Ship Heist!
Our small fleet of ships pulled up on the BR- gate in IS-, regular stomping grounds for us.
“Please say that again”, said our FC in a state of suprise. None of us could quite believe it.
“I repeat, I have just killed a Corporate Hangar Array and Ship Maintenance Module at an offline POS, and a lot of ships had dropped out,” repeated Bhaddow “Abaddon, Brutix, Bustard, two Drakes, Harpy, Manticore and Raven”
His words hung in the air. “Where is this at?” asked the FC.
“CB4″ came the reply.
We scrambled, quickly re-tasking nav computers, Lord Makk was our Vagabond scout and moved to CB4 at best speed. Nothing was around to get in our way, apart from a Dominix which was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He still managed to smartbomb my Falcon’s two resident drones, the evil man.
Arriving in CB4, we warped to a gang mate who was already there, and approached the POS. It was offline, sure enough, and belonged to a corp called LIVING THE DREAM INC., part of The Golden Rule Alliance who were one of the newcomers to the area.
Most of the ships had gone, but the Brutix, Abaddon, a Drake and Bustard were left. I ejected from my Falcon and boarded the Brutix. As I interfaced with the ship, it obligingly allowed full access, and I ran quick startup checks. Sapphrine had boarded my Falcon and was going to pilot it back.
Accessing the ships log, it seems it belonged to a pilot called iamkemical, in the same corp as the POS belonged to. I’d never been in a Brutix before, and admired it’s weapon capacity. The ship was fully fitted, but had a mix of Tech One guns and other Tech Two modules. Despite my inexperience with Brutixes, I could see the setup was OK. Certainly good enough for the trip back to F4.
No-one had the skills to fly the Caldari Transport ship: Bustard. I could fly most of the ships in New Eden, but I hadn’t seen the point of training up all race’s Transport Ships. And so, we turned our guns on the inert hauler and reduced it to molten metal in short order.
Uneventful trip back to F4R, sadly, we were all itching to fight in our newly acquired ships, no matter how rag-tag they were.
After I had showered off the pod-fluid, I walked around the hulking Brutix in my hangar, inspecting it from the outside. I’m not sure if it’s a good looking ship or not, but I can see echoes of the Taranis in it somewhere. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it, but it sure as hell needs Tech Two guns and some modules switching out. I made a mental note to get some the next time I was in Agil.
A Gank Brutix is a fearsome thing to be on the receiving end of. Won’t live through too many fights but can throw out heaps of damage.
Kirith Kodachi said this on November 6th, 2009 at 1921 UTC
Brutixes kind of look like “baby Dominixes.” I’ve been using a Brutix fit in Class 2 wormhole encounters to good effect, against Sleeper BSs and smaller ships. It’s a toss-up whether I get better results with it or the Myrm.
Erbo Evans said this on November 7th, 2009 at 0347 UTC
Yeah, they seem quite good, perhaps not suited to Providence and Catch where speed is the key…
Ombey said this on November 7th, 2009 at 1038 UTC
Not a bad Bruti fit
Tony "EVE's Weekend Warrior" said this on November 9th, 2009 at 0402 UTC
“Accessing the ships log, it seems it belonged to a pilot called iamkemical…”.
Am I missing something, or was it just named “iamkemical’s Brutix” ?
Btek said this on November 12th, 2009 at 1211 UTC
Yes it was just named that. Of course, you can name a ship whatever you like, but given that the player name matched the corp we nicked it from, it seemed reasonable to assume it did belong to that player.
Ombey said this on November 12th, 2009 at 1523 UTC