I would link kill reports but there aren’t any. I never uploaded API, since I only expected losses and didn’t want to give out my locations. More interestingly, my enemies did the same thing.
They are Nosferatu Security Foundation [NOSF], an alliance-less corp and Nabula Rasa [RASA] alliance
So the story started with me scanning down an empty C1. No structures, no PI colonies, sites untouched. POCOs belonged to some random corp with 1 member, no alliance, no activity. I set up my tower and started hitting the first POCO. Some of my pilots were killed and then a ransom letter arrived. You could read about that on reddit.
I figured I got unlucky to get in a wormhole watched by pirates, unassembled my tower and left. Scanned down another wormhole, occupied by a tiny corp in an Athanor. Returning noob me had no idea about citadels, there was no POS, so I assumed it’s just a moon mining deployable. This time I was more careful, set up a small tower and killed only one POCO. I figured, if anyone fights or even complains, I leave. No one did, so I set up a real tower and reinforced the rest of the POCOs. When I went for the timer and lost some pilots. I chatted with one of the enemy pilots involved and he said he just came for random content. He may even told the truth. I never cared to check the loss reports if there is a pattern between the other killers. Mistake.
I scanned down the third C1 and was even more careful. It was dead empty, the POCO owner corp had some activity years ago and died down to one member. I sent him a mail. I reinforced a few POCOs. No response. I killed those POCOs, moved in and reinforced the rest. Today they came out of reinforce, and I went to kill them. I was super careful. I criticaled the static yesterday and closed any K162. Today the critical static was still there and there were no incoming K162s. No one could come in. No one on dscan. I attacked 2 POCOs with 2 groups of pilots at once, figuring that if I missed something or someone just rolls into my WH, he can catch only one team. Both were bubbled at the same time and killed, save for a lucky pilot who warped out the last second. The pirates moved in days ago and set up logoff traps around the POCOs.
This is when I first checked zkillboard and when it was empty, the loss reports of my pilots in game. I found:
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Cindy killed in WH1 by NOSF and in WH2 by NOSF
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Caitlin was killed by RASA in an “unrelated” incident in a C2 by RASA and in WH3 by NOSF and Nabula Rasa
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Jeremy was killed in WH2 by NOSF and randoms and in WH3 by NOSF and RASA
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Jenna was killed in WH1 by NOSF, in WH2 by NOSF and in WH3 by NOSF and RASA
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Botslayer was killed in WH1 by a random, in WH2 by NOSF and randoms and in WH3 by NOSF
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Rorka was killed in WH3 by NOSF and RASA
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Doomlord was the lucky one, he was never killed
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Serable was killed in WH3 by NOSF and RASA
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MrVilla was killed in WH3 by NOSF
All 3 wormholes I was attacked by the same pirates. In the second, there were randoms in the mix. One of my pilots were killed by them in a C2 when she closed a K162 and got stuck there. By the same pirates, I just didn’t care to check.
First, I bless my luck that I scanned the WHs myself, because otherwise I’d blame the WH locator service for leading me into trap WHs. These were 3 random C1s, one lived in, 2 empty, all 3 having POCOs under different, alliance-less corps and in all 3 I was attacked by the same pirates.
They don’t post their kill reports on Zkill. They never fished for tears. All they wanted is ransom. These aren’t your ordinary lolPvP-ers. These guys probably make billions from ransoming small corps. They probably do PI on their alts in some WHs, not in the 2 empties, that’s for sure, I checked for colonies. They wrote in their ransom mail that they want to make PI more profitable to members by killing others and keeping WHs empty, but I doubt that makes much sense, considering most PI is done elsewhere, mostly in highsec where the low efficiency is beaten by the sheer number of players.
The guy who sent the ransom notes called themselves IPPU.
So what I will do is exactly what I wrote to my last mail to him. I leave WH space, as it’s clear that they have extensive recon network. They would find me again. I will return to highsec and trading. When I have a proper war chest, I will raise a mercenary army and eradicate this filth. Not only for revenge. Their whole business model is based on locking out small corps from low class WHs. FC is now updating the sites to lure more people in, but they can only get daytrippers. Corps can’t move in and start learning the ropes, because these pirates kill them or force them into slavery which isn’t fun way to live in a game, so they probably quit WH space or the game. All these pirates leave behind are empty systems.
After eradicating them, players can move into the now empty WHs and start learning J-space life. I will pay mercs to protect them if this filth try to rebuild and evict them. C1 WHs will be living again and those who graduate from C1s will bring this life to higher WH classes.
Maybe just pick a hole that’s empty and actually bring some ships that can put of a fight and aren’t easily popped. If you want to live in JSpace, you have to have a way to defend yourself anyway. Sooner or later someone will knock at your station to see what falls out.
