A bitter end and a fresh new beggining

So here I am, I have taken a bitter blow and suffered a tremendous loss!!! We were at war with Universal Securities, who are good pilots, and I was out trying to catch a nano’d rifter in my vaga, I had the speed but he was always far enough away to align and run, Anyway caught him at the gate into alentene, but he jumped through. No problem I had other activities planned. I returned to the station and initiated auto dock, my guns were still ‘hot’ (a slang term thrown around by the dock/gate crews who refer to the build-up of energy after a gun has been recently fired) so was refused docking for the moment, I held in space on the dock ramp waiting for entry. I hit the dock request a few minutes later and was accepted. I confirmed I was in dry dock when I had to disconnect the feed due to unknown interference (RL stuff). My CEO also confirmed I had docked and not emergency warped. Upon my reconnection I noticed I was not in the dry dock but sitting in a clone vat, totally bewildered. I immediately tried to reconnect to my original clone but was met with disastrous news. My POD had been destroyed along with my ship, in what appears to be space? Another check confirms that I was killed by war targets outside in space. I have initiated an immediate investigation into the fault (petition) and am hoping to here from an independent investigator (GM) when he has more news.
For now I am not at my best as I had previously splashed out on some very nice custom implants giving a boost to my current skill set. I was also without my vagabond, it was a glorious ship and I miss it very much. I have replaced her with a rupture, which I lost, before settling on my Hurricane. Now this truly is a damage dealing beast of unknown proportions! During initial testing I was reportedly dealing approximately 600dps raw, against a dual repped myrmidon. So I was not using a ship with no style.
My first engagement went rather well. I had finished certification in cloaking to be able to use the covert ops cloak, and thus extending my ship capabilities to the rapier class force recon. A fearsome ship it is able to webb a target in a dense cloud of electro-magnetic radiation that effectively turns the space around it into a dens sludge rendering it practically immobile. As a bonus it can do this at huge ranges thanks to its specialised electronic subsystems.
Whilst scouting alentene local chatter was flaring as a trio of CZ manufacturing corpies had stolen items of value from a local mining corp. Needless to say I was outraged someone was invading our turf. I positioned myself in the belt and stole the offending item, and cloaked again. This summoned a swift response from CZ a small fleet of two vexor's and a thorax emerged from a warp tunnel. I engaged and was able to hold my position for quite sometime before I retreated. Terena, an interceptor pilot in my corp, reported they were still in the belt. I ordered him to disrupt their operations long enough for me to return in the hurricane. He did just that. When I slipped out of dry dock, I noticed the hurricane had severe armor damage from a previous operational test. I decided to risk the ship for the kill, I was bloodthirsty!!
Terena arranged the warp in and signalled with a lonely ‘x.’ as I burst out of warp I found myself 12km from the first vexor. I engaged and with 15s the vexor was aflame, I left my drones to finish the job and moved on the thorax. As soon as I was in range my guns split the thorax in half in less than 20s, a mighty shockwave rippled through the belt. The third vexor was also dust before I had even finished getting into position. My ship had sustained much dmg and was in structure, but she lived! I began scooping loot when my ship scanners noticed a large hostile target tearing out of warp. An Ishtar class heavy assault cruiser was screaming at me at an almighty speed! The hurricane just managed to get me into warp as the Ishtar entered the fringes of warp scram range. A lucky escape! I retired for the evening satisfied with the day’s events!