Very pumped up by this sight, I ran back to my home station and grabbed some bombs. Hands shaking, I warped to my 1st bombing spot at the NOL- Ishukone Corporation Factory. I quickly lined up a shot, dropped a bomb, and warped off. My bomb hit nearly every ship there and took out a dozen or so drones, but I didn't get a single kill. Then, local exploded.
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[00:31:04] Matteyo > OMG THE DRONES
[00:31:05] Jack Gates > not aimed at our battleships and moroses
[00:31:06] Morrigan Shaikorth > MIEN SHIELDEN!
[00:31:08] Jack Gates > these guys are horrible
[00:31:08] DrNeato > haha, that was a great bomb
[00:31:08] Berious > you are all fucked now!
[00:31:10] RobTheRad > help my shields
[00:31:11] Lume V > lmao he killed all your drones
[00:31:16] Ford Cruller > did he actually bomb us
[00:31:19] Ford Cruller > i didn't even see anythin
[00:31:19] Jack Gates > c
[00:31:21] RobTheRad > ya
[00:31:21] Lume V > c
[00:31:24] Jack Gates > a hostile nemesis decloaked and bombed
[00:31:29] Cymoro > booya booya
[00:31:29] RobTheRad > thanks drneato
[00:31:34] Jack Gates > roughly 5km from station?
[00:31:34] Tschkih Npahppayi > broadcast in local for rep
[00:31:40] Berious >
[00:31:44] Cymoro > yo dude in nemesis we can get you a frigate
[00:31:51] Cymoro > join in
[00:31:52] Griff Skyshock > haha ED came down here to bomb us
[00:31:53] Griff Skyshock > ARGH
[00:31:58] Berious > ya
[00:32:00] Jack Gates > he should come on the op
[00:32:00] jm24 > 00:30:51 Combat Scorch Bomb belonging to Securitas Protector hits you, doing 3225.6 damage.
[00:32:02] Ford Cruller > IM TRACKIN YOU SAM
[00:32:02] Jack Gates > the nemesis dude
[00:32:03] Lume V > Well it's not like they have their own space to protect.
[00:32:03] jm24 > o noes
[00:32:06] jm24 > O NOES
[00:32:06] Ford Cruller > IM FUCKIN TRACKIN YOU BITCH
[00:32:07] Berious > he killed an iteron
[00:32:09] Lume V > they are freed from the shackles of owning space.
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Encouraged and out of bombs (I did it again, and again, and again), though without kills (they didn't die but it was fun to watch local) I went back and grabbed some more. I ended up bombing them two or three more times before another bomber pilot in Delve logged on. Yelling at him to get from two jumps away to NOL, I loaded up even more bombs.
Together, we took our bombing positions, aimed, and fired. Instantly, the chaos fell behind me as I slipped into warp. I got the damage report and smiled. Any second now, the other bomb would explode....
But it never did. They had set up a trap for me with a cloaked interdictor, however, I had moved spots. Unluckily for Max, my fellow pilot, his own bombing point just happened to next to my old one, and he was caught and killed. No kills for us, but I think I must have destroyed 5-10 mil of tech II drones, and the local chatter was priceless.
Then, regretfully, I had to log off, and came back about 2 hours later.
This time Jalak, a corpmate of mine and an avid Cormorant pilot, was online. I grabbed another Cormorant and off we went. Long story short, we camped the PR to NOL- gate and ALMOST got some kills. I say almost because by some twist of fate Jalak missed his scram range by 500m and a Goonswarm Eris got away in 90% hull.
Then we got jumped by a Crow, and I put that into 10% structure before managed to get away too, and then an enemy fleet jumped in and killed Jalak. Undeterred, I warped back to the gate, engaged yet another Crow, put that into 25% armor, before I was jumped in and killed as well.
Why did I do this foolhardy thing? Well, because my destroyer cost a total of 1.5 million ISK and a Crow costs at least 20 million, or over 10 times as much. If the fleet had jumped in a fraction of a second later, or I had pointed him a fraction of a second longer, we would have come out ahead. But enough whining, today was a great day, even with only 3 or 4 people out in Delve, it was great fun and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Securitas.
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