Solar system: Doril

Station: Archangels Assembly Plant

After running some reactions in my Wormhole I had a 100mill to spare, which I decided to use to buy some more ships for PvP. With 100mill there is a wide option of ships that I can procure, but I decided to go back to basics and bought myself 10 Rifters with fittings.

High Slot

            3 x 200mm Autocannon II’s

            1 x OE-5200 Rocket Launcher

Mid Slot

            1 x 1MN Afterburner II

            1 x Warp Scrambler II

            1 x Stasis Webifier II

Low Slot

            1 x Damage Control II

            1 x 100mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

            1 x Small Armour Rep

Rigs

            2 x Small Trimark Armour Pumps

            1 x Projectile Collision Accelerator I

One they had all being procured I transported them down to Doril for a bit of fun.

Rifter 1

Battles:

            Rifter vs Punisher – Defeat

A few of us OUCH members were camping the Sendaya gate in Doril when a Punisher flown BullMastiff, a member of Outbreak, warped on grid onto a perch spot above the gate. Before we go on, a little information about our relationship with Outbreak. OUCH members and Outbreak are friends but we will shot each other on sight, we just do it nicely. We have had a few organised fights against Outbreak when neither of us could find targets to shoot and Outbreak will often provide us with advice and will even set up bubbles for us. So when BullMasitiff asked in local if anyone wanted a 1 vs 1 I knew I could trust him enough that I would not get blobbed. 

As soon as we engaged I knew I was in for a rough fight as BullMastiff was using a Projectile fitted Punisher, which offers a few distinct advantages over a Rifter, namely more cap. As the fight proceeded we entered a stage where it was a stale mate as I was able to speed tank the majority of his damage and what I couldn’t my armour rep was able to fix. Unfortunately for me BullMastiff was able to do the same thing. Then I ran out of cap. My Afterburner shut down increasing the damage I was tacking and of course I couldn’t repair it. The first Rifter died.

Rifter 2

Battles

Thrasher, Rifter vs Caracal, Megathron – Defeat

Once again I was in Doril with a fellow corp member who was flying a Thrasher. On D-Scan we located a Caracal, Piloted by Rambo7 another Outbreak member, who was flying around a plant. We decided to engage him. Upon engaging him we ran into one problem, the Caracal had ECM drones, so my Thrasher wingman wasn’t able to apply DPS, until I was able to kill the drones, by which it was too late for him as the Caracal killed him. It was just me and the Caracal and things were going fine until Vanakov Mek’lanavar lands on grid in a Megathron and puts his drones and a neut onto me resulting in the death of Rifter number 2.

Rifter 3

Battles

Rifiter vs Caracal – Defeat

I wasn’t about to let the loss of Rifter 2 stop me from going out and trying again. While checking out the gates in Doril I came across Rambo7 in his Caracal again on the Utopia gate. Time for round two. I turned on my Afterburner and proceeded to orbit Rambo7 at high enough speeds that his missiles were doing minimal damage to me. Additionally, his lack of drones, since I had already destroyed them, made this battle a fair bit easier. However, my damage output wasn’t that great so I asked Aliee Ross who was in system with me in Manticore to give me hand. Bad move. As soon as Aliee engaged Rambo7’s friends jumped in and proceeded to reduce my Rifter to shiny space dust.

Rifter 4

This Rifter and its crew were also sold into slavery where they died a painful death without the benefit of my presence.

Rifter 5

Battles

            Rifiter vs Rifter and Manticore – Victory

            Rifter vs Crusader – Defeat

Once again I was sitting on the Sendaya gate waiting for a potential target when a Rifter, flown by Carebear715, and Manticore jumped in and the held on the gate. Hmm 2 vs 1, but that Manticore wasn’t going to be doing too much damage to me while using torpedos and the Rifter pilot was evidently a Carebear. Engage it was then. The battle was short and quick resulting in the destruction of the Rifter while the Manticore was to faraway to get a point on him, thus allowing him to escape. I consider this to be my first proper solo kill.

This Rifters final battle was against Crusader piloted by Cordarouy Pants who was sitting on the Sendaya gate looking for a fight. Well I was game; a Rifter should a least be able to hold its own against a Interceptor, or maybe not. By the time I had him in half armour I was in deep structure. At least this time I didn’t cap out.

Rifter 6

Battles

            Rifter, Ishtar vs Incursus, Typhoon – Victory

            Rifter vs Harbinger, Vagabond vs Drake – Victory and Defeat

OUCH used to be friends with another corporation called Quality Control until for various reasons our relationship broke down, so now we shoot each out instead of being friends. So when we see ForgedLiberty sitting on the Sendaya gate in a Incursus we figure that he is bait for Kevees, another QC member in local. In this knowledge Quintaki, flying an Ishtar, and I decided to kill him, which was done rather quickly. As soon as he was dead Kevees warped in with his Typhoon and we all warped out.

Punisher004 was flying around in Doril in his Drake looking for a kill. Unfortunately for him so were BullMastiff, Harbinger, and Vanakov Mek’lanavar, Vagabond, both of whom are Outbreak members. Punisher004 got caught by BullMastiff as he jumped into Doril from Utopia and was quickly engaged by Vanakov as well. I decided to jump into the fray as well making it three way fight in which everyone else targeted me and then promptly killed me. Ah well at least Punisher004 was also quick to die.

Rifter 7

Battles

            Rifter, Thrasher vs Drake – Defeat

Crorono, in a Thrasher, and I had a set up a Drag Bubble on the Sendaya gate to see what we could catch. As it turned out we caught a Drake piloted by OLEKBOLEK who quickly reduced Crorono’s Thrasher to space dust. Me in all my good sense decided to warp out and fight another day, only for me to engage him latter on only to be neuted once again and reduced to scrap metal myself. Next time I should just die fighting at the side of my corp mates.

Rifter 8

Battles

            OUCH; U’K vs Waterboard – Defeat

            Rifter vs Claw – Defeat

This Rifter went on a 20 man roam with our fleet consisting of mostly Frigates with a few Battlecruisers. While travelling through Curse we ran into a Ushra’Khan gang who requested our help in killing a Waterboard fleet consisting of mostly Battleships. Well we were game for this. Unfortunately, for us this battle took place on station where they undocked a Thanatos and used logistics ships to repair their fleet, preventing us from killing any of them. Fortunately, for me though my Rifter got out alive.

Later that day though I watched Dazamin, flying a Claw, jump into Doril from Sendaya so I went to engage him. The fight was going well enough apart from the simple fact that the damage I was tacking was to consistent for me to simply pulse my small armour rep, so I had keep it online until I ran out of cap and got my ship destroyed once more.

Rifter 9

Battles

            Rifter vs Crusader  - Defeat

Phejet warped onto the Sendaya gate while I was patrolling a bubble, so closed in on him hoping I would have better luck against this crusader unlike the last one. This time the Crusader managed to stay at range and destroy Rifter 9 from afar. I feel though if I had being able to close in on him I would have won as I still managed to take him into half armour despite being at the edge of my fall off.

Rifter 10

Battle

            Rifter vs Hurricane, Hurricane, Manticore, Manticore – Defeat

Negotium Alliance had set up a Camp on the Sendaya gate that involved lots of bubbles so I decided to sit on top of it and watch the fun from afar. Unfortunately for me I wasn’t paying attention and a Hurricane got close enough to get a point on me and ruin this Rifters day.

Rifter 11

Battle

            Rifter vs Dramiel x 3, Malediction, Nemsis, Purifier – Defeat

Outbreak saw Negotium’s little gate camp and crashed it scoring some nice kills. While they were looting the wreaks I noticed that a Malediction was a little off from the others so I decided to take it on and hope that I killed it before the Dramiels that were also flying around were able to destroy my last Rifter. Unfortunately, the best laid plans never work and the Malediction survived while my poor Rifter joined the other 10 Rifters in Rifter heaven.

So there we have it the life and times of 11 Rifters pressed into my service. They one and all died painful deaths, but it was allot of fun. I have to say though that I think I need to tweak my fit a little bit as I would like to make it a bit more cap stable as well as making it a little faster then what it is and maybe see if I can fit war disrupter instead of the war scrambler. Or I could just use a similar set up on some Punishers. I am still tossing up what I should buy with the next batch of ISK, Punishers, Thoraxs or a Sabre. Personally I’m leaning towards the Sabre at the moment but we will see what happens.

Now my challenge to all you Industrialists and Carebears out there; go do what I have just done. Go buy yourself 10 Rifters, Punishers, Kesterals or something else and go PvP in them till you lose them. You will have fun and you won’t regret it.

Solar System: Unknown Space

Ship: Buzzard Class Covert Ops

Continuing on from POS Defence

Logging into my wormhole I noticed that there was a Enyo on scan so I warped over to the Khanid Guard POS and found the Enyo there, so I started up a conversation in local with him.  

[ 2010.02.28 12:43:49 ] FireFrenzy > hey

?[ 2010.02.28 12:44:02 ] FireFrenzy > whats up?

?[ 2010.02.28 12:44:15 ] Fishy Night > not much just doing some pos maintance

?[ 2010.02.28 12:44:33 ] FireFrenzy > yeah i’m chilling out waiting for some firends to log on

?[ 2010.02.28 12:44:48 ] Fishy Night > running plexs in here?

?[ 2010.02.28 12:45:15 ] FireFrenzy > we’ll see what we’ll end up doing

?[ 2010.02.28 12:46:04 ] FireFrenzy > you guys dont mind sharing right? i was told by the powers that be that you had been contacted about this?

?[ 2010.02.28 12:46:17 ] FireFrenzy > /emote is a director if we need to work something out

?[ 2010.02.28 12:46:42 ] Fishy Night > I dont think I have being contacted

?[ 2010.02.28 12:46:47 ] Fishy Night > but no i dont mind

?[ 2010.02.28 12:47:11 ] FireFrenzy > yeah i know some contact was established prior to this whole opp thing but not sure about the how and whys (

?[ 2010.02.28 12:47:11 ] Fishy Night > im just running reactioins in here dont care much about the sleeper sites

?[ 2010.02.28 12:47:48 ] Fishy Night > who was it that contacted me do you know, ill proberly reconise the name

?[ 2010.02.28 12:48:11 ] FireFrenzy > not sure but probably Tamon edom, or Zeffan

?[ 2010.02.28 12:48:22 ] FireFrenzy > not sure about that dudes last name

?[ 2010.02.28 12:48:35 ] FireFrenzy > but he would have been in KGM and it would have happened around friday

?[ 2010.02.28 12:48:56 ] Fishy Night > dont think i was contacted then but hey i dont mind anyway

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:01 ] FireFrenzy > cool

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:27 ] FireFrenzy > mind me posting this on the forums since this is then “first contact”

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:28 ] FireFrenzy > ?

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:43 ] FireFrenzy > so that the guys higher up then me know about it

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:43 ] Fishy Night > its all cool : )

?[ 2010.02.28 12:49:46 ] FireFrenzy > good

?[ 2010.02.28 12:50:04 ] FireFrenzy > well if you need help with anything dont hesitate to hollar i got an AF and a bestower in here

?[ 2010.02.28 12:50:16 ] FireFrenzy > and shit loads of stuff outside but thats not really helpful:)

?[ 2010.02.28 12:50:31 ] Fishy Night > : ) will do if i need it

?[ 2010.02.28 12:55:31 ] FireFrenzy > tamon is CEO Gladric CFO and zeff is our head honcho on the indy side and this is mainly his opp

?[ 2010.02.28 12:55:33 ] Fishy Night > /emote nods

?[ 2010.02.28 12:55:50 ] FireFrenzy > i could shoot you an invite to our public channel if your interested

?[ 2010.02.28 12:56:00 ] FireFrenzy > might ease comms a notch or two…

?[ 2010.02.28 12:56:05 ] Fishy Night > yeah that would be great

?[ 2010.02.28 12:56:11 ] FireFrenzy > done

So now we are all friends and life is good. With these guys running sleeper sites in the wormhole the amount of sites present should drop soon which will make it allot easier for me to probe out my high sec exits. Additionally, they are killing people that intrude into the wormhole system which makes my POS that little bit safer. So it looks like everything is good for now.=

Solar System:  Undisclosed

Star Base: Gaia

In Empire

My alt corp got War Deced, no doubt some opportunistic person was looking around for POS’s to shoot and steal their modules when they found my high sec POS  that I let go offline and thus they decided to take it out. Sort of ironic isn’t it. The corp that war deced me was Have Your Cake and Eat It, a four man corp that according to battleclinic has lost five ships and killed none. Well that would have a been a fun war dec. Indeed I would have actually fought the aggressors if the war dec hadn’t of gone live while I was at work. As it was, I put enough fuel in POS to keep it going for a few days, took down my labs, onlined my shield hardeners and onlined my some 16 ECM batteries. With the end result being, Have Your Cake and Eat It dropping their war dec. Not surprising as that is exactly what I would have done in CPR. A pity really as I have a Scorpion set up I wanted to try out and a little Empire War would have been perfect for that.

In Wormhole Space

Naturally there are a few visitors in my wormhole system so it was not that suppressing that yesterday when utilising my D-Scan I located a number of Tengu’s flying around, some of which were not named thus giving me the pilots names and their corporation, Khanid Guard a 45 man corp. As I am a sociable creature I started up a conversation with them in local

Fishy Night > Gday

Chaeon > o/

Fishy Night > running the plexs in here?

Chaeon > nope hunting

Fishy Night > any luck?

Chaeon > lions and tiger adnd bears OH MY

Fishy Night > be carefull with them they are dangours 

Chaeon >

How nice, but it was no problem for me as I didn’t plan on making any market trips. However, when I logged on today I noticed that there was another POS up in my system so I went and check it out. Guess who owned it, Khanid Guard. Potentially, not good. In a buzz of activity I start doing some intel gathering on them to determine which course of action I should take.

So far my conclusions are.

They have weakly defended small Amarr control tower which will be no problem at all to take down. Additionally, there tower does not contain a large ship assembly array so they will not be building any Battleships in my wormhole, which would pose a real problem to my POS’s safety. As it is they can only fly in Battlecruisers and smaller, which will not hurt my large POS unless they bring in a large number of them.

There Battleclinic statistics also show that they have a total of 92 kills and 192 losses. Most of their kills are by one person or at most a few people, which leads me to believe that they for the most part do not run organised fleets, which is what would be required to take down my POS’s. Also looking at their kills I see a lot of kills utilising stealth bombers (particularly in HED-GP), nija salvagers kills (with a Rattlesnake no less) and even some battle Hulk kills against what I presume to be can flippers, though I do have to wonder about this kill where they have used a Hulk to kill one of their own members… This leads me to believe they are for the most part industrialists but that they also don’t mind going out into low sec and null sec for a bit of PvP, but that it isn’t their main goal in life.

So all this leaves me with three options.

1. A Pre-emptive attack
2. Abandon the fort
3. Be friends

At the moment I don’t believe they have the military strength to take down my POS’s and thus give me any reason to abandon my POS operations, though they may be a hindrance when it comes to moving assets in and out of the wormhole. Alternatively they haven’t given any indication that they are going to attack me and thus warrant a Pre-emptive attack, which could anger them and thus make them come back in force. Therefore I will open up negotiations with them as I believe they are in here to mine out the grav and ladar sites, which could be mutually beneficial as I need minerals to build the battleships I plan on having stationed in here. However, if they attack me my response will be swift. There tower will go down. 

Continued in POS negotiations

Solar System: Doril

Station: Archangels Assembly Plant

Over at K162 space Blake asked what the worst loss we have was and did it make us want to quite to emo rage around the room for a bit.

Well the worst loss I have ever had was this Ferox I had fitted with a Pithium A-Type Shield Booster I bought using Plexs. With it fitted I thought I was invincible, even more so when I was running explorations sites where I would have to be probed down (this was with the old probing mechanics). Unfortunately, this proved to be not the case as I got killed fairly easly by a small group of pirates while finishing of a exploration site. Infract I was just warping out as they came in and tackled me. Did I explode in emo rage after this? No I didn’t, as it was not a big deal. It is a game.

The only losses that really annoy me are ones that are due to not my bad piloting skills but my internet disconnecting, the power going out or server lag, much like this loss. In other words things out of my control.

As you can see I run a tri screen set up on which I can run all three of my Eve accounts, the center one is 22″ while the other two are both 19″, if I had them any bigger I doubt they would fit on my desk. You will also notice that I have a Australian Flag above my desk, very important : )

More Eve Spaces.

Solar System: Unknown

Starbase: Gaia

The POS’s are up and  the reactions are underway and money should start flowing into my pockets soon enough. It was a bit of a hassle to get the POS’s up, not because it was difficult to do so but because it was so time consuming in getting the modules  there as I had to haul in some 500k m³ of assets into my wormhole and then getting all the modules up and running which took a lot of time. All up I have anchored

3 x Control towers

3 x Corporate hanger arrays

12 x Silos

4 x Coupling arrays

2 x Simple reactors

2 x Complex reactors

1 x Ship maintenance array

9 x shield harders

60 x defence modules.

It was also made longer by the fact that I can only anchor a single tower per day. However It is all over now, so all I have to worry about is hauling minerals and fuel.

At the moment I only have a couple of days worth of moon minerals to react so for the next couple of weeks the POS’s will be operating on a shoestring budget as I get Fullerides, sell, them buy more minerals and react them together and then get more fullerides to sell and buy fuel. Once I have enough ISK to buy a stockpile of minerals and fuel the whole operation will run allot smoother without constant attention from me.

When I first started colonising this system it had plenty of combat sites in it. However, a team of five Drakes has emptied the system of all the combat sites leaving behind only the ladar and gravimetric sites, which is sort of disappointing as I wanted to shoot some sleepers. On the plus side scanning is fair bit easier with out all that clutter. The grav sites though will come into use as I plan on building some Battleships in here to knock any intruders around. Using battleships will give me a large advantage as only Battlecruisers or small will be able to enter my system.

Here are some pretty pictures of my POS’s.

Here we have a image from which the positions of all three of my POS’s can be seen.

Gaia, as you can see is located within the planetary rings of is planet making for a nice scene.

Terra Mater overlooking the gas giant. Gaia is located on the left hand side of the rings.

Ninhursag and the moon it orbits.

Solar System: Uknown

Shiptype: Buzzard Class Covert Ops

Well I got the two billion ISK I needed to buy POS’s, POS modules, fuel, moon minerals and even a freighter to start running some moon reactions to get a bit of a passive income stream. The next stage was finding some moons to put the POS’s on.

I decided to run a Fullerite reaction as I found a lovely little low sec system that had three quarters of the moons I needed, so I loaded up my freighter and prepared to set up shop. However when, I went to online my POS a lovely little message came up saying that I did not have the required standing with the Amarr Empire to online a POS in that system. Then I also realised the system I was in had a sec status of .4. You can only moon mine and run moon reactions in systems .3 and bellow. So here I am with two billion invested in moon reactions and I can’t run them. Well it was time to move on too plan B; find a class one wormhole to operate out off it.

Step one of Plan B was to buy Buzzard and kit it out will the goods;  Rigs, Sisters probe launcher and sisters probes which I found lying around in one of my hangers. Oddly enough the only time I was operating out of that system was when I was suicide ganking hulks so I don’t know why I had Sisters Probes in that system.

Step two was to probe out a wormhole, which was followed by step three; more probing and then step 4; even more probing and then lots more steps involving probing.  The first wormhole took me into a C2 system, close to what I wanted, but not quite there.  In that system I found another wormhole leading to another C2 system that some 60 exploration sites in there (including anomalies), which I tried to trade on the forums for the location of a C1 with a static empire exit. Unfortunately this was to no avail. So I left that system through a null sec exit and ended up in deep Stain, the last place I wanted to be as to get out I either have to go through HED-GP in catch (perma camped by AAA) or providence, which is currently on fire. So I went back to probing and found a class 5 system where the locals were not very friendly tried there hardest to kill me. Thankfully my skills add avoining camps a getting better or maybe the hostile pilots were just inept. Either way I got away and found another C5 which didn’t contain people trying to kill me. This C5 system took me to a C3 system which then led to deep low sec in gallante space. At least there are no bubbles in low sec to trap me on gates. I shortly thereafter found another C3 system were another wormhole was found that  took me to a new area of low sec that was only 15 jumps through High sec to get back to Ashab. From there I found some more class two wormholes which eventually took me to a C1 system. About bloody time as well.

The C1 system had a wormhole leading to high sec, which is what I wanted, however I had to make sure it was a static high sec exit. So off I went to get my Hurricane, the same one I used to bump Chribba off his POS when we stole it, and proceeded to collapse the wormhole. It took me 50 jumps, but it got done. Probe the system again and guess what I found, a wormhole leading to High sec. Perfect.

So now I am getting my POS’s into position. Soon this wormhole will be mine.

—

“Sniper ships are the Ship of the Line in modern fleet battles.” Stated Rurik.

He was looking out of the view port at the glowing cloud of gasses that surrounded his ship, a Rokh class battleship. He turned back to Lieutenant Korsakov who he had being talking to.

“The modern sniper fit vessel though is not a true sniper vessel. All the fleet’s ships gather onto one spot within full sight of the enemy and proceed to engage them at long range. This is contrary to what a sniper is. A true sniper remains hidden from their enemies and when the sniper the strikes the target does not see their death coming.”

Rurik waved his hand towards the gasses of the nebula that surround his ship. “This nebula hides us from the directional scanners of our targets. Our passive targeters prevent them from know about us when we lock onto their ship. Our Advanced Railguns and Spike hybrid ammunition allow us to hit a target from up to 200km away; of course we can’t lock a target from that distance, that’s why we need our sensor boosters. We, Lieutenant are a true sniper, destroying our enemy before they even know we are here.”

“Ensign Hoth bring up our targets on the holo display.”

Rurik looked at the display and watched as the two gallante shuttles began to extend docking tubes to each other as their occupants attempted to transfer the good they contained.

“Weapons control lock onto the target and prepare to fire once the shuttles docking tubes are connected.”

“Target locked commander. Ready to engage.”

Rurik watched as the docking tubes locked together, sealing the fate of the ships.

“Our targets, Lieutenant, don’t know it yet but they are the dead. Weapons control fire when ready.”

The reverberation of eight Railguns launching a single deadly volley was felt throughout the ship. On the holo disply the hybrid charges tore through the shuttle, disintegrating it and killing its passengers before they even knew what happened.

Solar system: Amarr

Station. Emperor Family Academy

(continued from part I)

I logged on Sklavin09 to continue trying my little scam only to find this message

From: GM Yuggoth

Sent: 2010.02.07 21:54

To: Sklavin09, 

This is an official warning for spamming another player with EVEMails. Cease all such activity or risk further repercussions.

I guess CCP doesn’t like me sending out copious amounts of Eve mails with a obvious scam. Hmm I wonder how they classify spam… is 10 mails a our spam or is any kind of eve mail related to scam considered spam? Guess I had better find out. And what about continuly spaming local with obvious spams is that considered spam which will attract further repercussions. If it isnt, how is it different from spaming EVE mails? These questions need to be answered. 

Solar system: Amarr

Station. Emperor Family Academy

I need ISK. I need lots of ISK so I can expand on my industrial empire. So I sat down and thought about how I can make all this ISK and came up with a solution: Scamming. I will scam my way into two billion ISK. So I logged a alt on in Amarr and sent this message to everyone in Amarr local..

G’day

I have 100000 units of Megacyte for sale for 255 mill, which is 10% cheaper than buying it of the market. I’m selling it through contracts as I want to get a good price for it but don’t want to deal with the .01 ISK wars on the market. The contract is linked below for your convenience.

Megacyte x 100000

Much appreciated

Sklavin09

Yes I sent a eve mail to everyone in Amarr, some 200+ people, and it only cost me about a mill in CSPA charges. Naturally my contract didn’t actually have 100k Megacyte, only 10k. As you would expect I got a few mails sent back to me. Some people were very unhappy about me trying to scam others like this one.

From: Bahadur Maharaja

Sent: 2010.02.05 09:08

To: Sklavin09, 

Suck my dick scumer ) LOLOLOOLOL

Other people just blocked me straight away or were just not interested in my great deal.

From: dumtes

Sent: 2010.02.05 09:22

To: Sklavin09, 

dude im a missioner

And then there was this gem, which I admit I have to made the whole effort worth it.

From: Amelia Mannerheim

Sent: 2010.02.05 09:06

To: Sklavin09, 

Hello

Thank you for that fine offer. Im not into manufacturing or trading so I’ll have to pass. But since you showed me such consideration and gave me a heads up on that mighty fine offer I’m willing to trade you a 100 gallente shuttles for a mere 100 billion isk.

Much appreciated

Amelia Mannerheim

I didn’t actually find anyone stupid enough to buy my Megacyte so I guess I will have to try again.

(Continued in part II)