His nissan stanza

Imagine that you were going to rob a military base. You have three people, two in tanks and one in a combat helicopter. You research what the capabilities of the base are and what type of resistance you should expect. You create a detailed plan of attack making the most out of your weapons abilities. Your plan goes flawlessly and you level all the resistance. Your plan for looting the valuables is that everyone go home except one guy who plans on loading up his ’83 Nissan Stanza with as much valuables as possible.

The plan of course is ridiculous. Who would go through such an intensive plan of attack to leave the most important part to a guy in a four door piece of crap with no defenses. Holies enact this exact plan virtually every day in unknown space. I had been out holing and found a particularly deep series of unknown systems. There were about 6 systems in total in this network of holes and all the holes were on good timers so I spent the afternoon roaming around looking for kills.

This one particular group of holies had been alerted to my presence earlier when I was scanning for holes out of their system so it took a good while for them to become active again. I came upon 3 of them running a magnetometric site in a Raven, Hurricane and Rokh if I recall correctly. I watched patiently as they finished up the kills pretty quickly. The Rokh was 200km off the site warp in sniping. He remained initially to fly cover while the other two came back in destroyers to loot the site. Once they were done with the wrecks however the Rokh and one of the destroyers warped back to the tower leaving a solo destroyer to loot the 7-8 cans the site had.

Now this whole time I was attempting to work myself into position around a distant can such that I would have been >250km from the Rokh, thus unlockable, but within disruption range of anyone looting it. It took me a good while warping out and in and driving through debris to get in position so when the Rokh eventually just warped off to leave his buddy defenseless I was actually a little let down I couldn’t play out my beautiful kill. Nevertheless, on his last can I uncloaked and one shot him, which was a surprise, he must have had his MWD on. I two shot his pod and looted his rather lack-luster wreck before warping off. On scan I could see his buddies in the tower getting in assault frigs, but I was gone before they had a chance for any revenge. Unfortunately the only can-drop pop’d with the wreck and thus we were both out any decent loot.

If you spend the good part of an hour running a site and looting it, why would you pull your combat cover out 5 minutes before you were finished during the most important part, securing the loot. I understand perfectly that the value of the cans in a class 2-3 mag site is probably less than the wrecks, which they got, but they did spend the time to loot them, so why not spend the time to keep the Rokh around?