As with my previous posts it really is proving to be a costly year for supercapitals, with more dying each day.
This time it was Nyx piloted by Vlaxius Nym of Shadow of xXDEATHXx alliance which met it’s end in the system of KI2-S3 in Cobalt Edge.
To dredge up the details of fight I originally contacted Sleeper Social Club diplomat Xrend, who directed me to Jack Lagoon, the apparent instigator of the fight, who explained the engagement as follows:
Amymuffmuff > Can you tell me about the Nyx kill and how it happened?
Jack Lagoon > Started off as a solo roam in cobalt edge, we had a nice WH connection in a ratting pocket. Had a system with 800 npc delta a few jumps away so went to investigate. I got into system and there was this in a pos [image shown below]
Jack Lagoon > The un-piloted Nyx was the Nyx that died as the chimera pilot boarded it and the rest of the guys logged off so I left system. I was flying back to my hole to go home and a golem landed on gate with me so I screamed at corp mates that there was a golem on a gate and I could bubble him. He jumped I followed and he was 32km off or so from my sabre.
Jack Lagoon > They came anyways but the golem escaped before I could land a bubble so I went next door to chase him and engaged a friend of his in a legion on the gate with a few small ships from my corp. The golem came back and we tackled it and he aggro’d causing more corp mates to come and it became a stalemate as we couldn’t break his tank with our small shit.
Jack Lagoon > His friends started coming in Ishtars and other assorted subcaps and then suddenly there was a Nyx on the gate. Luckily we had dictors for once and bubbled it then began screaming for HICs and logi’s along with DPS. We also started batphoning everyone we could and cleared our corp sma’s of logi’s practically and HICs and managed to keep him pointed as we had a 200 man gang 30 jumps away in interceptors that was friendly.
Jack Lagoon > They started burning and we kept bringing more dudes and reshipping and finally managed to scare off the Ishtars. Our friends came, we killed the golem as it came back to fight or die stupidly and then the nyx died as it was shit fit. We did manage to get his pod though and his golem buddy and pod as well.
Amymuffmuff > Is there anyone you’d like to thank in particular?
Jack Lagoon > My alliance for finally having enough dictors and hics to keep a super pointed and the guys who came when we batphoned. I’m not even sure where he came from. I mean I knew it was the guy from the other system but I didn’t see a cyno or him warp in so maybe he took the gate from the other side who knows. If only he brought his chimeras to save him and if only he had decent loot. I’m just happy to get another super kill.
The image mentioned in the interview above:
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It appears that it simply was trying to save a friend but ended up getting caught as more and more came into system to ensure it didn’t get away. It certainly appears that there was plenty of ships available to try and save him according to the image above but not matter what the reason for it being there it resulted in the following kill.
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This adds onto what has been an expensive week for supercapitals as a Revenant died earlier today, a Leviathan on the 26th, a Nyx and an Aeon on the 24th and finally a Wyvern on the 23rd. This adds up to an approximate total of 263 billion ISK lost which, while impressive, doesn’t match the total from the week between the 3rd and 10th which reached an estimated 344 billion ISK destroyed.
Do you think this is down to the jump changes or just pilot error? Either way it has been one hell of an expensive month.
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