The Captains Log

The Captains Log 28/2

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