Give it to us, or we'll take it from you (pt. II)

Taking the Myrmidon (BC) padded all of our pockets. The pilot of the BC had a full set of expensive armor rigs fitted. Shortly after taking the Myrmidon (BC) a Vexor jumped into the system. The FC deemed the Vexor wasn’t worth ransoming so we just tore into it quickly, without remorse for the ship, the pod we popped after the ship was destroyed, nor the pilot’s frozen dead corpse we collected. It was just business as usual when we performed surgery on another Vexor that jumped into our system after the previous one.

After the engagement with the second Vexor, the system got quiet again until a Megathron Battleship (BS) warped to the empire gate from within the system. At first we were surprised, we all checked the Local comms channel, which confirmed that the Megathron (BS) pilot was in our system alone. We all assumed that he would just jump through the Stargate toward the next system. But the Megathron (BS) pilot did no such thing. He just sat there for a minute and stared us down. We played it smart, we decided if he wanted an engagement he would have to attack first, that way he wouldn’t be able to jump the gate until his turrets cooled down, thus giving us time to pop his ship. Surprisingly, he did attack first………and he hit us hard. It was on, I pushed the A-1 into high gear to get some distance between it and the BS as I let my heavy missiles start to dig into the Megathron’s (BS) shields. My corp mates who were fit for tackling closed in on him to web and scramble the mammoth BS, insuring he couldn’t flee the battle.

We made short work of the Megathron’s (BS) shields but my heavy missiles, along with everyone else’s payloads, seemed like they were just bouncing off of his armor because they were doing little to no damage. The Megathron’s (BS) armor tank was solid, my corp mates and I were hitting it with everything we could but the Megathron (BS) resisted a majority of the damage dealt, and then simply repaired what it couldn’t resist. By this time in the engagement those damn sentry guns had already started dumping their fire into my shields. The sentry guns knocked my shields down to about 26%, which forced me to disengage and warp the A-1out of the range of the sentry guns. The Megathron’s (BS) armor was still around 80%. I remained on the grid watching the battle unfold below me as I eagerly waited for my shields to regenerate so I could get back into the fight. The Megathron (BS) had already popped one of my corp mate’s ships and by the looks of Fleet Watch List; it was working on popping another. I had to get back into the engagement, my shields crept back up to a little over 40% and I nose dived the A-1 towards the gate then warped to it.

Back in the battle the tide began to turn in our favor. I opened up the missile launchers and let my heavy missiles pour into the Megathron’s (BS) armor. “His tank is starting to break”, the FC said over Fleet comms as cold as ice. The Megathron (BS) must have ran out of cap because it wasn’t repairing the damage we were dealing as effectively as it had when the fight began. Then the Megathron’s (BS) armor started to melt away under the barrage of ordinance we were pouring into it. The light produced from the exploding Megathron (BS) was bright and blue. We popped his pod for good measure and added his frozen corpse to the collection, just to be fair.