Returning to Ishomilken in a Crow was reasonably fast but Starwalker was considering selling the Crow as although he liked the speed he wanted ships with more gank. He jumped into system to see a flashy red Drake loitering 25km away from the gate. The pilot, GaRDoN Cezar, was likely to be bait as local had 10 pilots - far more than usual.
Starwalker looked at the pilot and then looked at his Crow. It was possible to kill a Drake with a Crow if it was not well fit and its tank would succumb to the mediocre damage coming in, however, that was unlikely to be the case here. The sensible decision was to leave but Starwalker was feeling ambitious and wanted to see what would happen. He locked up the target and fired.
The Drake seemed to be active shield tanked or had a good regenerative tank as the initial damage, whilst very modest, was simply absorbed and disappeared. The Drake decided it was time to stop playing and released a flight of Acolytes.
Starwalker had only occasionally fought larger ships and their drones and had not fared well. This time was no better, he had killed the first three and nearly had the fourth down but he was into armour. He still had Javelin and Spike loaded and that did not help and he cursed the fact that he had not changed to close range ammunition earlier.
It was not going to end well and Starwalker knew what was coming next, so he aligned out just as a heavy missile from the Drake shattered what was left of the Crow. Another Drake arrived as Starwalker's pod sped away and its pilot, Icuwarrior engaged. He was the lucky recipient of the R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N blob and he felt compelled to rather pointlessly complain about it in local.
The Crow was gone but Starwalker was not unhappy. He had not really expected to take down the Drake and he was already considering his next ship.
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