Close but no Kill

The recent war declaration against World Forge Industries resulted in additional activity from R1FTA Rebels to find some targets. World Forge Industries had their own ideas about the war and implemented a strategy to:

·         Provide no easy kills to R1FTA

·         Restrict movement by individual ships

·         Only mine in one system

·         Active security force

The security force was camped in Arant but was largely ineffective as Rebels searched out targets elsewhere and found them. Starwalker, Zodiac Black and Duke Thunderhorse found targets around Uedama and both of them managed to get a kill but Starwalker was disappointed to miss out. He was close by but got no kill, arriving just too late on both occasions. Shame.

It looked like a fight was brewing with the security force in Villore and their leader was in a Machariel battleship. It was decided that a swarm of Rifters would be great fun but might be too slow to get the kill before the arrival of more security force members. So, a few Rebels decided to get into their battlecruisers. Starwalker dusted off his Drake but realised that the damage (per second) dealing was low, only around 250 DPS. However, the Drake was added to the pot with the intent to primary the Machariel and see whether it could be brought down.

Trying to get eyes and a warp in point on the Machariel was problematic and before the problem was solved it docked, leaving its wing man, another Drake, alone. Attention shifted to the Drake and a couple of Rebels warped in for the tackle. Starwalker, feeling the excitement thought the order to engage had been given and arrived on site – too early. The tackle was not properly in place and the war target simply decided to dock and it was all over with no kill. Rebels circled the station menacingly for a while but it was clear that the security force were not intending to come out and engage. Time to dock up and get some shut eye.