[Jester's Trek] Kill of the Week: Not a hauler
Kill of the Week: Not a hauler
So, let's start with the first runner-up first, this Charon. It probably deserves to be KOTW, but I got bitched at last week for doing two hauler KOTWs in a row, and this would make it a third. So I won't. The amusing thing about this kill is of course the Vangel (which dropped!) in its cargo hold. But nearly as amusing, there's nearly a whole Vangel PvP fit in there too, and it isn't half bad:
[Vangel, Armadakin]
Damage Control II
Corpum A-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Corelum B-Type Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Core A-Type 100MN Afterburner
Domination Warp Disruptor
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
True Sansha Medium Capacitor Booster, Navy Cap Booster 400
Caldari Navy Heavy Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Caldari Navy Heavy Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Caldari Navy Heavy Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Caldari Navy Heavy Missile Launcher, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
'Ditch' Medium Energy Neutralizer I
'Ditch' Medium Energy Neutralizer I
Warrior II x5
Hobgoblin II x5
Hornet EC-300 x5
The only thing missing in the freighter are the rigs. We can accurately guess one of his rig choices right off. The ship needs an Ancillary Current Router I to solve the ship's grid problem. What was the other rig going to be? I think I'd go with a T2 Polycarbon Engine Housing myself... but now we'll never know. ;-) The freighter pilot is either someone's alt, or someone's Blue Frog Freight character delivering a contract gone badly awry. Given that it was in a Charon, I kinda have to guess the former. Fairly reliable word says this freighter was auto-piloting, too... which is really dumb and makes it even less likely Blue Frog was involved. But the fit is good enough and precise enough that it's probably the alt for someone pretty damn smart. Wonder who it was? And more importantly, why was he dumb enough to do this?
Second runner up was that Cambion. I've talked about it already. Pretty glorious kill, tbqh.
That leaves this week's winner:
http://black.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15284905
It might take you a minute to figure out what's wrong with this, but you'll get there. I didn't pick a hauler for KOTW. :-) And it comes with a movie:
"I'm in the perfect looting ship," one of the killers says, which was the funniest thing I heard all weekend. n1, guys.
Number of dead super-caps this week: 1
Only one to talk about this week, this Nyx, smashed by -- among others -- a PL fleet of super--... ummm... errr... Tempests. Apparently the system was cyno-jammed. ;-) It's wayyyy down in Impass, which is one of the most remote regions in New Eden, so there's no way to know how this kill came about unless someone involved in the fight wants to talk about it. There are some clues. For instance, it looks like he was involved in a good size fight with UnclaimedDOT/Out of SightDOT when the PL fleet came in. And to his credit, he seems to have taken a number of dictors and one heavy interdictor down with him. Was this a log-out gone awry, or did Unclaimed bat-phone PL? There's no evidence that this turned into a three-way. I'm sorry to say I know almost nothing about sov politics in the far south-east. Anyone know the story here?
EDIT (5/Dec/2012): An anonymous commenter found a brief story on themittani.com covering this. Thanks!
That said, that was all the super-cap kills I could last week...
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