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[16:53:56] Dakotha > wanna ransome that baby?

Yes, that was the chat line I saw when fighting a Brutix with my Hulk. I saw the Brutix warp into the asteroid belt and knew I probably couldn’t beat him, but decided to risk my Hulk in a fight until I could get my second character online in order to steal the Ore back. (As the saying goes: “Don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose.”) He flew straight to my can, flipped my Ore to his own can and then went flashy red, which means I can fire on him. (If I fire on him, then he can return fire).

Unfortunately I hadn’t yet updated my alt with the newest patch, so when I patched it, it closed down my main window also (please fix that, CCP). I logged back in with both accounts and my Hulk automatically warped back to the Asteroid belt where Dakotha was still sitting, flashing red. I flew close to my can, checked how much he had moved and then checked his ship stats for his max speed. Seeing that he couldn’t go much faster than me I thought that I could possibly stay inside his minimum gun-range – if I was lucky – by flying at him, while my drones did a little damage. Meanwhile, I undocked my alternate character and set him to warp towards the jettison cans.

As soon as my alt. got into the belt in the Hauler ship I stole my Ore back and set it to dock at the station. Seeing that obviously he was doing a lot of damage, I recalled my drones to the Hulk and set that to also dock at the station. I was hoping he wouldn’t really notice my alt. character taking the Ore back as I really didn’t want to lose a fully rigged Iteron V!

Both my ships were able to dock successfully (my Hulk had to warp around a little bit until the station would accept me docking due to my aggressive acts). I waited a few minutes then sent my alt. character out again to collect the rest of my Ore.

In the meantime I had a little fun with Dakotha, I traded him 10 units of Janitor as a joke and had the following conversation in the system’s chat:

[16:53:56] Dakotha > wanna ransome that baby?
[16:54:33] Alderan Brere > why would i do that?
[16:55:22] Dakotha > Well, I am feeling genouros today
[16:55:40] Alderan Brere > sure
[16:55:59] Dakotha > lot of ore here..hmmm
[16:57:11] Alderan Brere > you asked for a ransom for a ship you hadn’t the capability to warp scramble… you ARE feeling generous….
[16:57:24] Dakotha > took the Scram off…you didn’t need to fight…=)
[16:58:09] Alderan Brere > you were red ‘n’ flashy, sure i do…
[16:58:13] Dakotha > I am a NICE pirate…no need to die for a few rocks
[16:59:00] Alderan Brere > sure there’s need. rocks built this ship, built your ship.
[16:59:54] Dakotha > And the build the Warp Scram I will deploy next time…=)
[17:02:06] Alderan Brere > lol

Here is where I sent him 10 units of Janitor while docked…

[17:02:58] Dakotha > lol…now THATS a sense of humor!!
[17:03:02] Alderan Brere > :)
[17:03:09] Dakotha > I accept!
[17:03:24] Dakotha > And you and your rocks are safe!
[17:03:50] Alderan Brere > heheh