...And other places too!

Well, it's official, myself and switch have finally returned to Sniggerdly.  I got kind of turned off to posting any further after I facepalmed at Villwraths faggotblog, but I'll talk more about that later.

Since my last update, BANE has all but shit the bed.  The real final straw seemed to be two simultaneous decisions.   The first was by myself and Switch, my brother from another mother.  Whatever we do in eve, we go there together, and we'd been plannning a long-term return to Sniggerdly for a few months now.  Ofcourse, we have a crew that ended up following us to PL and waffles.  

Upon this news, Kri Matar, glorious heretic warlord and another one of my best bros, decided it was time to throw down the corp name poisoned by it's founder and reform Heretic Army.

The schism was under way, and those who didn't find themselves in one of the previous two joined Eternal Perseverance, still under the BANE tag.  PRSVR is an incredibly talented group of pilots who may just be the best Recon ship pilots in eve.  

And now, the story of my first day in Pandemic Legion.  Trials, tribulations and hotdrops



The first time I hopped onto comms, I found myself prepared for the first op, calling for "MHacs".  Switch guessed "medium range HAC's", i.e. vagabonds, and that seemed to make enough sense to me.

The op  began and we were pleased to find out that MHac is not at all medium range, but rather, calls for 900 DPS, 60K range, 2.5k/s rape machines.  The fleet called for machariels.  Those not familiar with the mach may find their ship absent where it existed seconds before.   Machariels are the angel faction pirate battleships, sporting incredibly powerful stats, not to mention a hull that's bigger than a Nyx.  PL has become notorious for utilizing these ships in large numbers, and with their speed, optimal range, tracking and DPS, they're nearly unstoppable.  I saddled up my rapier and came along for the ride.  

PL is currently on contract from some kind of russian deep-pockets, and enlisted to fuck shit up in providence.   The task today seemed to be just that, as we titan-bridged out into the wilderness and began seeking a fight.   AAA, our primary target, was reported by the scouts to have a large gang, but wasn't engaging.  EnGarde, a pet alliance, holed up inside a large tower with about 70 people. 

Cool story here, the POS password was garde.  We spent about a half hour using the Mach's to bump about 10-15 of them out of the pos shields, where they quickly exploded.    Nothing else too interesting happens and we do the few jumps home without event. 

Here's where things begin to get interesting.    Amamake has a habit of keeping my attention, and today, she'd again prove her love to me.   Elise Randolp did say I'd do a better job than Tundragon in honoring the Ossogur gate statue, and on this night, we'd spill blood and make another sacrifice to it. 

Kri Matar, now glorious leader of Heretic Army, reported about 10 russian battleships camping our gate (Ossogur).  It was suspect that they were using a pair of carriers with them, although they weren't on the gate at the time.  

I tabbed over to PL comms and asked in the public lobby who wanted to hotdrop some carriers, and Grath Telkin, a true brosef, along with about 9 other gentlemen x'd up on the fly.  We rallied in a midpoint after about 5 minutes.  With 10 carriers prepped, the plan was for the group of Amamake superheros (Heretics, PRSVR, allies)  to warp in about 5 BS plus a triage carrier.  This would, in theory, bait out whatever capital power our targets had to come to the field.

Kri begins commanding the bait fleet, slugging away at the hostile BS.  About a minute later, just like clockwork, a wild archon appears!   That was all we needed to hear.  Cyno went up, we called for points.

Don't ask me how it happened, but in the chaos, that archon slipped out just as quick as it had come.   I might have fuckraged, but we had a Typhoon Fleet Issue, Absolution and loki to chew on, and so the fighterswarm took flight.  90 Fighters + BS support quickly devoured the menial support fleet, and we found the hostile archon had warped out to a safe!

He's logged out, and our probers work fast.  Another 30 intense seconds pass, and we've got a result.  With our carriers pre-aligned, we warp on top of the result.

"He's warped again...back to the Osso gate!"  We hear, and the fuckrage meter is about to boil over.

"POINT, FUCKING POINT!"

Gotcha carrier.  We warp the fleet back to the Osso gate and lay into the archon.   It died suprisingly fast, but then, with 90 fighters hitting for full damage, I guess you'd expect nothing less.   We warp the carrier fleet off, prepare for exit, and are back in PL HQ in minutes.  The whole operation took maybe a half-hour.   A fucking blast.

 After a few minutes of downtime, myself and switch decided it was time to "roll around in a couple vagas".   Same thing, we talked in comms and got about 10 people to start out with.   Somewhere between then and the next 10 minutes, we'd accrue about 15 more pilots, including 2 scimis, and ended up doing a proper nano-roam.   We'd spend the next few hours parading around the Providence region; PL and Sniggwaffles alike.  We tackled some BC's and BS, had some great intellectual dialog, and floundered around like aspies when trying to probe things.  Eventually we happened around a 10 man "camp" of Circle of Two, via intel channel.  We stalked to the system where they were and deployed tacklers and probes.   As it turned out, they were doing a 10 of 10 complex.   Despite our best efforts, as soon as we got our tacklers within 2 million kilometers of the entrance, they warped out and logged out, watching our movements using a cloaked scout of their own, and likely praying we'd leave them be.

We wouldn't.

Having been denied any kills, we decided it was time for Jew Legion to activate.  25 minmatar nanoboats complete a plex surprisingly fast, and we ended up with some nice X-type gear.  Around 3 AM my own time, we wrapped up the op, distributed ISK and called it a night.

It's been a long time coming I've wanted to return to PL, and I must say I'm pleased with the warm welcome I've received (along with the health amount of hazing, for having been a fucktard for allowing Villwrath to persuade me to leave the first time) 

That was last night, today we've rolled the rapetrain on, and have a particullary entrance system key to Providence square in our sights, I'm looking forward to some good times there tongiht.  I'll keep you updated!