Fightin' Dirty
If Honorless Internet Jerks has a corporate motto, it is "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose." The battle I had with Telendra Korrh of Grayson Space Enterprises was a perfect example of this philosophy.
Telendra opened fire on my Vigil just as soon as I started looting his Blood Raider wrecks. His Abbadon was a juicy target - I was hopeful he would stick around, and he did. I was confident my PvP Abbadon (the JerkMobile) would break him once I had neut'd his capacitor empty.
So our Abbadons pew pew at each other for a solid two minutes. I'm starting to wonder what is going on, because I should have drained his capacitor by now. He's holding at 70% armor and my armor buffer is at 80% and slowly going down. Another two minutes pass and now I'm sure I have a problem. His tank is just not breaking, despite the heavy neut I have on him, and I'm at 60% armor. He somehow has enough capacitor reserve to run everything and still deal with a heavy neut. I'm going to have to cheat.
All Jerks have a second account with an Orca pilot. We use these as mobile bases - we can swap ships, store cargo, provide fleet boosting capabilities, and refit a ship on the fly. It's the last feature that I'm going to exploit. While the fighting continues between our Abbadons, I warp my Orca into the mission and through the first gate, right on top of our battle. I now use the refit capability of the Orca to my advantage. I first swap one of my ENAMs for an EM-specific membrane to slow down my own damage. Then I drop a heavy pulse laser for another heavy neut, and finally I restock my supply of Cap Booster 800s.
With two heavy neuts active, the tide turns. Telendra stops firing his lasers - to conserve capacitor I assume - but it's not enough. His tank breaks and I push through the last of his armor, into structure, and his abbadon explodes. I finish at 37% armor. I go to scoop the loot and nearly fall out of my chair: There are two Corpum A-Type ENAMs and an Imperial Navy ENAM. The Corpum A-Types are worth around 550m each on the Jita market. This makes my total drop value around 1.1-1.2 billion.
When I finally look at the killmail it becomes obvious why his tank held up so well - two T2 capacitor rigs, a T1 capacitor rig, four midslots of cap rechargers, and a capacitor power relay! Along with the ENAMs and the Core A-Type Large Armor Repairer, he had a tremendous amount of capacitor, resistances and repairing ability.
Sadly, no tears were to be had from this kill. Which is surprising, considering the entire loss was almost 2 billion ISK and I had to cheat to win. It's so dirty.. and so fun.
Always cheat. Always win.
4 comments
Nice work. It's great to see what a success you guys have made Honorless Internet Jerks.
Heh, Paul made it what it is. We kinda hopped on the band wagon.
Great read. Tempts me to pull my other character in with his Orca. =)
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