Fun roams with new friends.

I say 'new friends' but I know that some of the Defenders of Pen Island have been friendly and flying with Shadow Cartel for some time. However it has only just become something that I have started to do and I have to admit I enjoy it.

So last night I log on and Helicity Bosun says 'Mail shield roam with shadow in 45 mins, u coming?'

I look at my ships and start thinking of what I would take to such a roam. My eye light up when I see the two Loki hulls I have fitted up recently and tell Heli I will be there.

I do a quick refit, changing the MWD for an AB and the point for a Invul. I knew that it would be unlikely that we would set off without dedictaed tackle so I felt good sacrificing the point for a bit of extra tank. But i wimp out in taking the faction web Loki i own and instead used my T2 fit one. I know... Wimp right?

I give my ship to our carrier pilot to jump it over to Shadow's home system and start making my way over in a Taranis. 18 jumps I might even find something to kill on the way.

I start off and find nothing till i realise I am chasing a FW Slicer gate after gate. So when I finally catch up with him I ask him for a 1v1 and start orbiting him nice and close on the gate waiting for him to engage.

He refuses but then a pilot from another faction comes through in a Wolf and they start the fight. I'm a bit slow to whore on the Slicer KM and the Wolf pilot doesn't want to fight me =(

So i make it to Shadow's home system Goinard. Easily one of the best EvE System names... Go In 'Ard... get it? Eh...

Anyway we get a Bs heavy fleet together with some lighter stuff and reps and we head out and scout out a small gatecamp in Mannar and send some tackle and bait through. They engage and we jump the rest of the fleet in. Our main target, an Absolution command ship, manages to warp away but we take out a Ferox and Hurricane.

We then continue on and find a very heavy BC gang in on of the systems up the same pipe. they obviously have eyes on our bigger BS heavy fleet and scatter before we can tackle anything.

A Carrier is undocked from one of the stations in the next system so we send Jawmare and a couple of other Tempests to try and bump the guy off station. Jawmare is engaged by the carrier and somehow gets popped by it! Much *Facepalm* ensues and then *facedesks* when the KM is linked... Um Jaw I think you forgot your rigs, just saying!


A Manticore decides to try and lol kill some of our gang while we are waiting on the gate for FC to scout some people out and gets popped for it's trouble. Not sure what that pilot was thinking but what ever.

We then play some station games with a couple of Machariels but we got real bored real fast so started scouting a B A N E fleet in Amamake. Wowbagger sends in some cloaky tackle but somehow they all get uncloaked and the main bulk of the other fleet warps off. However this Hurricane is a bit slow and gets taken out.

Wish we could of got more of the B A N E fleet as we have some history with those guys and it's always nice to blob the blobbers lol.

So we start out again and find a Geddon and Apoc Navy sitting on a station. We send through some bait and the Geddon agresses so we put the rest of the fleet in and pop him. We then start on the unagressed Apoc Navy but he docks. To bad.

Same system we find a Abaddon on the other station and go in to make him dock.

He just sits there with combined DPS of our fleet hitting him. He goes into low armor and we're all loling at his repair bill, waiting for him to dock.

Nope he no dock. He pops just sitting on station and we get his pod too. WTF? AFK Abaddon? WTF FACTION FIT AFK ABADDON?! A 1.7 BILLION ISK AFK FACTION FIT ABADDON!


Much lols were had at this point.

We warp to the out gate and a Wolf comes in so we pop that and get this in local from the Wolf pilot.

[ 2011.05.08 21:53:13 ] Ishuk0ne > noobs.

We wait for our scouts to report. Drake and Gila on the next gate. We agress the Drake and put a tackler on the other side to make sure we don't lose them. They both jump through and the Gila is pointed and popped but the Drake gets away.

We start to head down to Tama to get a good fight and find a FW fleet on a high sec gate. We jump into it and they all start jumping out. We manage to grab a Hurricane before he gets out but everyone else jumps back to high sec.

I have to leave at this point so thank the FC and reppers for a good night and go to bed. Looking at the KB this morning it looks like I didn't miss much, they mangaed to catch 2 more of the FW Hurricanes in Tama but thats about all.

All in all a nice little fleet action. Too bad we didn't find any other fleets to engage but we all had a bit of fun and managed to pop some good stuff.

The last word goes to Trenny Jr, who for some reason decided to put a AB on his Tempest instead of a MWD and admitted to this when he was trying to bump the Carrier

[20:16:54] trenny jr > I IS GUD AT THIS GAME

No Trenny... your really not! Lol

Fly dangerous o/

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Armor roam through low sec with famous people!

Having a great roam tonight but not on Mail.

Hannibal has come into his own tonight flying a Curse. Never flown one in a gang and especially not an armor gang!

Armor gang, this is a change from normal as Defenders of Pen Island are notorious shield nano fags these days.

First kill in the roam was the best. This lovely Macharial. He had 3 carriers and a friend in another Macharial to help him but he still went splat with no losses on our side. Nom Nom!

I also want to mention Rixx Javixx who I had the pleasure to fleet with. And of course Helicity was also here!

Big love to the reppers as well. Those guardians are epic!

Back to the roam!

Fly dangerous o/

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Looking for investment opportunities!

Hi all,

Being a pirate is great. I won't ever leave the proffession and at least 1 toon will always be neg sec status for as long as I play.

However being a pirate is not great for the ISK situation.

I have tried PI and market trading and find both of them... meh... boring!

So I am looking for an entrepreneur who I can back with a certain amount of ISK who will then go on and make ISK for both of us.

If this is you, you could already have a business in EvE and be looking to expand or thinking of starting one up, please put together a business plan and send me an ingame EvE message.

If I do not feel I can back the proposal myself I may be able to get some friends to also come in on it. Sort of like an EvE Dragons Den.

Hope to hear from some people soon.

Fly Dangerous o/

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A damn good fight!

Hey guys!

Had a great fight last night so thought I would share it with you.

As part of The Defenders Of Pen Island I, and my alliance mates, get alot of stick for blobbing and yeah we do do things like this and this.

It's part of the game and as we play our roles as Pirates, we prey on weak and helpless. Thats sort of part of the Pirate image.

However we also don't run from proper fights if they come up and this was proven yesterday in Sisiede.

So me and Otto are running around in Sisiede in our cloaky probing ships and we both get a hit on this Drake and warp to him at range. I land 50km from him and realise he is sitting about 220km from the Amamake gate. We call on comms and get together a small gank fleet.

Mail in his new Cynabal, Otto in his Drake and a couple of others warp to my cloaky alt who has slowboated into popint range and we start the engagement.

At this moment we are thinking this is probably bait but we could try and gank it and get out.

The Drake is deep in shield when a friend of his in a Hurricane lands, primary is called on the 'Cane and damage is switched over. Then another one of his friends in a Cyclone lands. We make sure we spread our points but just as the enemy 'Cane is going down he manages to warp out.

One of our 'Canes goes down and we find out later that Ollie Khan, one of my best mates in RL, is a total FAIL and had fit a Medium Shield Extender II to his 'Cane instead of a large one. Moron...

Anyway back to the fight and primary is switched back to the Drake and he is finished off. Once he is down we switch to the Cyclone just as the rest of his gang lands. The first Hurricane comes back with another 2 'Canes in tow plus a Brutix, Dominix, Tempest and Blackbird.

The primary is switched again to the 2nd of the 2 'Canes and he dies in a ball of fire and the next primary, Tempest, is called. Our fleet are spreading points and keeping range as the Domi is heavy neut fitted.

Piscis is throwing missiles 90km out to the Blackbird who has to scarper before he gets melted. Damage is still on the Tempest and it eventually goes boom with the next primary being another of the Hurricanes.

Our fleet all being shield and nano fit are easily keeping range on the armor fleet and able to put alot more damage on them than they are able to put on us. Piscis is still on anti Blackbird duty and everytime he comes on grid sends missiles flying his way.

2nd Hurricane is down and the primary is now the 3rd Hurricane which also goes down under combined fire of our fleet.

We finally get back to destroying the Cyclone we started earlier and now thier fleet is tring to pull range and warp out from us. Not going to happen when it is armor versus shield but they do try.

Cyclone goes down so we pour the damage onto the Brutix. With our fleet being at least 20km all through the fight he has been completely useless in this engagement which is why we left such a high DPS ship till last. Just in case you were wondering.

The last ship on the field for the other side is thier Dominix. He is now alone facing a full fleet of high DPS ships.

Bye bye Dominix, your neuts will not save you now mwuhahahah!

GF was offered in local by our fleet but only one pilot from thier fleet Gf'd back and that was the Blackbird pilot... probably because he didn't die!

Fly Dangerous o/

Mail

Hi People!

I'm coming back.

Quite simply I have not had time recently to devote to blogging about EvE online but I have been playing a bit, now and again.

So lets do a quick update on the Mail Lite family. We'll start with RL first, I now have a 4 and a half month old son, Daniel. He loves sitting on my knee while I am playing EvE and I am hoping to get him into EvE when he is older. Lol!

Now for in game news about my 'Family', the pirate corp named Fla5hy Red.

As you guys probably all know we became very friendly with Python Cartel pretty much as soon as we left The Guristas Associates and started our own corp.

Over a few months it became clear that this would be more than just a passing friendship and we started talks with Python about setting up an official alliance with them,

What resulted was 'The Defenders of Pen Island' Fla5hy Red and Python Cartel were now one big happy and penis loving family. And since then we have gone from strength to strength and are enjoying our pirating more and more.

Golden Helmets official Pen Island Defenders announcement is found here.

Now as for my characters.

Mail Lite continues on his way to master Sub-Cap ships. He now has both Gallente and Minmitar Cruiser 5 and is working on the support skills and missiles before maxing out other ship command skills. In the big breaks I have had to take now and again Mail has also been working on gunnery skills and is now proficient enough to hit hard with either blasters or projectiles.

Hannibal is now on his way to -10. I hate missions and I felt that having Hannibal as a high sec toon was a waste of a really good combat toon. Hannibal has maximized his gunnery support skills and is working on T2 large LAZORS for his Abbadon.

He's also been using his scanning skills in and around Egglehende is one of the first points of call when we see a squishy mission runner in local.

TKK is now playing with Planetary Interaction and is currently making around 10mil a day. Not a lot but not bad for someone who only started 3 days ago!!

There have been some good fights recently and I think I will mention 2 of them. The first was fleet on fleet and the last was a gank.

Ok so the fleet on fleet foght all started when Hannibal scanned down a Drake doing a mission in Egg. We get 100% warp through 2 gates and pop the guys Drake in short order. Nothing special in that I guess but what happened next was a really good fight.

We fere sitting in the guys mission for a few minutes, talking and joking about penises when we got an Armageddon, Apocalypse and Dramiel on scan within 90km of where we were sitting. They were obviously sitting on the first gate so I sent Hannibal in his Falcon to go have a look.

Low and Behold they are sitting on the first gate so I get close to them and our fleet warps to the closest celestial and then back to Hannibal. We get point on each of them and then a Rapier uncloaks, a couple of minutes later a foe Falcon uncloaks and a Cynabal comes in too. The fight is on!

We primary the Rapier while keeping points on the other ships. I jam the secondary target with Hannibal while attacking the rapier with Mail. Rapier goes down in a blaze of glory and then we point the enemy Falcon. Their Falcon tries to jam mine and misses, he then tries to jam Mail's Hurricane but misses again. At this point he explodes. (Killmail missing)

Hannibal is keeping jams on one of the Battleships, the enemy Cynabal is now 156km from the fight and burning away, the Dramiel is one shotted by Otto and is out of the fight and the Apoc warps away.

We destroy the Armageddon and just as he explodes his friend in the Apocalypse warps back into the middle of the fight. No idea why he did that but points are switched and the Apocalypse is turned to space dust.

That's a Rapier, Falcon, Armageddon, Apocalypse and Dramiel down with a Cynabal getting away. Not to mention the Drake we ganked in his mission with no losses on our side. I would call that a good fight.

The other engagement I wanted to talk to you about happened the next day. I was just docking up to feed the little one when a call came from our scout in a neighbouring high sec system.

'Dominix Navy Issue on scan, no wait it's on gate! Get to GATE!'

I of course un-docked and warped straight to the gate along with a couple of others and point was called and damage was poured on. He didn't last long, I think it was a bit of suprise to be ganked that quickly.

Anyway down he went and point was called on pod. I called that I was going to ransom the pod and dragged him into a special channel. My opening offer was 300mil for the pod, expecting a bit of negotiation but no. He asked for 30 second to move some ISK around and then my wallet blinked. 300Mil in my account.

Points were lifted and off he scooted. We checked the wreck and found a number of faction mods. the nearly 1 billion ISK killmail is here!

All in all the 7 people on that kill received a total of just under 80 million ISK each. Not bad for a pirate!

Fly Dangerous o/

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Noobs, stupid moves and sad news.

Ok so which one shall we start with...

Lets start with the sad news.

We still have friends within the ranks of The Guristas Associates and the sad news came via them last night.

Gilg sent out a EvE mail to the Associates saying that The Black Rabbits Academy would be closing as of 7th September 2010 after downtime.
The news came as a bit of a shock if I am honest to all in Fla5hy Red. Alot of the membership of our new corp put alot of time and effort into building TBRA into the best pirate training corp in EvE and we are all sad to see it go.

The offer has been opened for any member of TBRA, regardless of SP to join TBR proper so at least that is something.

Next we will talk about my stupid move.

Now as regular readers of this blog will know I have been training all out for a Phobos. Well last week I finally finished all the skills needed and took my phobos out for a test spin and got on some kills as the role of a Gatecamp fast lock. Nice.

Yesterday a few members of Flashy Red went up to Ikoskio for a bit of a roam/GC and got a couple of kills, then a large FW fleet came through so we started home.

I lagged behind slightly and hit a gate at the same time as a Raptor Interceptor. I jumped through after him and got point and thought I could kill it before his friends showed up.

I was wrong and here is the KM. Ouch.

However I never fly what I can't afford to lose so it will be replaced shortly. It's useful to have in my hanger at any rate.

Now lets talk about Noobs.

Flashy Red (+1 honourary Python member) yesterday took out a good little fleet, T1 and T2 cruisers were the order of the day and after heading to Abune and chasing a Hurricane around we turned for home with no kills and no loses. We did engage 3 frigs in a plex but they were quick and got out of our range.

On the way home we have to pass very close to Tama and itching for a fight we decided it would be a good place to stick our nose in.

In we go and start moving around looking for some thing to kill. Top belt was active with the same gang of frig we had engaged earlier but they didn't hang around long once we were there. then a couple of Cynabals came in and ran away. Shame.

Atfter a couple of minutes we scanned a Drake down in 6-2 belt and expecting a trap all the way we warped in pointed and pounded on him. nothing on scan, nno help was coming.

A lone Drake in a belt in Tama? Ok... Fair enough and thats a kill for us then!

So we go back to a safe and keep scanning around. Our cloaky running around blets and planets a#for targets.

Then we get this in local.

[ 2010.09.05 22:05:09 ] Mr NITREX > can i join a fleet?

Now what would you do if you were a pirate and a 2 month old char asks to join a fleet? Well you would do what we did.

Invite to fleet and he accepts and our cloaky gets nice and close to him and then warps him to the rest of the fleet, and man are we happy when we find out he is flying a Drake!

We motor towards him careful not to lock him till we are in point range, just incase we scare him off.

Once we are all firing I have to admit to feeling a bit sorry for the poor git. I hear a number of other people in vent also saying the same sort of thing. However even as I am saying we should ransom him or stop firing I never stopped my guns lol.

Here is the fleet chat log for the above.

[ 2010.09.05 22:05:49 ] Mr NITREX > thanx
[ 2010.09.05 22:06:11 ] Mr NITREX > where should i come?
[ 2010.09.05 22:06:32 ] Crimson Violet > warp to death fangs
[ 2010.09.05 22:06:57 ] Death Fangs > x
[ 2010.09.05 22:07:19 ] Mr NITREX > coming
[ 2010.09.05 22:07:55 ] Mr NITREX > hey
[ 2010.09.05 22:07:57 ] Mr NITREX > people
[ 2010.09.05 22:07:59 ] Mr NITREX > stop
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:11 ] Crimson Violet > yarrr
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:13 ] Mr NITREX > plz
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:16 ] Mr NITREX > plz
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:19 ] Mr NITREX > i beg u
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:22 ] Mr NITREX > dont kill me
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:23 ] Death Fangs > never accept fleet invite
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:33 ] Mr NITREX > plz let me go
[ 2010.09.05 22:08:51 ] Death Fangs > tks for the loot
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:36 ] Piscis > guys do not feel sorrow
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:39 ] Piscis > be amused
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:41 ] Mail Lite > We don't
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:42 ] The BlackDog > lol
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:43 ] Otto Jarvis > i am
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:44 ] Mail Lite > lol
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:51 ] Piscis > :)
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:52 ] The BlackDog > i'll deal with my demons

And the local:

[ 2010.09.05 22:09:08 ] Mr Kha > a swift lesson in betrayal my young padawan
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:08 ] Mail Lite > Lesson for you, don't join fleets with pirates....
[ 2010.09.05 22:09:52 ] Paul Ofthewolves > sith!
[ 2010.09.05 22:12:10 ] Mail Lite > nope FLA5HY RED (+ honourary The Python Cartel)

So we continue to hang around and see another noob in another Drake (are they giving them away somewhere?) and after chasing him through 3 belts we give up and send him a fleet invite... And he accepts.

He's on station so we send our cloaky in to warp him to us. Alas, as we get ready he docks and drops fleet. Maybe not so stupid then? We will never know.

Of course by now we have been in system to long and a group has come in with the express notion to kill us. We try and take them on and have a Harby in structure before we GTFO. In the end we lost a Thorax, Omen and Rupture. Good fun was had by all.

Ok the last thing I need to do is plug a friends blog. Go read it. Angelina is an old TGA member and a great writer.

Fly Dangerous and watch for that FLA5HY RED!

Mail o/

Friends and corps.

Hello all,

So what has been happening since i last posted on this blog? Well first I guess is the news the Mail Lite has left The Guristas Associates.

I wish TGA all the best and hope that everything goes well in the future.

I have loved flying with all of you! I was on EvE for less than a month
before I joined up with you all and now I am alot older and wiser and feel that
it is time to break away and do things my own way.

I hope that alot of you rabbits will at least keep in touch and read the blog to know how things are going. I will pop back and post on the public forum when my other half has the baby and will always consider the Rabbits a home. You never know I might be back one day.

Goodluck, fly dangerous and take care.

Mail o/

My new home? FLASHY RED is a corp of ex TGA members who have left over the last few days. They include the ex-TGA Bloggers, Astral, Mr Kha, 8agpuss and Cebit.

The plan for FLASHY RED is that everyone in the alliance is good friends, can trust each other no matter what and all love logging in to Low Sec PVP.

This is the common thing everyone in our new corp wanted, to be able to log in, enjoy the company of those around you and go blow some shit up. No Politics just PVP.

We also have no blue list yet, not even our alts. We are thinking of setting up or joining a friendlies alt corp just so we can get stuff in and out without having to worry about it getting blown up by our own guys... lol.

Another interesting thing. FLASHY RED has decided to take up residence alongside Python Cartel. We're not blue so if one gets caught by the other then it's fair game, but we have an understanding regarding station games etc. It ain't going to happen.

It's also nice being back 'home' in Ishomliken, how long we stay here is anyone's guess but at least we know the area and it's a nice place to start a new corp.

So thats that. A new KB will be up and running very shortly and a forum is up for members of FLASHY RED.

One other thing I have to mention. Astral over at EvE Trials by Fire keeps getting ISK and ships given to him by readers of his blog. I mean he got given a Faction fit Cruor a couple of days ago... Are all my readers poor or something? Lol

Fly Dangerous and watch out for that FLASHY RED! o/

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