D-IZ

It is time to deliver some more cutting-edge news. I assisted Roadkill in an op dedicated to bringing down a few capital ships. The destination was D-IZT9, which happened to be somewhere in the vicinity of 25 jumps from where I was at. The time: 01:24 GMT. RK started forming up at time and departed shortly thereafter, in hopes of getting a carrier kill or two. After many uneventful jumps through the depths of 0.0 space, the fleet of 30 arrived in 89-JPE, just one jump from the target destination. The fleet moved to E8-432 and immediately jumped into D-IZ from that system to engage the hostiles of Intrepid Crossing [IRC] on the gate. The time: 02:28 GMT. Once in system, we quickly realized the intel we received about the enemy was completely off, which is a warm fuzzy feeling all over.

[ 2007.08.17 02:25:05 ] * > how many carreirs?
[ 2007.08.17 02:25:13 ] * > 3 carriers



In preparation for the next op, I suggest we nominate some people that can count. I will allow those people to scout for me. That said, we jumped into D-I and here we are, cloaked 18 km off the gate, awaiting our orders. We ran into a few problems at that point. Half the ships camping the gate were capitals and our fc was lagging. His speech was cutting in and out during most of the trip, but this was especially bad. It was next to impossible to hear what he was saying, but he did his best and repeated the primary several times in hopes everyone would understand. IRC deployed eight carriers during the fight, piloted by Belag, Mandreh, Nait Shariel, dullblade, outlaw1968, Circe Sphinx, Dibrle, and Cobray. They also deployed an Aeon, flown by oldma.
Pilots decloaked and we started taking down the support ships one by one. The Megathron was popped within three minutes of the fight, but the Raven lasted a good 10-12 minutes. Before I lost my ships, I was able to get my name on the killmails for a Dominix, two Caracals, a Vagabond, a Drake, an Abaddon, a Rupture, and a Rapier. Once oldma and friends sent all of their fighters to me, it was all over. My shield tank was unable to hold up for even 30 seconds. In the end, I can tell you that it was a good fight. I went out there expecting to lose a pair of battleships, did what I could to support Smashkill, and had fun doing it.

You can find the summary of the fight by contacting SXyWhile or Jangizal.

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Since the most recent post, a few things have changed. The most notable of which being the merge of the SXyCreW and the NYIT Gangstaz. The NYIT CEO, Latin Assassin, got in contact with our CEO, SXyGeeK, after a friendly member offered to help out Mr. Assassin after his hauler was ganked in low-sec space by a pirate corp. They struck a deal, the members dropped their roles, and joined up with NYIT. It's been just shy of one week since my application has been accepted and I already have assisted in the destruction of 14 ships and death of six capsules. I must also note that one of the roaming gangs I went around with (Roadkill) nearly tackled and destroyed a carrier, but apparently the interdictor pilot wasn't paying attention, so the enemy carrier pilot was able to warp off to safety after the dictor bubble timed out. I won't share too many details on this as I believe the same tactics will be used successfully in the near future.

Very recently, SMASH was sent up north to help support some allies after a 500+ man fleet rolled in and put several POSs into reinforced mode. The alliance will likely be there the next few days, getting things straightened out and back to normal. Taking a look at the Smash killboard, you will find that there was a large engagement not too long ago and five-six carrier kills were posted. Nice work to the alliance and friends. Unfortunately, the backup fleet (the one I was in), was slowed by two separate groups of large bubbles a few jumps out, so we made our presence known about three to four minutes too late. Since then, I've been in a few pvp ops with several different corporations / alliances from the Northern Coalition and just in the last 24 hours, I've flown under four different FCs. I'm definitely interested in doing the fleet commander task, but I would like to know my area extremely well. It won't be long before I'm a fleet commander for folks...which reminds me. I need to get my leadership skills up.