After the sucessful frigate roam I decided to take it a step further and I put the call out to my fellow alliance members to form up a cruiser posse and again go and shoot the flashy red peeps with a death or glory approch! Again we had Ewar and a T1 logistics cruiser along with a neut boat and three DPS boats made up of a Rupture, Deimos and a Zealot. We have a running joke about starting Ops on time, and this was no different, we set off late.

I had never FC’ed a fleet before and was a bit nervous about making the desisions when to engage, or fall back. You should alwayd fight on your terms not their’s! We made the one jump from High sec to Low sec as a big group. I had a vision of jumping straght into a gate camp and our night ending very soon. It didnt quite turn out like that. The gate was clear and we started to move up the the pipe. I had a laminated dotland map infront of me so i could keep upto date with where we were and our destination.

Out of no where a Domi engaged us on the gate. He warped off and we carry on. Yes he was red flashy now, but I was worried about the drone boat chewing us up before we could take him down! He agressed us again and warp to a belt in plan view of us all. Still on a GCT I dsided fortune favours the brave. I got the fleet alligned to the belt and warped us there. We quickely point the Domi and get the ECM and neuts on him. I soon realised he was a duel repped domi using cap boosters, and we were struggling to break his tank. I ordered us to overload guns etc and try to break him. My guns were up at 90% heat damage and Markal burnt out his guns compleatly. The Drones are running rampent and take out our Logistics Cruiser and ECM boat. I was getting so frustrated! the Domi’s hull structure was at 50% and his armor was repping back upto full. It wasnt a good position to be in. I realised at this point we might loose the whole fleet to 1 BS and I wasnt going to let that happen. I told the fleet to align out and fleet warped us away. At this point I realised my error. Poor Akely in the Deimos was still scrammed and the Domi finished him of. It turned out to be an epic 8 minute battle which ended up us being the looser. I need to get that duel repping domi fit!

After we regrouped we went out again. Akely had to dissapear and Markal’s PSU desided to blow up so it left us with a small roaming gang. All the systems were empty and there were no fights to be had. After a while we met a big battle cruiser gang! Our Abitratior was scouting for us and managed to burn back to the gate. We all alligned to a gate and managed to escape. It was a moral victory at least! After looking at our options I deside to make a break for it. We jump into Aeditide and find a scout Rapier sitting off the gate. I called it primary and again overloaded my guns. I was aware if we didn’t take it down quickley we would have the gang on top of us. In a moment of genious I tell the fleet to allign to the outgate, and as I call it, the hostile gang jumps in. I fleet warp us to the outgate, and we all survive to tell the tail. We got him to half armor before we left, the Zealot was puttin gout some major DPS! A few more ships and we might have taken him down, but hey it was all fun. After that with the fleet following us we head back home with a few losses on my head and no kills. I must rectify this soon! Space police 4 the return of Frank Drebbin will be hitting low sec systems near you soon (TM)