Ever had a roam where the Universe was telling
you “No… just no… Go to bed man!”? I had one of those a while ago.
So I log in and my toons are completely
separated. Pleniers is in Curse and Rtb in Thera. I hate when I log in and find
this scenario. I usually prefer to spend some time at the end of my roams
joining up my toons, so that when I log the following day I can jump directly
into action instead of sorting “logistic problems”. This was a bad omen of
things to come.
So, the closest connection to Thera from Curse
is around 20 Null sec systems, 2 Hi-Sec systems and 2-3 of Low sec systems.
Better get moving!
Travel goes with no incident and while Pleniers
travels, Rtb probes out some exits from Thera. All cool. In the meantime I
needed to sort stuff around the house, so jump Pleniers from Null sec into
Hi-Sec and go AFK for a bit.
When I return, I got the NPC customs police
demanding me to “deliver my drugs” (this happened before drugs were legal in
hi-sec). I happened to have some Improved Drop Booster in my cargo hold, and
I’m quite attached to my drugs ingame (I don’t take any in RL, sorry guys…), so
my dear space NPC annoying space police crap…
NO, YOU CANNOT TAKE MY DRUGS!! GO FFFFFFF
YOURSELF YOU NPC BOT!
Things go a bit sourer than I expected… I
became unable to do anything!! I could not target the NPCs, I could not
activate my MWD, I could not activate any mod. Hell, my ship would not even
turn upon itself! I was under the impression that police NPCs could be dodged
by burning back to gate, but this is out of my knowledge indeed. Not sure if,
by pure coincidence, I was also victim of a bug that prevented me of doing
anything, especially because it happened to me something similar a few days
after.
Anyway… as you can imagine, considering I could
not move back to gate, I died. Just awesome… dead to freaking Hi-Sec NPCs due
to drugs… The Universe was talking to me and I should have logged off.
But I didn’t!!! If I don’t log off after losing
ships to players, I would not log off because of some crappy NPC. I headed out
to a nearby hub, got another Brutix and entered Thera, losing precious time
besides a ship.
Finally, with both toons reunited I headed off
to Querious, but the region was too hot. I spent ages dodging 50+ Horde Fleets,
50+ NCdot Fleets, 50+CFC Fleets, 50+ NARM fleet, INK Fleets, Phoebe Fleets,
camping cloaky Proteus… Hell I even had to dodge Thera Boys fleets for a couple
times. Universe was talking to me again and telling me to log off.
Well, I’m stubborn… THE UNIVERSE CAN’T TELL ME
WHAT TO DO!
In the mist of the confusion, my toons got
separated and I jumped into a minor gatecamp with Rtb. 1 HIC, a couple Ferox
and some tackle. Nothing troublesome…. If I had both toons ready I could even
engage this, but right now I’d had to try cloak and burn back to gate. I tried
to decloak but nothing… my ship would not move…. I check my other toon and had
the same problem. Sigh…
Even before it showed up, I knew it in my
heart…. SOCKET CLOSED!
I didn’t even tried to relog in a hurry. I knew
I’d be dead already. Once I managed to get back into EVE, Rtb was in Curse and
Pleniers was in Querious. Took a few minutes to petition the ship. I knew I’d
get it back easily, but the damage had been done. My precious time lost was the
real issue.
I must confess… I pondered logging off at this
point, but you know what?
DAMN YOU UNIVERSE!! I SHALL GET MY WAY, NO
MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BRING ME DOWN!!!
It was 25 jumps from Curse to my Querious
location, so better get moving…
I get my toons reunited, and things had quiet
down a bit. Looking for some prey I end up in a system where some locals were
already being harassed by some low sec militia guys. A Deimos and an Ishtar.
I’d already seen these guys a couple jumps before and I knew they had Legion
links, so I also knew they’d be active tank with massive repairing power. Due
to their low sec background, it’s plausible they had implants too.
The locals had not formed anything to kill them
just yet, it was getting late for me and I started to wonder… I started to
wonder if I could split them in a gate and isolate the Ishtar from its links
(since it was not hull bonused for armor repair), and then bail with help of
ECM drones.
That was the initial plan, but my patience was
wearing thin at this point, so I just decided to go balls deep and get over
with it. Guided them into a bubble and the brawl was on. Both Brutix applied
DPS and Neuts onto the Ishtar, while ECM drones got deployed onto the Deimos.
It went as the Universe pretty much told me it
was going to happen. ECM drones never got a jamm on the Deimos (that I’d
noticed), and the Ishtar was doing pretty well, despite my 2 Medium Energy
Neutralizers and 1000 DPS. Once he came down to half armor, he would repair
back up to 100% with no problem. They had also spread their Scrams, so I was
not going anyplace as I got deeper and deeper into structure.
One Brutix went POP and the other went PUFF.
There you go… 4 Brutix lost in a couple hours. Can’t say I regret the fight. I
know I’d keep wondering about it for some time, and it did provided the
opportunity to really test my Brutix against some self-repairing ships with
links and maybe implants, but next time I’ll definitely try to maintain the
initial plan to split them.
At this point I conceded to the Universe and
logged off…
I hate you Universe and your omniscience!
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