The way it works out a lot of the time, at least for me, is that you go out on ops to shoot structures in order to set timers and you don’t always end up being around for the follow on timers or the kill mail. But once in a while you get to see the end result.
Yesterday I joined up with a fleet flying bombers, which meant we were off to shoot structures again. Bombers are fast, can move far on a black ops bridge, can cloak up if trouble arrives, and if stuffed with ammo can deliver a considerable amount of damage over time.
Of course, you never know where you are headed on fleets, but I got on the black ops battleship and took the bridge off to where ever we were headed.
Bridge up on the Redeemer
The bridge got us part of the way, but we had to burn on to our first target, which was a Sotiyo in B-588R in the Vale of the Silent. There was already a fleet there shooting it, but we showed up to get on the kill mail.
Rorqual warping in to loot and salvage
That didn’t take long, but it was a hearty kill mail. They didn’t get to pull the rigs before it was first reinforced, so it totaled up to 50 billion ISK on ZKill.
The other fleets moved on… I heard on coms that an NCDot Eagle fleet landed right on some of the titans and was decimated by a Boson doomsday, so expect Eagle prices to rise in Jita… but we stayed in the system and spread out for some additional smaller targets. B-588R was the same system I mentioned on Monday where we were hitting Athanors and watching their moon chunks explode as they were put into their final timer.
Moon chunk goes boom!
For once I was back in the right place and in the right fleet to help finish off a timer I set earlier. Athanors do not need a lot of DPS to take down, so the bombers were divided up amongst the targets, but I was able to see a couple of the Athanors (one and two) I had previously shot get their final blow and explode.
Athanor goes the way of its moon chunk
Athanors are not nearly as expensive as a rigged Sotiyo, but every little bit of destruction helps.
Done shooting targets there, we moved on to IFJ-EL where a Tatara, the big brother to the Athanor moon mining platform, waited for us to finish it off. Another satisfying explosion.
Tatara goes up as I fly past
From there we ran up to N-5QPW, where another Sotiyo was waiting for us. We were first told to free burn that way, and I was off and going. But then our bridger decided to give us a lift. However, I was already far enough along, and past a small gate camp consisting of a Sabre and a Gnosis trying to pick off anybody they could catch, so I kept on burning. But the Sotiyo would wait. I arrived safely and was able to start shooting when I landed.
Torpedoes away!
An Eagle fleet came out from our staging to join in on the kill. A Sotiyo is a big enough target that people are keen to whore on it. That meant we had more than enough damage on the target to put it down in the minimum time the damage cap allows. And while the locals had managed to pull the rigs from it to try and reduce its value (it no doubt had rigs before, a Sotiyo being not very useful without them), the kill mail still rang in at 20 billion ISK.
And after that we went home. Black ops being handy for moving around, we were able to get a bridge back to central Tribute, wait for the red timer to run down, and get a second bridge… except for the person who had enough fatigue that they had a 30 minute red timer… right back to KQK1-2 where we stood down the fleet.
But there are still lots of structures left to shoot. I am sure I will be out for more such fleets.
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