My poor poor hurricane...

Where to begin, we’ve had a busy week! Started off with a few light skirmishes, nothing to write home about. But! We were engaged by a Sleipnir, Lachesis, Raven and Domi. And we killed them all!!! Thus representing the first command ship kill for section X, and tbh it was easier than we thought. Although his fit was a little unusual! The Sleipnir also dropped a faction nano, but upon closer inspection the faction nano seems like a waste of money.
We have been declared upon by ReBirth; Vo1d had a small entanglement with them a few weeks back and lost his BS, so we knew there was history. These guys mean business, Navy Mega’s, command ships and a gaggle of HAC’s and recons. We were not going to do well. But still we undocked in super secret section x formation 5 beta 3. It went surprisingly well, we knew we’d either win or die horribly, Turns out that whilst we did not win, we didn’t die horribly, Spec went down after taking a mammoth beating. Tactics were revised and we hope to fly that way again soon. We also have a new recruit, akuma. He was a guy recruited from eve-pirate.com (check the link) and we greeted him as any normal recruit, but it soon turned out he was more than capable at holding his own, he had a good idea about fittings and was good under pressure, Days later we welcomed him as a full member!! Woo!
More sad news. During a brain storming session, myself, pax and akuma forged a ferox fitting since the new hull upgrades it has received have made it quite competent. Initial tests look good and we decided to move ahead into a fleet operation. I oversaw the operation from my Hurricane whilst those two performed the relevant operational qualification tests. An enemy curse was visible from the station, and I took the opportunity to try and kill the curse. I happened to have a bookmark in close prosimity to the curse, and me and akuma warped off to get into position. Pax held on station ready to fly in. When we landed we were 40kms from the curse, I sensed trouble and ordered a retreat. It was too late akuma was neuted and tackled. I tried to engage the curse in an attempt to scare it off, when local begun to fill with war targets. A navy megathron came out of warp on my port bow, I was scrammed ordered my cane out of the battlefield at best speed. A sacrilege class heavy assault ship began to orbit me and pummel me with its heavy assault missiles. I exchanged fire for a good 30s, but with the sacrilege in the last remnants of armor one of the enemy hit a critical blow to my fusion reactor, the ship blew apart instantly rocketing my pod into local space battered and barely intact. Luckily I managed to pilot the small craft back to a nearby station for critical repairs.
I really liked that hurricane….

A brief update

It’s been a little quiet lately in section X, RL stuff and a slight downtime between wars has meant people not being as active as they once were, me included. But hopefully that will change tomight as we war dec another empire corperation, this time we have chosen again some pvp’ers. The horror! Should be an all round better fight with much fun involved as intel suggests that like us, they fly in solo and/or pair form with the occasional roaming gang.
I have continued the ongoing effort of fleshing out my ship reserves, I now have a sniper ship added to the arsenal of death! I look forward to using it, hopefully if I can convince someone to tackle at a gate for me I can bring down the pain!
Well this is just a short post more to follow!

0.0 roam...

Had a little roam into 0.0 the other day, Section-X are good friend with Interimo, and as such I have wanted to do something with them so they are not just blue pluses on my overview but people I know and fly with. Steve had informed me that Interimo were flying ops into the Provence region up past amarr empire space. Eager to fly with our new friends I hooked up with the t1 cruiser gang and made my way up to the staging station in Esa, 21 jumps away. I arrived in good time and prepped my crew for combat.
‘Equium here, Ruppie ready and waiting’
‘Cool you can be our dps, me and space are in intie and lowrider is in an ishkur’ replied suitonia, damn looks like this was a t2 frig op, I’d of been much happier in my jag or hyena for this. Aah well it will be fun.
First off we need to move through sylph and CVA space in providence, then into catch before finally ending up in Provence. It was an exciting journey; we nearly jumped into a large 24man camp, which then chased us 3-4 jumps before losing interest. Then we found a domi, I was reluctant to engage as I was in no doubt that I would be primary to its vicious drones and neuts. It died pretty much without my help. Then we engaged a raven on a gate, it aggressed, then de-aggressed then jumped. A few locals set up camp on the gate and we were at stalemate. A hyena class ewar frig was zooming around and I thought he might be cocky enough to tackle my ruppie
. I was right and he died. Lowsec foolishly got caught and was killed.
We got bored soon enough and started on the trek home, we tried to intercept a hawk that was ratting but missed him. Then 3j later there was a massive gate camp, space promptly lost his crow and I believe suitonia was killed and podded. Leaving me in my dmg’d ruppie and space in his pod. I decided to engage. I waited on the gate with a stiletto and Ishtar knowing what was on the other side. I jumped in, and MWD’d for the gate, I reached jump distance as I entered the last scraps of armor, but decided against jumping, I then got myself podded and saved myself the 32j trip home. Fun all around.
Things got worse,
Section X decided to field a formidable fleet to head down to WT’s lair 4-5 jumps out. So we were a bit scattered but finally pulled together to make our way down. En route we became bored and The Devil flipped some cans. He was promptly engaged by a thorax as I spotted a navy issue mega jumping in and converging on his position. We thought our 4 BS in support would win the day, but it seems the mega’s tank was god-like, with The devil unable to get him past 1/5th armor. Then our rep BS started running out of Boosters, then we did run out of Boosters and had to abandon The Devil, for fear of losing our own BS. It was a strategic retreat which spec and I were not proud of, and stubborn as always Lord Void our CEO remained till his untimely end... A sad day, 2 BS losses and zero kills. I Logged unhappy! Spec and I have agreed to spend some cash getting Void back up and running, as the devil has already a ship set up in reserve.
In other news I am touching up on support skills, and possibly pushing for interceptors as they seem like wonderful ships to fly. I’m also considering Cross training into another race of ships. I am currently torn between caldari and gallante. Both have their charms, and of course both have their draw backs.
Caldari:
Pros:
Excellent Recon ships,
Excellent Mission ships,
Fleet BS ‘Rohk’ is rather nice, even when equipped for close range.
Cons:
HAC’s leave a lot to be desired,
My missile skills are lacking
My shield skills are not stellar
They are so SLOOOOW!

Gallente:
Pros:
Fantastic HAC’s
Fantastic Command Ships
BS are awesome win machines
Whilst my hybrid skills are lacking, my gun skills are very good.
When I go capital their caps are very very good
Cons:
Recons Suck
I need MOAR drone skills
Everyone flies gallante, although everyone flies minnie too.

Anyway decisions decisions. I am leaning towards gallante for the in your face DPS pwnage, but the lure of missions and those sexy sexy recons is nearly too much!

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!

What i've been upto (again)

I’ve not been on much but I hope to expand on what I’ve been up to.

Well after my last post about my beer with Christoffski I dropped off the blogging scene as I was in deep 0.0 involved in secret operations with the Notoriety alliance. I was happily ratting in 0.0 in my wolf when I struck up a convo in local with one of the locals (lol), and he was a member f section-x in the NOTR alliance. He told me what they did and what NOTR did; I was interested and so took the plunge and jumped in.
Well turns out I found a really cool laid back bunch of dudes who are very fun to play with. Over the next month I took part in various fleet engagements in some of my best ships. Unfortunately all met their demise, but much was learnt therefore the loss was minimal. I flew all types from fast ewar frig to giant fleet sniper platforms; much joy was to be had.
Unfortunately section-x was not destined for 0.0 space and found it difficult to earn a living in such a place and retreated to the relative safety of high sec, verge vendor region. We have become very efficient in our removal of war targets from our space achieving, to date, a 95% efficiency rating on our kill board. Although the true power of the section-x fleet has yet to be rattled. It is foreseen that this is not too far away.
Moving on, I have finished max certification in the battlecruiser class of ships I have yet to pilot them extensively. I hope to rectify this and will shortly be ordering a few ships to bolster my current set of ships maintained at a constant state of readiness. An expensive yet, in my opinion, necessary expenditure required to be able to react as quickly as possible to any engagement. However I do plan to retire certain ships, as well as add more.
Skill wise I have been bolstering my current skill set and have not added much new skills. The main addition being cruise launchers allowing me to use my Hound stealth bomber to great effect. Future skill plans include cloaking IV and astrometrics skills to an acceptable level, since acquiring a cheetah fully fitted with rigs at hull cost I plan to use it effectively.
Kill wise I continue to expand my horizons and am becoming quite renowned as a ‘nano-fag,’ but I need to be careful and not neglect other forms of play, I am preparing a plan for a future hurricane for close up support work, I will be releasing said plans to my dry-dock manager and he will acquire the ships, mods etc needed to build it, also he will put it into commission and do the basic tests required by DED for a ship to leave dry dock.
In the coming weeks I will enlarge my fleet and try and fly some other ships and not just my vaga, although a preliminary tank test against a corp mates myrmidon indicated that it was quite capable of over running a dual MAR II set up at BC IV, an encouraging thought…