Rifter Out a Rollin'

I logged on after downtime today and perused my available space patrol boats. As is often the case one of my RIGHTEOUS RIFTERS OF JUSTIC stood out as the boat for me this afternoon. So I hopped into a trusty AC, plate and armour repper fit and undocked.

Metropolis was relatively quiet but it wasn't long before I stumbled upon KRIMINALS INTENT ON WRONGDOING. I'd just jumped into Egmar and was met on the gate by an ARES SPACE BOAT OF TAKAL. It was piloted by a member of SCUM. a large pirate blob alliance currently based out of Taff. The Ares locked me up and tackled me from range, I orbited the gate with my afterburner and watched local, ONE MORE SCUM KRIMINAL ENTERED, after blipping d-scan for some time to ascertain his boat to no avail, I decided that IT WAS IMPERITIVE FOR ME TO BRAWL DOWN THE ARES. After a short time burning away from the Ares getting him a little off the gate to hopefully buy me time to gank him, I flipped my Rifter boat 180 degrees and tackled him, almost immediately a JAEGAR PIRAT ATTACK VESSAL landed 30k off, so I heated my guns and BRAWLED THE ARES DOWN FAST. The Jaguar had closed quickly with a mwd and I was sitting at half armour. I scrambled him and flew away before thinking to myself.

HANG ON...

MWD...

NO WEB...

I CAN TOTALLY TAKE THIS KRIMINAL DOWN

I flipped my, by now rather battered Rifter, around and got into a tight orbit. I was reducing his damage fo shure, but it was obvious that i'd go down first, I heated my afterburner, this helped ALOT though he was still getting some decent hits on me trying to joust me using his superior agility. As his shield broke I was very much on fire. I desperately repped to try and buy me the few extra seconds I needed, my repper was almost burnt and more worryingly my afterburner was as well, if that went I'd explode. I continued grabbing reps where possible and manual piloting to increase transversal as best I could. I hit 20% hull as I began working on his structure.

THEN MY AB BURNT OUT...

MY TARGETING SYSTEM TURNED OFF

THE KRIMINAL HAD EXPLODED \o/

I looted with a sliver of hull as a hostile Crow landed, I then warped to a nearby station to give my lil Rifter a well deserved repair

GF GF