Last night was an uneventful evening as far as combat goes, and I have to admit my Rifter is thirsting for action. Viin and I were crawling a few 0.4 and 0.3 sec systems, without much luck. No one seemed to want to play! I was somewhat disappointed, but when one system emptied I happened to jump into an asteroid belt containing the remains of what looked like a brutal fight. Somewhat disheartened because I missed it, I decided to make the most out of it. There were a few stray E-War drones floating around aimlessly, and when I checked the marketplace I noted they were worth a fair bit. I scooped them up along with a few stray regular combat drones, and approached one of the destroyed ships; the wreck of a Vexor. There was likely nothing in it; either the pilot would have come back to salvage what he could, or the aggressor would have taken his spoils and gone long ago, but I thought it worth a try.
To my utter surprise the wreck was filled with Tech II equipment, all worth at least two million ISK each. I called Viin in for help carrying it back, as my Rifter cargohold filled up very quickly, and we sifted through the other two wrecks as well. All in all, between us we made around 25 million ISK. When the system started filling up again, we quickly docked to drop off the kit we’d just grabbed, joking about how the poor victim would probably be rebuilding his ship soon, and end up buying all of his own equipment back.
It brought the question to mind — we didn’t get much proper pirating or combat in at all in the past few days, but surely pillaging is a part of it? We made profit from someone else’s kill, but to be honest he shouldn’t have left his mess behind!
– Metal
