Tristan and Sentry Gun Fire

Starwalker undocked his Tristan and decided to get out and about in it - Syndicate seemed a good location to head towards. He entered Syndicate via MHC-R3 and in the very next system jumped into a mini-gate camp of an Ares and Tornado. Their plan was clearly very simple, Ares to lock and scramble and Tornado to blow the target away from range, however, they seemed a little slow or AFK as Starwalker warped away.

Starwalker decided to warp to a nearby celestial wondering if he could split the gang and kill the Ares. He had never tried it before but he was feeling like it was time to give it a go. The trouble was that he was in an afterburner fit Tristan, hardly a fast high DPS ship. It didn't matter, he would try anyway and aligned to a new celestial at roughly 90 degrees to his original warp and then burnt towards it at his top speed of just under 1km/s.

The Ares arrived on the scene and clearly was giving the Tornado directions who arrived a little later. In the meantime Starwalker activated his plan such as it was - get in fast and kill the Ares. The Ares was soon locked up and scrammed with lots of damage being inflicted by the Hobgoblin IIs but then the first round of Tornado artillery landed and that hit took Starwalker's Tristan into structure. He set his armour repair going almost as a reflex but knew that the next hit would spell destruction. Could he kill the Ares before the second round? The Ares seemed to recognise that it was in trouble as it entered structure and was clearly running away when the the Tristan exploded.

Starwalker headed back to Covryn wondering if he should have stayed with the shield extender fit but he knew that in this case it didn't really matter, he would have died in either fit. So, he re-shipped into another Tristan and noticed a cyno ship 22km from the station undock. He wandered over to say hello with the compliments of Caldari Navy antimatter and the sentry guns opened fire. The Tristan had to leave almost immediately as the tank seemed incredibly flimsy in the face of such firepower.

However, it was an opportunity to test whether the sentry guns would continue to fire at Starwalker's Tristan when he warped back in - they didn't fire and the cyno ship went down without another murmur. The pilot, binary spaceman, felt compelled to offer congratulations to Starwalker for killing his cyno ship and some comment about elite PvP. In return, Starwalker thanked him for his co-operation in establishing the mechanics for sentry gun fire. That knowledge was used to kill this cyno ship a little while later - without having to leave on fire.