Close but no biscuit

Weekend started out slow, yardwork and movie-time at home. Eve was fun, no actual kills.

Sa had an alt scouting the static, and found a WH with four PoS and lots of active pilots. Normally we will ignore them, and maybe roll the holes with a scout on both sides. Sa had different plans.

Sa tells me this over breakfast, so all the fun was gone when I got up. He drops in the static, looks around and find the PoSs and piloted ships. Watching dscan, he discovers a mining operation in progress. Two orcas in a PoS, two Macs and a Retriever warping around the system.

He drops combat probes in the far reaches of the system, and hides them out of view. Then dscans the site down, narrowing with-in 5au. He aligns and combat probes, misses the first time. Second time bingo on the retriever, warps in and starts shooting.

This is where it gets intersting, the retriever was hard against an astroid. And the pilot drops his pod out and warps out with the other two toons. Dscanning like mad, he spots two BCs and a T2 headed his way. He warps back to the k162 and waits on our side cloaked. No response after 15 minutes, he logs out and makes breakfast.

-First off, Sa had the wrong ammo loaded, so no KM.
-Second, it was a trap. Retriever was hard against an astroid.
-Third, there were ten visible pilots in system. Parked at various PoSs.
-Fourth, a second ship would have scored a second kill (ammo).

All in all, an excellent example of a well prepared force. Response time was minimal, Sa thinks the response team was in warp as soon as the combat probes were spotted.