School Daze #24

Dear Wairua,

See? Your uncle and I are a wealth of helpful tips (and heaps of useless trivia). Good on ya for the path to advancement, knuckling under has it's advantages. Gutted about the downside, but if you focus on the deliveries and bang them out, pick a couple nights per week to tiki tour in the Sunesis to scrounge up kills, loots and the odd Escalation.

You can minimize the bite those tax ratbags take from selling your goods if you learn a few accounting tricks. Hang onto the choice loot until then, to max the profit, and she'll be right.

About the weekend.. heh; glorious ratshit. Based on some intel, we saw an oppo to cark a couple customs offices and set up our own. Being an industrial corp, paying someone else export taxes is bung for the bottom line, so we wanted to tilt it more on our favor. I took the Oracle out for this one, not wanting to waste loads of ammo on a structure, and we got to work. First one went quick enough to shield timer, we started in on the next one.

That's when it went sideways.

Someone squizzed us all in scan, and figured what was up, and called in mates from a much larger, heavier corp/alliance. Well, we made flat out when local blew up, knowing we were made, and then one of us got tackled at the structure we were at. Our FC warped us back to practically 0, where which my Oracle was quickly carked. Not before I laid on enough damage to the ratbags to get in on the later kill reports.

The Oracle is an imposing-looking ship, but little more than heaps of large lasers (with munted tracking), mounted on a frame with some cap and an engine. Doesn't take much to kill it, so we prefer to be at a nice range. Warping one to 0 is a death sentence.

I reshipped into a Caracal, went back into the fray, and did more damage before getting carked again, along with heap of my mates. When the dust settled, though, our crew killed more isk than we lost, about 2:1, which is what we often do; we make it expensive to fight us.

I popped for another Oracle, with my insurance and corp payout, and was ready for the second phase of the op next night. We were braced for more beef, but we managed to melt the other customs office quick, and plant our own in its place. Little did we know..

Anyway, we'll see how the rest plays out, but we've pissed in a large punter's beer, and our customs office may not be there tomorrow.

Yours,

Dad