Farewell old friend
Helicity gritted her teeth so hard a chip snapped off one of her molars, the Armor plates of her cruiser began peeling away and buckling under the torrent of fire of the dozen or ships chasing her.
Her targeting systems were completely blanked out by the insidious interference of the Falcon off her port side.
Damn, Damn, DAMN IT TO HELL.
Another rumble, her left engine exploded in flames, a scorching agony that felt like someone had jabbed a hot poker in her calf.
SCREW YOU BONEHEADS! FUCK YOU!
She roared over her comm system, the drones were still at their job fortunately, having been set to the task of ripping apart a Brutix battle cruiser in the asteroid belt below. More enemy reinforcements landed nearby, a volley of high velocity projectiles ripped a line of holes down the right side of her Arbitrator, more pain, more anger.
The sensors came back online, with a snarl Helicity let out her frustration and anger in the form of powerful energy neutralizers that disabled the rifter that had kept her microwarpdrive from functioning with it’s warp scrambler. The now functioning systems revealed the Brutix below was listing dangerous to a side, it’s armor riddled with smoking and burning holes.
Just a litte more, just a little more, you can do it baby.
She engaged the microwarp drive, the lurch of inertia tangible even inside her capsule, it was hard to breathe, she was venting atmosphere, she shut down her feed to the internal comms. The crew was mostly dead already, callous as it seemed, they meant nothing to her. They were microorganisms inhabiting the digestive system of her gleaming metal form.
A missile detonation coincided with the shrieking implosion of the Brutix below, the other pythons were largely making good their escape. But Helicity knew she was not getting away. Not this time.
It’s a given for each vessel of war, an inevitability, they all died in fire and mayhem sooner or later.
The rifter had caught up with her again, her swift acceleration restrained once more, sensors indicated a veritable hail of fire being flung towards her now.
This is it. This is it. This is it.
The EMP rounds from a Muninn ripped through her hull dead center, like knives to her gut, in terrifying slow motion she could see herself through the camera drones, once a golden gleaming warmachine, now a blackened burning husk. She spun slightly under the impact before the plasma reactor went critical and everything went white.
Sickening nausia of the separation overtook her, but she knew better than to linger in her escape pod, the tiny warp engine engaged and the wreckage of her old friend quickly became a tiny spec of light and was then swallowed up by the night.
Good bye old friend…
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After nearly a year of constant service, my favorite Arbitrator finally bit the dust in amamake last night. as close as I can tell this particular hull has been involved in well over a hundred kills.
She served me well in various configurations, and was the only ship I’ve EVER had to renew the insurance on. She’d escaped more ridiculously dangerous situation than I care to remember, including several smoky low-structure getaways.
I went back and salvaged her wreck, the single metal scrap I got from it is now in my trophy can 
Do you have a favorite ship? Or a really lucky one? Let me know!
Thanks to luminus from SIRadio.fm for playing a Dirge for my poor Arbitrator X)
I've had quite a few special ships, I call them "lucky" ships.
The Rupture is my most common "lucky" ship. My T1 fit ones always last forever. It's the first cruiser that didn't decide to spontaneously combust the moment I fit it with T2 guns. And it shreds everything.
By far my best one was back in '06, while I was in Veto. I didn't buy it. While I was out roaming with a corpmate, we spotted a Rupture on scan. A few scans later, we decided it was safespotted. A while later, we had it probed, and it turned out someone abandoned it. So I kept it (and mailed the owner a thank-you) and refit it with the best T1 crap money could buy.
It lived a glorious life. It's final engagement can be found here: http://veto.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill...
We took on a gang almost our size (and when we killed them, they came back in new ships mid-fight). I remember that we landed, faceraped their Blackbird, then I had to kill to the Jaguar myself so I could burn towards our Thorax, who for some reason was off (I think we came in seperately, not sure) and was having trouble with a Rifter. Killed that, then starting burning towards the Caracals (one of which was the BB pilot we killed, back in a new ship). Unfortunately, they were far off, so while I was burning towards them, we decided to just bail since one or two of our guys had to warp and repair (we had reps, no buffers back then). JUUUUUST as the Ruppy entered warp, the final missile volley landed and finished it.
By far and wide, the best loss I ever had. I loved that Rupture, and there just isn't a better sendoff for a stolen ship than that fight
(And before anyone comments on the setup, 1: this was 2006, we didn't buffer tank then. 2: T2 prices were obscene, hence the T1 fit. 3: nos was uberrape. 4: killmails were delivered by Evemail, and didn't record dropped mods, hence the incomplete fit. 5: did you know there was a time before T2 warp disruptors? Yeah.)
*almost double our size. one day I'll learn to proof-read.
Well, it is not my favourite, but the first BC I pirated in is still with me, a lowly Prophecy.
It has survived much, for some reason.. It is not a good ship, but it seems to be a lucky one.
(or nobody thinks it is a threat and ignores it)
P.S
GH is old.
Your blog is excellent. Keep up the good work.
Why thank you! It's nice to hear that people enjoy it
For a long time my pilgrims were my favorite ships, of which every one of them was in turn my favorite ship, somehow though they all succumed to drake fire (who also have a horrible habit of turning up when not wanted). I don't have a specific favorite of the lot, but the worst lot was the last pilgrim I had, was cloaked in a belt 10km off a drake (having killed his friend before he showed up) and about to make my way out when another drake warped through me, decloaking me, landed 20km away, first drake locked me up before I could warp and then the two rookie loving ships had a field day with my lovely pilgrim, needless to say I was screaming obscenities that morning.
Think my new favorite's the harby though!
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/engagement….
That was a fun fight there, got them to aggro me on gate since they'd setup camp there, jumped through, nearly got the vaga before it mwd'd away in 50% structure, rest of gang jumped in, at this stage I knew I was going down, so my ship went down in a glorious fire taking the zealot with me.
That fight though, I was content with, would have been happier with both hacs though