Sometimes the simple pleasures are best.
I was in a system where I don’t have a cloaked Prowler yet, so I was prowling the old fashioned way, in one of my beloved combat Cranes. Found an old-school Covetor mining barge, mining neatly into two numbered jet cans.
They consolidated nicely into one full jet can plus the hold of my Crane.
Covetor pilot left quietly, presumably to get a bigger meaner ship.
So I left too. Came back in an ugly Ferox I like to call the Iron Crowbar. It’s fitted for belt bullying work, to be honest, so it’s a bit LOLwhut for combat. But it looks real mean.
When I got back, the Covetor pilot had returned in a Caracal.
While he was thinking about what to do (in his shoes, I’d have blown the Ironfleet can and left) I put the Ironfleet can on the tractor and began relocating it away from any likely warp-in points. I guess he was too attached to “his” ore to do that.
Instead, the Caracal pilot left, then shortly thereafter logged or left the system.
I went home for a Bustard, which made one quick trip of bringing home the ore. Neat, clean, and profitable!
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