This morning I woke up with a tooth ache at about 5AM and since I wasn’t going to be getting back to sleep, I decided to take a trip into Evati. Evati is a low-sec system in Metropolis and it’s home of the famous Hellcats and The Bastards.
Hellcats is an all female pirate corporation, and they ran a nice little party a few weeks ago - a party with 100 Tech 2 fitted rifters for people to play with in Evati, many many faction ship giveaways, and also a party drug dealer supplying boosters for the masses. It was a great party, and they all seem to know how to have fun, so I figured I’d head out that way to try to lose a ship and maybe get some sweet female tears in the process.
So I was just hopping through the belts in my Drake when I saw a Crusader, an interceptor class ship that’s super fast. The speed is the problem, since interceptor pilots tend to orbit at a very fast rate making it difficult to hit them. It engaged me and I couldn’t slow it down with my web since it was orbiting me just out of web range. All I could think of to actually get the kill was to use my microwarp drive to try to get in closer and fortunatley the pilot wasn’t paying enough attention and ended up within range of my web and warp scrambler. Once I’d managed to get him locked down, my drones and missiles made short work of him. Here’s the killmail.
During this engagement, towards the end, another Drake turned up, piloted by Ard UnjiGo of The Bastards I was down to half shields at this point, and another ship warped in, a Vexor, piloted by Pastor Phelps, again of The Bastards.
I pretty much gave up at this point, tried to get out of scrambler range to warp off, but to no avail. Managed to get my pod out intact and then had a bit of a chat about the fight. Here is the killmail
What could I have done to improve on the interceptor kill? I wasn’t completely satisfied with it since it was only possible due to the pilots mistake. The answer I received in local was ‘Have some buddies’, which would’ve worked. Personally though, I think had I been able to overload the web or my microwarpdrive then I might’ve been able to get in range more effectively. As for escaping with my ship, I should’ve been aligned to something to get out quicker, though ultimately I’m not sure it would’ve helped.
I’ll leave you with the text from Pastor Phelps‘ bio, It really made me laugh:
“Pastor” is the unfortunate first name for this son of the Caldari State. Phelps’ parents, in an attempt to name their son after an important and successful ancestor, misinterpreted records of a “Pastor Fred Phelps” who once lived on Earth, and concluded that “Pastor” was the man’s first name. Of course, few in Caldari territory recognize the error, as religion is all but dead to a people whose god is capitalism and whose church is the corporate headquarters. Among his Amarr friends, however, Pastor Phelps is the butt of many a joke.
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