Never fly what you can't afford to lose.

So for the first time on my eve career I lost something stupidly expensive through noones fault but my own.

Tengu

Yes that's 1billion with a b. I made some mistakes. First mistake #1 overconfidence. I've owned this same tengu for 3 + years and never even come close to losing it. It was a ship I flew often and knew it's limitations.

Mistake #2 know your surroundings. I was in between corps moving towards my new eventual home and I knew nothing about this area of space. 4 jumps through low sec in placid would have been no big deal. 4 jumps here I encountered way more pilots. Which should have made more turn around our dock up.

Mistake #3 don't be lazy. I had the cloaky subsystem in my hold and could have easily refit, but I assured myself I didn't need to dock. That would be a waste of my time.

So gg pandemic legion. I should put an obligatory "didn't want that tengu anyway" line here but I'm really not that bitter about it.

Sometimes Orcas Fail

So this whole venture stated with me running late to a null roam and hopping in an interceptor to catch up with the rest of my fleet.  25 jumps through goons space later we chased some miners but they all warped away before we could find them on grid so we decided that most of us were ready to take a break and grab some dinner.  When a corpie of mine came up with the brilliant idea of trying a log-off-ski. Always one to try silly shit, I was game for this. Besides I needed to plex a bit on my faction warfare alt anyways. So, after an hour of eating and bullshitting we decided to see if we could spring a trap.  We all logged in and I hit d-scan to find a mackinaw and an Orca in the belt I logged off in.  The mackinaw imeadiately warped when i hit grid but the orca delayed.

Voila

Unluckily enough I had landed 118km from him and burnt out my mwd closing the gap. Luckily I closed enough of the gap to still catch him. ^.^  This made my day because I almost never fly interceptors and who doesn't wanna shoot some goons.

Sometimes fail happens

So, as a precursor to the horrible loss mail your eyes are about to view I'd like to point out that sometimes I like to fly very silly ships. Thus, I present my bait logi.

Exequror
Heavy Electron Blaster II Void M
Heavy Electron Blaster II Void M
Heavy Neutron Blaster II Void M

Experimental 10mn Afterburner I
Stasis Webifier II
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler
Small Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I Navy Cap Booster 200s

Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer
800mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Prototype Armor Explosive Hardener I
Damage Control II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Anti-Explosive Pump I

A corpie of mine had used this fit to great success. It has a hefty tank, reps well, and pushes moderate dps. The trick behind it is in the finesse. It's all about getting people to engage you thinking you are a logi sans fleet. So when I was "autopiloting" through low and landed 15km off a Gate to see a stabber I got a wee bit excited.  Alas, I know better than to get my hopes up in low sec. A quick check of pilot info shows he's apart of Gladius Veritatis who happen to love not fighting alone. *cough cough fcon titans*  so I approached gate and he aggressed and  I decided to jump through to confirm he was not alone.  Another stabber sat on this side, now I had the choice to engage immediately while stabber #1 waits out his aggression timer or burn off the gate in case the cavalry comes in. In this case I did a bit of both. Dammit for being indecisive. Today I learned that the exequror could have handled either of these ships solo, my reps held fine while fighting them 1 on 1, but the combined dps of them was too much for my tank. As I put the first stabber into structure I went pop.  Almost a brilliant idea. Back to the drawing board hopefully I can update this with some win later.

Also don't worry this isn't the fit of the week.  This is a silly bonus post. Fit set for Friday should be fun ^.^