Run! to fight another day

War 1 – Day 8
No much going on today to report on. We had the 1 week of war thing yesterday, but I wasn’t about to take it in, work and all the fun stuff. Today’s activities seemed to involve moving from A to B, then back to A. I was spoilt for choice today when i logged on, as to who i should chase down. I chose Bruce, since he is talking to me and rustles on public so we know he’s not afk.

With locators running we scout nearby systems, hoping to bump into people with a blinky red face and -shoot it. No luck with this however, and the locator puts Bruce 10 jumps out. Oh how we groan. We travel down only to find Bruce and Ferox in a station. They are either AFK or hiding in the station. We chose the AFK option as we don’t like to think that they are scared of 2 cruisers, but we could be wrong.

We camp the station regardless while we wait for reply from the locator. We get the results and we groan even louder this time. 15 jumps. We set course and engage warp. 5 jumps out Mental logs off, its not a good day. We continue to the last know anyway, since we may find someone there.

Target system is empty! We float in space while we track down Andy. 15 jumps it seems. Blegh travelling should be quicker. Should maybe invest in jump clones.

We arrive at the system Andy is at, he’s still here. “Great! Check belts!” Belts are clear. We try stations, well, station, and there he is. I know he flies a drake, and it should outlast a cruiser easily, but I’m not sure about 2 cruisers, whether or not we could take it, i assume he’s got the same opinion.

Mental logs back in and we float outside Andy’s station. 10-20minutes pass and i run a locator on mental. Turns out he’s on his way down here. We move to intercept, hoping to get him alone before he regroups with his mates. We are too slow though, he meets Ferox.

We wait at a gate, see if they show up. He wants to PvP us at planet 1. “No thanks” I thought, we might win, likely lose though, and there are 3 hostiles in system, i don’t trust him to keep it fair. Its war, why should he?

Few minutes pass and a raven and a drake exit warp on top of us. We jump. On the other side the drake follows. It’s doing 600m/s and climbing, must be using a micro warp drive, wonder how long it would take to cap out. I burn away from it making him run it longer to see if it caps out easily. He reaches 11km and still closing, so i warp before I’m scrammed. He leaves system knowing he can’t expect to catch us in a battle cruiser. Knowing full well we can’t expect to defeat a raven and a drake, potentially 2 drakes, we decide to head back home and log out for the night.