We formed up quite a small fleet of around 16, which is pretty good for a Null Sec mid-week roam at this time I think. We had 3 Logi, 1 Bubbler, 2 Scouts, 9 Moas, and an Atron
I wanted to stick around Syndicate tonight, rather than going looking for bigger fights elsewhere, both due to our numbers, and also to see what people locally formed up to face us. The plan was basically to gate/station camp our way around the top end of Syndicate until we annoyed people enough to respond
It was all quiet around PC9, with a camping gang having just left, so we headed up through the "system which shall not be named", with a wistful glance at a safe'd up Rattlesnake, and set up a camp in FD-MLJ while our scouts roamed around. Jax soon spotted a Loki gate camping the Orvolle exit in PF-346, so we quickly abandoned our camp and moved over. Jax and Union went for tackle, and did a fantastic job holding him, given he turned out to have blingy long range webs. He also seemed to chase our scouts off the gate for a bit which was ideal. When we landed he was far off the gate, and got a heavy delivery of Antimatter
He went down fast considering it was a 1.6bn ISK fit! Plus an (almost) full Genolution pod! Woop woop for ISK efficient fleets from the start! Great catch scouts!
(18:57:51Z) PF-346
Stiletto -43.85m
Loki +1668.16m
Capsule +625.6m
While Union re-shipped we set up a gate camp in FD-MLJ again, but caught nothing except a Shuttle, which, small as it is, is an "achievement" on ZKill I'd never managed before, so yey! Op success!
(19:08:35Z) FD-MLJ
Gallente Shuttle +0.02m
With Union returned, we headed next door to X-M2LR, where Initiative had a bunch of guys in system, all docked up. They probed us with a Ceptor or two, and kept undocking a Jackdaw to peak at our fleet, but never formed anything. We bubbled the station, and popped a few cyno ships in an effort to annoy them into undocking but no luck
Someone forgot to swap out of their training clone on the Cyno alt though!
(19:17:13Z) X-M2LR
Inquisitor +2.01m
Velator +1.6m
Capsule +47.62m
Things went quiet for a few jumps while we probed systems nearby, until Jax found a Procurer in Rf-GGF (CASTabouts home system) with potentially a Svipul and ANI support. We burned over as Jax held tackle, and got a nice Procurer kill, but the DPS ships warped out
And is this the night of blingy pods or something!? Never not kill the pods guys....
(19:42:50Z) RF-GGF
Procurer +56.89m
Capsule +230.89m
We bubbled up the Castabouts station, and tried to provoke a reaction. This time it worked! They undocked a Nightmare and the ANI from before, which seemed like the start of some fun, but then just kept undocking more...
They ended up with 6 (blingy) Battleships undocked with some smaller support, which was more than our little fleet (9 Moas ) was in a position to handle. Luckily they had no bubbles, and I had us anchored on me and aligned out. We tried to kill their Prophecy (literally the softest target they had undocked!) before we warped out. Sadly 2 Logi got caught in the process
We ended up ISK positive (those pods again!) but losing the Logi hurt
(19:51:25Z) RF-GGF
Prophecy +74.51m
Osprey -22.61m
Osprey -18.68m
Capsule +48.95m
We thought we might have a chance of isolating the Nightmare at one point, so went back in, but we didn't get the bubble up on the rest of the fleet at the station fast enough, and the other Battleships were able to warp over and re-join their friend. We lost a Moa trying to pull that off
Moa -38.07m
We started heading home, but spotted that Init had formed their own gate camp in PF-346, (I think...Ferox, Hecate, Rapier, Keres..Brutix?) so even though we only had 1 Logi left we went to investigate. Union got a great bubble on them and we caught their Keres (and his not-so blingy pod), then killed their drag bubble
(20:07:26Z) PF-346
Keres +50.94m
Capsule +7.84m
Mobile Medium Warp Disruptor I +3.72m
We had hoped the gate camp might want to fight us - at this stage, due to losses and folks having to drop we only had 6 Moas, and a single Logi so, pretty engageable. However they decided to upship instead, undocking 5 Battlecruisers and a Golem...
Shaking our heads a bit, we headed back to gate and jumped through, but they had a bubbler on the other side. We anchored on me, as their Battlecruisers jumped after us. I primaried a Brutix, which we're all convinced we killed...but it doesnt show up anywhere!
In retrospect, as pointed out on the fleet, I should have shot their 2 Sabres, to stop the bubbles they kept popping up and allowed us to extract better - sorry guys its been a while since I FC'd Null Sec and that was a bad call from me. As it was, they took out most of our remaining Moas sadly
(20:15:42Z) FD-MLJ
Moa -43.11m
Moa -29.09m
Moa -38.5m
Moa -39.72m
With me podded back home, Decklin took over to take the remaining fleet back to PC-9, dodging the Init gang and another camping gang which was moving through the same space. Great job thanks Decklin!
Sadly our bubbler was lost, heroically dropping one last defensive bubble to slow down our pursuers as he did so. Heroic sacrifice Union!
(20:26:09Z) 6E-578
Sabre -98.29m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 2,818,750,361.74
ISK Lost: 371,933,345.87
ISK Delta: 2,446,817,015.87
Efficiency: 88.343%
Thanks to everyone for coming out! Syndicate was pretty good for content tonight actually, so lets do this again at some point!
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