I’ve been spending much time at the Hellcats second base, working on my solo and extra small gang skills.  It’s a nice location, close to Siseide and Amamake when one wants much action.  Most we have to contend with is staying out of the local Faction Warfare tribe and their frequent gate camps.  They leave us Pirates alone for the most part, we do the same to them.  Who wants to waste a good GCC?

Lately I’ve been running a path from Kourmonen to Saidusairos, about 8 jumps out and 8 back.  What I’ve discovered is that for a bunch of low sec systems that just about all also enter hi sec, it’s a quiet area.  Often I roam and see just a few ships, mostly ratters and a few mish runners.  I need to remember to bring a prober for those tough to reach areas.  Space in this area is littered with POS’s and ships behind big guns and towers.  

Tonight I got to Kourmonen with the intention of running a quick solo roam up the Said pipe when I noticed a friend in system, Ksyuwythe Dak.  Dak and I go back a ways though several hi sec corps were were in or in alliance with, he’s a good pilot and a good friend.  I was excited to see him in system and immediately hit him up to roam with me.

As usual, not much is seen on the way out, we trapped a few ships and tried to lure a few out of hiding but nothing was getting fights started.  On the way back to Kour we entered Sahtogas and found a Harbinger on scan.  Dak says he’s got him at a belt or a planet and he might be ratting.  Dak hits warp and heads in to tackle and I am shortly behind.  Dak gets the point and launches the drones in his Ishkur, the Arbi sends his drones on Dak but his lasers can’t hit him.  I land on top of them, lock, point and star shooting and for the heck of it, I activated a small Nos.

Round and round we orbited and fired, noticing the target had a nice armor tank, it took us a while to break him.  The whole time we are scanning and we are sure one of his buddies will come to help as we get him to structure.  Nothing….

The ship pops after what feels like forever and his pod races away.  We opted for a kill since things have been dry and slow, besides, he was a noob.  We should have ransomed his ass, if we had just brought a ship scanner.  Grabbing his loot, I’m sure to give a “gf, nice tank” in local.  He replies with, “what, I fought?”  It’s the tank that counts mate.  After looking at the KM, I notice I didn’t change ammo, I had Barrage S on him the whole time and wasted some damage I could have done with Fleet EMP ammo.  Oh well, we still killed him and did some nice damage.  Fully rigged and even using a Sansha Armor mod, all in all a nice kill for a couple of small ships.

We got a kill, that’s all that mattered, feed the thirst.