Hacking the Mish (4)

COF Brawl Round 2:  3 of our Hyperions dicked around with them, they dropped full armor fleet, we scrambled to respond

Fun little skirmish with Phoebe Freeport Republic via a Null connection.  Played kiting games for a while.  Got to see the new structure damage effects

What it feels like to be slung around by Command Destroyers like a fucking ragdoll.

LZHX Brawl #3 : met in neutral system between homes.  They brought Nid + Nestor + 3xBhaal + T3's.  We brought similar except with Guards.  Fight was slightly in our favor until 2 Bifrosts and 2 Sabres began warping our Guardian ball around (and me).  First engagement where we've seen them used effectively.  They're a game-changer.

Frostline Bling

Cait...so savage

BOS bringing the heat to some Raiders

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Operation Frostline Sites -- Serpentis Gear and Quafe Zero

Failed Blops attempt in Null -- tackled Thanny, too far for bridge, settled on killing Tempest

Great fight with COF -- Saw the debut of the Bifrost in action

Jumped into Iso 5's home with Triage Chimera, outnumbered.  We lose a Curse and Chimera, and jump back as Hard Knocks warps in to third party

Also had LZHX in chain recently, it was time for us to meet them in neutral ground but our hole already had too much mass to go balls deep into our static.

SSC ganked 3 of our Rattlers, then tried to get us to fight their Cancer Loki/Mach Arty Kite fleet again...said fuck that.

Lost my Strat when we baited a few Polarized guys with a Scorpion in their home hole.  2stronk

Poor guy has his "bar" set up in the middle of nowhere, thinks he still runs a joint

Piper decides to have a heart-to-heart conversation standing in front of my wife's corpse.  I like her style.

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Gank with Iso 5 via frig hole

Brought fight to Ixtab's home, they drop 5 caps after saying they don't want to fight our caps

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Frigate Safari scores some big game (BR)

Balls Deep in Sudden Collapse (BR)

Video -by me

Nestor Catch (BR1)

Nestor Catch (BR2)

LZHX

LZHX

Moros/Thanny Gank

SSC Skirmish

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NoVac

No Vacancies had vacancies.

I've really been enjoying my time in NoVac.  It's refreshing to see a wormhole corp done right. Consistent activity, no one sitting in POS doing PI, people actively looking for fights and rolling boring chains, extremely efficient way of making isk, well established doctrines, and people willing to put (a lot of) isk on the line for fun.

After the first 5 days in the corp, I've taken part in C5 escalations, scouted for a Goonswarm Ishtar gank, made ~700M isk after dropping a couple bil on doctrine ships, took part in a few skirmishes with Sky Fighters, R3d Fire, and a couple other known WH entities, and was 10 minutes late for a big fight against Hard Knocks (still kicking myself...).  THAT is exactly what I joined NoVac for.

Here's a few screenshots and stories:

C5 escalations during the designated bearing time.

R3d Fire rolled into us while we were bearing and talked a whole bunch of shit after we responded with a large force.  They wanted us to scale down to fight them, but had a horrible attitude, and proceeded to shit in our pub channel.  So we entered their home with a full force and eventually rolled it shut in their face.

Aftermath of a home fight against HK.  Out-neuted and out-manned.  Hanging with the big boys though.  Awesome.

Aim High,
Smitty

System Highlight: Scolluzer

Introducing a new segment-- System Highlight.  I'm dealing with skills and assets in high sec atm, so I figured i'd thoroughly explore a random high sec system and see everything it has to offer.  Turned out to be pretty fun.  It's been a while since I looked closely at anything besides J-Space.

Scolluzer is a 0.8 security system in Gallente space.

First thing I noticed was a small mining fleet from a 7-person industrial corp called "Mani Corp", consisting of an Orca and 2 Hulks.  3/4 asteroid belts had been cleared and they were working on the last one.

There is one POS in system, active and owned by Hidden Agenda, a 200+ member corp in the Deep Space Engineering alliance.  

While researching the available industry facilities, I discovered that a couple are owned by an NPC corp called "X-Sense", which is part of the Jove Empire faction.  I didn't realize the Jovians had active corporations in known space.  Are they run by AI or something?  There is also a Jove Observatory with seekers in system.

I noticed a member of Dropbears in local who had participated in last weekend's defense of their home, Nova, against the QEX Russians eviction.  I've been following that fight on Reddit.

Only other consistent local members belonged to small-time indy corps.  But having 4 gates, there was quite a bit of traffic.

There was one signature, which turned out to be a C2 wormhole.  It had one active POS with a few ships in space, including a Chimera and active Stratios from the Vox Populi alliance.  After I exitted, I saw a Brave Newbies member enter in a Hound.  Based on his killboard, it looks like he hunts for unsuspecting wh miners.  Wish i had my flycatcher in system.

The only anomolie was a Serpentis Refuge combat site, which was eventually run by a Dominix.

Pretty amazing how much content a sleepy little indy high sec system can hold in an hour or two.

Aim High,

-Smitty

Free Agent

Today I freed myself from a dead corp and toxic community.  I managed to get out of there with my Domination Control Tower that has sentimental value to me-- I found the blueprint in a J-Space Data Site and built it myself, using it as my corp's Officer POS.  It's my pride and joy.

Smitty is officially a free agent.  I'm not sure where I want to go next, but I might wait until i'm done with my initial stage of pilot training coming up at the end of October, which lasts a month.  Don't want to join a corp and then have their first impression be me being gone for a month.

Over the course of the extraction from our home hole, I talked to a few wh corps/alliances, Low-Class, No Vacancies, and they were recruiting and offered me a spot.  I joined their public chats as potential candidates.

But I might want to try out Null-Sec.  Not sure yet.  

Anyway, enjoy some screenshots.

Steel and Ice 

 So much hauling.

 There she is -- being taken down in our Pulsar home.

 What do you call a water spout in the desert? Sand spout?

 Love the weather in Witcher 3. And sailing on the tiny ships.

[SPOILER] This is Keira Metz.  You fuck her and then kill her.  And that is when I realized that this is in fact a Witcher game.  Good stuff.

Aim High,

-Smitty