When it comes to cynos, you’ll learn how to deal with them over time. This is one of my favourites.
So we (everyone on that killmail except for the NC. killwhore) were going to Baratar in response to a POCO of ours that had come under attack. When we were within a few jumps of our destination, that Pilgrim showed up, and started following us. We’d started getting into a habit of killing cynos and, as luck would have it, the biggest, slowest ship in our fleet was also loaded with ECM - my Scorpion.
Everyone else in the fleet went ahead of me, and I intentionally lagged behind. We basically all flew at the top speeds we could go in what we had. When I landed on Baratar gate, so did the Pilgrim, so I jumped through knowing full well I couldn’t align out in time on the other side, and he would grab me. That was the plan. The others were already landing on station in Baratar before I even got to the gate. His only option for tackle would be me.
As soon as I got through on the other side, while holding cloak, I selected the nearest planet on my overview. Then, with my fingers hovering over the F keys that would light every single ECM on my ship, I aligned to that planet. He decloaked and grabbed me very quickly, but I didn’t jam him right away. Nah, I waited until the supercaps started landing. There were a good half dozen on grid before I hit him with every jam I had, and warped off. Epic waste of fuel.
As soon as I landed, I aligned for the station my mates had gone to while they smack talked NC. in local telling em how bad they were, teasing them for faildropping a Scorpion of all things. They started to disappear from local, jumping back to wherever they came from. Maybe they thought they were safe from us because they’re a big nul corp and we’d be scared of what else they might jump through. We didn’t care. As soon as Pans was the last NC. in local, we warped to him and joined the sentry guns in blapping him. One capital came back a moment before he died, the one on the killmail. They take a really long time to lock anything though and he was easy to evade as we had nothing to kill him with at that time, not in a timely manner at least, and timing matters. Who knows how many cyno alts they could get to us in the local area.
Anyway, fun times. Wasn’t their last cyno that they failed to catch us on, and we killed, either. After a few weeks, they gave up trying to hot drop us. We were a little disappointed to say the least.
