Escalations

"Typhoon on scan." 
"Looks like high-sec gate."
"Yep, he's at zero." 
(...)
"Warped. To Caldari Facility-complex. Adamus, get a point, I'm warping to gate." 
"Point!" 


When you see a lone Typhoon-battleship flying around lowsec, it means one of two things. It's either going to be fail fit killboard trolling. Or things escalate really quickly.
The later one happened this time.

AdamusMaximus is flying a Stabber-Cruiser Fleet Issue. A very diverse ship, quick, agile, and good at keeping other ships locked down. As soon as the 'point'  was called out, I jumped through in a Talos-Battlecruiser, while Karashur joined in an Enyo-Assault Frigate.

I was aware of the presence of another Alliance in local, holding on a close-by POS. It was a gamble whether or not they would interfere with our vigorous little flight. Naturally, I wouldn't be writing this blog about it if they didn't.

When I landed, 3 Cynabal-Angel Cartel Cruisers were on grid as well. Extremely fast Cruisers, with the ability to kick out some decent damage. Though the 'Phoon was still tackled, we had to switch priority. I managed to bait one of the Cynabals away from the fight, where he came face to face with my Neutron Blaster Cannons. Shortly after he died, the other 2 Cynabals left the field too. But meanwhile, we still had a tackled Battleship to kill.

Just before the Typhoon dies, my scanner starts picking up more Battlecruisers. Surely, this fight was not over yet. A Cyclone and Drake exit warp, followed by a Hurricane. Even though we had a friendly Thrasher-Destroyer joining in, it seemed as if they started to out-gun us. All 3 Battlecruisers were now fully engaged, and we took an Assault Frigate loss for it.
Alarms go ringing, as I hit the 60% armour mark. An unwelcome note, as my Talos is shield fitted. The Cyclone goes down when I managed to warp to safety, knowing at least 2 hostile Battlecruisers were still on the field. I returned, finished off the remaining 2 Battlecruisers, as well as another Thrasher.

Hostiles were regrouping, and 2 more Drakes load the field, together with another Cynabal. With all our ships badly damaged, guns and modules burned out, we decide to take leave. Knowing we sank 6 vessels, together worth more than 600M ISK, at the loss of a single Assault Frigate, I think that is a fight well fought.

Killboard:
http://dark-rising.co.uk/Dark/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=185953

All this got Fraps'd, and will be edited into a video I'm currently making.