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[Korrd]

From: Korrd. On the Livadia shipyards

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Recently, I was travelling back home through the VIP's route, when suddenly, a SCRA Fighter showed up on my sensors. It was a Raven's talon called 'Ares'. I soon brought all weapons to speed and opened fire on him.

The fight was going well. I was giving him a hell of a beating on the asteroid field, but I detected two more ships in the vicinity coming fast at us. The ship weren't Asgard nor allied. I thought they were SCRA reinforcements, but they ignored us and opened fire on each other. During the ensuing confusion, the Ares escaped.

As I begun the pursuit of the Ares, the corsair ship hailed me. Her captain was worried that I could be attacking about the fellow corsairs that were around us. Sorted that, I set course to Gamma, in order to catch the Ares.

I found him at sector 7-G of the Gamma system, near Malta, and engaged him again.
The fight was a hell of one. I could not bring down his hull, as his dodging skills were superb, something I wasn't expecting from the SCRA... a GOOD pilot.

He took my shields down, I took his shields down... Countless times...

I discovered that they tend to use an.. interesting tactic: As soon as I took down his shields, he run circles around me at max thrust while his shield generator reloaded. After a few hours of that, I hailed the pilot and told him to stop, to fight or leave. Surprisingly, he stopped doing it and concentrated more on trying to hit me and less on keeping his shields up.

We kept fighting for ours, but in the end, my hastiness made me pay the price of retreat...

We all know that a shield generator is a piece of equipment that has to tolerate a lot of stress. As such, it needs maintenance much more often than any other piece of hardware. Every 2100 hours, we have to take the ship shields to servicing in order for those to get maintenance. In the case of a graviton shield, the aGrav component is re polarized, plasma flux regulators are realigned, and sometimes the torsion projector has to be replaced.
Well, my shield gen had been operating for almost one and a half year with no maintenance. To be precise, 12597 hours.
They had the efficiency degraded already, but I didn't noticed it as I was rarely hit that much to notice it.

They weren't working well on this fight. I was forced to go to the defensive because they kept drooping way too quick..
In the end, the shield generator failed, and my shields went down. Alarms sounded everywhere in the cockpit.
To make a long story short, I had to retreat, and pray that the hull could take all the radiation and corrosive gases that were present on the nebulae I had to go through in order to reach home.

The SCRA pilot didn't pursue. I guess he was as tired as I was from the long engagement, and decided not to push his luck any more.

After reaching the base, I took the shield gen apart with the Tech team, and we found that the torsion projector was completely ruined, the aGrav component was melted and the power grid was cooked. In resume, I had to discard the entire unit and buy a new one.

The SCRA pilot's name I later learnt thanks to our cover ops guys. Bluntpencil. Odd name for a person if you ask me. A remarkable pilot, indeed. I advice caution when fighting against him, as he is no rookie, but a fully fledged veteran. And one with honour... Something that is becoming rare this days...



OOC: In resume, the first encounter happened on the O-5 system, near the 41 JH. I was going to Gamma in order to fight him. Imagine my surprise when I found him right in front of me in the middle of the Asteroid field of O-5. I soon hit the Kb and opened fire. He did the same. A nice fight, but he lacked the ability to fight among that tight asteroid field. We were rather even, but I was getting the upper hand as I knew well how to use the AF to my advantage.
A few mins after the fight begun, A corsair and a BHG ship appeared. I thought "Oh, sh*t, enemy reinforcements. Two cruisers." But they ignored us and begun engaging each other. Do you imagine 2 separated PvP which had nothing to do with each other, one 1k of the other and 20 NPC wreaking havoc around all of us.. all that in the middle of a nuke minefield, missiles and debris? I call that an awesome environment!!!!11one!one11!1
I confused his shield thrust tactic with shieldrunning and told him not to. He thought he broke a rule and stopped fighting, while all my mines, missiles, and other nasty weeds converged on his ship, blowing him up.

We then talked a bit and resumed the fight at Gamma, G-7.
I think the fight lasted for more than 1 hour. Our shields were practically all the time off line, but our hulls took little damage. I ran out of bots, bats, missiles, mines, etc before he did, and my shields were taking a hell of a beating too god knew why.. He had the upper hand on that one. I told him not to shield thrust, as that was making the fight last forever.
The battle ended when the stu*id Excel launched (I have a programmed task that launches daily at 21:30), and minimized my game, causing my ship to stand still enough time to be blown up to dust...
It was a hell of a fight. He is an excellent pilot indeed. One more on my short list of dangerous pilots.

I also think that we should redefine shieldrunning, from the current definition of "engaging cruise to stay away while shields recover" to "Going out of weapons' range while shields reactivate", because it makes fights way too long... And that among veteran pilots causes infinite undefined fights.

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