From my vantage point hidden between the asteroid belts, I swept my scanner carefully across the solar system of Adirain. A quick check of the local communications channel revealed 7 other pilots of varying ages, several of ill repute. My scanner isolated a lone Merlin at a nearby belt and I kicked my warp drive into gear. Within moments I landed 18km from Lion Silver's Merlin, engaging my afterburner I plotted a course directly toward him, ordered my targeting computer to establish a lock and primed my warp scrambler.
This action is an attack on your target. Attacking this target is a crime, will result in a security status penalty for you and will bring CONCORD to enforce the law by destroying your ship should you enter high-security space soon.
Do you wish to proceed with this dangerous action?
Do you wish to proceed with this dangerous action?
I had been expecting to encounter a pirate, but strangely the idea of shooting at a completely innocent civilian didn't deter me. Directing my ship into the tightest orbit it could manage, I opened fire with my ion blasters and activated my web. The Merlin's shields began taking noticeable damage as he laid his own warp disruptor and stasis webifier onto me.
Trading blows with the Merlin, we orbited each other so closely our hulls almost met. My shields vanished far quicker than my enemies and I began cycling my armor repairer. With his ship being of Caldari design, I guessed he would be stronger in the shield department and if I could just break through it, I may have a chance. Without warning large chunks of armor were torn from my ship, Stonecold Tyrannosaurus's Cormorant destroyer had also locked onto me. The goo in the lower half of my pod suddenly got warmer.
Where had this new assailant come from? Had I completely missed him in my rush to pin down the Merlin or had he just warped in? I couldn't be sure, and it really didn't matter now. Fires broke out all over my ship as the small armor repairer struggled to cope with the onslaught. A Thorax cruiser piloted by Gwydion Voleur landed in the belt, any hopes of him coming to my aid were quickly dashed as he added his own warp disruptor to my stricken craft. Borrowed Time exploded just as the Merlin lost the last sliver of it's shields.
As my pod rolled through warp to safety, I realised I had completely forgotten to deploy my single drone. I offered up a "good fight" in the public comms channel, but the locals ignored me and began chatting amongst themselves. My wallet flashed, alerting me to the deposit of my insurance, upon inspection I realised I had more isk than I should, 75 million more; my daredevil blueprint had sold.
I would see someone else blow up sooner or later, now I could afford to be persistent.
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