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Pandemic Legion takes down an Erebus in Derelik Low Sec.

July 14, 2014

Pandemic Legion have killed another Erebus today. This Erebus was being sold on the forums and, through some intelligence gathering, the alt selling the Erebus and his cyno alt were discovered.

Here is the Erebus, piloted by DeezNuts OnYoFace, killmail.

Who was the Cyno-alt and how it was discovered?

Sherlock would have been proud

After that it was just a matter of time, minutes in fact, until the locator agents came back with where the cyno pilot was now positioned. The alt was watch-listed, shadowed, and when an Erebus arrived in local Pandemic legion were ready and quickly attempted to scan it down before it was able to get into warp.

Sadly for them, the Erebus warp and was on its way to the safety of a nearby large pos. However, the titan pilot had not put in the pos forcefield password and was sitting 20km from safety and the one pilot who had decided to continue scanning for the Erebus was made into a hero when the Pandemic legion fleet pounced.

At this point, it was just a matter of seconds till the Erebus was sitting at 20 % hull left. Pandemic legion head diplomat, BlueMajere, started talking to the titan pilot in local, the pilot having the generic “I dont care what happens” attitude. Pandemic Legion then decided to let friends join in on the kill and commence repairing the Erebus to allow new dreadnoughts to get in on the kill. More dreadnaughts are cyno’d in at range and fire a single gun ensuring they are on the killmail.

They were instructed not to siege because they are purely here to “Tag” the Erebus to get on the kill-mail. The pilot was given an offer “Pay us 60 billion isk and we let you go”, unsure of the offer’s sincerity the pilot chose not to respond. The Erebus was then killed:

The operation went without a hitch (apart from the Erebus catching a bump from a capital cyno’ing in and being pushed towards the bubble)

Most of this could have been avoided, it was mistakes made by the titan pilot that lead to his fate.

1. Having his cyno alt in his bio
2. Not having the correct forcefield password to his pos, And
3. Not being in PL/N3 with a titan/super carrier (joking)

One thing to remember, if you are selling a titan on the forums make sure you are prepared to be hunted.

Special thanks to our source in the fight (No, it was not Bob)

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– Mr benoit