Gotcha!

My combat alt has been watching the Old Hole very carefully, even to the point I have it favourited at work. Watching for three hours while someone was chipping away at the sleepers... not able to do anything but watch.

Getting home, jumping on the alt and quickly determining all the anoms are gone! Since I cloaked as soon as I could, I avoided the single combat probe sitting in the system. Asleep at the wheel it seems.

A quick look around, shows the local static is EOL. There are three toons active on my list. And then, I see two Tengu and a Drake. And then, sleeper wrecks...

The only thing left is ladar and a mag site, dscan shows they are at the mag site. Got to love pre-scouting an entire system, top to bottom.

Once I am in the site, I start checking weapon types and speed. They are sitting still and plinking away with HMs, no transversal. I start a slow boat to make a perch, and watching as none of them approach the sleeper wrecks or cans.

Once the sleepers are all dead, the two tengus warp away leaving the drake. Having the single ship look tempting, the warp from the site back to the pos is over 32au. Not enough time to break the tank of the drake in my cloaked proteus. Instead I warp to the perch outside of the pos and see what they are doing.

Half way back to the pos, one tengu passes me. Probably refit with a code-breaker, or maybe with salvagers. The second tengu is swapped with a Noctis! Ooo, got me a soft target!!!

Warp back to the mag site to my perch, and watch, and watch, and watch. Finally the noctis pulls away from the drake, while the tengu was busy at the far can code-breaking. Four wrecks left is perfect, should be full of sleeper parts. The range of the noctii's tractor beams has me worried, they seem very short. Could it be the residents are smart enough to fit stabs on the noctis?

Warping directly to the noctis, uncloaking as I land. Bump the noctis, and overheat the point and guns. I do not web, just in case he is stabbed. And start shooting, neither drake or tengu change behavior. As soon as I pop the noctis, I go for the pod and miss. All three toons warp out together.

I loot the noctis, the two sleeper battleships left behind and destroy all the wrecks. Warping to my perch, I cloak up just as the two tengu and the drake land back in the mag site. I go get some coffee and a biscuit.

They have had over three hours of clearing to strip the system clean, and this is how it ends. Last site and I nab me a noctis for 150mil, loot 50mil in modules and sleeper salvage. Only the victim speaks in local, I say nothing and go back to reading facebook.