Last night, after fitting ourselves out with shiny new ships, we decided to take a tour of Amarr low security space. It was Devoid of targets for the most part, and the outlook was bleak(lands).
We came across some Amarr Militia pilots trying to capture a complex in Lamaa. Since there wasn't much else to do, we decided to stick around for a while and see if we could get some action.
Other than a Crusader nipping around, trying to play games with us, there wasn't much happening. Eventually, Meridius Dex, an amarr pilot, jumped into the system. Meridius and the Force of Tribal Liberation have some history...
Gunship Diplomacy is a corporation employed by the Amarr navy. It's a militant group, prefering mostly pod pilot to pod pilot combat; as opposed to the mass navy combat. Meridius Dex joined them about two or three weeks ago. We met once before when Dz and I took out his Pilgrim in Labapi, but this was before any real repore. It wasn't until November 28th that marked a series of hilarious victories for our little corp over Meridius.
It was late in the evening and I decided to sit outside of a station in Amarr low security space. I had managed to catch a pirate destroyer, and blackbird cruiser, but these ships were easy prey for my Hurricane. Then Meridius Dex jumped in. I remembered that he was a Pilgrim pilot, a recon ship designed to sabotage a ships capacitor. Since those ships can remained cloaked, I decided I'd warp to the complex in the system. I thought he wouldn't engage, but I decided the best place in system for me to engage him was on the complex gate.
For whatever reason, the gate to complexes pull you out of warp right on top of it, and since cloaking systems don't work under 2km from objects, I figured it would be perfect if he warped here, as he would be uncloaked by the gate and I would be able to catch him before he cloaked again.
Much to my surprise, he did just that. At first I was nervous. As a Hurricane, I didn't need cap to fire, and it was likely I'd be able to do enough damage to kill him before he killed me, but knowing that he was engaging me anyway made me think he had friends waiting to jump me. I immediately got my warp disruptor on him, and began opening fire. Since Pilgrims focus on capacitor sapping, I had to be careful. If I ran out of cap, I'd lose him. I turned off my cap sucking modules and prayed I'd kill him before I lost power to my disruptor.
I emerged victorius with very little damage. It puzzles me as to why he didn't try and run, but I'll take the kill. None of his friends jumped in, so I was chillin' like a villian.
This is significant because people often remember solo battles. Which is why next time I saw Meridius Dex in space, I offered him a 1v1 Challenge. At first he didn't accept, as many of us Minmatar were in the system. But as he fled, me and my buddy decided to use a pincer technique to see if we could catch him on the run. Dz followed him from system to system, while I was set to head him off at the pass. It worked perfectly.
Meridius and I were there to have another 1v1. This time, he had rigged his pilgrim to soak up more damage. So he was a bit harder to kill. He had tracking disruptors on me. Which made hitting his nimble recon a bit complicated, It took some clever jinking of the ship on my part to do damage. He was going down, and I was on my way to victory, but my capacitor was nearly empty, on account of his neutralizers, so my systems were shutting down.
If the warp disruptor shut down, I'd lose him. I mentioned to dz over coms that I was losing my point, and he made the decisions to engage, he decloaked and put his warp disruptor on him. A few short seconds later, it was over. Meridius lay defeated again.
He probably wouldn't have engaged me had he known Dz would interfere, but What fun is battle if no one dies?
Pleased with ourselves at killing two Recon Class ships in Two days, we decided to move on, and look for other targets, when that very same night we saw meridius dex, again. This time in something heavier, a Sacrilege. This ship is known for dishing out a lot of damage, while soaking up even more.
A Feared ship to any solo wanderer. Even My Hurricane and Dz's Pilgrim would have trouble taking him out. I could only assume he was out looking for revenge on us.
Dz grew weary of flight, and decided to retire for the evening, but I was ready for more action. I joined a small group of Militia who were out looking to stomp amarr faces. It was with them that we were able to catch Meridies for the 3rd time in two days. We sent in a cruiser as bait, and Meridius took it, and went for him, then we all jumped on top of him, and destroyed his rigged Heavy Assault Ship.
I think we got to him this time, as he didn't even try to warp his escape pod out, so we killed his pod, and like the other 2 kills, I did the most damage, making my name the one he sees at the top of the list.
So when we saw meridius dex in system, we were excited to see what would unfold.
Turns out he was in a Coercer, and that was something that hadn't a snowballs chance against us, so we assumed he'd just leave. I taunted him a bit in local, just to be an ass, and he responded in kind. He then jumped out.
However, moments later he returned, this time in a Harbinger. THere were two other amarr in system, both in small ships, me and Dz were in Vagabonds.
The Harbinger is the same class as my hurricane, so I wonder if he was trying to One up me, destroying our Vagabonds to show he was more badass than I, however, IT was us who got the last laugh, again, when his small ships couldn't do much damage to us, and his Harbinger could not track our nimble cruisers. So with nary a scratch on our shields we sent Meridius Packing again.
I was tickled pink about these engagements, as we came away victorious over and over again.
I respect meridius in the end, for always bringing it, not running, not giving up, and not docking in fear the moment a Matari pilot enters local.
I tip my hat to you Dex, hope to pod you again sometime.
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