Ombeve

I was dozing in my bunk, alliance comms were muttering in the background- something I leave on routinely. Good job I did, I started dreaming about Motherships, Wyvern’s in particular, when I awoke to hear excited chatter on comms. My sleep addled brain was slow to catch on, but I quickly got the news that we had a Sylph Wyvern under attack in J6QB-P. I wasn’t going to miss out on this.

In a dead run, half dressed, I make it to my hangar in double quick time and get capsuled, inserted in to a Rapier, and into space. I have no time to be cautious and hope there are no camps up the KW- pipe. I find myself scurrying from system to system with rodensteiner, another U’K pilot in a Rifter, and a couple of AAA pilots. We pass red Drakes and a Rupture, not bothering to engage as we hope to make it in time. Nothing would stop us, and we make it in time. Warping to TA3T gate, I wonder why a Mothership would be on a gate that it can’t use, and then I’m out of warp and enveloped by the edge of a warp disruption bubble.

I see the stricken Wyvern in the midst of the bubbles, with incoming lasers painting searing bright shimmers into the shields, and missiles splashing off as they detonate. I lock up the Mothership and see it’s at 75% shields and holding. There are no drones buzzing around it, apparently it’s smartbomb fitted and people have lost drones. We have -A- and Initiative trickling in slowly but surely and we have enough numbers now to break his shield tank. His smartbombs fall silent, so I release my brave Warrior IIs and they race toward the big target hungrily. After a minute, their signals disappear as I see a final smartbomb pulse release from the Wyvern, signalling their demise.

As the Mom hits half shields, a Sylph fleet show up. They have about 20-30 ships and are about 100km away, and way too late. The Wyvern’s armour melts and it’s structure starts venting oxygen and other gases into space. The end is near, the crew abandon ship, their tiny escape pods glittering as they shoot off into space. A huge explosion, a blue flash and the Mothership is finished. We turn to the Sylph fleet, I ignite my MWD, load Tremor long range ammo and fire at the ships we can catch (two Drakes, Taranis, Myrm and Helios).

We decide to head back to F4R then, when our scout Garamis tells us he has a Rupture and Caracal aggressing him. I jump in and barrel over to Garamis- in confusion, as my nav comp reckons I will come out of warp by a moon…uh oh. I drop out of warp by a Sylph POS, but if it’s not shooting Garamis, it won’t shoot me. I’ll ask questions later, and light up the Caracal and Rupture, web on each, scrambling the Caracal. My 650s boom in unison, and as more support shows up, they go down quickly, the Rupture first, then the Caracal.

Back to F4R, no further incidents, but there are 10 neutrals in local. We get a call that a Taranis is aggressing a ship on ZXIC gate, so I undock in a Rifter I had entered to check some fittings. Not ideal, but it’s good enough. Warp to the gate, and as no-one was FC’ing, I took over. As I landed, there were the neutrals, but the ‘ranis was aggressed, so I called him primary, and an Ishkur secondary. I heard the thrum of lasers and assumed their Zealot had opened up on one of us. The ‘ranis disappeared in a flash of blue light,  and the Ishkur was primaried. It soon pops, then the Zealot very shortly afterwards. The rest of their gang had either scattered in F4 or jumped out. We were done.

~ by Ombey on November 1, 2009.