Once upon a little firetail in New Eden, I first found a rifter in Molden Heath. He was from the local cool dudes, RANSM. "Alright, man" I thought, "I like RANSM, when you see them in local, it usually means a fight."
I was only a few jumps into my roam for the night and I could tell he was looking for me. After several cross warps, one of us finally just waited. I was a bit quicker, and was able to kite outside of nosferatu range. Unable to regenerate capacitor for his tank, it was not long before he was KM, and warping his pod off. We chatted a bit after. He said he'd been out for a while and took the fight pretty sure it was not going to end well. GF GF and thanks for taking it anyway.
After that, I went a good few jumps and found fuck all. So I turned around and headed home. When I reached the Joas constellation I checked around quickly before hopping the island and settling back into my pocket. The couple jumps I made paid off with another fight, against a punisher. It was very similar, in a more one-sided way, to the fight with the rifter. I kited, he died.
So I hopped the island home, checked the belts and found a burst mining, and killed that. For some reason, I just couldn’t call it a night. I jumped around a bit, staying within a few jumps of home, hoping to find something local, and eventually my persistence paid off. Back in the home system, a ferox had come into local. I found it ratting in the belts, and thought, “Ferox vs Firetail! Ferox vs Firetail? Fuck it, Dude. Let’s go bowling. Warp to 0!”
In any case, I felt great. I couldn’t have felt better. This was my first pirating solo roam and I had four kills under my belt. I bought the Firetail when my old corp was going on a Firetail roam, in which I could not even participate due to timing issues. The Firetail then sat in a hangar for months until that night.
A couple days later I took that firetail out again and found a drake to engage. I had a couple of people, both in frigs, with me that night. They were waiting on the gate but not in system. I warped in on the drake to see what we could do, and started killing his drones off. The drake had no webs, so tanking missiles wasn’t a problem. The guys jumped in and warped to me, but before they landed a cane friendly to the drake landed and started shooting me with 220s which hurt a bit. With a second flight of drones to deal with, and the increased dps we buggered off.
Fail Roam completed, and a few days later I decided it was time to sacrifice to the PvP gods the ship that brought me so much glory and honor that first night. I found an arbitrator in the belts in Yish. Apparently, a neuting, web, scram arbitrator is a tough fight for a frigate. I must not have been thinking straight, for whatever reason, and that’s what ya get.
Makes you wonder sometimes...
Dred/G
