Dissapearing through a WH and returning, loot laden

I get home from work yesterday and honestly just can't focus on writing my novel for NanoWriMo, so I log into TS and decide to move my new (and shiny) Loki from Stacmon to TXW.

As luck would have it Rote had a gang out so I hopped in their channel to hear if there was anything sexy going on. As it turns out they had just returned from a shield BC roam, where losses were to be had against Agony Empire, and had just probed out a active WH in a nearby system. By active I mean, has people in it, fighting sites, not sleeper sites.

I was already moving up the pipe from Stac to TXW at that point, and started to wonder if I was going to make it in time to participate. So I yelled at my ship to go faster, simultaneously startling my dogs with my enthusiasm.

I was able to land in the target system just as the order was given to jump through and engage. Now as usual, Rote has a habit of starting out with 5 guys interested in flying, and then 'suddenly' when there are kills to be had, fleet spikes from 5 to 15 quickly, so the fight was a lot less interesting than it could have been, but rape ensued!

It turns out that not only had we made a lucky catch, but we had incredibly lucky loot drops as well, check out the Tengu (I barely missed out on the killmail). Oh, and the Proteus. I think we let one t3 escape the slaughter grounds, then salvaged and looted the field, including the sleepers they were farming, and headed home, without even collapsing the WH and trapping people behind. (well I was impressed)

My webloki performed great, landing an extra point when needed and the much needed webs that I am sure the other t3's didn't appreciate. It does shit-all damage, but it's really there for the webs.

Now let's see what else I can get in on kills with using the Loki.

Ships through a Wormhole

In an effort to keep my scan probe skills sharp I have been flying through highsec and trying to narrow down a few combat sites to keep my wallet happier. Directly in the middle of a 3/10 complex I started getting word that another WH prober had found a Thanatos, Orca as well as 3 mining barges operating in a nearby Worm Hole!

I threw my hat into the ring quickly, indicating I was going to bring my shiny Navy megathron since I hardly ever used it. However most of the responses from fellow pilots indicated they would mostly be flying smaller ships with a smattering of RR BS.

Running back to the station I dropped into my Navy Mega and looked over the fittings before undocking, not only was it fresh from transport, it was solo fit, no RR and no Ammo or charges. Just as fast (read 30 seconds) I was in my Geddon, fitted with RR and ammo! wewt.

I started out the 6 jumps needed to meet with the rest of the gankers outside the nearby wormhole. Once there I found I was ahead of all the rest and got on the horn with a few of my corpies to call in some backup.

I was sure that at any second the Thanny & friends in the WH were going to make a break for it, seems to be the way of the WH to just barely miss targets, but so far no movement on their side. It was tense as we fought through the comms situation to get everyone on the same page, bookmarks for the WH were distributed quickly, I motored my slow ass geddon over the to the can and grabbed me one.

The prober in the WH got a warpable hit on the thanny & friends a few minutes later and the FC called for everyone to warp to the gate. At this time we had 2-3 BS, myself and a mega from what I saw at the WH entry, abaddon showed up later, a curse, HIC and some others. We jumped into the WH as we landed because we heard they had a scout on this side. Not that it mattered!

Once in the WH we were all on our way in warp when our cov ops tackle uncloaked and pointed the Thanny. Once I landed I placed a point on the Orca and layed into it and spread damage over the mining ships, gotta be on all the KM's! The Orca was dead in short order, and damaged swapped to the Thanny, people overloading for MOAR DPS. The thanny was falling way way faster than I expected, but then everything else had as well. It died as well and the race was back to the WH, apparently it was near, inside 4 hours, for collapse and with my fat Armageddon I didn't want to get trapped on the other side without a probe launcher OR a easy way out. Apparently I was one of the few to BM the WH on the way in. I warped back, provided a warp in for a few others and then jumped out, leaving the loot and wrecks behind. I love it when a plan comes together and the targets don't warp out minutes before you are ready!