Friday, 28 January 2011

Uno, dos, tres, I'm only enaging Rifters!

ReBeL logged into his SERIOUZ biznes of pew pewing random spaceships and was in his very cool ride, a '69 mustang, aka tha Riftah! One of his many important chat tabs went flashy and an intel of 2 Rifters on the next system was reported.
"What a nice thing to log and have an engagement!" he though and once again, he didn't lose any time. As anyone would expect, ReB undocked, warped to gate and made an entranc (e is missing for the purpose of the "cool guy" effect)! Although Rifters where reported on a bubble on another gate, targets where now on the gate of the system he had jumped in.
"So, I am cloacked, my corpmate is on system and they are at 65 killometers" he wondered as he was looking at his overview the 2 ships. "Stand by" was given in vent, he started OGCing the gate at 500.
Riftahs started approaching...
He had a plan. And when he does, it usually works. "Warp to gate" he said to his corp buddy, while he started whistling looking like he has no idea why these Riftahs are coming towards him -ReBeL was just buying time for his buddy to get there (duh, obviously stupid!). Targets reached 20k and 45 k, friendly was at 1AU in warp so he decided that it was action time!
The ReB picked the target that was close, started orbiting him at 7K while holding scram & point and started whistling on a different tone, the "barrage" one!
Second Rif made its move, friendly  'cane was supporting while locked ship was melting, until it went POP, POD was scramed and engaged, while the 'cane gave to tha othah Riftah its insurance PAYOUT!
And he also saved ReBs ship, which was overheated and on 37% structure with no spare ductape. Hero!
Oh, almost forgot, PODS where POPED too. Its the natural progression of such things after all!

Corpy-dude and our main hero of this blog, decided to proceed within various nullsec systems after the appropriate loot picking and repairs, looking for another successful collaboration. Some systems had targets, ReBeLSKuLL practised his D-scanning but nothing looked engagable, or systems where too quite.
Until:
ReB: "Rifter on my gate at 30."
Green: "There is a bubble on my gate. I will try and get through."
ReB: "Rifter is warping towards you, catch him"
Green:" Warp here, you'll catch him in the bubble."
He was already in warp, thinking if this is a trap.
"You can catch him as well" ReBeLSKuLL advised the corpy, but green was already 100 km away from bubble, on gate.
The ReBeL had landed just out of the bubble, while Riftah numba 3 was trapped. Overheated ReBeLs Riftah approached trapped neutral in order to damage the insurance companies with more payouts, while friendly was watching the show drinking his Quafe and eating starcakes in his comfy bridge of the cane. Scram & point where already on insurance damage dealer, barrage was once again ReBs theme song choice (although he was orbiting at 1.5k, no point of changing ammo since neutral was going down fast) and...EXPLOSION! POD was also pointed, but went at 13k, lost scram and POD kill.
"Shit!". "Shit, shit shit!". "I let the pod go" ReB said in a very annoyed manner, although his sexy looking frig was fed for the day. "gf" in local as tradition requires was posted and "cool kill dude" was on ventilo, although this particular kill was more the targets fault, rather than his skill.
"He targeted me after he was on structure!" ReBeL said in a wondering tone. Buddies had a brief chat and desided to move towards a new destination: tha station!
ReBeL was reported saying: "Now that was as a very successful attack to the EBIL insurance companies!".
From his words, one can only assume that ReBeLion in New Eden has indeed started...

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Dram tam tam!

The Rifter! A ship that he always admired but never managed to do a 1vs1 properly, since always a bad fleet-buddy would come in and make him an easy catch. Or, he would be caught at the great situation of getting killed by instalocks on gates!
Anywayz, this ReBeL decided to go out in null with 3 Alliance-buddies and spread out, catch whatever they could while doing some ratting after a minor sec status hit that had applied on them during a sekret mission. 
They killed rats and looked around but most of the time, 0.0 was indeed 0.0 of targets..
At some point, the ReBeL got to a gate at 30km with a corp buddy that shortly after decided to bounce for some ammo and ReBeLs EVE decided to crash! Loggin, land at 30km on gate (duh!) and started burning towards gate, when suddenly: GATEFLASH!
"I'll slow down and see what uncloacks, either kill it or gtfo" was the order form the intelligence implant, so he slowed down his Rifter and kept looking-without-even-blinking- his overview. DRAMIEL!
Hit the POD saver tab (yeah, he has a tab on his overview so he can save his ship and, obviously, POD) while the dram closed down like a 16-year-old on a stripper. SHIT!
ReBeLSKuLL was pointed. Deep breath. "OK, wtf, I'll overheat my guns and neut, I'll overheat my DCU and Armor Rep and either kill or get killed, I WILL fight you to DEATH." Perception and Willpower implants worked very well, not a second wasted.
Dram came really close, web and scram on it, but "damn he is fast". He orbited at around 2k, ReBeLSKuLL also orbiting and taking damage. "...But so is the dram" he noticed. Shields where almost down so ReB used his very HOT, indeed, Rep, while the Dram was taking damage now into armor as well. "this is very tight, it can go either way" ReBeL thought.
Target pilot panicked, so as soon as he got at around 30% armor (ReBeL was just over it), he tried to RUN.
The beauty of barrage! He got at 6k+, the perfect falloff, volleys on him got at 200. BOOM!
He saved his POD. ReB started training signature analysis.
GF GF!