Mister Commander and his Arazu

After a few buys days only updating PI and skills, I find some time to be more active. Mick and Bolinar were rolling our static C4 and I join them with my rolling-100MN-rupture, and we do the usual stuff, jump with the afterburner on to increase the total mass and jump back with the afterburner on. The wormhole goes puff as it should be.

We only have one relic signature at home, so the new one it has to be our static C4. I recently have trained my alt Kippel to Astrometrics 5, so it becomes more easy to scan, good thing, because the older, the lazier. Kippel gets into his cheetah and starts to scan. With some small RL interruptions to provide "IT support" to my wife, I finally find the wormhole.

C4a has been active recently, Commander Predator has lost an Astarte and his pod, so I try to be more careful, just in case the system is still active. There's a tower in dscan and I start to search for it. Two manned ships in the POS, Prophecy and Arazu, being in the Arazu Commander Predator. Then, he was podded and came back. They seem to be afking.

Meanwhile Raul has been scanning and got the static C3, nothing else in the system besides a gas site and our own wormhole connection to home. We jump to C3. I see in dscan an online small tower. Using dscan I find it and warp to it. It has some ships, but only one of them manned, just a Cheetah.

To my surprise, all the defense mods are offline, and two of them are incapacitated, so perhaps the tower has been in siege recently? Or the owners are not very skilled in POS defence techniques?

No active defenses?

Not much to do here, Raul found already the static highsec, and is returning to C4a. Few minutes later, he finds the Arazu becomes active and Mick calls for a interdictor and comms. I jump with Chuck in a Sabre and I warp to C4a. As soon I arrive I cloak, Mick is expecting the Arazu to jump to our system.

Mick said in comms something like "Arazu jumped, bubble!", and I understood "jump, bubble", so well... I jump and bubble, kinda spoiling the trap. But, being lucky ourselves, Arazu (Commander Predator) jumps back, being polarized and with the interdiction bubble up. Bad move. Arazu holds cloak until the limit and as soon he uncloaks Mick with his Stratios points the Arazu and I burn to point and web it. As soon I get a lock I also overheat my guns.

Sabre in action



Arazu and pod goes down quickly. I loot the wreck, nothing in particular interesting, the Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher would have been useful.

Commander Predator, has been in his current corporation for just one day, not a great start losing two pods, Astarte and Arazu. At least, a few hours before, he was involved in this drake killmail.

So, just another day in wormhole space, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And sometimes you whelp!