Ironfleet Towing And Salvage

So I was chillin’ in Greater Mars this morning when I noticed a new ship on scan at the about-to-vanish high-sec wormhole. A Probe. Presumably, probing.

We can’t have this. Didn’t this person see the No Trespassing sign?

Warped to the wormhole in my Buzzard just to have a look. Arrived in time to see the Probe warp away to a planet.

Nudged my scan probes, got a new warp in. Warped in, approached closely, bookmarked.

Went home and got my Caracal. Returned. Probe is gone.

We could play this sort of cat-and-mouse game all day. I really need to get a combat prober with enough firepower to catch and eat helpless astrometric frigates.

No worries. Probe (rather than covert ops) suggests relative lack of experience; maybe they’ll get engrossed in their scanning interface somewhere? I’ll keep looking.

Aha! They are back at the wormhole. This isn’t good, because if they are hugging the hole, they can just jump out when I show up. Oh well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I get back in the Caracal. (Yeah, I really need to bring a better selection of PvP ships in here. My Worm would be sweet for this.)

Warp the Caracal to zero on the wormhole, sensor boosters hot. There she is! Start locking, warm up the guns and the warp disruptor, surely this isn’t going to work?

[ 2009.03.31 20:44:18 ] (combat) Your group of Scourge Heavy Missile hits Wysi (Probe), doing 420.3 damage.
[ 2009.03.31 20:44:25 ] (combat) Your group of Scourge Heavy Missile hits Wysi (Probe), doing 315.6 damage.

Wow. Usually frigates are moving when I shoot at them. This one? Wasn’t. Two volleys.

2009.03.31 20:44:00

Destroyed: Probe
System: J235321
Security: 0.0
Damage Taken: 315

Involved parties:

Name: Marlenus (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.2
Corp: Ironfleet Towing And Salvage
Alliance: Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
Faction: NONE
Ship: Caracal
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile
Damage Done: 315

Destroyed items:

Core Probe Launcher I
Small Converse I Deflection Catalyzer
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Dropped items:

Core Scanner Probe I, Qty: 2
1MN Afterburner I
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Core Scanner Probe I, Qty: 14 (Cargo)
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Lock the pod, lock the pod! Surely this won’t work, but one must try.

Dur… it worked!

2009.03.31 20:45:00

Victim: Wysi
Corp: Caldari Provisions
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Destroyed: Capsule
System: J235321
Security: 0.0
Damage Taken: 137

Involved parties:

Name: Marlenus (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.2
Corp: Ironfleet Towing And Salvage
Alliance: Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
Faction: NONE
Ship: Caracal
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile
Damage Done: 137

Wow. Corpse is 8,000 meters from the wormhole. Who sits stationary, near a wormhole but not actually close enough to jump through? I musta shot me a newbie. Hope I didn’t just convince someone on their first wormhole peeping expedition that wormholes are deadly and never to be visited again!

No, wait, let’s look up Wysi. Caldari Provisions, check. Age… wait, really? January of 2006? She’s been playing for three months longer than me, and still got podded by a T1 cruiser?

Never, boys and girls, underestimate the power of surprise.

It turns out, “she” is kind of cute, too:

Or maybe I should say was. She’s not looking so good now:

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