I had an idea for an experiment to try in low sec. I would purposely fly a t1 indy ship into a gate camp and get it blown up which would give me kill rights on those who were on the mail. It wouldn’t be just any random gate camp however, it had to be done by pilots who I was familiar with, who often came into high sec as well. The particular pilots that I chose were mainly mission runners with a POS in low sec. One day I caught them doing a Drake camp and decided to set my bait. With both of my characters I flew t1 indy ships which the Drake camp proceeded to blow up. No words were exchanged and I simply made it look like it was random act committed by two careless pilots.
I let a week pass so that the event would fade from their memories. Who knows how many others they blew up that on that day, I didn’t really care. I spent the next two weeks learning their routines and hoping to catch a break to blow them up but it never came. Mr. Red mainly flew cloaky ships like the Buzzard and Prorater. I knew that I had no chance of catching him.
I had just about given up on catching Mr. Green. Whenever I saw him online he was always docked up. It seemed as if our schedules were not in sync because sometimes I would run a locator on him and he would be in Dodixie or Jita and the next time I logged in he was back in our home system.
I was running missions mainly to get my sec status back up from pirating in low sec. I was just about to jump back into my agent’s system when I see Mr. Green pop into local. I thought, “Wow, this is my opportunity!”. Unfortunately I was in a mission fit Drake with no scram, but I had no idea what he was in at the time. I moved my Drake over to the outbound pipe gate and activated my d-scan. After 2 times on the d-scan I see a Bhalgorn. He arrives on gate and I thought, “crap, I don’t have the firepower here with a mission fit Drake to take down a Bhalgorn. His neuts will cap me out so fast and I’d be dead”. But wait, he’s obviously not paying attention since he is on AP. I noted that he was heading towards Amarr and made the two jumps back to my home system to get my BS. I had my alt with me at the time doing missions in a Drake as well and flew my alt to our home system to get the Guardian.
I had to think fast. I have a wide assortment of BS in my hangar. I had really been eager to try out my Typhoon torpedo shitter fit. Also it was my only armor tank and it fit perfectly with the Guardian logi. I jumped into my Phoon down the pipe towards Amarr. Meanwhile I alt+tabbed to switch my alt into the Guardian. Along the pipe I did not see Mr. Green anywhere. I didn’t think I would be able to catch him since he was only 3 jumps out of Amarr when I saw him initially. I jumped into Amarr expecting to see him in system already docked up but to my surprise he was not there! I thought, “Where could he be? Maybe he is doing a mission somewhere.” Then I caught a break when I saw one of his corp mates in a Tengu heading back towards the Ashab gate. My plan was to follow the Tengu to see where he was going which may lead me to Mr. Green. I jumped back into Ashab and Mr. Green’s corp mate followed but to my surprise he headed towards the gate I had come from. I had my Guardian alt coming down that pipe already and Mr. Green was nowhere to be found.
I stayed in Ashab at the Amarr gate and suddenly Mr. Green pops into local. I thought, “Wow, here is my chance again!” I did not know which direction he was going though since Ashab has so many outbound gates. I decided to try my luck and started to move towards the Amarr gate while at the same time hitting the d-scan. When I was about 2,500m from the gate I hit the d-scan and saw the Bhalgorn. I knew that I had him now and as he came out of warp he was there with me at the gate, completely unaware of what was about to happen to him. I jumped through the gate first and he followed. Immediately I de-cloaked and launched my Ogre IIs. It took him about 5 seconds to de-cloak and this must have been fate because he could have appeared anywhere around the gate within 25km but he appeared right on top of me, only 1,500m away. As this was happening I moved my Guardian into position on the Ashab gate. With only 1 second of hesitation, knowing that I was going to be blown to bits by this Pirate Faction battleship, I targeted, locked, hit the warp disruptor, web and target painter and starting shitting torpedoes on him, shooting my 650mm rounds and engaged with five Ogre IIs.
I could just imagine the look on his face when heard the screech of his low shield alert and he was unable to warp away. As I was pounding on him I thought to myself, “Okay, I broke his shield pretty fast, now we are into armor, here comes the fight!” However to my surprise he did not start shooting back and he was losing armor way too fast. I alt+tabbed back to my Guardian and did not see any of his corp mates in system. Alt+tab back to the action and this Bhalgorn is going down really fast! As soon as I broke his armor one more hit and his ship blew apart. Immediately he convo’d me and congratulated me on a nice gank. When I looked into his loot and saw that only two skill books had survived I was surprised to see that he was unfit.
He told me that he had forgotten all about me having kill rights. I was honest with him and told him that I had purposely set him up. He wondered how and told him that I brought my t1 indy into his gate camp for him to blow up. He mistakenly thought I was waiting for him to undock the Bhalgorn and I told him that I was just running a mission and that it was completely by chance that I caught him.
After posting the killmail I saw that he was indeed completely unfit except for three rigs. I surmised that he must have gone to Chaven to pick up the skill books before coming to Amarr. After all was said and done it was a nice 900mil isk kill and a small investment of 350k for a Wreathe.
Loss:
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14138628
Kill:
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14129882
