Making friends with Providence!

While you nerds were sleeping, Lucius and I got stuff done! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Speaking of nerds, our most recent adventure takes place in Providence. LA and I were just being cute lil nocturnal brats, just ratting and shit when we were rudely interrupted by a Crow. Some EVE players have no manners at all. Anyway, we met up with some Providence fellas that were set to blue and vice versa. We proceeded to fleet up and hunt our way through the Provibloc, with help of our faithful Provi assistant and his Intel channels.

Eventually, we stumbled upon some nerds that had a bit of issues with a red fleet coming in and causing mayhem. Being the excellent citizens we are, we couldn't let our fellow EVE players suffer! In all reality, Lucius was bloodthirsty and didn't care where the blood came from as long as it was the blood of enemies. It’s how he keeps his youthful charm. This is what his bloodthirst face probably looks like according to science ಥ‿ಥ

Anyway, our pals were having issues with a wormhole corp that were camping the opposite side of the gate, effectively trapping one of their buddies in. So, we all fleeted up and they jumped on comms with us. Lucius was the FC and was super professional! If he told me to give me his first-born for the good of the op, I probably would have done it and thought it was the right thing! After a cute lil skirmish, the Broadsword and the Pilgrim got away, but we got their Hurricane Fleet Issue! Here’s a link to the kill mail boop. Don’t mess with the best! ❀◕ ‿ ◕❀

All in all, it was a very interesting experience and a nice way to pop my PVP cherry! Though, I’m proud to rock my carebear status (✿◠‿◠)

The people from Providence were very sweet and we got to teach them all about wormholes and how much fun they are, along with some helpful tricks. While the idea of Providence is fascinating and we met some very interesting friends, I’m perfectly content to be the WH Gods that we are.

This has been a Slice of Enthusiasm, with Viktoriya!

Grand theft carrier

If you keep your eyes open in w-space, you can sometimes spot the telltale signs of the presence of other pilots, often long gone. Some containers there, a mobile depot there, the flight of drones left floating in space during a mad dash for the exit. Most of the items floating are garbage, but occasionally, if you're vigilant and lucky, you will find something worth taking.

On this particular day I was scouting a C5 where we had discovered a highsec entrance, which was serendipitous as there were several new pilots who needed to enter the wormhole. I covered with a falcon as they brought in their ships and possessions, all neatly packed, like Boy Scouts going on a campout. In the middle of the convoy, a wild Colonel Smash appeared in local, and at the exact same time a thanatos appeared on dscan.

Colonel Smash: hey I'm selling these carriers, good price

This is my thanny. There are
many like it, but this one was mine.
Kind of

Obvious trap is obvious, I thought. It was an odd choice of bait, however, especially because Smash's corp did not match the towers in this system. I hustled the remaining crew into the wormhole and began looking for the pilot. Sure enough, there was soon a corpse on dscan - Smash's corpse. I quickly scanned down the thanatos and, lo and behold, it was unpiloted. I logged on a carrier alt and instructed the crew to get into position for coverage. We grabbed the thanatos and got away, and that's when we discovered 2 archons on dscan as well, at a different planet. They were also unpiloted. Sadly I didn't have an archon pilot available, and asked in alliance chat for an assist. Some Taggarts dashed over as quickly as they could, but just a few minutes too late - the Lead Farmers had found their way into the WH and were also making a grab for the archons. Vastly outnumbered, I ordered the crew to stand down. We then managed to find a null and cyno the thanny out of there.

I cannot say the events that led to Smash entering the C5, but as he did not live there, it seems more likely that he had trapped himself without a scout. Whatever happened, CCP soon confiscated the thanny, as Smash had apparently filed a petition that he had been hacked. I find it more likely that he derped EVE and then cried about it via petition, but who knows. At least my crew had some fun that night.