Given the Orca has 50m3 of empty space, I assume the Velator also had to kill a couple of flights of drones first. I'm very curious if one of those flights of drones was a set of ECM drones. As I've said before, if you're not putting at least one flight of ECM drones in your Orca, you deserve to lose it. That said, this is a particularly awful Orca fit. Excellent job, VegasMirage!
First runner-up was this Slasher. The true irony of this loss are those Remote Sensor Boosters. That means this Slasher's normal occupation was to sit on a gate somewhere enhancing the lock time of a suicide ganker. It seems likely the Slasher pilot didn't mean to get hoisted on his own petard quite that hard. Bit of a suicide ganking wedgie, that...
EDIT (11/Jun/2013): The full story of how the Slasher died is up at TMC. Short version: he scooped those PLEXes off a gank, it seems. It's still pretty damn ironic.
The very best way to avoid the security issues of living in a wormhole so that you don't get your stuff and your ships stolen by putting them into a POS? Carry everything you own and every ship you fly with you in your Nidhoggur while you run wormhole sites in it. There's no possible way that this can end poorly... whoops!
And finally, the fight of the week was of course the CFC/TEST/PL/NCdot brawl for the ages last night. The fight was so massive and the fleets involved so relatively spread out that it seemed to be causing TiDi right across New Eden Sunday. So if you were wondering what was happening to your system yesterday? That was probably it...
Number of dead super-caps last week: 2
As serious as the fighting in Fountain was over the last couple of days, neither side has deployed supers (yet?) and as a result neither of the two super kills this week seem related to the action in the west.
First to die was this Northern CoalitionDOT Nyx, to TEST down in Querious. According to Marlona Sky...
...he had just jumped into system. Moments later the TEST cyno went up and he was bumped out of refit range. Props to TEST for having the set between their legs to do the drop.Since he had just jumped into system, he didn't have enough cap to jump back out. Since he was apparently just bumped by several dozen dreadnoughts, warping off was also not an option. Thanks to the combination and his travel fit jumping into the system, he apparently died incredibly fast. No hictors needed.
And the second super to die was this Wyvern, to a Vindicator and four friends. According to the kill comments, the pilot was active and chatting in Local the whole time. Apparently, he's in the process of unsubscribing from EVE and wanted to give someone a shiny killmail before he left. Mission accomplished, I guess...
That was it, though. Let's see some super-cap battles for dominance in Fountain! ;-)
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