008 - Lowsec, I like you.

I rolled over with a groan, the movement causing a small avalanche of empty glass bottles to fall to the floor. Having blown a small fortune on lottery tickets, I had spent the last few days drowning my sorrows. I hadn't lost that much isk since I was addicted to underground minmatar children's boxing, a gentleman's sport if ever there was one.

Launching into space in my new Incursus The Green Nugget, I vowed to make myself feel better at the expense of others. After an uneventful tour partway around Essense highsec, tired of jumping into belts looking for can miners to harass, I decided to head once more to lowsec for my kicks. 

Almost catching a Hulk in a belt in Vifrevaert renewed my determination to see something explode, several systems over I played warp in warp out games with an Atron. The pilot warping to a safe spot between a belt and a planet, I warped back and forth several times dropping bookmarks until to my surprise I managed to land 98km from their ship, only to see them warp away again before I could close the distance.

Passing back through Ladistier, a quick scan of the belts revealed a Catalyst and a Navitas. Both pilots had neglected to rename their ships and I quickly accessed their information via the local comms channel as I directed my ship toward the belt. SKINNYERIC1 was 8 days old and Logan 3393 only 4 days, excellent.

The asteroid belt streaked in focus, both pilots sat 50km from me surrounded by serpentis wrecks. Thinking back, I realise I should have bookmarked one of the closest wrecks, warped out and back in on top of them. But in single minded determination to see something explode I simply plotted a course, activated my afterburner, and floating in my goo repeated "Cmoooon... Cmmoooooooon" to myself while I slowly made my way toward them.

For what felt like an eternity neither pilot reacted. So close, almost there. Just a little further. Suddenly the Catalyst hurtled across the asteroid belt and escaped into warp, damnit! My targeting lock on the Navitas resolved and I activated my warp scrambler, GOTCHA! Remembering my drone this time, I let the small mechanical minion loose on the pinned frigate as my ion blasters began to sing. The Navitas exploded almost instantly offering no challenge whatsoever. I quickly scrambled the pod, hoping that by just pinning it in space for a while I could tempt the catalyst into returning.

Slowly orbiting the trapped pod, I detected a Wolf assault frigate enter scan range and decided it was probably a good time for me to make my exit. Should I let the pod go? Should I shoot it? What the hell, I'd already blown a new pilots ship out of space, lets really commit to this.

(notify) For participating in the podding of Logan 3393 your security status has been adjusted by -2.5000.

Making a quick escape as Tira Dread's Wolf entered the belt 50km away, I warped off to a nearby safe spot. Once my scanner showed the belt to be clear, I returned, looted the various ship wrecks and scooped the fresh corpse of my first victim into my cargo bay. I felt strangely at peace.