War is a bitch. I have a long time friend in Eve who claims that highsec wars are the main driving factor thats holding back the game's growth. I don't know if I'd be that dramatic about it myself. I do have to agree that a fat lot of the guys who participate in highsec wardecs are the same type of players who will say your crying and beg for more tears if you try to negotiate an end to the war. They simply don't purport themselves with the same nobility and regal fibre as me and my piratical kin. Now I don't mean men like Psychotic Monk, or Cannibal Kane who do bring unrivaled class and professionalism to the stars when I say this. No, I mean the men who wardec anything that undocks from the SOE epic arc station and then proceeds to hellcamp Jita, Amarr or Rens with neutral logi and all manner of boorish tactics. I'm sure you're familiar. I do not say all this to bash on the highsec griefer's style of life of course, or even to boast about lowsec superiority. I say all this to introduce us to our next victims.
When 7-2 began wardeccing the locals in our new deployment region with the intent to fight under gate guns a few other groups joined in. Either hired mercenaries who decced us seperately or opportunistic carrion who hopped on the same dec as allies. I believe our friends were of the latter. They were from a corp named S-o-S and at the time they were allianceless. After my run in with the group of wartargets who crashed my Kronos execution I went on a bit of a research binge to go after the bastards. I spent the better part of a Saturday perusing Evewho and compiling a list of possible bogeys, yet by the time I was done the men responsible for my flub had largely logged off. Bastards. That left me and my friends from S-o-S. A few quick locators later and I had eyes on. My alt followed a small frigate fleet of theirs through lowsec a few jumps and then into Stacmon. There they sat and warped from gate to gate catching Brave Newbies who didn't know any better and violencing them with a prejudice. I wasn't particularly impressed. Now don't get me wrong I will gladly shoot a Brave Newbie Venture in lowsec just as quickly as the next guy. But I also like to think there is more... ugh I hate to say honour but I guess that's the best word; more honour in a lowsec slaughter than there is in deccing a corp known for being newbs (its in their name dammit), and camping the choke point to their home system just to kill a few Hoarders with 236 Tritanium and 58 Small Tungsten charges in the hold.
So I came up with my own boorish plan. It was rather obvious that they had scouts in the surrounding systems and when a WT showed up in local somewhere they'd all swarm the gate and hit him with sticks after he jumped. Well, all I needed was an anti-frig Vexor (I can buy that), a WT symbol (got that), and some piss and vinegar (got that too). It was rather impressive really, how quickly they moved to my gate once I jumped into the neighboring system. They clearly had done this before. I jumped into Stacmon, my imaginary long blonde hair billowing in the wind behind me. There they sat, eager and grinning like a bundle of half-witted Cheshire cats waiting to eat their mouse. And I'd like to think I played the part well. I held cloak for as long as I could and decloaked burning back to the gate Feigning Disorder until they all engaged.
Cry havoc. Said he who fought chaos with chaos, and let slip the dogs of war.
Small neutron blasters spooled up and a flight of angry Hobgoblins flew forth. Dual webs and a solid scram held down my unfortunate colleagues whilst I pummeled them into the dirt. They simply didn't stand a chance.
