My Loot, Your Tears

Yup, I'll do pretty much anything for a crappy kill. No, it's not because I wanna pad my killboard with crap kills, but rather the principle... Someone got aggro, so the someone that aggro'd gets to die. Period. It doesn't really matter to me what it is, or how it dies, but it is going to die.

The other day I logged on all my characters, and no less than a minute later, in The Ninja Alliance channel, Korporaal Paling starts asking what he should do, as he has Myrmidon aggro, can't break its tank in his Vexor, and is running out of ammo. My Orca alt is in system, so I offer to help. I fleet him, grab him some faction ammo, as he's using only crappy Tech 1 ammo in his blasters, and a set of T2 med drones, as he's using light.

I get in my Orca and blast out of the station, and gracefully shift into warp to the mission gate... Well, as gracefully as the whale will allow anyhow...

I warp through the gate, and there they are. 55 km off... Yay. I hit the Orca's AB, and watch my speed climb to a bit over 120m/s, for a minute or two anyhow. Then the orca's cap gives out and I have to start pulsing the AB. I gain at about a km every 2 minutes. However, Korp is taking no damage as the Myrmi ran out of drones to throw at him, and is apparently conserving ammo.

Realizing this is gonna take a while, I get my main, Charismatic, into the fastest ship he has where he is, which happens to be a 100MN AB fitted Stabber I use for running Recon 3/3, and race through the 20 or so gates it takes to get up to Agrallarier, and enter fleet, warping to the mission. I zip over to my orca, now 40 km out or so and maybe 40km from the fight at 1km/s in the stabber, pick up the faction ammo, and race up to Korp. I drop it for him, he misses it -_-

After another orbit, he has the ammo, and with the 10% damage increase starts burning through the Myrmidon's shield (it was apparently shield tanked). However, me being a cheap ass, I only got him a few hundred rounds, and he stops to conserve ammo when it doesn't push the myrm past peak recharge even with overheat. Alright... What next?

Well we have to now wait for the orca and its drone delivery to help with the damage. It's coming up extremely slowly, so I get an idea. I get the stabber to Dodixie M20, fit a cap transfer, come back, stick it on my orca, and can now run the AB 100% of the time. A minute or so later, it catches up, and Korp fits out the drones (not missing the can this time).

In the long wait, a Megathron from some other corp had come in, and was burning to us. More than likely a friend, I asked Korp, and he said all he had aggro on was the Myrmi. Now this is a common tactic. Bring your innocent friends/alts, lock up our combat ships and see if we'll leave from your (weaksauce) show of force. Of course we just laughed and ignored it.

Korp went all out, overheating his guns, and ran out of ammo before the Myrm ever hit peak. Oh well.. Was a good try. Korp then told me he'd just leave himself logged on if this went on much longer, so I thought to myself.. well, this is now a game. I need aggro. My Hurricane is in my Orca, and I know it'll blast him to Jita.. so how to get aggro. Oh yeah! The cap transfer!

I stick it on Korp for precisely ONE cycle. Of course the Myrmidon pilot calls shenanigans and locks me up. It then takes him an extraordinarily long time to decide what he wants to do. It takes him 13 minutes, and then he FINALLY shoots my stabber.

Right click Orca, open ship bay, right click cane, board ship, lock Myrmidon, turn on everything and overheat just because I didn't like him. He melts in maybe 10 seconds, and warps his pod off. I take  2 T2 mods form the wreck to cover the cost of the whole thing, and tell Korp to yoink the rest before the megathron friend (who had even locked my neutral orca) does.

I find the amount of damage funny:

Oh, did I mention this was Korporaal Paling's first kill EVAR? I wanted to make it happen for him. That may have influenced how much effort I put into it, but it paid off :)

About an hour later I saw tx_pro (the Myrm owner) in another Myrm warping to a mission, and vaguely wondered if he'd shoot again. I doubt it.

You may recall the Longest Route contest I did a week or so ago.

To my pleasure, Planet Risk has done a nice two-part series with more interesting details about the Eve universe -Living On A Graph. It's a good read, particularly for math geeks like myself.