Pirata Diebus #5

 Koroua,

Mixed results for the weekend, carked stuff, got carked, had fun and got beached as. Dyadya's already grumbling about our new planetary output, but more on that later.

The Guristas have managed to be a little slower, more deliberate in the execution of this round of insurgency. We managed to get a few highsec systems corrupted, core lowsec systems nearest the Commando Guri FOB pushed to 'Lawless' status, and are pretty close now to wrapping up the operation in Black Rise.

Alliance-mates in Guristas formed up a fleet to cark the munted industrial structure in the corrupted highsec system of Samanui. The Raitaru belonged to a CalMil corp, so we didn't need to push the system to 'Lawless' in order to attack it with impunity, since we're already 'at war' with the empire factions. CalMil eggs sent a dozen Osprey Navies to try to defend the doomed whare, but the Guristas fleets each had tricks to deny them. Our fleet had some sniper-fit Exequror cruisers mixed in with the blaster-fit ones, so the Ospreys couldn't get into a beaut position to snipe at us without losses, and then the other Guri fleet would warp battleships on top of the defenders to shift them off to another ping. Eventually, they couldn't crack our counters, and buggered off. Structure got carked, and I managed to fit a few dozen looted fuel blocks into my Talwar. I definitely need to bring some mean as cruisers to the next pirate tiki tour.

After the structure bash, our alliance fleet started bowling around some combat sites, and while gating between systems, hit a bubble camp in one of the 'Lawless' systems. We got booshed into a bubble, or bubbled after getting booshed, but either way, we ended up in some close-quarters whawhai with the kinos, and carked a bunch of them. 

The next day, we chased some campers around to different gates, but we suspect there's a mole in the pirate fleet (not from our alliance) that was tipping off the campers to our locations. The pirate fleets seem less organized or coordinated than the ones headed by our pirate-aligned alliance-mates. Pirates, right?

Comms were really quiet later in the weekend, and while I was trying to catch up with some other pirates, I got snagged on a gate and carked by a neutral opportunist. I really wasn't even ready to be warping anywhere, so the lesson there is to be totally set for action as soon as I undock. Either way, getting good fleet coordination has been scattered as with Guristas.

Dyadya is rethinking the wisdom of the wetware mainframe production plan, though he wants more time to get more numbers to crunch. On the surface, it looks bung already: The end product takes 50% more input materials, with the attendant overhead of effort and taxes, but with no 50% increase in profit. Combine that with the fact that some of those components require planets that really aren't choice for heaps of extraction, so it takes more planets to get input materials, and it does seem like a waste. We'll give it another month, but I'm thinking it's a bung job.

Still learning heaps every day, which is what you and dyadya taught me. Good luck with the new bird, just make sure you nest on your own, as I don't need a little brother (just being a dag, Koroua). Gabi's looking forward to me getting home after I'm done tramping in Black Rise, and Lumi's beaut with her vocation, helping the rookies and scrubs of the galaxy.

Kia Pai,

Wai