08 Intel is your friend

As if I will ever learn from my mistakes. Being Amarr it is not unusual to get sent versus gallentean troops. And as long as your are a starter with your fellow Amarr-Agents, its not a big deal to saw a Tristan or two into pieces with your lasers. But later on - later on that becomes different. A few weeks ago Khimeth and myself accepted a mission contract that led us through several segments of a gallentean defensegrid. Ok, that was before we had the possibility to spend several hands full of ISK into new shiny equipment, so we warped into the locations badly fitted.

The agent even warned us and advised to bring a few people. Well, to cut a long story short: After 9 hours trying to kill the last four battleships with a Prophecy and Kestrel we had to give up. Khimeth, already falling asleep, almost crashed into one of the myriads of cruiser- and battlecruiser-wrecks we had left behind. And I was running out of ideas on how to crack those bastards open. Backup was 26 jumps away. So we called it a day. At least we knew upfront that it might be a bit tough, as we had checked several intelligence reports that were accessible within the New Eden Network.




But today I simply ignored checking any intelligence report upfront. I looked at the reward, thought to myself that its not worth bringing a battlecruiser five jumps away and therefore started again with a poorly fitted Omen. What do you expect for 500.000 ISK from an agent only being permission level 3?

After facing several gallentean battlecruisers in the second pocket I really regretted being hasty. I gave it two tries with the Omen before I jumped back to our station. Truly enraged I changed into the HMS Royal Pecker and left the station with the afterburners already running. Good thing was that I prevented myself from switching on all six beamturrets - wildly shooting into the next vicinity. The rest of the job was a piece of cake besides being annoyed by myself all the time.

"Ok, once more for you Mister Nogunata: Intel is your friend! Intel is your friend! Intel is your friend!".

(Recovered blog-entry from 2009)