Oh crap.......

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It started with me just messing around Hevrice...

when I spotted a 2 year old pilot docking a hauler in the 5 station. Thinking that he might be grabbing some things to haul back to highsec I undocked my Tempest Battleship. The plan was to get set up to snipe his little hauler right out of existence. As I waited I spotted a shuttle being piloted by a guy on our corps watch list. He quickly disappeared and returned with a Phobos Heavy Interdictor, which was cause for a change of plans.

Being bored and tired of waiting on the hauler pilot to undock I decided to switch ships to my Typhoon Battleship. With the new plan of seeing if my heavy energy nuetralizers could shut off his tank and allow me to kill him. But alas to no avail. I ended up warping off as he had not aggressed me and the station guns were wearing on my tank. After which I went back and docked up to repair my damage and wait out my GCC(global criminal counter). The phobos pilot left shortly afterwards.

Thinking that is was all over, I reshipped back to my Tempest since the hauler pilot still had not undocked. As I waited I notice that the phobos pilot was back and had a corp mate with him. Thinking that they had comeback to take me on I switched ships yet again and got my corpmates on alert. Well his buddy went to the 6 station and undocked a Thanatos Carrier. I undocked my Typhoon to find the phobos waiting for me. This time he aggressed, I notified my mates and the call was made to try and take it out before the carrier could get reps on him. I immediately pointed and webbed him as my corp mates undocked and the carrier warped in. This time with the added fire power the phobos melted within seconds with a happy end result.

The surprise came next, the carrier had both web and scram fit and had me in full tackle with a full flight of fighter drones on me. Thinking that I was going to go down because I had station aggro and could not dock, I informed my mates of the situtaion as I waited for the end of my ship to come. As I sat there with depression hitting me harded with each second I noticed that I had only 9, I repeat NINE seconds to go till I could dock and had about 10% armor and all my structure left. Just that little bit of hope spurred me into even faster spamming of the dock button. Then it was 7 and my armor was gone, then 5 and my structure was at 70%, then 3 seconds and 30% structure, then 1 second and I thought that I was exploding and yelled to my mates that I was down.

Then something funny happened, I was setting in station still in my glorious Typhoon. With joy I started yelling over coms that I had made it and docked up with 1% structure. I immediately through out the GF(good fight) in local chat. The following is what I heard back:


[13:21:49] Valgore Meurte > gf
[13:22:06] Man Barthelme > gf
[13:22:45] Ethan Fletcher > You lucky b*****
[13:22:54] Ethan Fletcher > 5% structure?
[13:23:02] Valgore Meurte > less, 1%
[13:23:12] Ethan Fletcher > Oh crap.......
[13:23:40] Valgore Meurte > I have 73 hp of structur left
[13:24:01] Ethan Fletcher > I'll buy those at 10k isk each.


Yes you are seeing that correct, I had made it out with 73 hit points of structure. I cannot tell you of any other time I have made it out with so little of a ship left. I am so glad that when this first started and I decided to fight on a station that I had removed my 2 gyrostabilizers and put 2 more energized adaptive nano platings on for that extra bit of tank.