Slippery Iteron

Several days spent navigating the tenuous links of wormhole space, poking my head in and out of kspace like some kind of interstellar gopher (mental note: good ship name right there), I online my pod and quickly cloak my Loki in the hopes of going undetected, that is, if there is anyone around to detect me.

The C2 I chose to sleep in having a bevy of good sites and corporation that formed just over a week earlier. With any luck they'll be more active, yet less prepared than a more established wormhole entity. A directional scan reveals a new tower has gone up in the few hours I've been sleeping, damn, opportunity lost. A narrow scan reveals no defenses, an Iteron IV hauler and a cargo can at the new tower.

Warping in to the new tower at range shows it belongs to a different corporation, the Iteron slowly entering the shields near the canister. Saving the location of the can I warp back to the original tower seeing only one occupant I'd observed earlier in his cloaky Loki. My watch list not showing any other members I'd gleaned from killboards. I set myself up in position on the far side of the can so I can align to a safe spot, I sit in wait. It doesn't take long before the hauler moves back towards the edge of the protective shield.

With no online tower defenses to worry about I align to my safe spot, decloak, and locking delay permitting, open fire. He swings around almost immediately, heading back to safety. His shield's drop slower than I would have expected, I'm assuming he is shield tanked to leave low slots free to expand cargo space. One shot to his armor taking half of it, I suddenly lose my lock.

He crawls to shield safety and I initiate warp, humbled by a defenseless space trucker. The other resident warps into the tower in his Loki, the trucker switching to a Cynabal. Grumbling to myself I realise I didn't even overheat my guns, more rust. I forgot the same thing when attacking the Vexor, although fortunately in that case, it wasn't necessary. I could have aligned into him and tried to ram him off course with my microwarp drive, but instead chose the safer option of aligning out. I wonder what was in that can, I should have locked it and shot it as a parting screw you.

The element of surprise well and truly gone, I decide to go check out the neighbouring wormhole I jumped into briefly earlier.