Getting popped by BURN EDEN - kind of a mark of distinction
“DAMMIT, that’s TWICE!”
-CO at Top Gun, from the movie OR me while watching my 2nd battleship go poof! to Satan and crew.
BURN EDEN are the undisputed masters of 0.0 gate camping - not only do they use innovative tactics, rarely get killed, and frustrate large alliances constantly, but they camp ALL THE TIME. Seriously, that has got to get old.
If you haven’t had the pleasure, BE likes to camp 0.0 gates in cloaked BS’, using NPC corp alts as scouts and interdictor pilots to catch the unsuspecting. You show up, see one guy at the gate, align, bubble goes up, several battleships (including unconventional armor tanked, sensor damp, sniping Ravens) uncloak at range, a whole mass of dampening and jamming kicks in, and then you die.
They also tend to eat up uncoordinated attempts at camp-crashing, which is how I died the first time. T1 fit sniping Apoc, flying solo to join up with our response gang (yeah, I know. Smart). The backdoor gate to the target system was reported all clear, so I made my way through, not paying much attention to the NPC corp neutral in local. Jump, decloak, “uh oh, what’s that little guy doing here?”, “oh SHIT bubble”, “where did those guys come from”, <going down!!!> in gang chat, waking up in goo 10 systems away.
Nice.
Second time I lost a pulse-fit, plated Armageddon on a roving BS gang we did for kicks and giggles. Jumped into a hostile station system, noticed a bunch in local, but warped to the station anyway. Mid-warp the scout calls out “uh, there’s some bubbles on the station, but no ships around”. Pucker factor = high. But there is a sense of quiet resignation when you just KNOW you’re ship will go down. It becomes almost fun to watch the fireworks. Anyway, the fight itself wasn’t much - landed in a bubble, targets decloaked all around at every range it seemed, gang discipline went poof, and our ships quickly followed. Frickin’ BURN EDEN. Not a gate trap this time at least, but similar tactics transported to station camping. Either way, collecting ship insurance for me.
Nice. Remind me to just self-destruct if I see Evil Pookie, SATAN, or any of those guys in local next time, kthx.
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