Gank night

Last Saturday me and Lex joined a SHC Gank Fleet for some fun. These fleets are run every once in a while and are organized by the Scrapheap Challenge eve forums. It basically is a bunch of people from all walks of EVE coming together for a suicide fleet through 0.0. Every fleet also has a theme as to what ships you must bring. This one’s theme was rockets, in honor of their new buff in the latest patch. So everyone was sporting Maledictions, Vengeances, Hawks and Breachers. We gathered our 30 odd man fleet in Otsasai and started out with making a giant conga line while we waited for everyone to get ready. Then a flashy Cerberus warps to our station about 100k off and cloaks. He probably failed to notice that we had about 10 Maledictions in our conga line, so burn for him we did and low and behold. Decloaked, tackled and dead within 10 seconds. Now that’s a good way to start a roam.

We headed out and as soon as we jumped into our entry point of M-0 we found a camp to smash. Caught in their own bubbles and by insta locking interceptors a Crow, an Ares and an Arazu quickly met there end. We had only moved 2 jumps at this point so things were looking good. We headed it out to a station system further down the pipe. This was mostly uneventfull beyond the random travelers we caught. That stopped when we hit the station system. Suicidal as we were we set up on station and proceeded to shoot whatever undocked. We waited for a bit and sure enough an idiot in a Maller aggressed, so naturally he died. The next one was smarter with a smartbombing Armageddon. However rockets do have nice damage at range so we stayed out of 5k and nuked him. Thinking that was all we would get, we moved off to the outgate when a straggler called that a Hurricancane had aggressed him. So naturally we all hurried back to help murder it. Turns out there was a whole pack, so we murdered the other 2 Hurricanes as well as a bomber that was foolish enough to decloak. Now having pretty much cleared this system of any fighting spirit, we moved on to more fertile shooting grounds. We picked another Hurricane, Deimos and Purifier kill up on the way, before we hit our next destination.

12YA-2, now that was a fun system. We barged in, warping straight to station again, put up some bubbles and waited. Not 10 seconds later a Hulk warps in! We could not believe our luck, so we set to work at destroying it asap. But wait there is more. Not two seconds after we killed the first Hulk a second one warps in! Points get called and rockets fly as the second one makes a pretty explosion too. Everything else quickly safes up after this hilarity, so we move on again. We repeated the exact same trick in the next system. Jump in, put bubbles on the station and wait. Sure enough a Tempest warps in. he had apparently been ratting or plexing or something, because he already had mayor armor damage. We light it up and as were killing a Drake warps in to the bubble from a different angle. Interceptors start burning and call point, he’s not going anywhere either. We murder the Tempest and move on to the plucky Drake, who takes a bit longer to take out. But eventually he also succumbs to our mighty rocket fleet.

Wondering why we haven’t been slaughtered by a massive Northern Coalition gang yet, we move on again. In P-2 we run into a Drake  so we proceed to attack as usual, but here is where things get weird. For the next 5 minutes Drakes keep warping in consecutively and succumbing to our wondrous rocket fleet. Until finally after four hours of roaming a 50 man TEST fleet shows up to end our wonderful ramble through the north. Both me and Lex bite the dust and pod ourselves home. So remember: This can only end well! And in this case it actually did.