AAR: Benefit of the Doubt

There are thousands of people, corporations, and alliances in Eve. So if you are one of the bigger groups, or better pilots, or more efficient teams, your name tends to get thrown around more. With that comes respect, but also wariness from others about your strength/skill.

So when a name like Sleeper Social Club comes across your chat window or passes by on comms you tend to be put on edge. Boasting a 401 man strong Alliance (at the time of writing), they are among the largest wormhole Alliance in the game. With that tends to come large fleets, which tend to ROFLstomp almost everything.

Note: I was not actually on grid for any of the fighting, I was listening on comms at the time of the first engagement and was told not to engage in the second.

The story starts with one of our best scouts finding a fight between a Confessor and an Astero on a hole. A short while latter Gui and Irohh were coming down the chain in two Svipuls to fight. After a brief skirmish and a dead Confessor more had come through and the fight was on. End result was a dead Astero on our side and 4 dead Confessors and a Svipul on theirs.

It was only after the skirmish we realized it was SSC. So since they had come with relatively little and in smaller sized ships than what they usually came with, we reshipped and prepared for a fight again. Gui was baiting in his Sleipnir and Tard and I were on the other side of the hole in our static with a Stratios and Zealot respectively. When they came back though, they came back with their customary heavy Armor and double Guardian gang. Tard and I got out fine, but Guirdarr was not as lucky, loosing a 1 bill Sleipnir and a Crystal set.

We gave them the benefit of the doubt that they would stay scaled down and smaller sized, but it was not so, and we paid the price.

Blöd