I awoke from a long nap and had intentions of logging the previous nights events, there were many, when I poured a cup of Gallente Espresso and opened the news headlines. I wished I could have explained before it hit the news wires but here it is:
Cruiser Class Ship Lost In Hofjalgund; Due to Rare Space Blindness
April 24 – Evati – Associated Solar News (ASN)
Sources report that at 03:53 ET (EVE Time) last night, April 24th, the infamous pirate Venom Orchid (Member of the Hellcats) was shot down in Hofjalgund while attempting to gain control of several other cruiser class ships. Venom Orchid was in fleet with fellow pirates at the time of the accident; Nova Blackadder of The Bastards (Alliance Member), Ard Unjiigo of The Bastards (Alliance Member), Mynxee of the Hellcats (Hellcats CEO), and Ravenessa (School of Applied Knowledge Student & Bastards Recruit) were with Venom at the time. According to ship logs and flight recorders, Venom’s Rupture (Cruiser class ship) went into structure and did not survive the onslaught of drones and beam lasers. The recorders also show that although most of the damage was done by the fleets pirating targets, the final blow that destroyed Venom’s cruiser was friendly fire from her fleet mate Ravenessa.Audio channel recordings of the last few minutes are as follows:
Venom: I have the Rupture pointed, firing, need assistance
Ravenessa: I have point and firing
Nova: Focus fire on the Rupture
Ard: Everyone focus fire
Venom: I’m going down, I’m in structure, webbed and pointed, I can’t get out
Venom: I’m in my pod, I’m out
Ard: All fire focused on the Rupture, why isn’t this guy going down, are we all on the Rupture?
Ravenessa: Yes
Nova: Yes
10 Minutes Later
Venom: Guys I posted my loss…..WTF, Raven, you shot me, you got my final blow!!!
Ravenessa: WHAT?!?
Nova: Oh man, you shot the wrong Rupture
Ravenessa: In my defense, they all look alikeUH HUH!
The battle was eventually won by Venom’s fleet mates. No comments were able to be attained from any of the fleet members yet an expert on space travel, Professor Sun Twon, from the School of Applied Knowledge had this to say: “Events such as this occur from time to time, we speculate that the use of implants, more specifically the reintroduction of implants to a newly created clone vat, can have side effects we call ‘Space Blindness’. We do not know the root cause but it appears to be a sickness that often occurs after the vat process and affects the interface of a pod and it’s ship’s scanners, placing any friendly targets in the display next to any hostile targets. Of course I don’t have to tell you that this can lead to mistaking a friendly for a foe, resulting possibly in what happened to that filthy pirate Venom Orchid”. Further speculation says that Ravenessa might have just had a common flu or just simply shot the wrong target.
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So there you have it, the press is faster than I am. Before I could say anything, there it was all over the news. Accidents happen, I only hope an investigation doesn’t ensue, stuff just happens in space. Mental note, talk to Raven before this gets out of hand.
As I was sipping the last of my espresso, my corp channel lit up. “Venom, I need a full report on that accident last night before you leave station today – Mynxee”. Oh man, too late, I gotta get this resolved before it goes to far.
“Oh btw, when Raven gets accepted into The Bastards, we suggested he get a medal, something like “Kicks Them When They Are Down” or something like that 
oh and don’t be surprised to hear a new saying in the lounge: ‘Come on man, don’t pull a Ravenessa’. haha, them’s the breaks kid, at least Raven kept the enemy from getting your kill. Come down and join us or a drink, we are all just sitting here laughing about the event, nevermind on the report, just freaking you out.” was Mynxee’s last msg.
24. April 2009 at 12:35 pm
Great post venom, very amusing.
24. April 2009 at 12:39 pm
snicker….thanks
24. April 2009 at 12:51 pm
Oh yea, and, I can’t make this up, this really happened and is mostly not fictional.
24. April 2009 at 12:54 pm
yeah i figured as much.
24. April 2009 at 12:57 pm
what we all said was true, the km was true, all was true but the Professor….he wasn’t available for comment so I made up what he would say
24. April 2009 at 1:02 pm
dont worry venom, if you say it happened i believe you.
24. April 2009 at 1:03 pm
-.- I’ll get you my pretty…….
25. April 2009 at 2:32 am
That explains the name of Ravenesa’s new Harbinger then, he was being a bit cryptic about it last night.
I’ll suggest to him that he adjust his OV settings, unless someone already has.
classic
25. April 2009 at 8:04 am
heheh, yea, it’s been fixed. snicker
25. April 2009 at 1:19 pm
That was a hilarious event but NO amount of text in a blog can convey the even funnier tone of voice used and umbrage displayed by Venom as she ribbed Ravensea for his error. I was chuckling about that long after I logged out. You are all a bunch of crazy people and I love you all to death!
25. April 2009 at 2:00 pm
So true mynx, so true, I have never laughed so hard as i did that night. I love Ravenessa more cus he goes with it and pitches it back to me
25. April 2009 at 9:22 pm
Awesome post, Venom. I’ve been testing my nemesis’s torpedo range on NPCs when clearly I should be practicing on you! Everyone else does …
26. April 2009 at 12:03 pm
hahaha!!! Yea!
27. April 2009 at 10:11 am
in the past I too almost did this PRIOR to having my overview setup correctly. Thankfully the target ( a blue) did survive so I didn’t get on the Killmail. Sympathies for the shame revenessa…oh the shame
27. April 2009 at 10:52 am
It was a glitch, up to that point he had the overview set right, something odd just happened to happen. But it was sure funnier than hell!
27. April 2009 at 12:26 pm
Heat of the moment…
Bloodlust…
Stupidity…
Something died, I’m happy.
In a sadly related note the tribute Harby met a bitter end last night. In my state of semi alertness from waiting out a Hulk in a wormhole, we decided to go after the Drake and I went barreling back in my Harby without a scout checking the way and ran into a very nasty camp 1 jump out. You will be happy to know there was no friendly fire. Fortunatly ISK grows on trees and it will be replaced shortly. In the mean time I will dedicate my Crusader to the memory of your Rupy (Even though my Ceptor is hotness compared to that flying recycle bin that is the Rupture, I feel I owe it to you)
P.S. I’d do it all again for the laughs!
27. April 2009 at 12:35 pm
lols!! Bring it
27. May 2009 at 12:12 am
1. On the post “Cruiser Class Ship Lost In Hofjalgund; Due to Rare Space Blindness”, who shot me?
Ravenesa, and that post was HILARIOUS XD
27. May 2009 at 1:12 am
Sooo your pal Ravenesa shot you. While piloting a Zealot. Fancy pants HAC pilots.