08.17.09
Constellation Aldodan
Metropolis Region
Evati System
After losing a duel to Lau, Venom needed time to think and allow the adrenaline in her system to dissipate. A long time student of meditation, she headed for her quiet corner to reflect and train her mind to be still. Yet this time it would prove to be too difficult, the frustration of losing to a Kestrel with 3 ECM mods was too much for her mind to quiet.
“Xandie, ready another Rifter, I’m going out”
“On it Venom, give us 5 minutes”, was the reply from the Crew Cheif, Venom needed just that to slip back into a pod and enter the ship.
As Venom sat in her pod, waiting on the last few minutes of preparations on the Rifter class vessel, her mind wandered to just finding something to kill, anything. Small or large, whatever crossed her path would find her guns laid on it. Her pod eases into the ship and her arms and legs meld into the metallic structures. She’s one again with her ship, causing a complete feeling. Venom often wondered if in the manufacture of clones they were created in some way to facilitate this feeling, something left out that only feels complete when melded with a ship.
The Rifter class vessel eased out of the docking clamps and glided towards the station exit, soon as she was clear of station interference she brought scanners online and started searching for something to quench her blood thirst. This part of her personality fits her profession as a pirate, often she can feel endorphins rush through her body, creating an almost animalistic frenzy to watch things die.
Initial scans show a Kestrel in Evati. Perfect, vindication, be it Lau’s Kestrel or not, this ship would die, she thought to herself.
The Kestrel was in a belt, Venom willed the ship to land at zero and charged all combat mods. Coming out of warp the Kestrel was 9,000 meters away, the targeting system resolved the lock and all mods started to engage. There would be no ransom, no inquiry, nothing; this ship would die for the sake of dying.
A third of the shields of the other frigate were already down and Venom started to pop holes in what remained, eventually the same was done to the armor and structure. The ship popped in a brilliant explosion. The pod that remained also was locked and dispatched back to the clone vats.
A small smile rose from Venom’s lips, ahhh that felt good.
Nothing else on scan, Venom waited silently and patiently in a safe spot for her GCC to end.
After 15 minutes, the Rifter class vessel was willed towards the Ofstold gate in hopes of finding ratters to ransom or kill. It was a fine line sometimes, between being a pirate and seeking Isk as payment and just satisfying a blood thirst.
Upon entering Ofstold, Navitas and two Reapers on scan. The Reapers being small ships, Venom would ignore unless they decided she was an easy target, if they knew better they wouldn’t try. Immediately scanners indicated the Navitas was in a belt not far from the gate. The Navitas class frigate is a small ship, not very good for combat and usually used for mining, it didn’t matter, it was there and worthy of a look.
Coming out of warp, the Navitas was 6,000 meters off the warp in point, mining away with it’s one mining laser pointing towards an asteroid. With intentions of teaching this new pilot a lesson in how to deal with pirates, Venom only scrammed and webbed the target while setting into a tight orbit.
“Navitas class vessel, this is the Rifter class frigate “Tart”, you are unable to warp away or move, deposit 100,000 isk to my account now or your ship will be destroyed”, Coms didn’t respond back for quick some time to Venom.
“Hello, paying seems the way to go”, the Vessels Captain said in the private channel.
“It makes sense, you will be not bothered by me until the next downtime, you will be free of my harassment for a while”
Venom notices that this is taking more time that normal, the newness of the Capsuleer could be the issue, “Time is of the essence, deposit the money now or you ship will be destroyed”.
No answer
Venom offers one final thought for the new pilot, “Low sec space is dangerous, it’s full of people like me who want to take your things, learning early that paying a ransom will save you money and time, this is the key, you will not be given the same chance on your pod, it will be destroyed as well”.
No answer
Venom’s guns all engaged and the Navitas was turned to a mangled heap in two volley’s. The pod was now locked and standing by her word as she always does, the pod was sent to the clone vats.
Space was empty in Ofstold, Venom awaited her GCC in the belt.
Persphone appeared in Alliance coms channels, “Venom, what’s up, stirring up any trouble?”
“Hey Perseph, yes, I am pissing off every Noob I can find to satisfy my need to kill, what’s up?”
“Wanna head up towards Egg with me”, Persphone asks, “You bet, it’s been a long time since you and I have roamed together”.
“Destinations set, let’s go, my GCC will be finished in less than 2 minutes”, Venom reports.
“Roger, I’ll start scouting ahead and you can join me”.
The road was quiet and eventless until the two Capsuleers reached the Ontorn System.
“Perseph, two Rifters in system, let me see what they are up to……huh, they are at the Minmatar Minor Compoud, let’s go”
Arriving at the gate, “Oh no, I’m in a Taranis, my ship class can’t go through the gate”, Perseph was frantic in her discovery.
“Shit, ok, let me go look and see what we got, maybe I can just take care of it”
Coming out of warp, the two Rifters are about 60 kilometers off Venom, she wills her afterburners to engage and head right for them.
“Perseph, I’m going to try to take them on myself, standby”
“Good luck Venom, on standby”, Perseph had a sound of disappointment in her voice, Venom too was bothered to leave a fleet mate out of the fight.
At about 20 kilometers the first Rifter started to lock Venom, she returned the same. They were trying to get closer to each other, this would be a 2 v 1 fight, no way around it. The adrenaline pumped through Venom and her focus increased.
“Locked and firing, I’m engaing”
In just that moment both Rifters had Venom locked and were firing but she kept cool and kept focus on one ship at a time. The first Rifters was going down rather fast under overheated guns, it eventually popped but Venom was badly damaged and into armor when she turned on the second Rifter.
“First one down, going for the second, it’s not good, I’m at a major disadvantage with damage, standby”, Venom reports.
The second Rifter starts to rip into Venom, she returns the favor. It’s a race at this point, Venom coming from behind. She sets a tight and close orbit, gives it everything this ship has to offer. Just then she notices that this fight is going in her favor, she is putting out enough damage to overtake the Rifter and overcome her weakness in damage.
“Holy shit the second Rifter just popped, I’m at 10% hull and I made it”
“Wooot, nice job Venom, wow, way to go”, Perseph offers her support but Venom wished she shared in the kill with her.
“Ok, looting and awaiting GCC, go ahead and look around, no need to wait for me, I’ll catchup to you”
“Roger, I’ll scout for more”, Perseph left scan and headed out of system.
After GCC is up, Venom notices a Blackbird Class cruiser on scan.
“Perseph, we have a Blackbird on scan, wanna try”, Venom asks.
“You bet, they are paper thin if we can get in and get a target”.
“Perseph, he is salvaging in a belt, I’ll await your entrance to the system and we can go in together”
“Roger”
Venom keeps an eye on the ship as she awaits her fleet mate to arrive.
“I’m here Venom, in warp to the belt”, Persph reports.
“Roger, I’m in warp as well”
The Rifter and Taranis com out of warp with the target close, points are placed on the ship and both start to melt the shields, stopping into armor to see if a ransom could be had.
Perseph opens a com channel to the target, “Blackbird class ship, please stop firing, you are beyond getting out of this, 15 mil and you are free to go”.
“No way, kill me, I don’t care”
“Let him have it Venom, he’s not going to do it”
The Taranis and Rifter dispatch the ship to the stars. “Venom, drop point and get ready for the pod”
“Pod is pointed”, Venom states.
“Blackbird Pilot, same deal for the pod, 15 mil or you are back to the clone vats”, Perseph as determined to get this ransom.
“I don’t care, kill me”
“You know the drill Venom, let’s kill him.
Somewhere in New Eden he awoke, startled.
“Check, Check, Perseph and Venom this is Ard, we have a major fleet near Evati, any chance you two could come back and join the fleet?”, Ard is a Bastards Director, if he needs help, he gets it.
“We have 10 minutes left on a GCC, then we will scream our way back”
In route, the bigger fleet couldn’t wait, several battships and other ships were doing a plex, some of their ships were moving, the Bastards had to make a move.
By the time everyone arrived, the only ship left was and Occator, he’s life ended.
After some time waiting around, someone spots a Hurricane in Akkio and the team heads in to get points.
Venom and Perseph arrive in time to see the first tackler pop under the bigger ships guns. Both get their points on the ship and try to hold the Hurricane class vessel until the calvary arrives. Venom holds as long as she can but is quickly voided of capacitor by the ship. Eventually she pops. The rest of the fleet eventually take the Hurricane down.
After a long day of fighting, Venom wills her Rifter class vessel home to Evait and docks up. She’s tired, slips from the pod and showers the pod fluid from her body. Just another day in space.
Er, their tires.
