Wolf Pack

So their I was, sat watching my missiles do the dirty on some drones, trying to make up the rest of the corp rent that I missed last week and the call to arms came through alliance chat.

Some people had come into out little corner of the universe and tried to mark their territory. We weren’t happy and went after then. At the time I was again in my drake, unfortunately not the correct setup for pvp so I rushed back to the station and jumped into a Merlin, bumping my head on the way in.

Quickly checking my fittings from the last time I flew it, I realised that it was still rigged as a blockade runner from my visit to empire and the resulting gate camps I had to run to get home. Luckily I had checked, as it wouldn’t be the first time I’d un docked and not had any weapons fitted.

Looking through my available modules I settled for a few sensor jammers, NOS, and some smart bombs. I knew that they were mainly in large ships, hurricanes and the such, and were flying without escorts or scouts. The theory was that if I was small and fast enough I could get in close and scramble them whilst working on the shields and drones with the smart bombs. The ship cost total of about 1 million ISK. Not a massive amount, more importantly, it was a ship I could afford to loose.

Once we’d started to form up on the gate I couldn’t help but feel warm and fuzzy inside. Here I was sat in the middle of space, in a ship that costs about as much as any tech 2 module, and I was on the right side of a hunt.

Once assembled we jumped, they were nowhere to be seen. I didn’t think it would be that easy.

We spread out, the main fleet sat on the gate ready to jump out of harms way whilst I ran around the system checking the connecting systems. I became a scout, one of the most exiting things I’ve ever done. My job was to let my comrades know the location of the other fleet so they could go and kill it. By doing this I was putting my ship and capsule on the line.

I could go on for a while of how we moved from system to system like a well organised organic mass for 20 minutes, with the fleet commander issuing orders and naturally and calmly as if he were ordering takeout, but their really wasn't much point.

They had run away, the speed that we counterd the attack was awsome, the fire power bought to bear was formidable, and our courage un stoppable.

They didn't come back that night so we all headed back and continued chaining rats, and making bread for supper.

I’ve had my first fleet op, and I have to say. Its much more enjoyable than the confused mess that was my last encounter. I’m certain of what I want to do now, that’s PvP, preferably in a fleet, its always nice to have friends watching your back……


"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. "
Jimmy Carter