Posted - 2008.06.09 08:31:00 - [1]

 

Disclaimer: This battle involves only a few capital deaths and is featured here as a lesson in how not to use that flashing red 'emergency' button near the Captain's chair on your spaceship.


Background:

Those cutlass wielded, rump-slapping types:

Beyond Divinity Inc. and Nocturnal Legion, both pirate corps, camp low sec systems in Molden Heath. To their credit, they are well scouted in all directions against incoming fleets.

As is often the case, they were camping a high-sec gate in Bosena (a 0.4).

Those upstanding gentleman, do-gooders and the like:

Foundati0n FDN) often drop cyno's onto the campers, leading to inevitable hate threads, especially from Beyond Divnity. This happened the day before this fight too, where four BYDI battleships were killed by Mythral's Nyx + a few carriers.


The Fight:

Although usually scanning for a cyno trap, it seems the hostiles were lax this time and engaged VikingBjorn's Abaddon on the Teonusude gate, with several battleships.

Having tackled one of the battleships, Viking cyno'd in two capitals, who killed a Dominix. They weren't pilots who'd hotdropped on the enemy before and we hoped this would pose the question as to whether they had support.

Station Scout: "They're undocking, lots of support battleships and at least 3 carriers".

This in itself wasn't remarkable - we expected that they were trying to lure us over for a scrap on station. Wanting to bring them to the gate, Valdor (FC) instructed the carrier pilots to linger on the gate as nonchalantly as possible.

Station Scout: "They're aligning.. they're warping in".

Valdor (FC - deep South African baritone): "Bloody excellent. Jump, jump, jump!"

At this point another cyno goes down, more FDN carriers jump in and the main gang starts advancing from two jumps away.

Nocturnal Legion/Beyond Divinity start massing forces as well but after a few minutes it becomes clear that FDN has the upper hand and that the three hostile carriers are stuck on the gate. Nonetheless, Nocturnal Legion do their best to use Falcons to try and extricate them. The FDN carriers are packing ECCM to make this difficult but it's still a generally effective tactic.



On Board Lord Kesh's carrier (reconstruction):

Cute female Lieutenant: FDN have too many caps here. The battle goes ill!

Unnamed Corporal, sporting a suspicious moustache: Goes ill? Like a rosy-cheeked schoolboy skiiving school so he can have a thermometer up his posterior? No, we're in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

Lord Kesh: Damn their eyes. All carriers initiate self-destruct. Private Baldric, bring me a final cup of tea.

(Kesh reaches and hits a button on his command chair which starts flashing red).



22:50:17 Notify Lord KesH has initiated self-destruct of their Nidhoggur, it will explode in 120 seconds.



Baldric: I'll just place it here, m'Lord.



The Fight Continues:

Lord Kesh is called prime but with his Nidhoggur in structure and the FDN fleet warping in, the Falcons suddenly strike gold, scram breaks and - already aligned to station - he warps to safety!

The fleet arrives and triples scram on the remaining carriers.

Vilrath's Thanatos (Beyond Divinity) completes its self-destruct countdown and dies:


22:54:05 Notify Thanatos belonging to Villwrath self-destructs: Villwrath falls on his sword


Angst's Chimera (Nocturnal Legion) is destroyed before the self-destruct can finish.


As Meat Loaf would tell us, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.


Station Scout: "The Nidhuggur, Lord Kesh, is back at station. But, umm, hold on a second here..."