EVE Corporation - Page 486

On April 21 2011 02:33 DefMatrixUltra wrote:
So last night, several of us were sitting in Oddel. Things were starting to quiet down, people were starting to log off - that time of night (very early morning EU-side).

When suddenly Hulks!

Two Hulks and a Covetor appear on d-scan. Could be the ultimate troll-bait, could be a pack of noobs mining - either way that's exactly the kind of stuff that The Hatchery (and The Hatchary) will go for. We had people sitting on several gates at the time, and no one saw them warp from any of them - so someone asked whether it might be a wormhole corp.

We probe down some WH's and keep seeing these people (Mako Logistico is the corp name) back and forth in our system - apparently just spawning in local, jumping through gates, and then later coming back only to disappear. Much d-scanning and head-scratching was done.

Eventually, we figure out 100% which WH they are moving through. It had been briefly scouted earlier as having 2 offline towers so we think that they are moving stuff out of a WH (this Mako Logistico corp is a for-hire logistics corp, presumably working for someone else in this instance). After we are sure of their entry/exit point, we send in a scout again just to watch on the WH side and make a plan to asplode any transport-type ship that even comes close to the WH (moneyz).

At about the same time, two interesting things happen. First, our scout is reporting that one of the towers has a forcefield up (remember, no FF's up when the WH was first found). This could mean that they are moving stuff INTO the WH instead. Second, Cael, in the savage state he usually is after getting smashed by Protoss on the ladder, spots a random Armageddon that is apparently going to belt to belt. Most of us are more interested in the WH action instead of just killing some random ratter since we spent a great deal of time and effort monitoring the movements of the logistics corp and finding and scouting the WH, making plans to gank them etc. (also: see moneyz).

So eventually, we're just camping the Oddel side of the WH, making plans about who will or won't jump across in such and such instance etc. when suddenly the ratting Armageddon drops right on top of us!

We have like 3 BC's and 3 or 4 Rifters so he is basically screwed. He jumps over to the other side, and the instant he is pointed inside the WH, his time is up. He actually jumps back to Oddel in about 5% structure and gets insta-popped on the Oddel side.

Apparently his corp is the one that lives in the WH (though we didn't get a confirmed POS ownership from scouting, not really that important at the time). He didn't have anyone who could have scanned the WH down (or us camping the WH) and he was carrying structure reps in his cargo.

http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9444874

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Much later on in the night (actually morning, but who's keeping track at this time?) I was "sitting" at a safe on the sun that I use to scan things. Apparently it wasn't all that safe. A Tempest jumps in 98km from me.

At this time, I'm already pretty tired and starting to even slur speech a bit on TS so my reaction was pretty fucking dumb. If I had been aligned to something, I could have just warped off instantly, but since I was just slow-boating upwards out of the plane, I habitually found a vector that was perpendicular to the line between the Tempest and myself, and burned outwards. While I was aligning to something, I suddenly lagged and got an evemail. He had popped my ship in 1 shot at about 104 km.

I convoed him after and he said he even almost got my pod. Probably used an awful large amount of the corp supply of duct tape for all those sebos.

I suspect he had a cloaked Anathema that warped to a sun-safe and slow-boated towards me to give him a warp-in on me.