Into our Static C3, through the C4 connection into, what I would presume to be another quiet system, only to have the D-Scan bitch-slap me in the face to find a Naglfar on scan, not at POS, no wrecks on around also....let me check that again, I could easily have the wrong overview settings on, nope It's out there.
I splutter something into comms like a pro, I've only been playing for about a year and a half, so my cap kill board is very limited, so I sometimes get a wee excited and pee myself a little, when there is a chance to see something big go boom. The fleet starts to organize themselves, after killing an Armageddon that was sitting outside the lowsec static from the C3. It hadn't put up much if any of a fight, which apparently there was a reason for, which I will get too later.
I warp off too a far planet to drop Combats out of d-scan range, send them 100AU out of system and click scan....no-one can see me coming....I warp back to the planet where the Cap was last seen, line up the probes on the planet with a 4 AU Scan, NAGLFAR.................89%....feck. I narrow down the probes, scan and.......nothing...., I d-scan again, he's not at the POS and obviously in warp somewhere else.
I presume they were just refitting, and that they were back at another POS so end up warping back to the C4 entrance, as there was some other activity in the C3. I probably have blown it, I should have better scanning skills, then I would of hit it in one go.
Whilst D-Scanning on the warp back,I realize our friend Mr Nid is very close to where I was about to be landing, no, scratch that, he is on the hole at zero. Caps cannot jump into a C3, they can't fit in the hole, no matter how many drinks you give it, or how many times you plead "Just once darling, you might like it".
Mr Nagwas already aligning when I landed, I tried to lock him but he was already in warp. I give chase. He ends up warping back to the spot he was at before. Maybe he hasn't seen my probes or me de-cloak when I hit the hole next to him at zero, maybe he has no idea what he is doing? Lots of maybes, but I have recently donated a corpse to the everlasting fire, in Bob's name.
I relaunch probes, and they are sitting exactly where I left them. Scan. Bingo, along with a few other ships now, all haulers. I ask if the fleet is ready and If I should go for it, I get an all clear, I warp, uncloak just before landing. "NAG SCRAMWEBBED" I shout on comms, all the haulers in the Mr Nag'sentourage (Not a usual wormhole fleet composition) warp off in random directions. (I leave out the bit here where Trinkets Friend tells me to scram a hauler first as it takes ages for a Cap to get into warp, as I have extreme tunnel vision). 5 seconds later, after I have done 5000 damage to the Nid...
Eh? Did I do that? Why are there 2 Naglfar wrecks next to me, am I that good? Bob be praised it's a miracle!
It turns out it wasn't a miracle. Apparently there was a bit of corp sabotage going on, and some people had somehow got control of a corps assets and were robbing them blind, and as they can't get the caps out of the wormhole, they were just exploding them off at a mobile depot. The haulers were apparently carrying off billions in expensive modules from one of the other Nidhoggur they had already blown up.
My fleet lands, a little bit peeved that I got a solo dread kill (sort of). The guys who are sabotaging the corp, invite us into their comms, and ask us for backup to get their plunder out of the hole, and we can have the left overs. Sounds all a bit too good to be true, so they offer another Naglfar to Trinkets Friend which he takes. We hold our part of the deal out and get them to Highsec, then proceed to bring all our haulers in and haul out hundreds of m3 of gas, ore and a bunch of ships:- Bombers, Intercepters, one Hurricane and a few other bits and pieces.
The Armageddon that we blew up was meant as a distraction for us, as they had seen us in the C3, so they were trying to lure us away from the C4 while they were plundering everything. Which I guess worked as we could of easily had dropped the fleet on them while they were stripping the Nags.
All in all was a very unexpected evening for a vast amount of reasons.
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