Last Saturday as we were having some beers to celebrate the success of our first PVP tournament in Planet Risk, we got the call from Nictutu…
“Guys, I’m in the C5 cloaked at 50km away from 4 Hulks and 1 Occator in a grav site”
The next scenes all took place in 4 seconds.
- We asked for the check
- We paid the check
- A cyno field opened to our respective houses
- We mass jumped (cars included) into our chairs at home
- We got into our PVP gear
Nictutu’s stealthed Proteus unfortunately got bumped out of stealth by a lucky Occator entrance and we were forced to rush in for as many kills as possible.
First to go down was Lord Vindicator’s Hulk which was swiftly brought down by Nictutu. Two of the Hulks warped out and at that point the rest of the fleet landed on site, bubbling everything. We did try to ransom their ships and pods, just to get some unjustified retribution from our last week’s Orca ransoming incident, but the only response we got was a phrase in latin which even though roughly translated into “the horrid deeds men do”, it was clearly a replacement phrase for a grandieuse “Screw You”.
And so we switched the death machine on and chewed on Katala Dryner’s Occator and Katherine Chivahle’s Hulk as well as their respective pods.
It was not long after this incident that Lord Ra of the Imperial Tau Syndicate fired up a convo with me…
Lord Ra > morning
Luminus Aardokay > Howdy
Lord Ra > caught me with my pants down, well done
Lord Ra > now , as the ceo of your corp, i gotta ask somthing
There I am thinking that… “Hey.. sounds like he takes the whole thing light hearted.. nice!”.. so I went ahead for nice as well..
Luminus Aardokay > eh.. no hard feelings.. we’ve been caught with our pants down as well
Luminus Aardokay > sometimes you win.. sometimes you learn
Lord Ra > oh we look at this sort of thing with very hard feelings :O)
Lord Ra > you guys want fights?
Lord Ra > you just raided imperial tau syndicates military directors party
Whoa.. that’s a call to HTFU! the TAU syndicate. I guess the Greek letter there should probably convey a message of magnitude.. but hey.. I am Greek and I didn’t see any message whatsoever…
Lord Ra > now we have two options bud
Luminus Aardokay > This sounds promising
Lord Ra > 1. you pay for what you just killed
Lord Ra > 2. we war dec you and crush you
Lord Ra > we just finished crushing one 22 man corp
Lord Ra > they never log in
Lord Ra > :O(
Oh sweet! Refunds! Another satisfied customer. But wait a minute.. if we don’t pay up, we are going to have ourselves war-decced?? I can see the need to make it official.. but war-deccing a w-space corp is as relevant as an iPhone would be in the back pocket of Joan of Arc’s armor. And I swear I did try to take some time to think about my reply to this threat, but it was beyond my powers to hold it back.. and thus…
Luminus Aardokay > Let me put it in Bender Bending Rodriguez words…
Luminus Aardokay > aaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha
Luminus Aardokay > oh wait.. you’re serious.. let me laugh even harder
Luminus Aardokay > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
For a moment I hoped he’d be a Futurama fan but alas…
Lord Ra > war dec it is
Needless to say, we’re still waiting for that war dec..
Which brings us to today… while scanning for a good exit to k-space (we did find one 2 jumps away from Jita, but had to go through two inhabited C5′s and a C1 full of people ratting), we noticed a couple of people mining in the neighbouring C5. A Retriever which was then joined by an Osprey, and the Retriever pilot switched to a Badger to start hauling.
As there was a deathstar POS lurking in the system, we skipped the ransom formalities and cut to the chase, bringing down Auspexin’s Osprey, Siblisia’s Badger Mark II and their respective pods.
A few hours later, a lonely stealth Bomber appears in Planet Risk and starts shooting torps on our POS. I could go on in depth about the futility of this attempt, but I really want to stick with the conversation that JohnPaulJones, CEO of the Valhalla Naval Corp initiated with Nictutu…
JohnPaulJones > yeah we will be hanging out a bit
JohnPaulJones > just figured we’d say hi after you destroyed 1.4 bil worth of my friends implants
JohnPaulJones > pay us 1.4 billion isk and we’ll go away
Oh snap! More refunds! I think I’m starting to notice a trend here.. And as I write these lines, JohnPaulJones’ Nemesis and Siblisia’s Manticore appeared, fired one bomb each on our POS and cloaked again.
I don’t think I’ve witnessed this type of “skirmish” POS siege, but it looks as if it’s going to be a fun weekend.
Oh and guys, since our POS is named after our website’s url and you’re probably reading these lines… Do you seriously believe you’re gonna get your 1.4 billion back?
*Update* : I forgot to mention that I decided to give in to Lord Ra’s refund request a week ago and sent the first (and probably the only) installment to the Imperial Tau Syndicate, which accounted for the amount of 0,02ISK and the description “For moral damages, our 2 cents”.
*Update2* : It looks like the Valhalla Naval Corp took the incident more seriously than the Imperial Tau Syndicate did and decided to retaliate and managed to set a good ambush for my Taranis right out of our POS. I swear I thought I did kill their Nemesis before they got me with a glorious bomb, but since I got no killmail apparently their ambush was well thought off. Well played guys, though 17mil according to current prices are peanuts compared to the 1.4 bil worth of Implants eh? Nevertheless, they promised they would return with 40 more of them.. It’s going to be a fun weekend!
*Update3*: On October 18th we woke up just to find ourselves being war-decced by the “Section XII” corporation. The initial WTF, why are they war-deccing us, soon got replaced by “Aaaahhh..”. Remember Katherine Chivahle Well, it so seems that she left The Imperial Tau Syndicate and joined Section XII as a CEO and decided to express her grudge for that Hulk, following suit to Lord Ra’s war-deccing threats. Of course, this was indeed a LOL-dec as Estar Tarns very eloquently put it.. I mean who in their right minds war-decs a w-space corp? Apparently, Section XII realized that.. and they retracted the war-dec two hours later. On the upside, it did make us stay longer online to discuss it, and since we were online we went for some C5 farming. Sunday was good!
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#1 by Jaggins on October 10, 2009 - 07:01
Fun Fun! WH were built for industrialists with teeth! (And Claws, Drakes, Ishkurs, and Rifters…)
#2 by Gilligan Zaftig on October 10, 2009 - 08:19
oh man this is so funny,
#3 by Iltarus on October 10, 2009 - 12:40
Awesome.
I hope I never meet you in 0.0 / W-Space, cant really afford to loose my Ship right now. But the convos… Awesome =)
#4 by Luminus Aardokay on October 10, 2009 - 14:43
It’s the war of the industrialists out there in the cold w-space. Lately the t3 market has been flooded with t3 items for sale, and the prices have plummeted, and the competition became more cutthorat.
We do our best to pose set-backs to our competition =) It’s all about the ISK in the end =) Oh and Iltarus, if you happen to find yourself into Planet Risk by chance, then make sure you first cloak, then say hello =)
#5 by Quivering Palm on October 10, 2009 - 15:26
well tbh in both cases if they where looking their directional they would see our probes hunting them down, so they had their chance to avoid this.. but.. asking for a refund.. lolz
I’d welcome some good pvp action this weekend… let’s see how it goes
#6 by TehMasterSword on October 10, 2009 - 18:10
Well done, snagging two of my Corp members like that. Wish you didn’t though. Maybe not in your post or info you gathered, but I was there too, shooting at your POS just to say hi as well. No hard feelings, right? =]
#7 by Luminus Aardokay on October 10, 2009 - 18:15
Of course no hard feelings =P It is though quite futile to skirmish shoot a large POS with bombs.. not to mention very expensive =)
Well played on the ambush though. But I have to ask, did you guys get your own nemesis as well with that bomb? (7am dogfights are not exactly a thing for historians..)
#8 by TehMasterSword on October 10, 2009 - 18:44
That was mostly for kicks and giggles, we aren’t stupid enough to think we were gonna take you down. Just saying hello.
#9 by Quivering Palm on October 10, 2009 - 18:52
ok seriously now… what do you need 6x Ship Assembly Arrays at your POS for?!?
#10 by Sibilisia on October 10, 2009 - 19:26
lol – well I took the risk onthe implants – asking for the refund – it wasn’t me that asked, you caught us fair and square. Shooting at your POS’s was just for shits and giggles,and bombs don’t cost near as much when you make them urself.
if you want to find out what we need 6 x Ship Assembly array’s for, just bring your fleet over to our Deathstar and try and ransom it.
It was fun catching Luminous in his Taranis, and the glorious bomb did almost take out the nemesis as well – he left the battle with 15% structure.
And while your good at giving advice your readers should be aware your in a C2 Wh, thats what I call Planet-not-at-Risk, when you can master a C5 like ours then come knocking on our door – k?
#11 by Luminus Aardokay on October 10, 2009 - 19:45
Planet Risk is a system that has static exits to null sec and C5′s on a daily basis. C5 sites are our main source of income so we do tackle C5 encounters quite succesfuly.
Of course if we were to set up our POS in a C5, it would be armed to its teeth. We’ve stressed it out on our shows that C2 openings do not allow anything bigger than a battleship to come through, hence the total lack of guns. Check out an earlier post about a siege the russians did on our POS with a few battlships.
Oh btw, we did take a peek at your POS as well =) Tell JohnPaulJones and his Archon we said hi =P
That was an exciting Friday =)
#12 by TehMasterSword on October 10, 2009 - 21:00
Ah Sib, lets not be hostile now, ok? Ha, yes, it was an exciting Friday, maybe we will run into each other some other time.
#13 by Luminus Aardokay on October 10, 2009 - 21:10
Join us in game on channel SIRADIO (You can find it officially listed under the OTHER category). Also join channel WSPACE COLONISTS which gathers people who dwell or thinking about dwelling in wormholes.
#14 by Casiella Truza on October 10, 2009 - 22:37
Clearly, W-space is WAY more inhabited than when I used to spend a lot of time out there earlier this year.
#15 by Mynxee on October 11, 2009 - 21:45
LOL great post. I love the banter.
#16 by Nictutu on October 13, 2009 - 11:21
funny thing is, when JohnPaulJones convoed us through the PR local, I was the only one online. Well I was unaware that the guys had podded 1.4bill of implants earlier that night so I became infuriated in thought of Lord Ra still being after us with SBs. Hot headed as I be, I kinda went ballistic and implied the F-bomb in local that night.
This is my public sorrys for failing to be civil in my own home
Have fun guys
#17 by Errant Storm on October 17, 2009 - 03:33
As I have been living in a WH for the past month, i do say I enjoy it a lot. Just wish i didn’t lose as many drones as I did at first. go go t2 BPC’s
As for refund, can i get a refund for the ammo spent market value for the ammo I made for shooting people in the WH.
#18 by Horus on October 17, 2009 - 13:46
you guys are carebears, seriously go out and get some real fights instead of boasting how cool you are at shooting other carebears
#19 by Luminus Aardokay on October 17, 2009 - 14:02
Ah.. the diversity of Eve. A week ago we’re being accused of being “bloodthirsty pirates”.. now we’re being accused of being “carebears”.
Well Horus.. we are not pirates nor carebears.. we are far worse..
We are.. THE PRESS!
#20 by Horus on October 17, 2009 - 15:33
you guys are bragging that you ganked some carebears though its pathetic lol
#21 by Horus on October 17, 2009 - 15:51
if we take a look at your killboard it seems all you guys ever do is pick on targets that cant shoot back.
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=2
or better still while trying to rr each other
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1
or what about the laxy dosey haulers?
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=5
but hey lets not forget the carebear hulks you guys have lost!
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=87
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=67
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10
http://killboard.siradio.fm/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=55
i think you guys should emo rage quit, failing that carry on as you were just dont brag about it like you guys have acheived somthing it sickens me.
regards AAA
#22 by Luminus Aardokay on October 17, 2009 - 16:29
I fail to see the relevance of your persistence in trying to get the “carebear” point across. I do suggest though that you read the past blog posts as well as listen to the podcasts prior to firing off a defamatory comment as it makes you look as if you’ve been buying from a clue shop down the boondocks.
Our “thesis” states that by entering into this w-space venture, we managed to upgrade ourselves from being carebears into being newbs (a notable upgrade mind you), and we are recounting the story as well as the things we learn day by day for all those people that haven’t had the chance yet to check w-space out.
Throughout our experiences in w-space we’ve encountered other people, and in lawless space everything goes. We’ve fought organized fleets and beat them to smithereens, and we’ve set ambushes to single assault ships and we got embarrassingly pwnd by them. And on countless occasions we’ve presented ourselves as a hindrance to other corps’ industrial attempts, because as Jaggins said in the first post, w-space is for industrialists with teeth. Scare tactics and operations that delay other corporation’s industrial machine in the t3 market is just another form of PVP.
We’re not claiming bragging rights for bringing down defenseless industrial, mining and scanning ships and their pods. That would be pointless either way and with no difficulty merit whatsoever. We are giving an insight of how w-space denizens operate as we’ve been finding ourselves both on the giving and the receiving end (though admittedly as time goes by the “receiving” end becomes rarer).
Finally, I don’t have the slightest clue what you consider valid bragging rights, or what kind of kills you consider noteworthy and how many of those you’ve find yourself in, ergo on the “comparing our e-peens front” we do beg your pardon.. but we’ll have to pass.
#23 by Sengiria on October 18, 2009 - 18:54
Horus lighten up… preferably with petrol!