Merlin and Incursus Dance of Death 1

Starwalker was cruising around in his Merlin without a care in the universe. He had seen a few ships on scan but nothing that he could reasonably take on in his little frigate. As usual, he was burning around near the sun and scanning for targets when an Incursus on the scan was suddenly at the sun.

Starwalker turned towards the Incursus that was around 150km away and started to burn towards it. Long before they were within engagement range a Cynabal arrived on the scene. The Incursus disappeared and Starwalker did the same by warping away to a plex at a random distance that just happened to be reasonably aligned. However, he knew that he needed to move again as he would not be safe there.

It was just as well that Starwalker was already moving again to a random location as the Cynabal pilot had luckily guessed the distance from the plex and landed within 10km but before he could even lock the Merlin, Starwalker was away again. Starwalker still wanted to fight the Incursus and so he warped back to the sun, hoping that the Incursus would do the same

Clearly the Incursus pilot, Vigorous Pounding, also wanted to fight as he too arrived there shortly afterwards. The distance closed and Starwalker checked the scan for the Cynabal but whilst it was on scan it was not at the sun. So, with the range now less than 25km away from the Incursus he went into engagement mode with lock, web, scramble and fire.

The Merlin was built to brawl and the distance closed to point blank. The dance of death around the Incursus was short and furious with the void ammunition tearing through the Incursus defences. The return fire was inflicting minimal damage and it was not long before the Incursus was a mangled heap of debris.

It was clear from the killmail that the railgun fit with a single repair module would not stand up well to a close range brawling fight. This was reflected in the ease with which the Merlin had dispatched the Incursus, with more than 60% shield remaining after the fight.