Remember remember the 15th of December...

Okay folks, you know the drill. Yes, that's right...it's story time again.

After a relatively quiet few days with very low STENT activity, there was a noticeable spike on Tuesday December 15th. There were a few of us on so we honestly weren't sure how much activity we'd see outside their Venilen station after the action that morning. Kainan, Walter, and Mixaren managed to pick a fight and pop M Dary's Abaddon as well as Neuroticdax's Drake at the cost of Kainan's Armageddon.

We were proven wrong and significant hostile activity was reported about five hours after the first engagement of the day. STENT appeared focused and ready for a fight as we soon heard there were seven of them camping Govry in station four jumps away in Tintoh.

Well, only two ways to deal with that, and we weren't inclined to wait it out with our numbers at the time. We quickly reshipped for something a bit heavier to offset the numbers disadvantage and to counter the reported four hostile battleships out and about. Arriving next door to Tintoh in Sivala, we heard a report that the hostiles were warping off, having likely spotted us with an alt. Gathering Govry from his station we swung back around to Halaima via Kamio and sent out scouts. We'd missed cutting them off from Sankassen...they were already back in Venilen at their normal station. However they gathered up their numbers as a few more signed in and came back out about 15 minutes later with a fleet of 10 to our 6.

By this time we had moved up a system to Huttaken and were awaiting to see which route they would take. A scout saw one of their members, Graviton Cleric split from the main body with his Manticore and head our way as a scout. Well it just wouldn't do to have our surprise opened too early and so we ducked next door into the rarely used system of Rairomon as STENT jumped into Huttaken and looked around back towards Irjunen for us.

Before we could jump them in a Huttaken belt, Graviton entered Rairomon local and spotted us right away on the gate. What happened next on his end I am not certain, be it lag spike or wrong button, but he began to re-approach the gate uncloaked. Adel got a quick point on him and Kainan insta-popped his little bomber but we failed to snag his pod.

The remaining eight members of the STENT fleet warped from their belt to the Rairomon gate and held, waiting for M Dary's late arrival in his Harbinger...except for Generaal DeLaRay and his Dominix...he jumped through and found himself primaried as he uncloaked...alone...as his alliance mates sat on the other side of the gate...

DLR went down hard and as he died, Runespear's Raven jumped through and uncloaked. The rest of the STENT members entered local and held cloak, only beginning to move and engage when the Raven hit half armor. Upon seeing the tell-tale explosion graphic we chose to 'focus all firepower on that Star Destroyer'...errr...I mean Scorpion which died in about 30 seconds flat.

At about the same time, Adel's Sacrilege couldn't take the damage any longer and got caught on the gate upon which we were all sitting, resulting in a disheartening boom. With a vengeance we lit into Andrew Green and his Megathron as Govry's Raven, their new primary, was taking serious damage. The Mega and the Raven went pop at almost the exact same time.

The remaining STENT members found themselves trapped. Points were being constantly spread to keep them in place, and they continued to aggress, primary'ing myself, Shina, in my Abaddon. In short order we destroyed M Dary's Harbinger, LooneyBandit's Drake, CRJ's Drake,
Hern Choker's Executioner, and Link Astro's Drake. Apparently three pods were also destroyed in the making of this fight, but I have no clue when they went pop...though I do like freshly frozen corpses. My Abaddon finished the fight at about 60% armor.

It was a clean sweep...the only thing that got away were pods, and the remaining Legion personnel, including Adel who had reshipped and come back in a rookie ship, were left to salvage and loot the field. Isk balanced out to just under 1 billion ISK dmg done, and about 226 million ISK dmg taken.

And so folks, Remember remember the 15th of December, don't underestimate the power of a well organized and focused gang, and STENT...pay the ransom ^_^