RIFTER: JUSTICE EDITION, Featuring black paint smeared on the end of the Rifter FOR ADDED JUSTIC!

So I've been stuck fighting injustice IRL, which is far less fun than fighting injustice in fighty shooty spaceboats. Far more paperwork and talking, not enough HIGH OCTANE SPAC BATTALS.
So I've been very pleased to be back in internet space.

And even more pleased to find on my return, that you can now get OVERPRICED VANITY RIFTERS!

So I obviously bought one. It made sense that a fancy Rifter deserved a special fitting, even though it has the same abilities as a normal Rifter. BUT IT NOW COMES WITH ADDED BLACK BITS, WHICH MAKE IT MAGICAL LIKE A SPACE UNICORN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
I'm not going to reveal the fit because at time of posting it's still alive, but I will say its a variant I made on one of my old polic partner SASSY B's fits, and I like it muchly. Despite the fact that I had to make it run away from a merlin :(
Also it's not got any faction, just T2 and named so don't be disappointed if you blow me up and don't get any fancy loot.

It took some time, surprisingly, to get a fight, it took TWO WHOLE DAYS in fact. I should of made battle with an Incursus but PIRAT KORPARATION "THE BASTARDS" PILOT WOULD NOT COME NEAR ME, DESPITE LANDING ON GRID TWICE WITH MY RIFTER WARSHIP!

Eventually my Rifter got christened apprehending a pilot who was ILLEGALLY PILOTING A DESTROYA CLASS VESSAL WHILE INTOXICATED 

Refreshed from the warm glow of enforcing justice, I once again took to patrolling the skies in my Rifter Justice Edition today. Metropolis seemed safe until I jumped into Resbroko. where I spotted a SUSPICIOUS LOOKING BRACHER WARBOAT! in a faction warfare plex. I went in to investigate.

As I landed on the acceleration gate, an IMPERAL NAVY SLICA was on my overview, He had just activated the gate and was clearly an AMMARR KRIMINAL off to harass the brave Bracher freedom fighter. THIS I COULD NOT ALLOW!

I landed in the plex in time to see the Breacher escape. Though I was 21km off the slicer when I came out of warp AND THIS IS NOT IDEAL FOR AN AB FRIGAT VS A SLICA.
Purple LAZORS cut deep into my shields, I approached the slicer at an angle trying to reduce the incoming damage, and to my surprise he rocketed off to 45km. Clearly my approach had spooked him a little, and he somewhat overshot his kiting quite drastically.

This is when I had to chose to fight or flee, a slicer could potentially make much violence upon me. HOWEVER I noticed as he burned to range that his point had the range of a tech 2 disruptor. This made me want to stay, as having flown the slicer quite a bit myself, I'm aware how tight it is for CPU, and I gambled that the tech 2 point made it likely that he didn't have a DCU fitted, so if I caught him I could probably melt his boat rather quickly. The downside is though that no DCU meant he was likely nanotastic making him harder to catch.

He burned back in, I heated my AB and went head on at him, hoping to catch him on that pass.

I missed

He was super agile, and my tank took a beating in the process. I only had time to make one more attempt to catch him or the fight would of been unwinnable. I burned away from him at full speed, like I was trying to run, as I hit 23km from him I SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES, FLIPPED MY RIFTER AROUND AND FLEW AT HIS SHIPS FACE! 

I landed the heated point! Then went for the bump so his inertia couldn't take him to safety. Not entirely sure if the bump landed but either way he was locked down, and I unloaded Phased plasma into his hull while pulling into a tight orbit to out track his scorch. My tank however was not in a good place and if he had a DCU or even switched to multi I could still go down. I hit hull first, this was going to be close. BUT IT TURNED OUT MY PREDICTION WAS RIGHT \o/ When his armour fell his hull evaporated in seconds.

AND THE KRIMINAL MADE EXPLODE!

GF GF


P.S.

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Stabber: JUSTICE ISSUE!

Patrolling the familiar space lanes of Metropolis once again in my POLIC ISSUE STABBA. I come across A SUSPICIOUS LOOKING PIRAT MAN IN A HURRIKAN WARBOAT along with a almost as suspicious HARBINGAR LAZOR VESSAL. Curious as to the nature of their business I MAK PURSUIT to ensure all is well. I follow them through Orfrold and Egmar and into Arnher where I find them waiting for me on the gate. SEEMINGLY UNAWARE THAT ATTACKING A POLIC OFFICAH IZ AN OFFENCE, the HARBINGAR assaults me with lazer weapons, I immediately ENGAGE and get in a tight orbit with my afterburner running to reduce his damage. The Hurricane now obviously aware that I am a champion of justice and a threat to his pirating ways WRECKLESSLY JOINS THE ENGAGEMENT AND MAKES SHOOT AT ME. Thankfully the cane is cautious and engages outside of medium neut range and web range. THIS IS CLEARLY VERY CLEVER WITH ME SPEED TANKING AND ACTIVE TANKING.

In a completely UN pro move on my part upon engaging 2x high dps well ARMOUR tanked battlecruisers I

1. FORGET TO TAKE ANY SORT OF BOOSTER THE ENTIRE FIGHT

AND

2. BRAWL THEM WITH EMP AMMO

The Harb is very slowly going down and when he reaches about half armour THE HURRIKAN MOVES CLOSER TO MAK WEB AND NEUT. My tank is now under considerably more strain and my 800's are running low, So I heat my afterburner to try and counter the canes web and heat my guns TO BRAWL THE HARB DOWN FASTER.

FINALLY THE HARBINGAR LAZOR VESSAL EXPLODES \o/

I switch to the the cane and quickly apply my scram before getting into a tight orbit. I have only 3x 800's left and am being neuted so decided to keep repping to a minimal in order to keep my ab and scram on. With my armour dipping rather low at points I manage to hold out and soon

JUSTIC IS MADE ON THE PIRAT HURRIKAN

Satisfied with this excellent start to April, I dock up in Evati and log for the night

GFGF

THE CONTINUED TALES OF LITTLE HAWKS THAT COULD

I jumped into Ezsur on a routine petrol, and what do I see BUT A SENSOR BOOSTING ARTILLERY RUPTURE. It belongs to The Murientor Tribe, who just happen to be renowned for being one of the most CORRUPT UNDERHANDED CORPS WITHIN THE MINMATAR COMMUNTIY SUPPORT FORCES. He's 60k off me, I uncloak my Hawk class war vessel and gain transversal, as I reach 40k he opens fire. MISS. I heat my afterburner and continue to burn in at an angle while covered by the sentry guns. MANNED ON THIS DAY BY UPSTANDING CITIZANZ RESISTANT TO THE BRIBES OF THIS KRIMINAL CORP. I begin to launch Rockets as the kriminal EXPLODES before I even get in scram range. As his pod appears on overview so does his corp mate in a FEARSOME RAPIER, followed by an Enyo, a Rifter, and a Dramiel. I get in a tight orbit of the Rapier thinking, HE'S SURELY NOT GOING TO ENGAGE AT THIS RANGE IS HE...ESPECIALLY WITH ARTY....WAIT A SEC...HE IS...GO GO JUSTIC SCRAMBLER. The foolish Rapier is soon reduced to scrap. As his friends watch unable to do anything.

Not wanting to engage the Enyo, Dram and Rifter all at once I casually drop some ammo in a can to see if they bite. Eventually the Dram pilot takes it, THEN UPON REALISING HIS 65MILLION ISK FRIG MIGHT GET SHOT AT BY A HAWK OF STRONG HONOUR AND MIGHTAY ROCKATZ he immediately burns away. I try to catch him for a few minutes before he docks to hide from my wrath.

Due to the amount of times this corrupt corp have shipped up in station to bigger ships/numbers and overwhelming ewar, when involved in a GFGF against me where they already have huge advantages, I end up feeling p.happy about the engagements result.

GFGF

ROCKAT WORRIAR

I've been brushing up on my missile skills and recently got T2 Rockets. So OBVIOUSLY I BOUGHT A HAWK WAR BOAT.

FIRST BATTAL

I had just warped to the Egmar gate in Arnher and turned away from the keyboard to enjoy my rather nice cup of tea.

WHEN SUDDENLY I HEARD THE SOUND OF AUTOCANNON FIRE.

I looked at my screen to see a Wolf space boat trying to violence me. With my shields about to hit 50%, I engaged and got in a tight orbit to reduce tracking. I hit peak recharge as I broke through to his armour, and to my surprise huge chunks of red began to appear in it.

HE HAD NO PLATE \o/

Eventually he popped with my Hawk in high hull.

NEVA SURRENDA

Unimpressed by my Hawks performance against the Wolf I roamed on. But was unable to get a fight until much later on, when back in Arnher I saw A MIGHTY PIRAT DAREDEVIL.

Despite the fearsome nature of the Daredevil ROCKAT WORRIAR was a STRONG HAWK OF JUSTIC, WITH A NO SURRENDER POLICY.

The Daredevil appeared a 100k off me, I looked at his ship and spotted t2 Neutrons. The pirat began to MWD at me as I formulated my BATTAL PLAN.

I burned towards him then slammed on the Hawks breaks as he hit hit web range BUT WAITED TO APPLY WEB AND SCRAM UNTIL AFTER HE HAD OVERSHOT ME \o/

Then I heated my afterburner and attempted to maintain the range we were at. My mighty rockets began shredding the 100million isk glass cannon as he began to catch up, but by the time his mighty neutrons started scoring hits on my favourable Caldari T2 resists it was to late.

THE PIRAT MAN EXPLODED

I caught and enforced justice upon the pirates pod, before scooping evidence and warping ROCKAT WORRIAR to safety.

GFGF

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

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA

The KFCK JUSTIC ENFORCMANT TEAM haven't been able to log on much recently in order to ENFORCE THE GALLANTA POLIC LAWS, However on Saturday night we managed to find time for a short patrol in RIFTER SPACE BOATS

The evening began with a small engagement with the kriminal lowlife known as EVE UNIVERSITY, who were loitering in Ardar. A rather standard engagement we took down a Raptor before the main blob landed. Sassy then managed to make warp. I was pointed by a Stiletto, so I burned away then flipped my Rifter justice boat around and tackled the kriminal inty. Unfortunately, as I started violencing the kriminal boat standard eve uni practice of DROP THE ECM DRONEZ FROM OUR BLOB ON THE RIFTAH kicked in and I got locked out. :(

I Jumped into a new Rifter and we decided to head Evati way, all seemed rather uneventful until we ran into PIRAT KORPARATION THE BASTARDS. My Rifter landed on the Orfrold gate in Egmar to be confronted by pilots TFS Tibbs in a Wolf Boat and TheHermit in a Crow. Sassy was one jump behind, and we had no idea if more Bastards loomed on the other side of the gate. We came to the decision that an AF and an Inty were no match for DUBBAL RIFTAR, and that we'd go for them and hope nothing we couldn't violence jumped in. I locked them up and got in a tight orbit on Tibbs's Wolf, Rf Fusion loaded in heated 150s, waiting for Sassy to land on grid. As soon as Sassy's Rifter got in Dscan range the over confident pirates opened fire on me. I tackled the Wolf as Sassy B's Rifter boat burst out of warp and we lit him up. As Tibbs entered hull Sassy B peeled off to try and land tackle on the Crow. I promptly finished ADMINISTERING JUSTIC TO THE PIRAT MAN. The Wolf exploded with me in 30% armour and the Crow lingered longer than he should of trying to finish me. Sassy B Unleashed OFFICIAL POLIC WEBBING AND SCRAMBLING WEAPANS upon him, enabling us to MAKE JUSTIC!

GF GF

HURIKANE OF WELL THOUGHT OUT AND TOTALLY NOT WRECKLESS PLANS OF BATTAL

So I was flying around in my Hurricane trying to not be so wreckless cos I'm rather low on isk at the mo, then what did is see BUT A PROTEUS WITH A FLASHY KRIMINAL LOKI, clearly a not wreckless engagement, I locked them up and looked at them to clock their guns/subs the Loki's subs made it look like a big strange thrasher MY CANE CAN TOTALLY KILL THRASHERS I thought.

Also the Loki appeared to have t1 arty fitted, the Proteus also had t1 guns \o/

Unfortunately before battle could commence a Machariel landed and started firing meta 800mms at the Loki, WTF IS THIS WITH THE 2BILL OF HULLS FLOWN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE.

Anyway the T3's ran away and people started smacking each other about being cowards running away from each others t1 gunned lolboats.

As this was happening I FORMULATED AN INGENIUS AND TOTALLY NOT WRECKLESS PLAN. The plan was to swap the nano out in my cane for a third gyro load fusion chase the t3s and BRAWL THEM DOWN.

After The Mach had gone I pursued the t3 kriminals 2 jumps, I missed tackling the flashy Loki on 2 gates AS THEY HAD CLEARLY BRIBED THE CCP TO GIVE ME BAD UNCLOAKS ON JUMPS. They then told me how they can totally blow me up and docked :(

Disheartened I headed back to Ardar, but shortly after I'd docked up in Thukker the Proteus pilot entered system. I TURNED ON POLIC SIRENS AND MADE HASTE TO THE FLOSESWIN GATE. I set an orbit of 10k and waited for the Loki. The Proteus soon appeared on grid but he wasn't flashy and taking sentry fire for 2x t3s in a cane seemed unwise even if they were T1 gunned. Then the Loki pilot appeared in local, THE GATE FLASHED. I overloaded my highs and point in anticipation. Since the Proteus was on grid already I was gunna need to drop the Loki fast if I wanted to brawl them both down. The Loki uncloaked and started re-approaching the gate WITHOUT A PROP MOD, 20k from me, I heated the MWD pointed the kriminal AND GAVE HIM A SOLID BUMP OF JUSTIC \o/

I then park my cane next to him bombarding RF Fusion into his hull as he helplessly boosts his shields UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE JUSTIC OF MY WELL THOUGHT OUT PLAN OF ATTACK. The Proteus doesn't aggress at all he just sits there as the Loki Satisfyingly

EXPLODES \o/

I scoop the loot and warp off, as my Highs are dangerously hot and the Proteus hadn't aggressed.

Upon seeing the kill mail I feel somewhat disappointed that the booster didn't drop, but given police funds were at 16mil I can't really complain when I got the faction point and amplifier.

Later that evening, I'm returning to Ardar from Amamake in my Rifter, WHEN A GATE CAMP OF KRIMINALZ ATTEMPTS TO VIOLENCE ME they were flying a Muninn, a Harpy, a Rifter, and a Hurricane. I ofc escaped and with aggression on all of them JUST TWO JUMPS FROM MY HURRICANE. I quickly switch into my cane refitted its nano and returned for the kriminals. Conveniently the Muninn had entered Frerstorn one jump ahead of his gang, I let him aggress me so he thinks he's forcing me through the gate into his friends, and I believe it takes him by surprise when, after he agresses, I UNLEASH THE RIGHTEOUS FURY OF MY 425MM's. The Muninn, Is falling fast as the gate flash's, I fly away from the Harpy, Cane and Rifter staying out of possible scram range while finishing off the Muninn. Then I switch my guns and drones onto the Harpy, that soon like his Muninn friend IS REDUCED TO WRECKAGE BY THE FORCES OF GOOD. The Rifter of course is next to explode. RIGHT TIME FOR YOU TO SPLODE NOW MISTER KRIMINAL HURRICANE, as I begin to go to work on the cane, what appears but of course A DAM FALCAN!!! I'm promptly jammed, I hold on grid for a bit to see if I can get a lock on the Falcon but I'm completely permajammed, I BUMP HIM TO SHOW MY DISAPROAVAL and then dock up, to rage a lil bit about how much I hate Falcons. During which time I notice Laedy had posted a new blog ABOUT THE EVIL BANE OF ANY SOLO PVPER and how her new corp like them.

GF GF (exc. FALCAN!!!)

Official Gallanta police boats

Official Gallanta boats have been the flavour for me the past few days, namely the Myrm and the Comet. Gunna cut straight to the battle reports in this instalment

MYRM, VEGNANCE VS BADDIES

I was roaming around the Taff, Gurkala, Ualkin area in my Myrm, when I noticed on scan a Dominix and Megathron ENGAGING IN ILLEGAL VIGILANTI ACTIVITIES. So I hopped into a probe to discover their location and called out for tackle backup from officer Sassy B, who responded in a Vegnance class space boat. WE WARPED IN TO DISPENCE JUSTIC and caught the Dominix on the warp in. We then noticed we were being probed and decided to check out the incoming gank squad, as we were deep in Kriminal territory and the Domi pilot had many ruffian friends. I warped off and Sassy moved from the warp in when a tackle Vexor piloted by the Domi pilot arrived. Sassy then observed a Drake land as I was warping the myrm back in. The Vexor had warped off and I landed on top of the Drake and began to go to work on his shields. Then the Vexor landed and pointed and webbed me, Sassy burned in to put point on the Vexor, and soon a Megathron landed and started shooting at me as well. At this point I decide to pop some exile, and I started to move into a close orbit of the Megathron. The Drake monster then explodes, and we primary the Vexor as it seemed to be the only boat with tackle. The cruiser soon succumbed to our combined damages. Blipping d-scan we notice a Macharial as we were grinding down the Megathron, and made the decision that if it landed we should bail. Then predictably when the Mega was in Low Armour the Mach landed 20k off :( so we warp out. I would say GF GF but I WON'T, AS THE KRIMINALS SENT US A MEAN EVE MAIL AND SASSY AND I ARE SENSITIVE OFFICAHS WAT LIKE PONIES AND RAINBOWS.

MYRM VS DRAEK, DRAEK, & WOLF SPACEBOAT

I was patrolling Ardar as per usual when I was greeted by d-scan showing a Red Alliance Drake sitting in top belt. Well this is very clearly bait so I hopped into my trusty Myrm and watched local and the scanner for a bit, It looked like his gang was p.small Drake Drake Wolf. Shortly after the bait left system one Drake and Wolf were sat on the Frer gate so I warped to it and as expected they jumped through with me and I let them tackle. I moved into orbit of the Drake, and put web scram Warriors on the Wolf. I soon noticed the Wolf Trying to run......IN A STRAIGHT LINE AWAY FROM ME VERY SLOWLY \o/ so I naturally turned my AC's onto him and he kindly blew up.

I brought in the Warriors, and released the Hammerheads ready for the slow grind that is breaking the tank of a Drake, By now the 2^nd Drake had landed and I was under the fire of many many navy scourge missiles. At this point I should mention that after seeing the Drakes I'd swapped a kinetic hardener onto my Myrm :P

I played the recall and relaunch drones game for some time, managing to keep all my Hammers alive, I also was trying to conserve cap boosters and rep only the amount needed to not go into hull.

Briefly a MINMATAR COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICAH in a Claw opened fire on me, but left when I flashed the Gallanta police badge, and accused him of being AN AMARR SPY.

Time passed...

...FINALLY the first Drakes shield broke peak recharge, The Kriminal then tried to deagress BUT THIS OFFICAH IS NOT SHOOTING ALL THAT AMMO FOR NOTHING, a good solid bump sent his boat hurtling away from the gate, leaving him no choice but to explode. Unfortunately on seeing his friend hit hull the 2^nd Drake warped out.

GF GF

POLIC COMET VS PIRAT DRAMIEL

The official police frigate VS the renowned Pirate vessel THE ULTIMATE FRIGAT BATTAL FOR JUSTIC. Sassy and I had been chasing a Crow about, when Sass noticed a Dramiel on scan. I undocked my Comet and warped to a belt at zero, where I dispensed justic to the angel pirate rats. Sass was at range from the belt as he was hoping a Crow might land and burn at his Vigil.

Eventually the Dramiel landed and BATTAL BEGAN. Sassy's Vigil was to far off to make it into the fight so it was a 1v1 brawl, Null S loaded and afterburner heated I moved in and landed my web and scram, WOOO HE ISNT WEBBING ME HE'S DUAL PROP \o/

This is very important for fighting a dram in a blaster Comet, because you really want to control range and an ab/web Dramiel will control range on any boat short of a Daredevil or Cruor. The fight was brutal, I hit hull as he hit armour, my repper burning hot, clawing armour back as my hull slowly bled, It was too close to call, and both of us were in it till someone exploded. THEN BOOM target lost

Did I explode???

Did he explode???

HE EXPLODED, YAY \o/

My Comet looted the field, very much on fire with just 9% Hull remaining

GF GF

EVIDENCE COLLECTION

Ardar was pretty empty, not long ago i'd lost a Tempest to a battlecruiser gang, and the wreck was 60k off the Hadozeko gate. So being the enterprising young officer that I am I hop into my VIGIL BOAT OF JUSTICE ENFORCEMENT AND EVIDENCE RECOVERY, to go and salvage my wreck. I notice in an intel channel that “The Entity” a terribad alliance who like to bait and blob are a few jumps out in 3 Hurricanes, I don't pay much attention to it though as there is evidence to be recovered.

I land on the gate and head out to the wreck, lock it up and proceed to salvage. Then local jumps up and the gate flashes. An Entity Rifter and Stiletto uncloak and start burning towards me with MWD's.

THIS IS A KRIME SCENE AND OFFBOUNDS TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

I lock up the Rifter as he screeches into scrambler range, I move to 7k from him and turn on my rails making sure to stay within 5k of the Tempest wreck to continue salvaging.

SALVAGE SUCCESSFUL \o/

Then the interfering Rifter explodes, and I turn my attention to the Stiletto that is pointing me from 20k, and the three Hurricane class boats steaming towards me. I burn away from the Hurricanes gaining some distance, then turn a harsh 180 degrees, heat my afterburner and scramble the Stiletto.

The intercepter pilot is soon, much like his Rifter friend in a POD!

His explosion however coincided with a Hurricane getting into long point range, with my Vigil in deep structure and precious evidence in my cargo hold it seems attempting arrest of the Hurricanes would be fool hardy, so I burn out of point range and warp with 28% Hull.

I dock up in Thukker mix to process the evidence.

GF GF

Scrap Metal Battle Boat

Sassy B rather recently got T2 battleship guns, this is something I was TOTALLY JEALOUS OF, so I've been training for them myself. Just eleven days to go \o/. My impatience has led me to roam this weekend in a cheap tempest with 300k isk named guns. All in all I lost about 20mil after insurance, when it exploded a few hours ago. I TOTALLY GOT MY ISKS WORTH!

FIRST BLUD!!!

Newly fit up I jump into Floseswin, I warped to the Uisper gate and when I land the gate flashes, so I decide to see what arrives. An Arazu appears and then cloaks up 15k from me. A Wolf class space boat then de cloaks and tackles me. I lock it up and hold my aggro waiting for the Arazu which I intended to primary. Then the Arazu de cloaks and attacks 10K FROM ME!!! lol wat. I then turn my gaze to the Wolf, who had kindly started moving to 13k TO BE IN HIS SMALL ARTY OPTIMAL??? needless to say that was somewhat a better distance for me to track him at.

MIGHTY GALLANTA BATTALKRUISER!!!

Satisfied that my pest had already earned its keep. I head out a little later towards Ezsur. Upon arriving in Ezsur I'm promptly tackled by a Myrm. I DECIDE TO MAKE BATTAL. The Myrm is orbiting me close and has me webbed and scrammed, and I'm having a rather hard time tracking him. But first things first, an opportunist AMARR KRIMINAL had landed in a Rupture and targeted me. I fire a couple of Volleys at him stripping his shield, and he obviously gets the hell out or Ezsur.

My Neuts are on the Myrm, and he's dropping my armour at a steady pace, while my guns are scratching at his armour which is repped up quickly, I'm patient, and eventually my neuting starts to show, he loses point and web, I gain a few clicks and my guns start to track better before he gets his scram/web back on. Then he loses scram/web again, now I'm at 4k, hitting him harder as my own armour dips below 20%. Then Again, I'm at 11k now, at this point I'm just about to trickle into Hull, but this fight is now going to be over quick. The Myrm's hull shatters. And The Tempest holds the field

GF GF

SUPER HAPPY FUN HADOZEKO

Sassy had an unfit Armageddon hull sitting in Egmar. So I offer to scout it back to Ardar in my Tempest. Upon jumping into Hadozeko, I, in a COMPLETLY PRO miss click then warp to the wrong gate. After landing on the Resbroko gate I proceed to sit confused and motionless in space, trying to figure out how I could possibly be getting the Resbroko gate on d-scan from the Klogori gate. After about a minute of being completely baffled by my own mistake, A HULK. I repeat A HULK, uncloaks 15k off me. I stare at it in wonderment on my overview for a few seconds, it doesn't appear to be doing anything....OMG WHAT AM I DOING STARING AT IT, TARGET TARGET. I then proceed to violence it.

So now I have GCC in Hadozeko, WHAT AN AWESOME SCOUT I AM! An intel channel then lights up, seems a Battlecruiser heavy Black Rabbits gang is in Ardar, with a Phobos and some AF's.

A Harpy appears on D-scan, a very obvious rabbits Harpy. Its in a belt near the Ardar Gate. I warp in at range and the rabbits Harpy heads towards me, then my overview fills with Rabbits about 50k off, PERFECT. Fair well little Harpy, your hull looked so happy and unassuming yet JUSTICE MUST PROVAIL. I warp out after the kill as the rest of the rabbits were approaching point range, and a plated battleship isn't the ideal boat for 1 v many nano antics.

FALCON, FALCON, FALCON, FALCON.............INSURANCE.

I'm not even sure I have to say a lot about a solo loss with four Falcons on it really, hardly a battle and needless to say my Tempest is now in VALHALLA.

After today I've decided that battleships are clearly very fun solo boats, and I am now totally looking forward to T2 large AC's.

Lookin' Fly

Just a short update to show off my fly new blog banner made by my homie Sassy B.

Sassy's work is viewable here, he is available for commissions on sigs and banners and he assures me all space monies earned from such endeavours will go towards community out reach schemes in and around the Metropolis area, so not only will you look all pimpin' on internet spaceship forums but you'll be helping to support your community \o/

As for me, I jumped into, and collapsed a wormhole before I logged last night, so I'm now AN INTREPID MAVERICK TRAVALLING THROUGH UNKNOWN SPACE PRESERVING JUSTICE.

Will Lady S get out of the wormhole ?

What will happen to Ardar without half of Kenssy Fried Chicken Kru there to fight bad and wrong and stuff ?

Will PERSEPHONE ASTRID bake me an awesome pink cake with chocolate swirly bits on ?

Find out next time on..

HALLO, CAN I VIOLENCE UR BOAT