AAR: King of the Hill

So, I'm out in high sec with my characters after a small welp, but that is ok, I can spend all my money and get it back down to under 100 million. I really do hate having too much liquid ISK.

Me being content does not last though, I perk up when Blockade, our newest recruit, shows he is blessed by Bob, once again. Three Ship Maintenance Arrays, a Corp Hanger, and an Ammo Assembly Array, no force field. The POS is offline!

I go from content to being extremely butthurt about not being able to get on the easy kills. My butthurt intensifies when I see two of the SMA kills. A 4.7 Billion kill and a 7.2 Billion kill, with a total of approximately 7 billion dropped in addition to what dropped from the Corp Hanger and Ammo Array.

Total List of Ships that Dropped

Sabre x2

Hulk

Venture x2

Domi x2

Onyx

Helios x3

Tengu

Scorp

Loki

Falcon

Manticore

Golem

Abaddon

Orca

Over the next ten minutes we slowly move out all of the loot, until we realize we have no one that can fly the Golem. We were considering just launching and blowing it up for loot, until someone speaks up that they can fly it with an hour of training, and so we go scan for a high sec to get the Marauder skillbook for him. Little scanning latter, well, that is a crappy high sec, 20+ jumps from anywhere. We keep scanning regardless in hope of a better entrance, until we get interrupted by someone.

Absolute Damage Inc. has rolled into our static, where the loot was, and where the Golem still is, and they start sniffing around the SMA wrecks with a cloaky Proteus. We land a few ships and scare him off, and then cloak up ours. He gets a bit brave a short while latter and decloaks on top of the SMA wreck with the Golem and attempts to shoot it, I am assuming with the mentality that "if I can't have it no one can." He stop him though and decloak a Pilgrim and Stratios on top of him, with others on their way. Pop he goes. Need a new skillbook though.

The skillbook is here for our soon-to-be Golem pilot at long last. The Covert Ops decloak to exchange the book via jet can, or they would have if a Manticore had not bombed them, which blew up the jet can. Guess we should not have done the exchange right in front of the SMA either, its down to 17% hull left. Oddly though the Manticore decides to hang around to get popped.

I finally am back in wormhole space and we try to come up with a plan to keep the Golem safe from being destroyed if they try to destroy the SMA wreck it is in. So we come up with a brilliant plan: get a Noctis and tractor it at 1100 m/sec away, which is too fast for any cloaky ship to keep up with.

Just keep on chugging.

Works well for about 25 minutes, we get it out to 1750km away from the POS Tower, and then the Caracal lands 100km off us. I suppose they were hoping that if they bookmark the wreck and then warp to it they may get close enough, but they did not, and our Rapier pilot was lucky enough to be close enough to tackle it. Pop he goes.

Now they are done with us, or so it seems by a quick local chat. Still paranoid though, we pull the SMA still with our Noctis, out to 2Mm now from the Tower, but it has been nearly two hours since we generated the wreck, so it is close to the end of its life. We launch the Golem to keep it alive, as our wanna be Golem flyer keeps training after he got a new skillbook, 30 minutes remaining.

Nothing else happens other than us shooting each other out of boredom as we wait for the skill to finish. Horray, its done! Two and a half hours for a 1.5 billion ISK Golem, win. Was a good night.

Blöd