Black Ops Part 5 (THE DOWNFALL)

This weekend had its ups and its down. Its laugh and its cry. Thankfully, mostly laughs.

When we started Blopsing in Providence last November, kills were up for grasps, we were roaming the systems and pockets uncontrolled, no intervening, no counter-gangs or counter-drops. I think this was due the Halloween-war in that time, that the CVA and its allies simply couldn’t be bothered forming fleets. I may be wrong here, I don’t know.

Either way, things have changed since November. Most constellation entries and exits are being watched by gatecamps, mostly Interceptors - a god damn load of Interceptors.

Friday didn’t go so well. We killed an Abaddon-battleship but after that we lost two Cyno Tech-3’s under 30 minutes to gatecamps... So we kinda gave up on Blops for that evening. We decided to grab some Tech-1 Frigates and roam Minmatar FW lowsec for the next hour. We lost some Frigs, and we killed some Frigs and Dessies. Fun was had.

RAINBOW KESTREL FTW

Saturday was better. We got our Loki’s back set sail for Providence again. But this time we took a slightly different approach. From our normal Lowsec base we can only cover the north half of Providence, so we decided to go deep and set up a midcyno point in Catch, an adjunct Region that would cover the entire Providence. And with great success. The southeren pockets are much lesser watched by defense fleets and alike, and we didn’t run in any trouble. Our Blops sank six Battleships, a Battlecruiser and an Exhumer, and to top it off a Tengu and a Golem. Not a bad catch for the evening at all.

We decided to keep our alts in Providence and return tomorrow.

Sunday was rather interesting.

About an hour after downtime we returned to our Midpoint and continued hunting. The first system I got into we got a Rattlesnake and a Dominix sitting together in an Anom. There was an amusing detail here because when I jumped into system they were reporting me in local.

Brikulis > ze Underking ship type??

Halcona Motsu > nv

oskars > meh just kill him if he is causing any problem

A minute later he lost his Dominix and his Rattlesnake.

They spend a couple of minutes spamming Defense Fleets in local and getting Interceptors together and what not, but with no avail, except for the common local bragging and flaming.

Later on we got another Battleship kill, but after this one our little adventure took a turn for the worse.

Karashur had found yet another Dominix sitting in an Anom, like any other Dominix we would hotdrop. Except this one had a Cyno fitted. Not much to comment here; Cyno went up, local spiked, Panthers got bubbled. I had about 3 seconds left on my Micro Jump Drive cycle to finish and I would have gotten out, but just then I got shortpointed and got stuck. Two Panthers and two Pods down.

Nevertheless, we had a great weekend and we will surely return again. I’m not really bothered about the Panther loss, the 1.5B ISK loss is rather slim compared to the damage it has caused over the months and years.

Onwards to the next Executive Outcome campaign!

PS, I got most kills (and loss) Frapsed this time and I’ll try to get a new video together. Unfortunately, Blops don’t make very exciting video material, but we shall see.