Today yet another Supercapital was destroyed in the lowsec region of Aridia. This time in the system of Kenahehab.
The Aeon was piloted by Lothar Midhaven of Hashashin Cartel [HASH]
I caught up with Lothar to determine how it happened and according to him he “bought it about 3 hours earlier and used Chribba as 3rd and probably should have moved it after 2-3 days” as explained below in the interview;
Amymuffmuff > I’m here about your recent loss and how it happened basically
Lothar Midhaven > They had HICs in every system I could jump too, Everything was text book I just didn’t expect the trap
Amymuffmuff > What was you doing in the first place?
Lothar Midhaven > Bought it about 3 hours earlier
Amymuffmuff > And was trying to take it home? Did you buy it off forums?
Lothar Midhaven > Yeah I used Chribba as 3rd party and probably should have moved it after 2-3 days but whatever.
Gearbox X > Hind sight is always 20/20. You did everything the right way.
Lothar Midhaven > Yeah man not even mad was pretty funny
Amymuffmuff > So basically. You bought it and got caught on your way as they apparently had you scouted in all systems?
Lothar Midhaven > Yeah I didn’t know though so I went on with it as anyone would. Someone had to lose hash’s first super! I should of gone and try to rape a dread before I died but man I went quick xD
Amymuffmuff > You wasn’t exactly tank fit.
Lothar Midhaven > Nope but my mobile depo was so close to being active lol
Amymuffmuff > They seem to think you dropped a cyno inhib
Lothar Midhaven > I did and that’s when shit got real as I had it in my cargo so thought I might aswell as it could give me an extra few mins but yeah, I’ll probably buy a super closer too home next time xD and not move it in Russian prime time xD
This series of events appear to be correct as the following image shows the recent forum thread of an Aeon being sold which had the exact fit as was lost by Lothar, as shown in this evepraisal link in the forum thread.
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Which when compared to the loss it shows an identical fitting.
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To confirm this version of events I contacted alexfishka of LowSechnaya Sholupen [-LSH-] who directed me to 3Better for a detailed report of what happened as explained in the following interview.
[Editor’s note: the following has been altered for readability]
Amymuffmuff > I assume you know why I’m here?
3Better > Sure I do
Amymuffmuff > So can you tell me what happened?
3Better > My corpmate HalkBot noticed that there is aeon logged on in Udianoor on one of his alts. He told us the character name and also added that KlimachRus was possibly his cyno which was hanging around and checking nearest systems. So next minute halkbot popped his alt in the kestrel to give us time to prepare things. We then began moving HICs in place to all of his next possible midpoints which would most likely have been kenahehab. So I went there with my scanning hic and I also sent a few of our HICs to marmeha in case he went there. So with our HICs in position a few minutes later he was spotted with his cyno alt in Zinkon and we told our campers to let him go deeper into aridia.
Eventually he came to kena in his bantam and spent some time there buying ozone and when local dropped to 5 people Halkbot noticed that his aeon had decloaked and the cyno was lit in kenahebab in 2 seconds. I then ordered all HICs to enter the system and warp to cyno although the cyno selfdestructed in a few secs, so only I managed warped to it. When I came out of warp aeon had already reached warp speed and entered warp as soon as I landed so I started scanning him. After 2 cycles I hit 100% result and warped and immediately rescanned and saved this result and did this once again.
There was nothing on combats and nothing in the spot I landed so I began burning towards the bookmark and there he is so I pointed him and had all HICs warp to me activating their points. He dropped a mobile depot and a cyno inhib. We lit our cyno and entered with supers and caps before his depot and inhib had time to anchor as he melted in less than minute
Amymuffmuff > so who are the people you want to thank and why? Also had you seen it was recently being sold or did you just happen to find it?
3Better > ‘HalkBot’ found it i want to thank him 🙂 and all the guys who responded to help. We just occasionally happened to find it.
Amymuffmuff > Okay, thank you for your help.
3Better > Your welcome.
Amymuffmuff > Should be fun to see who dies next! 🙂
3Better > Someone definetely will 🙂
It appears that even though the Aeon had recently been bought it had no relevance to the actual outcome of the loss, he just happened to be moving at the wrong time and got caught because of it.
One thing of note is that Kreea, who lost his Nyx to Northern Coalition. yesterday as shown in my previous report, was once again on this Aeon kill. I asked 3Better for a comment on this matter and he responded with “already replaced :P” let’s hope Kreea doesn’t make another “mistake in a situation where it may cost you a super.”
A video from the perspective of a super is shown below:
No matter what the reason it certainly appears that this weekend has been a costly time for both alliances with [-LSH-] having a 28 billion ISK super loss yesterday and [HASH] losing a 28 billion ISK brand new super today.
At least [-LSH-] can say they slightly redeemed themselves by getting the Aeon kill today.
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