Category — Skills

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After my agent had contacted me, I rushed to home base in an hope that I can assist Arkiras with whatever he needs help with. I thought to myself if he was going to give me another crappy courier mission or is this going to be the result of an important research project. The ship sways gently as it turns towards the heading of the CNAP station and warped off.

Docked up, I headed for the Navy offices on the forty second floor of the station. Lately there seems to be a lot more beggars on the corners of the offices and cafes and one of them approached me for some spare ISK. Since there were more pressing matters at hand right now, I ignored his request and picked up my pace.

“Hello Tony, through my recent investigations I seemed to have located the whereabouts of a Guristas leader in high-sec.” As Arkiras pulled up a virtual starmap of the region, he told me that the system I must travel to is just next door in Umokka. ” I want you to know that Rachen Mysuna is extremely dangerous, which is exactly why I am calling for your assistance.”

“Will do sir, just give me 10 minutes to refit and I will be back before you know it!” I responded. He called this vengence because this leader of the Guristas had killed many of his past pod pilots and if I could extract the DNA from Rachen and bring it back to him there will be a 500 plus loyalty points bonus. I thought this mission is the perfect time to field test Antaries III and a new corp mate and his Raven.

When I had messaged Mr. Pollus to join me on this mission, he was just two jumps out from Umokka. My headquarters in Kaka is a nice place to be since I am usually only one or two jumps from my fellow corp mates. Well except for Kerra; he is always in Nourvukaiken or 20 jumps deep in Gallente space. While I thought about the Gallenteans, it occurred to me that I should learn how to negotiate with them better and to have my social abilities be effective towards everyone.

The ship is ready to go in no time since we had fitted it last night and the only thing we had to change was the armor plating. Different damage types means for different methods of defence.

“You are cleared for undocking Antaries III,” the speakers boomed in the bridge. “Ejecting into space in 10, 9, 8…”

Upon arriving in the target system, Pollus notified me of his status, needing another 10 minutes to be able to hook up into a fleet with me. He told me to start and don’t wait for him. Knowing that he is always there when he says so, I had no worries so I warped to the entrance gate and activated it.

In this room was a group of 7 Guristas. Their sensors must not be able to pickup my magnetometric signature yet so I took my time. Then out of nowhere another 7 ships emerged out of the asteroids. Ah ha, I knew this base wouldn’t be lightly defended. Locked onto the first group, hoping to destroy the frigates before they can establish coms with their friendly fleet, I blasted it with my one and only 350mm turret. The charge glances off of the small Kestrel hulled frigate but soon I had agressed the group and they were charging down on me.

“Release the Wardens!” I said to no one in particular. Behind me I heard the words echo when Captain Arnie commanded the crew. The bay opened and 5 large Warden-classed drones were deployed; this time they remained at my side and immediately they turned and snipes at the speeding frigates. Each popped in succession from one volley of my drones. “Please turn on the armor hardeners Captain and allow fleet status from corp members.”

“Aye sir,” he replied.

My panel in front of me showed that we began to take armor damage and most if these cruisers were orbiting 25km away from me. The damage taken was drastically reduced as the hardeners blocked about 2/3 of the DPS. I let the crew see if they can figure out what to now since the Wardens are purely ineffective when the enemy is so close. This bunch is smart, they were able to recall the Wardens and launch the Garde-class sentries with effective at 25km. When a fair amount of the cruisers had popped, the alarm I had set when the armor reaches 75% sounded and the large armor repairer turned on automatically.

I had not glanced at my fleet screen until a Raven classes battleship warped in on top of me, making me push the ship away from the Raven. Pollus locked and launched his cruise missiles at my current target adding to the DPS, finishing the target for me.

With two battleships going at the cruisers and other enemies, we cleared the first two pockets no problem. Once we were at the gate to the final location of Rachen, I had a feeling that the upcoming room will be heavily defended. The ship aligned and warped in and before the warp vacuum had dissipated, the sentry guns locked onto me and began firing. I shot at a frigate with the hops of one-volleying it, fail. The bullet glances off but it sure got the attention of the rest of the room! With every single ship speeding towards me I turned the ship around and aligned to the 3rd moon, at the same time launching a fleet of Ogres to take down the cruisers.

I had not noticed Pollus had warped in, 10km beside me this time, and his cruise missiles started hitting the other cruisers. Soon the incoming damage was overwhelming the armor and the single large armor repairer was not keeping up. With my trusty pad of sticky notes and pen at my side, I jotted down a setup quickly with duel large reps. Pollus must have realized I was taking too much damage and upped his game. Missiles spewed out of his bays exploding against the hulls of the Gurista-modified Ferox ships. When the armor reached to 25% integrity, I was ready to warp out, but Pollus’ boost in effort really solved the problem and saved some time for warping in and out.

“Now all was left was us two against you,” I mumbled to myself. We danced about the Gurista-modified Raven with our knives out while it continued to shoot it’s torpedoes and guns at me. I launched my Ogres at it and Pollus starts off with the cruise missiles. It’s shields dropped but immediately rose backup… Ugh this is going to be messy.

“Move away from it and I’ll try to nos it down!” Pollus broadcasted. I responded by pulling away, knowing that he is learning a little something something from us Reservoir Dogs.

The shields didn’t see much change for a while until I was suggesting I go and grab my own Torp-Raven. It is down in armor and as the shuttle-sized Ogres beat it down. A blue explosion flashed the sky and all that was left was a wreck - I used to always wince at the destruction from a battleship, wishing I could just take it - and I slowly approached. The body lies frozen from her capsule destructing when the explosion occurred so I decided to scooped the whole body into the cargobay.

I thanked Pollus for his help and wished him good luck with his new adventures with his first battleship, soon he was on his way back to Jita. Arkiras praised me for my help with the elimination of Rachen and completed the contract we setup.

The crew had all went home when I returned to the hanger. My datapad ringed and flashed so I took a look; an impressive 10 million net bounty after resupplying my minerals and placing the manufacturing of ammo into production.

Another day of work completed in the system of Lonetrek. I undocked in my Crow and parked outside of the station watching the sun disappeared behind the icy planet. Fellow pilots have been avenged and my love for the new Dominix bloomed.

I slept in space that night.

With using the new Dominix I figured I will need to make some ammo since all of my minerals are just collecting dust in my hanger.

The BPCs that I bought from someone called Rainbows End still had hundreds of runs on them so I decided to use them all up, creating a nice ammo dump in the mean time. I took a look at the 5 million units of tritanium, 2.5 million units of pyerite and figured I should have enough to finish the last batches of ammo I could get from these large hybrid ammo blueprints, and the left over minerals for those cruise missiles.

The weekend was ending, my station had many open slots to manufacture whatever I want. The only thing hindering my productions are my skills; oh so clumsy me can manage 2 jobs at once. I think I need a shift from shooting pew pew and switch over to being the scientist at heart. But anyways, the 500 runs or so left on each blueprint will take me a few days to complete so by the time I fight again next weekend and need the ammo, they should be ready!

Mineral count… Down, down, and finally gone. That’s right, after making about 50000 of each antimatter, uranium, and lead charges. I had very little minerals left at HQ. The only thing now to do is to mine (bleh), do some drone missions (bleh), or to do more missions and buy the minerals (bleh). Choices are from hated to somewhat disliked. My assets window is pulled up on the datapad and I see I have trit in 3 other systems, all with over 1 million units in each station. The Badger Mark II is ejected out of the station but it took me 3 jumps out to realize these properties of mine are behind the systems which Concord patrol, sigh.

Blueprints gone, mineral deposit depleted, wallet is practically empty, I decided to sit in my agents office with my datapad and a cup of coffee reading a short story on the net, waiting for my next assignment.