Damnit

Once again In lowsec I came upon this relatively new pirate corporation who have seem to have taken up residence in my old stomping grounds (I posted about their CEO's Cynabal last week). This time they had a decent gang together, consisting of Tempest, Hurricane x2, Harbinger, Myrmidon, Drake, Vigil, and Thrasher. I decided I could probably do some damage to them If I could get them to aggress me on a gate In my Vagabond, and a few minutes later they did exactly that.

I aligned and burned out with MWD immediately to quickly gain range, I'm sure the tempest had at least 1 heavy neut fit, and I didn't want ANY part of that in my Vagabond. The Vigil quickly burnt out after me and tackled me despite having to GCC for it. It would have been only a matter of time before the gateguns vollied the Vigil but before they had a chance to cycle to him, I nailed him with my medium neut, warrior 2's and managed to hit him with some 220 Autocannon vollies because he foolishly burnt strait at me. He went down quick and I went back in to engage the rest of the gang. I locked up one of the Hurricanes who was moving away from his gang, and had gategun aggro and went to work on his shields. As soon as he realized his situation though the Hurricane began burning back towards his friends, including the Tempest with his potential heavy neut that I was afraid of. I had to let him go and switch targets, I quickly switched to the thrasher who had just GCC'd on me as well, and set my drones on him, but again he immediately burnt towards his gangmembers and began chewing on my drones.

I found myself 50km out with no one in range, when they started all warping off the gate, I overloaded my MWD and burnt strait at the gate now, hoping to catch a straggler left behind with gategun aggro, but I failed to do so. In the excitement of fighting 1v8 I lost track of the situation and the enemy gang did the right thing and left ASAP. If I had remained closer to the gate I would have at least killed 1 Hurricane and the Thrasher but I was too caught up in surviving at the time to realize the damage I could have done. I was kicking myself afterward, that fight could have been so much better, but because of my mistakes all i have to show for it is a Vigil kill...

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How NOT to use a Cynabal

So I'm tooling around in a thrasher, killing a couple carebears here and there when I notice someone with a GCC in local on my way down the lowsec pipe. After some scanning around I notice a Cynabal on scan in a safespot, so I just move on. An hour or so later on my way back out of the pipe the same guy, and the same Cynabal are still around. The beauty of the T1 frigate is the price, since its so cheap I have no problem engaging things that outclass me, since there's no real risk for me.

I warp to the gate leading to highsec where the Cynabal is sitting, just to see what he's up to. I'm thinking maybe I can tackle him after he GCC's on a badger or something coming through, but to my surprise he turns on his MWD and bumps me and engages me. However to his surprise he's not hitting me, he made the mistake of starting the engagement at about 700m which allowed me to be under his guns before it ever began. The gateguns and my 200ish DPS made short work of his shields, and once he was at 1/2 armor he tried aligning to warp out. While he was gaining distance he managed to actually hit me with a few shots and quickly brought me down to structure but it was too late.

- KILLMAIL -

[ 2011.03.07 01:53:08 ] Night Angelo > how the f*** did u tank me
[ 2011.03.07 01:53:29 ] Joseph Dreadloch > you missed for the first 1/2 of the fight
[ 2011.03.07 01:53:35 ] Joseph Dreadloch > i was up close under your guns
[ 2011.03.07 01:53:46 ] Night Angelo > unf***ing un real

Turns out he had T1 guns fit, and a pretty weak tank. He was using a 250m ISK ship with T1 guns to pop frigates and haulers on a gate. The lure of the 'shiny' ship is strong, and I'll admit when I was relatively new I too flew ships I wasn't properly skilled for. There's no reason to be in a faction ship in lowsec, when you don't even have the skills to fit it out with T2 gear.

Icebelt Thanatos, and returning to Lowsec.

After months in highsec trying (and somewhat failing) to just make ISK, I decided to once again go roaming in lowsec. Its apparent to me now... that lowsec is where I belong.

About 4 minutes into my triumphant return to lowsec I heard a voice. This voice came from every direction, as If the very space around me was speaking to me. It said "Welcome back my son" and then the gods of lowsec gave unto me, a gift of 'LOL' in a grand scale... Thanatos and Retreiver on scan... in an icebelt.

So I leapt into the belt in my Taranis, thinking I could pop the retriever. As soon as I had it locked and scrammed, I activated my guns and the Thanny scooped the retriever up.

Neooen419 > i wanted to just peacefully mine

Enraged that this asshole just denied my Retriever kill and astounded that he would risk his Thanatos to save a Retriever, it was time to call for backup. My friend Ospie logged on literally at the moment I had warped into the belt, He used to pirate in the area so maybe he would be nearby and be able to bring something heavy. Alas he was nowhere nearby (and I don't have cyno skills), then I noticed my old friend Fon Revedhort was online. Fon is a double/triple boxing lowsec badass who I first met when I had 5m SP when he helped me kill about 15 people. Well... Fon was just 3j out with a Machariel so I tackled the Thanny and went to work killing its Praetor 1's (Yes Praetor 1's). Fon arrived about the same time my Taranis was reaching low structure, and from there Fon did most of the work. I randomly re-entered the belt killed a few drones, and left, as my Taranis was on fire. Eventually the Thanny pilot recalled his drones and convo'd me, I took this opportunity to lay down a little more DPS on the Thanny's failing armor.

Joseph Dreadloch > ello
Neooen419 > nice hits
Neooen419 > any way i could covice u to stop?
Neooen419 > lol
Joseph Dreadloch > maybe with lost of ISK
Neooen419 > im actuallt suprized i hit you as much as i did
Neooen419 > how much u want i can negotiate
Joseph Dreadloch > make me an offer, if i like it we'll stop, if not we wont
Joseph Dreadloch > you've got one shot
Neooen419 > 500 mill?
Neooen419 > not gloating but i did have u close to deatrh i just cant webify
Joseph Dreadloch > sorry, your offer isnt acceptable
Neooen419 > rgr that

-KILLMAIL-

We decided the kill was worth more to us, so I would have refused any offer really, and neither Fon or I dishonor ransoms. So he re-deployed his Praetor 1's and I went to work killing them again. He died quietly and quickly left system without a word.

B0rg war part 3

After the engagement of the first day there weren't any large battles for a while. When there were more than about 5 online, they would organize on the undock of a station and dare us to attack. Meanwhile we hunted their missioners. There were a handful of kills, such as when they decided to practice fighting each other with us one jump out. We popped a hurricane that still had the aggression timer. The war finished with just two moderate engagements where we had multiple people on each side.

In the first, I lost my tempest to their gang while permajammed by their Falcon and held by a scram/web crow. I still think I can kill them however with JD running his taranis against tacklers, so I move to Dresi where my 94km-optimal pulsepoc and bookmark set are. A manticore lands on station at 110km. I fire once - no shields, a few seconds later the picture disappears. I worry he docked and check visual, there's a wreck! I start locking pod....9 seconds. Lock! Pop! Giggle. I jump around the station for a while. They don't decloak the falcon or chase, so I dock. However, the crow from before is still on scan, so I grab a probing char. Scan scan scan...I get a hit and warp to it. It's the crow, sitting still in a safespot. JD warps in. Scram, web, pop, pod, scoop, salvage, gloat. It's almost like we've done this before. Then the falcon smacks that I won't engage because don't want to lose another ship. I figure the falcon must be ready to fight, so I head back with the pulsepoc. A rifter undocks... and flies straight at me. Volley one: 25% armor, volley two: no rifter. Then the falcon decloaks. I lock and strip the shields in the first hit, and volley two takes it to half armor. It dies with volley four. Maybe the 100mn afterburner had something to do with why it didn't warp off. We hang around a little bit more but it's obvious their fighting spirit is gone.

In the second and final battle, they have some battleships outside station, so we head over in a pair of Tempests to buzz them. Orbiting them at 20km, we wait while they take a minute to weigh the odds. Finally someone flings some drones at JD. We return fire, and their raven drops quickly, followed soon after by the dominix. They had a navy scorp outside station as well, but it docked after receiving the first sliver of shield damage. We were pretty sure the pilot never aggressed. We scoop the loot, including a Centum A-type mod from the domi. Two other characters undock, but they won't aggress. The scorp pilot then undocks in a drake, and decides to warp to different stations in system. I follow him with dscan, then warp back to station when he does. This time, however, he's not smack in the middle of a continent-sized docking zone. I see the opportunity, so I shoot past him, then mwd back out for a solid bump. Off station with no prop mod, he dies quickly to our battleships. So the war ended as it began, with a bump.

B0RG COLLECTIVE War (part2)

Day 1 of the war was probably the most eventful, as it usually is. Luckily my friend Philis had just returned from a long inactive stint and he joined up with us, so there would be 1 pilot our WT weren't counting on.

Eventually the worlds most obvious bait Drake was sitting at a planet in our home system. So we undocked our 3 Tempest, with our falcon sitting on a gate 1j out. The Drake literally melted, even with its Hero tank, it was dead before their gang ever arrived... they must have warped to his pod. Once their gang landed it was 5v3, not including our cloaked falcon who was still waiting, or their already dead drake.

Battleclinic Engagement
+ 1 Raven who ran away.

Once the Rook started jamming, our Falcon decloaked and it was all over. We systematically destroyed them, Rook, Raven, Nighthawk, Drake, and a surprisingly expensive Ishkur. They were dumbfounded and broken, they had Wardec'd us, THEY were the attackers, and THEY just lost 5 ships in a 6v4 and only managed to take 1 tempest down to 1/3 shields. They would spend the rest of the war hiding and on the defense.

B0RG COLLECTIVE War (part1)

It started with a bump, not just any bump mind you; we're talking an Orca being flung 98km away from an icebelt. You see, whilst bored one evening we decided it was a great idea to strap a 100MN MWD onto my Vagabond, and get it in a gang with speed warfare links and see just how fast we could get it going. My max speed was somewhere over 13k m/s, I don't remember the specifics at this point.

Anyway, we took said Vagabond to an icebelt near by and went to work. After a few bumps the trash talk began, and I was eventually convo'd by the CEO of the alliance who shockingly was not proud of owning New Edens 'Orca top speed' record. He was emboldened by the fact that we only have 5 members, and told me that if my members didn't stop what they were doing it would mean war. I told the CEO that I myself was participating, and having quite a lot of fun, to which he replied "we'll see if its still funny after the war" (it is). Moments later war was declared on us, and a Myrmidon and a few interceptors appeared around the Orca in the icebelt and dropped a can for us. So we re-shipped, myself into my Taranis and a corpmate into his Tempest. Being outnumbered 2-5 we decided to have them steal from us if they wanted a fight instead, and my Taranis would be the bait. So I burnt out about 50km and dropped 1 hybrid charge in a can. About 6 minutes later the stupid Myrmidon had slowboated to the can, and a Crow and Ares were orbiting my poor little Taranis. As he stole from the can I engaged half expecting the interceptors to engage me as well and get stomped by concord, but alas they just orbited me as I orbited the Mrym. A moment later my corpmate landed in his Tempest roughly the same time as an enemy Drake landed. We quickly realized the Myrm had a passive shield 'Oh god this is going to take a while' tank, and the Drake dropped shield rep drones on the Myrm, thereby agressing us. Maybe 2 minutes later the Myrm's drones were dead and its tank broken with my Taranis in structure, but of course it IS a Taranis, so structure is where I wanted to be. With only the Drake left it was just a matter of time before he too died, despite his 'I might need to go dock for more ammo' tank. All the while the 2 interceptors just orbited me at full speed, watching their 2 corpmates die slow, stupid deaths.

After the fight we took to scouting the target we had just provoked accidentally, during what was supposed to be a 'down' week for us. A small alliance, 35 members, 25 of which we were able to get intel on via battleclinic and the forums. These guys were perfect targets and they saved us the fee of the wardec. We then settled into making preparations to fight a 5v35 war and began waiting the 24 hours of grace period, this was going to be fun.

FTune

Fortune Inc. : Battleclinic Engagement History

I came home one day after a particularly bad day of work. In-game we had been toying with a small corporation with only 2 or 3 active war targets and I had been keeping my eye out for new targets. So when I found FTune, and being in a particularly bad mood... I said fuck it this is happening now, and contacted their CEO on an alt with 5k SP.

After some polite banter with the CEO I knew their hours of operation and their location, the only thing left was to get accepted to the corp to get the memberslist. Unfortunately as stupid as the CEO was, she had been advised to ask for an API key... from my 5k SP character. So being in my terrible mood, I told her to her face that I had been lying and I was an alt representing a small highsec war corporation. The CEO went on to plead with me not to wardec them, and offered me 200m instantly, which of course means you don't take it, they have more. so I demanded 500m and 10m per week or we wardec them. The CEO then invited a senior member to the chat who immediately took over and essentially told me to shove it.

So I declared war on them, and went over to their base of operations to try and get what memberlist I could from local. Before I even arrived I had gotten a convo from an FTune member and within 5 minutes he had sold me the entire memberlist for 5m and said he was leaving anyway, he hated the corp. Shortly after arriving the CEO invited me to a convo and offered me a deal, an Orca to drop the wardec. I gladly accepted and dropped the wardec but it didn't stop there. The CEO then offered me a spot in her corporation... oh did I mention the CEO was a 15 year old girl? Anyway... she wanted me to take over the PvP division and would put 500m in the division wallet for me and pay my division 50% of the corps profits to defend them. After digging deeper I found out that she received 100$ a week in allowance and spends it all on PLEX and just throws ISK at people, which changed my perspective. I would have had no problem robbing some asshole of 500m and leaving, but this was an extremely naive 15 year old girl spending almost $500 a month on this damn game. It would have almost been like literally stealing cash from a 15 year old. I was tempted to take up her offer and actually try to help her, knowing that she was going to get absolutely EVISCERATED in this game if no one did.

It took me a couple days to consider her offer, by then I had realized there was no way in hell I was going to be able to protect her corporation the way she was recruiting. It was literally inundated with spies, had 3 other active wardecs, and she had detailed descriptions of how juicy a target they were all over the forums. So I advised her to give the corporation up and go join another with her friends. Apparently this offended her because she became quite hostile from here on out. In the midst of her hostilities someone infiltrated the corp, killed 3 hulks and left. She also told me that she wouldn't be paying the 10m a week in protection money, and that I should screw off. So... I wardec'd them, my feelings of pity had vanished now that she backed out on a deal and had become hostile with me.

We proceeded to demolish them, killing a few barges and even a mininglink fit Eos. After a few days the CEO contacted me again and told me how much she hated me, and how I was a 'faggot' and an 'Internet bully' and that she was going to quit the game. To be honest this is what I wanted to happen, EVE is no place for a 15 year old girl looking to spend her parents money. I think that many other 'pirates' in my situation would have taken her for all that she had and inherited a corporation of slaves and 50$ a week from a 15 year old girl. So as much as she now hates me I believe the CEO got off easy, losing a couple ships and 450m in the form of an Orca traded to me. As of now she's in a new corporation by herself, and I think she really did quit the game... but its honestly for the best.

Back in Action

So I'm back in highsec, with the same friends as before, just more SP and experience now. I Had fun with my couple of months in VETO and they're everything I had hoped they would be when I had joined, unfortunately I just couldn't maintain my wallet since RL issues had forced me to use PLEX to keep playing. Its tough to make ISK with a SINGLE account while locked in lowsec.

I parted ways with VETO a couple months ago and took up running missions in highsec again, but of course as that became too boring I was soon looking for other ways of making a profit. This obviously lead back to our old ways of highsec wardec's and extortion... Huzzah! So the blog is now active again and I'll be updating it now and then with our exploits... oh and I'll keep the posts shorter this time, even the chat logs.

On our way to being mercenaries

[06:04:24] Target CEO > so you would rather be a pussy and 5 on 1 then recive 1 bill iosk
[06:04:41] Joseph Dreadloch > disband, or deposit 1 bil in my wallet
[06:04:51] Joseph Dreadloch > would you like a 1v1, hurricanes only?
[06:05:40] Target CEO > hahaha and if i win
[06:05:59] Joseph Dreadloch > no stakes
[06:06:10] Target CEO > then the point would be
[06:06:32] Joseph Dreadloch > you called us cowards for 5v1, just to prove to you it only takes 1
[06:06:55] Target CEO > you know what
[06:07:18] Target CEO > just tell you client FUCK YOU we are not disbanding
[06:07:30] Joseph Dreadloch > roger
[06:07:40] Joseph Dreadloch > we'll see you in space
[06:07:42] Joseph Dreadloch > o7
[06:07:49] Target CEO > and tell them not to be such pussys and message me and ill sort out what the issue is
[06:08:04] Target CEO > 07
[06:08:24] Joseph Dreadloch > i'm sorry but we will continue to perform our contracted duties
[06:08:33] Target CEO > fine
[06:08:41] Target CEO > tell them i wish to speak
[06:08:59] Target CEO > and that we have no intention of disbanding they can keep wasting there isk
[06:09:44] Joseph Dreadloch > let me see if they wish to speak
[06:09:50] Target CEO > ok
[06:11:51] Client Alt > hello CEO
[06:12:18] Target CEO > hello there
[06:13:04] Target CEO > i do wann know why you want me disbanded
[06:13:12] Client Alt > you feel you can do what you want with out concquencses, now you dont like being the one getting shot
[06:13:44] Target CEO > what are you talking about i dont recall ever meeting you
[06:13:57] Client Alt > you killed me in a gatecamp a while back and as a result since we are an indie corp we hired some killers to get payback
[06:14:11] Target CEO > we have never gatecamed
[06:14:16] Target CEO > camped
[06:15:06] Client Alt > CEO are you saying YOU have never gate camped ?
[06:15:31] Target CEO > i have not ever gate camped i will bring in old corp members to confirm this
[06:16:04] Client Alt > you saying you didnt do it wont stop us
[06:16:06] Target CEO > if you can provide me will a kill mail to prove it was me i will pay you 100 mill to drop this
[06:16:23] Target CEO > we are alo a indy corp
[06:16:27] Target CEO > and missioning
[06:16:57] Target CEO > have a look at the ships these guys have wiped out of mine they were all fitted for missioning
[06:17:05] Client Alt > i want 500mill to end the war , this will cover my expencses and make everything ok
[06:17:25] Target CEO > you still have to prove it was me
[06:17:33] Client Alt > thats the price, or you can louse billions in lost ships being stubbern
[06:18:39] Client Alt > 500 mill is the price if you want to end this conflict
[06:18:54] Target CEO > you know i really dont bellive you because your account is 3 days old i have never gatecamped i am an indy pilot and a mission runner give me a kill mail that proves it was me and i will have 500 mill to you asap
[06:19:19] Target CEO > i will sell my orca to get the 500 mill to you
[06:20:16] Client Alt > look pay the 500 mill of you will keep getting ships killed
[06:20:39] Target CEO > all i ask fo is proof that it was me and some sort of garuntee that you will ehnd this forever
[06:21:11] Joseph Dreadloch > proof seems irrelivant
[06:21:28] Joseph Dreadloch > the fact is it wont end until he's satisfied
[06:21:45] Joseph Dreadloch > we don't require proof to go to war
[06:21:55] Target CEO > its not i have never gatecamped in my life this acount can only fly a frigate and an orca
[06:22:17] Client Alt > that is correct this is your chance to keep the rest of your corp from facing what happened today. will they all bounce back like you did
[06:22:35] Joseph Dreadloch > you will have no rest
[06:22:52] Joseph Dreadloch > we may not hunt you 23/7, but you will not know when we're right next door or not
[06:23:18] Target CEO > joseph your a merc i know how you work as long as the isk is there you will fight but i have never killed any one on this account i have only ever killed a thrasher in WHS and it engaged me first
[06:23:22] Client Alt > make it easy on your self and pay waht you owe
[06:23:50] Client Alt > as you keep saying that account , you have more dont you
[06:23:59] Target CEO > only 1 more
[06:24:09] Target CEO > and its lost 700 mill to you already
[06:24:48] Client Alt > do you want it to get worse
[06:25:28] Target CEO > ok fine bbs
[06:26:35] Client Alt > ok i will be here
[06:28:39] Target CEO > the isk is deposited
[06:28:46] Target CEO > drop the deck please
[06:29:08] Joseph Dreadloch > waiting for his conformation
[06:29:16] Joseph Dreadloch > confirmation*
[06:29:16] Target CEO > and this is the last i will here from this ??
[06:29:22] Target CEO > sure
[06:29:38] Client Alt > payment made drop the deck
[06:29:44] Joseph Dreadloch > roger
[06:30:09] Joseph Dreadloch > retracted
[06:30:18] Target CEO > thanks
[06:30:36] Target CEO > hope to chat to you guys on better tearms somtime :D
[06:30:57] Joseph Dreadloch > if you ever need our services
[06:31:01] Joseph Dreadloch > feel free to contact me
[06:31:13] Target CEO > no probs :D
[06:31:18] Joseph Dreadloch > o7
[06:31:23] Target CEO > 07
[06:31:40] Target CEO > Client this is the last i will hear of this matter ??
[06:31:41] Client Alt > thanks for making good
[06:32:16] Target CEO > it kool just glad i can get back to the notrmal grind of things :D
[06:32:27] Joseph Dreadloch > as a precaution
[06:32:42] Joseph Dreadloch > i will be sending a corp mail to not engage you, but if an offline pilot logs on, and does not see the mail
[06:32:57] Joseph Dreadloch > i cannot promise you your safety, for another 24 hours
[06:33:47] Target CEO > thats fine mate you have done the best you could
[06:35:05] Target CEO > will be recomending you as you are efficinat and you are first in my contact list :D
[06:35:17] Target CEO > 07 and have a good night fly safe
[06:35:24] Joseph Dreadloch > good night o7

War Target First Contact

This is the mail we send to all of our targets, some of the words are linked to pictures but the links are safe.


Greetings kind Sir or Madam! (probably Sir)

Congratulations !!!

This is an automated message sent to inform you that your corporation has been chosen at random out of the thousands of corporations in EVE Online, to be the next target of Dread Space Inc.! Within 24 hours your ships will begin to explode against your will, or you will be unable to undock for fear of your ships exploding against your will! If you wish to participate in this war, we will gladly explode your ships for you, If not you can pay a one time only fee of 150,000,000 ISK, and the war will be retracted immediately upon payment, and your ships won't have to explode!

This is the one time the 150,000,000 ISK "No Explosions Please!" fee will be offered, if you chose not to pay the "No Explosions Please!" fee, the cost to stop combat will increase by 25,000,000 ISK per day that the war is Active. If you were to allow the War to go its full duration of one week, the cost of the "No Explosions Please!" fee will be 325,000,000 ISK! So it may be in your best interest to simply pay the 150,000,000 ISK or the fee may reach a level which you cannot pay at all, and the war will persist as long as Dread Space Inc. desires it to, perhaps even months!

Please make your "No Explosions Please!" payments to Joseph Dreadloch.
Please direct all other inquiries to our office.

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Thank you, and fly safe!

This message has been authorized by the CEO. of Dread Space Inc. and has been authenticated by Concord. Seal of approval

A Target Already Under Siege

A few hours later a 24 hour vote had finished, and I started a new wardec. We started moving ships and scouting targets when I received a convo from the target CEO. This conversation was literally painful, Its like this man came home to see that his dog was dead, and a few minutes later I knocked on the door trying to sell him a puppy.

[05:23:30] *WT CEO* > hi your war deced us and we dont want war
[05:23:44] Joseph Dreadloch > understandable
[05:24:27] *WT CEO* > so how can we solve thes i gave your man over 300mil and he will not leave
[05:25:06] Joseph Dreadloch > what?
[05:25:59] *WT CEO* > i do not want to call in friend ship aliances and we have a lot and they know about this and are willing to come in so i would like your men to leave like they said they would
[05:26:33] Joseph Dreadloch > we haven't started the war yet, but if you're offering 300m, for the war to end, i'd gladly accept it
[05:26:39] Joseph Dreadloch > i'm not sure what you're talking about else wise
[05:27:46] Joseph Dreadloch > i think you may be associating my corp with someone else, this is the first contact i've had with you
[05:27:53] *WT CEO* > you have 2 members that started a war with us cuz they want isk from us and we are a ship building corp that dont like war and dont want to be in one
[05:28:10] Joseph Dreadloch > ok
[05:28:24] Joseph Dreadloch > so, if you give me 300m, i'll retract the war right this second
[05:28:41] *WT CEO* > win i tryed to surender it said i had to talk to you
[05:29:05] *WT CEO* > i have paid the other man already
[05:29:15] Joseph Dreadloch > what other man?
[05:29:25] *WT CEO* > they said they would leave and the dint
[05:29:40] Joseph Dreadloch > i don't know who you're talking about
[05:30:34] *WT CEO* > hag on and ill link them for you
[05:32:05] *WT CEO* > *Linked Character*
[05:32:17] *WT CEO* > that is the one that was paid
[05:32:41] Joseph Dreadloch > he is not associated with us, you're interactions with him were random
[05:32:50] Joseph Dreadloch > i represent dread space inc.
[05:32:59] Joseph Dreadloch > and have just declared war on you a few minutes ago
[05:33:45] *WT CEO* > that is the corp that started the war if you dont know this man then why you go to war with us
[05:34:00] Joseph Dreadloch > it is 2 separate incidents that happened to happen within a short amount of time each other
[05:34:17] *WT CEO* > he had a friend dont know his name though
[05:34:19] Joseph Dreadloch > i have no association with them, we are going to war with you because we chose your corporation at random
[05:34:24] Joseph Dreadloch > as my mail stated
[05:34:29] Joseph Dreadloch > we choose our targets randomly
[05:34:47] Joseph Dreadloch > i have no association with these people you're talking about
[05:34:52] *WT CEO* > that is not fare
[05:35:07] Joseph Dreadloch > if you pay ME right now, the war will never happen
[05:35:10] Joseph Dreadloch > and you won't lose anything
[05:35:13] *WT CEO* > it says they in your corp
[05:35:21] Joseph Dreadloch > who is in my corp?
[05:35:32] *WT CEO* > how can i trust you
[05:35:51] Joseph Dreadloch > i honor all of my ransoms, and i have for the years i've been playing this game
[05:35:59] Joseph Dreadloch > you can only trust my word, but my word is good
[05:36:23] *WT CEO* > is there any one that can back your word
[05:36:26] Joseph Dreadloch > if you pay me, no 'Dread Space Inc.' member, will engage you
[05:37:01] Joseph Dreadloch > our last targets paid the ransom, and we did not engage them
[05:37:06] Joseph Dreadloch > let me see if the ceo is online
[05:37:20] *WT CEO* > that would be nice
[05:37:54] *WT CEO* > and how much you want cuz i gave all my isk to the other man
[05:38:17] *WT CEO* > so my corp dont have much now
[05:38:24] Joseph Dreadloch > *Former WT CEO* is the CEO, unfortunately he is offline
[05:38:55] Joseph Dreadloch > we only ask 150m, and you will lose nothing
[05:39:58] *WT CEO* > ok creature will pay it and if your men attack then what
[05:40:11] *WT CEO* > i have already lost 3 ships
[05:40:38] Joseph Dreadloch > look i only represent 'Dread Space Inc.' i cannot stop others who are engaging you
[05:40:55] Joseph Dreadloch > but if i dishonor your payment, you can make a thread in the crime and punishment forum
[05:41:06] Joseph Dreadloch > and it will ruin the reputation of my corporation
[05:41:38] Joseph Dreadloch > NO ONE, from 'Dread Space Inc.' will engage you AT ALL, if you pay me.
[05:42:13] *WT CEO* > i dont want your corp to look bad you seam nice but if these people dont stop i need to do some thing and it said they were from your corp
[05:42:36] Joseph Dreadloch > they are lying
[05:42:43] Joseph Dreadloch > i do not know these people
[05:42:54] *WT CEO* > employment history dont lie
[05:43:10] Joseph Dreadloch > link the people who were in my corporation
[05:43:59] Joseph Dreadloch > i assure you none were, i represent an entirely different party
[05:44:53] *WT CEO* > they are not online yet and i dont have there names i got a call on my cell about this and got on to fix it
[05:45:16] Joseph Dreadloch > this is a coincidence, i am not associated with the people you speak of
[05:45:39] Joseph Dreadloch > you were chosen completely at random, just a few moments ago
[05:45:53] Joseph Dreadloch > and we require 150m, or we will engage you
[05:47:10] *WT CEO* > you have a 3 man corp
[05:47:14] Joseph Dreadloch > yes
[05:47:42] Joseph Dreadloch > we are very effective
[05:48:06] *WT CEO* > and the people are in your corp and i just want to be shure that they will leave befor i send the money
[05:48:22] Joseph Dreadloch > what people?
[05:48:31] Joseph Dreadloch > none of us have engaged you yet
[05:49:09] Joseph Dreadloch > I AM NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE PEOPLE YOU ARE SPEAKING OF
[05:49:32] *WT CEO* > ok you have 3 people what are there names
[05:49:59] Joseph Dreadloch > *Corp Rookie* *Corp Vet*
[05:50:22] Joseph Dreadloch > that is all of us
[05:50:48] *WT CEO* > ok i see the money is being sent now sorry about the troble
[05:51:04] Joseph Dreadloch > no problem
[05:51:20] *WT Member* > ok send the isk then?
[05:51:22] Joseph Dreadloch > i represent only these 2 people and myself, just so you understand
[05:51:32] *WT CEO* > yes you can
[05:52:25] *WT CEO* > i am sorry i was told that they war decked us and it was your random that did not them my bad
[05:52:39] Joseph Dreadloch > they're lying, i'm sorry
[05:52:53] Joseph Dreadloch > we're a completely different corporation, and we will retract this the moment i receive the ISK
[05:53:06] *WT Member* > the money has been sent
[05:53:06] Joseph Dreadloch > thank you, payment received
[05:53:08] Joseph Dreadloch > retracting now
[05:53:22] Joseph Dreadloch > retracted
[05:53:23] *WT CEO* > thank you and sorry about this
[05:53:31] Joseph Dreadloch > thank you
[05:53:33] Joseph Dreadloch > also
[05:53:41] *WT CEO* > you have a good day
[05:53:44] Joseph Dreadloch > if you have any competitors in the area, or people who anger you
[05:54:01] Joseph Dreadloch > you can hire us to disrupt them, we do take contracts
[05:54:04] Joseph Dreadloch > good day o7

An Unlucky Target

An hour or so later, a WT from another corp who we had assumed was a ghost corp now, with most members having left, and the remaining members perpetually offline, finally logged on. We scouted her location and moved an Ares and a 500+ DPS hound into position on the outgate from her system. It took her about a half hour to finally undock but our scout was semi-afk and didn't give us notice. So I was surprised when a Maelstrom appeared on my overview, and I started screaming for the corp rookie to tackle it in his Ares. To my dismay the Maelstrom warped off as the rookie returned to his chair and scrambled to put his headset back on. He had gone afk without informing anyone and I thought we had lost a juicy target. I preceded to chew the rookie out a bit, and told him I don't mind AFKing when you need to but be sure we at least know you're afk.

Meanwhile I was stalking the progress of the Maelstrom WT in my Hound and noticed she was heading towards Providence, but it didn't seem she or her corp would have any standings out there, so essentially she was backing herself into a corner, with her back against 0.0, and her only exit through us. So the rookie and I sat on her outgate, the rookie determined not to fail again, and sure enough a few moments later we had her tackled. I pounded her with my hound but the cap stable tank fit on the maelstrom was too much for my explosive damage to break, so the WT began trying to shoot us and after learning she couldn't actually hit us, she returned gate, and jumped back into the dead end.

Knowing I couldnt break her tank I called for the scout to log out, and log on his Tempest, a heavy hitter who did EM damage, the whole in the Maels tank. The Mael came back out a few minutes later, and again we tackled her and I opened up with my hound. The Tempest pilot informed me he was nearby, and we called for the rookie to de-aggress and we let the Maelstrom warp to the next gate in the pipe. The WT convo'd me, confident in her tank, unaware of what was on its way.

[02:49:36] WT Maelstrom > 07
[02:49:44] Joseph Dreadloch > o7
[02:50:00] WT Maelstrom > i dont understand why your still fireing lol
[02:50:16] Joseph Dreadloch > i don't like these missiles, want to get rid of them
**I can't break her tank, and she decides to linger**
[02:50:29] WT Maelstrom > hahahaha
[02:52:12] WT Maelstrom > so why the war deck
[02:52:24] WT Maelstrom > are you just looking for lol barge kills ??
[02:52:38] Joseph Dreadloch > just need to get rid of missiles
**She warps to next gate, with Temptest waiting**
[02:54:37] Joseph Dreadloch > and ammo....
[02:55:32] Joseph Dreadloch > o7
**I close the convo**

The Mael lasted about 30 seconds after the Temptest arrived.

Dread Space Log

So after last night I was convinced to start keeping a log of all the crazy things that happen to myself and friends in EVE online. I have hatemail logs, crazy conversations and such all saved in the notepad, but I'll just start with what happened last night, and maybe add some of my old stuff along the way.

So the night started with one of our wardecs going active, with several WT hulks and other smaller ships out in space. We were wondering if they were truly oblivious or what was going on. So we made a move and had a rookie in the corp sit on a gate a little ways down a highsec pipe that a retriever was traveling down, small stuff but I wanted the guy to get his first kill in the corp.

A few minutes later the retriever was dead, the corp rookie was happy, and I had accepted a convo from the WT CEO. Apparently they had paid the ransom we offered overnight, and when I logged on and immediately went hunting for targets, I hadn't even noticed. Now I've always at least been pirate affiliated in EVE, I've been an outlaw 3 times and ratted back, I've received my fair share of ransom payments whether its a fool I catch in a lowsec belt, or an industrial corporation in highsec, I always honor them and do not fly with anyone who doesn't.

So I apologized for the retriever kill and offered to reimburse the loss but the CEO didn't care too much, he was very brief and just wanted the war retracted. The ransom we asked for was probably pocket change for an established cap construction corporation, and a 10M ISK retriever was the equivalent of a nickle. Honoring this ransom was one of the hardest ransoms I've ever honored. A few moments after retracting the targets undocked all their exhumers and barges again and went back to work. I was sitting on gate in my Hurricane and literally watched as a hulk passed by, wondering if a character as old as the hulk pilot would be faction fit or not... eventually I warped off and started moving ships back to home base. If I stayed too long I might give in to the temptation of juicy... trusting... defenseless targets.