Greetings once again faithful and new readers. I must say, I am quite honored and amused to have three new subscribers within the last week. When I started this thing, it was more a place for random thoughts and I never imagined I'd have any real readers.
Anywho, I'm stuck indoors tonight due to lots of snow and really bad road conditions...for anyone who knows me, boredom is bad, m'kay? It did allow for me to toss around an old idea that I have considered from time to time, but have never attempted. Anyone who either reads Crime and Punishment regularly or knows any of the basics about the Battletech Universe knows of or has heard of the Mercenary Review Board (MRB) or the Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission (MRBC). This concept has been brought to Eve by a few roleplayers and a handful of trolls to attempt to stir up trouble against various mercenary organizations.
I wish to use this blog, and perspective as someone who has been a member of the mercenary community and continues to actively take and pursue contracts to attempt to give as unbiased and relevant review of some of Eve-Online's mercenary units, both past and present.
This will be a long-term project and in all likelihood I expect some people to take offense at what I post here in terms of analysis and ranking. While it not my intent to offend anyone with this, it may happen. I would greatly appreciate feedback on my reviews in order to help me refine the system and rankings to give as accurate a picture of those I profile as possible.
I will be rating the organizations that I profile based on a number of catagories:
Experience:
How long has the unit been in the game?
How long have the members/member corps been together, or how long were they together?
How long has the unit been involved in mercenary work?
Combat Record:
How successful is the unit at completing contracts to the clients' satisfaction?
What does the unit's K:D ratio in ships and ISK look like?
How effectively can the unit apply its firepower?
Transport/Logistics/Mobility:
Where does the unit tend to operate? (Highsec/Lowsec/Nullsec)
How effectively can they supply themselves? (Replace losses)
Do their logistics capabilities permit them to move enough personnel and material to continue prolonged operations?
How far can/will the unit be able to move itself and its resources to pursue the completion of a contract?
Technology/Equipment:
What ship types are used most? (t1, t2, t3)
Does the unit have access to Capital Ships?
How much firepower is typically brought to fights?
Financial:
Is the unit in the Red (losing money) or in the Black (showing profit)?
Are they causing more damage in ISK than they are receiving?
The first profile/ranking of a mercenary unit (which should be up relatively soon) will focus on the unit that, in large part, was the progenitor for today's mercenary business and the roll-model for the modern nullsec alliance. Everyone aspired to their prowess and their firepower. Mercenaries wanted to be them. Alliances wanted to hire them. Coalitions feared them and were broken by them. I am, of course, referring to Mercenary Coalition.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Defending the King of Veldspar
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
In this case, the side of the majority is avoiding the ranks of the insane, and smacking them down severely for daring to think they could harass the Veld-God that is Chribba. CONCORD Preservation and Recovery has found themselves under a declaration of war from some of the primary Mercenary powers left remaining in Eve, along with 15-20 smaller corporations...if not more...XII Legion included.
XII Legion Declares War Against CONCORD Preservation and Recovery
From: CONCORD
Sent: 2009.12.30 23:16
XII Legion has declared war on CONCORD Preservation and Recovery.
Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. We are of the chosen ones, Sent from within New Eden, in the name of Man kind, Power and survival. We will lead the weak through the valley of the darkness. We are truly our brother's keepers and the finder of lost souls. Let it be known to all, to those who attempt to kill and destroy our brothers in arms. We will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger upon you and to those within your corporation And you will recognize and fear our names. New Eden help your soul.
CONCORD Preservation and Recovery has, after being flooded with declarations of war from all across New Eden, retracted their war against Chribba. I doubt, however, that it will stop here. They have crossed the line. Even the most notorious pirates are content to allow Chribba to mine Veld in lowsec, even in his titans, as they slaughter helpless travelers all around him...and yet he remains untouched. Such is the respect that the community has for this person that hundreds, if not thousands of people will drop what they are doing and rush to his defense at a moment's notice. In saving Chribba's POS's in the Irnin system this past day, next to Amarr Prime, the heathens were repulsed, having lost 3 Armageddons, 1 Omen, and 1 Maller. In turn the 'Knights of the Veld' lost 9 Pospreys.
IMM corp, of the Systematic-Chaos alliance, holders of Sov in much of Estoria, have been linked to this effort. One of their members, Prometheus09, clearly implicates himself of involvement with the CONCORD Preservation and Recovery corporation in his blog on December 22 entitled Knocking At The POS. Are we to sit and watch as an alliance chooses to harass the most beloved character in all the game? Zedrik Cayne and the IEEE have taken the step and put in the vote to bypass investigation and wage direct and open warfare upon these heathens.
XII Legion applauds his efforts and gladly supports the IEEE in this endeavor. The question is, how much of the Eve community will follow suite? A coordinated effort must be made in order to effectively harass the empire operations of the 5th largest alliance in the game. The next few weeks will tell where the lines will be drawn
Marcus Aurelius
In this case, the side of the majority is avoiding the ranks of the insane, and smacking them down severely for daring to think they could harass the Veld-God that is Chribba. CONCORD Preservation and Recovery has found themselves under a declaration of war from some of the primary Mercenary powers left remaining in Eve, along with 15-20 smaller corporations...if not more...XII Legion included.
XII Legion Declares War Against CONCORD Preservation and Recovery
From: CONCORD
Sent: 2009.12.30 23:16
XII Legion has declared war on CONCORD Preservation and Recovery.
Within 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. We are of the chosen ones, Sent from within New Eden, in the name of Man kind, Power and survival. We will lead the weak through the valley of the darkness. We are truly our brother's keepers and the finder of lost souls. Let it be known to all, to those who attempt to kill and destroy our brothers in arms. We will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger upon you and to those within your corporation And you will recognize and fear our names. New Eden help your soul.
CONCORD Preservation and Recovery has, after being flooded with declarations of war from all across New Eden, retracted their war against Chribba. I doubt, however, that it will stop here. They have crossed the line. Even the most notorious pirates are content to allow Chribba to mine Veld in lowsec, even in his titans, as they slaughter helpless travelers all around him...and yet he remains untouched. Such is the respect that the community has for this person that hundreds, if not thousands of people will drop what they are doing and rush to his defense at a moment's notice. In saving Chribba's POS's in the Irnin system this past day, next to Amarr Prime, the heathens were repulsed, having lost 3 Armageddons, 1 Omen, and 1 Maller. In turn the 'Knights of the Veld' lost 9 Pospreys.
IMM corp, of the Systematic-Chaos alliance, holders of Sov in much of Estoria, have been linked to this effort. One of their members, Prometheus09, clearly implicates himself of involvement with the CONCORD Preservation and Recovery corporation in his blog on December 22 entitled Knocking At The POS. Are we to sit and watch as an alliance chooses to harass the most beloved character in all the game? Zedrik Cayne and the IEEE have taken the step and put in the vote to bypass investigation and wage direct and open warfare upon these heathens.
XII Legion applauds his efforts and gladly supports the IEEE in this endeavor. The question is, how much of the Eve community will follow suite? A coordinated effort must be made in order to effectively harass the empire operations of the 5th largest alliance in the game. The next few weeks will tell where the lines will be drawn
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
A Satisfactory Ending and a Call to JIHAD!
Greetings yon readers.
Today has seen the end of our war against Silver Twilight Enterprises. Their good humor throughout the ordeal as well as their relatively polite behavior and willingness to now negotiate a peace. Taljian/IR2way, Zodd Nos, and Tovanis, all alts of the same person, have been removed from STENT and apologies have been made about the causes of the war. So, STENT is off the hook. Well fought gentlemen...look us up if you need help in the future. And so now it's a waiting game for Tal to get back into a player corp so we can kick him around a bit more...or log in and undock so we can gank another of his mining barges. ^_^
In other news, Chribba, all hail the true Lord of the Eve-verse, has been dec'd by a bunch of Systematic-Chaos alts who also stole one of his POS towers while also attempting to ransom him. Yeah...Chribba has not asked anyone for ISK, assistance, or anything to counter the alt corp called CONCORD Preservation and Recovery, thread found here, but Chribba is Chribba...and one does not mess with the provider of thine eve-search, third party services, and various other projects that a good chunk of EVE users integrate into their gaming lives every day.
And so this brings us to a momentous day, my friends...one of the rare moments in EVE that have brought the many individuals together to fight a common cause. Yes, that is right...a C&P Jihad has been declared against .CPR. and Systematic-Chaos for their offenses against the Eve-Lord Chribba. Over twenty organizations have put forth the votes to initiate hostilities against .CPR. and more are likely to follow. Their mains in Systematic-Chaos are also likely to begin feeling the heat shortly.
Sound the horns, my friends. Gather your ships, your drones, your friends and your foes. Put aside your differences in defense of Chribba. They have violated a Sacred Eve-Law. Let there be war...let us make impure their women. Gather your forces and let our strength is numbers blot out the sun. Let the games begin and may their pods rot in Rancer for all eternity! To war, my friends...to war...
Today has seen the end of our war against Silver Twilight Enterprises. Their good humor throughout the ordeal as well as their relatively polite behavior and willingness to now negotiate a peace. Taljian/IR2way, Zodd Nos, and Tovanis, all alts of the same person, have been removed from STENT and apologies have been made about the causes of the war. So, STENT is off the hook. Well fought gentlemen...look us up if you need help in the future. And so now it's a waiting game for Tal to get back into a player corp so we can kick him around a bit more...or log in and undock so we can gank another of his mining barges. ^_^
In other news, Chribba, all hail the true Lord of the Eve-verse, has been dec'd by a bunch of Systematic-Chaos alts who also stole one of his POS towers while also attempting to ransom him. Yeah...Chribba has not asked anyone for ISK, assistance, or anything to counter the alt corp called CONCORD Preservation and Recovery, thread found here, but Chribba is Chribba...and one does not mess with the provider of thine eve-search, third party services, and various other projects that a good chunk of EVE users integrate into their gaming lives every day.
And so this brings us to a momentous day, my friends...one of the rare moments in EVE that have brought the many individuals together to fight a common cause. Yes, that is right...a C&P Jihad has been declared against .CPR. and Systematic-Chaos for their offenses against the Eve-Lord Chribba. Over twenty organizations have put forth the votes to initiate hostilities against .CPR. and more are likely to follow. Their mains in Systematic-Chaos are also likely to begin feeling the heat shortly.
Sound the horns, my friends. Gather your ships, your drones, your friends and your foes. Put aside your differences in defense of Chribba. They have violated a Sacred Eve-Law. Let there be war...let us make impure their women. Gather your forces and let our strength is numbers blot out the sun. Let the games begin and may their pods rot in Rancer for all eternity! To war, my friends...to war...
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas to me?
Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
I'm honestly not quite sure what many of you would be doing reading a blog like this during such an important time of year, but I just had to take a moment to post this up. As of last night, I, Shina Windol, CEO/Legatus of the XII Legion corporation, have won our eve-Lord Chribba's mothership auction for an Aeon-class Supercap.
Thread here
While I have corpmates who could fly the darned thing and I could do so myself in 2 days worth of training, it's just not conducive to our operations and so will be sold off to the highest bidder. The sale of this awe-inspiring ship should raise at least 16 billion ISK in funds, allowing us to maintain our current war against STENT at the current wardec fee of 100 million ISK per week for approximately 3 years...and we will continue to fight them that long if we have to in order to kill Taljian/IR2Way, Zodd Nos and their ilk. We'll see you in space STENT, unless of course you pay the ransom.
Merry Christmas y'all.
I'm honestly not quite sure what many of you would be doing reading a blog like this during such an important time of year, but I just had to take a moment to post this up. As of last night, I, Shina Windol, CEO/Legatus of the XII Legion corporation, have won our eve-Lord Chribba's mothership auction for an Aeon-class Supercap.
Thread here
While I have corpmates who could fly the darned thing and I could do so myself in 2 days worth of training, it's just not conducive to our operations and so will be sold off to the highest bidder. The sale of this awe-inspiring ship should raise at least 16 billion ISK in funds, allowing us to maintain our current war against STENT at the current wardec fee of 100 million ISK per week for approximately 3 years...and we will continue to fight them that long if we have to in order to kill Taljian/IR2Way, Zodd Nos and their ilk. We'll see you in space STENT, unless of course you pay the ransom.
Merry Christmas y'all.
Christmas season skirmishes
Welp, since we trounced STENT's fleet on December 15th, we haven't seen many of them out in any significant numbers. Oh we've had a few skirmishes in the area, almost always with XII Legion coming out on top.
Dragon Thunder's shiney new Drake and pod got popped by Kainan's solo Zealot on the 17th. STENT retaliated on the 19th by cornering Govry and his raven. He did, however, manage to kill Hern Choker's Executioner and Leshiye's Drake before falling to M Dary's Harbinger. Our response was swift, taking out one of our prime targets, IR2WAY in his massively expensive Nighthawk along with his pod, and hopefully a nice set of implants.
Mainly we've just picked off a few other targets as we've seen them. Another Harbi, Drake, Rifter, and Caracal.
So TL;DR is that Legion is still making good headway, war targets are getting frustrated if the increasing amount of smack talk is any indication, and STENT still refuses to pay the ransom as their alliance closes in on the 3 billion isk dmg taken mark closes in...nearly 5.2 billion isk in dmg has been dished out since the beginning of Operation Jazz Hands.
Pay the ransom and Merry Christmas to all
Dragon Thunder's shiney new Drake and pod got popped by Kainan's solo Zealot on the 17th. STENT retaliated on the 19th by cornering Govry and his raven. He did, however, manage to kill Hern Choker's Executioner and Leshiye's Drake before falling to M Dary's Harbinger. Our response was swift, taking out one of our prime targets, IR2WAY in his massively expensive Nighthawk along with his pod, and hopefully a nice set of implants.
Mainly we've just picked off a few other targets as we've seen them. Another Harbi, Drake, Rifter, and Caracal.
So TL;DR is that Legion is still making good headway, war targets are getting frustrated if the increasing amount of smack talk is any indication, and STENT still refuses to pay the ransom as their alliance closes in on the 3 billion isk dmg taken mark closes in...nearly 5.2 billion isk in dmg has been dished out since the beginning of Operation Jazz Hands.
Pay the ransom and Merry Christmas to all
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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 ^_^
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 ^_^
Saturday, December 19, 2009
As the STENT war continues
Alright Ladies and Gents,
So far we are nearing two weeks into our war against Silver Twilight Enterprises alliance in pursuit of our previous war target smacktards formerly of Zeitgeist corp. At the present time STENT continues to refuse to pay the ransom and release our ZTG targets from their roster...their tears entertain us in the meantime.
So to pick up where I last left off, the evening of Day 3, December 10th, saw some more action out of STENT approximately ten hours or so after SHVAK was relieved of his cloaking Kestrel and pod. A STENT Drake, one of many that we've seen so far, decided to get adventurous and play some dock dock games off of their Caldari Navy station in Venilen. Now for those of you reading who have not visited this station, it's one of the tall narrow caldari stations that will spit you right out of dock range.
The target undocks 3 times, each time getting into low shield before edging back into dock range. On the fourth attempt, he's bumped a bit further off and we're pounding away at him. The target is starting to bleed into armor, a sure death sentence for a Drake, when two alliance mates in a Drake and a Harbinger undock to attempt to rescue him. Using ECM Drones, the Harbinger gets a lucky cycle on Xavier's Harbinger and the target Drake escapes with about 1/4 armor remaining. Frustrated by the loss of our imminent kill mail, all firepower is focused on the agressed Harbinger. Unfortunately in the process his drones cycle on my Pilgrim, allowing him a clean, non-tracking disrupted shot at Hornet in his Manticore, which had drifted too close to the fight. Hornet pops in three volleys, earning the 'That Guy' title for first corp loss in a particular war dec. Thankfully the Harbi pops moments later and we are able to grab loot from both wrecks while still coming out on top in terms of ISK killed and lost.
Things got quiet after that until about 01:30 eve-time Saturday morning on December 12th. Xavier, one of our buddies from NECAD that merged in to fight ZTG, found himself camped in Kaunokka, next door to STENT's Venilen base. Quickly gathering a group of Legionnaires together, Detria and company hustled out from Irjunen in response. Xavier undocked and grabbed aggro from the STENT fleet (Onyx, Megathron, Scorpion, Blackbird, Harbinger, and a few Drakes). Having agressed and now unable to dock, the STENT fleet found itself beset by XII Legion.
Xavier was already outside in his Harbinger, and had grabbed the Onyx with a point. At this point, the Legion fleet dropped out of warp, Walter's Guardian ensured Xavier's survival while another Harbinger, two Absolutions, a Dominix, and a Falcon laid into the surprised STENT'ers. The Onyx fell under the onslaught and the Megathron melted not long after, however the rest of the STENT fleet was able to escape before Legion personnel could cover distance to spread points. Despite missing out on the other mails, the field was ours as was the loot. Add that to no losses and a well executed strike and chalk up one more win for the Legion.
The rest of the weekend passed fairly quietly aside from some of the guy's picking off Lord Xymox's Drake in Onnamon in Black Rise missioning. He left their alliance shortly after in utter frustration.
So far we are nearing two weeks into our war against Silver Twilight Enterprises alliance in pursuit of our previous war target smacktards formerly of Zeitgeist corp. At the present time STENT continues to refuse to pay the ransom and release our ZTG targets from their roster...their tears entertain us in the meantime.
So to pick up where I last left off, the evening of Day 3, December 10th, saw some more action out of STENT approximately ten hours or so after SHVAK was relieved of his cloaking Kestrel and pod. A STENT Drake, one of many that we've seen so far, decided to get adventurous and play some dock dock games off of their Caldari Navy station in Venilen. Now for those of you reading who have not visited this station, it's one of the tall narrow caldari stations that will spit you right out of dock range.
The target undocks 3 times, each time getting into low shield before edging back into dock range. On the fourth attempt, he's bumped a bit further off and we're pounding away at him. The target is starting to bleed into armor, a sure death sentence for a Drake, when two alliance mates in a Drake and a Harbinger undock to attempt to rescue him. Using ECM Drones, the Harbinger gets a lucky cycle on Xavier's Harbinger and the target Drake escapes with about 1/4 armor remaining. Frustrated by the loss of our imminent kill mail, all firepower is focused on the agressed Harbinger. Unfortunately in the process his drones cycle on my Pilgrim, allowing him a clean, non-tracking disrupted shot at Hornet in his Manticore, which had drifted too close to the fight. Hornet pops in three volleys, earning the 'That Guy' title for first corp loss in a particular war dec. Thankfully the Harbi pops moments later and we are able to grab loot from both wrecks while still coming out on top in terms of ISK killed and lost.
Things got quiet after that until about 01:30 eve-time Saturday morning on December 12th. Xavier, one of our buddies from NECAD that merged in to fight ZTG, found himself camped in Kaunokka, next door to STENT's Venilen base. Quickly gathering a group of Legionnaires together, Detria and company hustled out from Irjunen in response. Xavier undocked and grabbed aggro from the STENT fleet (Onyx, Megathron, Scorpion, Blackbird, Harbinger, and a few Drakes). Having agressed and now unable to dock, the STENT fleet found itself beset by XII Legion.
Xavier was already outside in his Harbinger, and had grabbed the Onyx with a point. At this point, the Legion fleet dropped out of warp, Walter's Guardian ensured Xavier's survival while another Harbinger, two Absolutions, a Dominix, and a Falcon laid into the surprised STENT'ers. The Onyx fell under the onslaught and the Megathron melted not long after, however the rest of the STENT fleet was able to escape before Legion personnel could cover distance to spread points. Despite missing out on the other mails, the field was ours as was the loot. Add that to no losses and a well executed strike and chalk up one more win for the Legion.
The rest of the weekend passed fairly quietly aside from some of the guy's picking off Lord Xymox's Drake in Onnamon in Black Rise missioning. He left their alliance shortly after in utter frustration.
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