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 +====== Second Solo Kill - TURN SAFETY OFF! ======
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 +//July 13, 2021//
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 +I haven't had a kill in nearly seven months, and I've only had one solo kill...until today.  This was just going to be too easy to pass up.
 +
 +In 0.4 space, dscan showed core probes out.  I went about my business and scanned down the three signatures in the system.  Two relic sites, and a wormhole.  I retrieved my probes, cloaked up in my Astero, and took a perch in one of those sites.  Sure enough, a Heron showed up.  I got close, decloaked, deployed drones...and they refused to engage.  What?
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 +I cloaked and warped off to collect my thoughts.  Damn it.  My safety was set to green, which prevents me from initiating such attacks.  Ugh.
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 +Fixed that, and with little trouble I tracked down the Heron again.  This time, he went down fast to five T2 Hobgoblins.  It was clear he was a newbro.  In my first failed attack, he just sat there, making no attempt to get away.  So...I gave him 2 million isk towards his losses.  Turns out this was the first time he got ganked.
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 ====== How to Lose Security Status Fast ====== ====== How to Lose Security Status Fast ======
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 Don’t be like me, but at least this was a (very expensive) lesson learned.  Just because all someone’s kills are in gangs doesn’t mean they’re an easy kill or can’t hold their own or that there isn’t danger in attacking them!  Second, use the ship’s systems – that’s why you paid for them! Don’t be like me, but at least this was a (very expensive) lesson learned.  Just because all someone’s kills are in gangs doesn’t mean they’re an easy kill or can’t hold their own or that there isn’t danger in attacking them!  Second, use the ship’s systems – that’s why you paid for them!
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 +====== Two Easy Kills and a Loss ======
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 +
 +//March 24, 2022//
 +
 +Yesterday I nailed an Arazu, a T2 Gallente Force Recon ship.  I was belt ratting in a Gnosis and this guy drops in and tackles me.  He was going down fast when he warped away.  I finished the belt and went to the next one, and there he was.  I tackled him easily and destroyed the ship with little challenge.  Why he took his actions is beyond me.
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 +Later in the day, I was ratting again and found a Mordu Special Warfare Unit battleship.  I warped away once, but stupidly decided to challenge it in the Gnosis, now with two kill marks.  I lost...badly.
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 +This morning I was in a wormhole in a Stratios, and saw a Heron on d-scan with core probe scanners out.  Why he wasn't cloaked I do not understand.  After warping near a wormhole to identify it, I find him just sitting there, uncloaked.  Again, this was a no challenge kill.  Approach, scram him, let loose drones, and boom.  Little loot, but I'll take it.  So now this Stratios has its second kill mark, both from destroying Herons.  My first thought was that this Heron was bait...just sitting next to a wormhole uncloaked, and apparently not watching too closely.  In hindsight, I took a big risk going after him, but it worked out.
 +
 +It seems that nearly all of my kills have been targets of opportunity.  They were just there.
 +
 +====== Interesting Vexor Kill in a Wormhole ======
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 +//March 27, 2022//
 +
 +I had just entered a wormhole, and after scanning a few anomalies, I noticed a Vexor on dscan.  I recalled my probes.  I didn't want to put out combat probes, so tried to locate him with dscan.  It took a few minutes, but BOOM.  He was attacking cruise missile batteries, so all I had to do was warp within 10km of his target.  How did I know which was his target?  Just by looking at his ship and watching.  He was using blasters and drones.  I approached, and when under 10K, I decloaked, then webbed and scrammed him.  It was easy from there...overheat Scourge Rage HAMs and take him down, lock up his pod and nail it, loot and destroy his ship.  I'll take these targets of opportunity any day!  I wasn't even looking for a kill.
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 +After leaving the wormhole, I realized he surely had drones left behind, so I went back and scooped one Ogre II, and of course, his corpse!
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 +https://zkillboard.com/kill/99773863/
  
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