I have been piloting my Rifter now for some time and it is a love affair that will not end. We were taking a dander through Dal yesterday and didn’t find any action to speak of. There was a Thrasher having a go at some belt rats but I let him be out of some strange compassion that I’m trying to get rid of.
To make amends for my earlier kindness I decided to go belt ratting solo and see what cropped up. Just so happens a fellow Rifter pilot had the same idea, but he warped out as I arrived. I proceeded to the next belt and there he was, I hesitated again but he decided to take the lead and locked me. Decision made I was now in combat mode, got my guns in range and slapped on the scrambler and web, he reciprocated and did the same. Our little dance of death had begun and we started taking chunks out of each other in true knife fighting fashion.
Fortune was with me today as I had him into structure by the time my shields were gone, not bad considering I’m armour tanked (well as tanked as a Rifter can be). As my repper kicked into gear I knew it was over as my nos kept the hungry nano bots fed and my armour together. It was at this late stage of the fight that our good friend Ciafas arrived in his own Rifter and engaged the poor fool. I had invited him out to find some action and apparently he was more eager than I thought, taking the final blow and the kill mail to boot.
In a few more seconds it was all over and his pod was locked down with my scrambler…till my cap ran dry and he warped out. No matter I’m not a fan of podding people anyway and the fight had my blood pumping, so I looted his wreck to find some juicy tech 2 kit. All in all it was about 2million isk worth of profit and a good hit of adrenaline, just what the doctor ordered. Getting a 1v1 fight isn’t always possible in these lower sec systems, but I salute my opponent and thank him for a good fight.
Viin
