Trying the Nereus

My colleague Brother Chaplin a few days ago showed me a great YouTube video from Marlona Sky doing PvP with an industrial ship, a Nereus. Since I saw that I wanted to try that hilarious experience and for that reason I had acquired a Nereus and fitted it.

Today we had in our chain a low-sec entry and it was a good opportunity to put in practice the Nereus. I did ask Brother to join and he gladly did it.

The lowsec system was Shalne, and there was nobody in the system so we decided to jump to Gonditsa.

At Gonditsa, we warped to the gate that leads to Bherdasopt - a high sec system - trying to find criminals or suspects to shot. And we did, because as soon as we arrived, we found a suspect Drake Navy Issue owned by K'Dra, that started to shoot us with Heavy Assault Missile.

"K'Dra: You have foolishly engaged in criminal activity within sight of sentry guns and must suffer the consequences."

Obviously with the tank of the drake he was not concerned too much about the damage of the sentry guns and he probably thought we were easy prey. Who wouldn't?

Brother and I concluded we were not going to break his tank with just drones and a gun so we decided to leave as soon as possible. In my case, I was not scrambled so I was able to warp off without difficulties and thanks to the shield relays, the shield regenerated pretty fast. Brother had more problems and had to run with structure damage.

At that time, Avam also joined our fleet and we started to plan to bring bigger ships. A Drake Navy Issue could be a nice killmail. The plan was that I'd bait again with the Nereus and Brother would come back with a Brutix, also Avam joined with a heavy tanked Tengu and I had ready my alt in a shield logi shield just in case we had a surprise.

We started to move ships to Shalne, waiting in the stargate to jump and to receive the go call. But, just when we were ready to execute the bait trap, with everybody in position, the Drake pilots logged out. What a pity, I am sure we could have had him down.

We had that blood lust feeling that we needed to kill "anything", so we checked the surrounding systems to Shalne, but after a few unsuccessful jumps here and there, we found nothing, low-sec was more empty than w-space. Brother and myself are in the EU timezone and it was already pretty late, so we decided to jump back to our wormhole and end our "indy-roam".

Definitely, I plan to do this again, because it promises some good laughs. And the main reason why it's fun, it's because you can't expect to kill anything with indy ships, and it's just a matter how fast you will die. In the other hand, these ships can tank a lot of damage and you could surprise some small frigate with it, delivering some good lols.