CTA 19/12/10

I was almost late for that one, logged in at 5pm when fleet was about to set off from P-2. Jumped in my Drake and gave it full speed through 2 jump bridges to join 100man strong fleet.

FC ordered best speed to J5A and told us that Goons and WI are also on the way. Rumors were we are expected and should be expecting strong resistance. Train to J5A was rather uneventful scouts reported few neuts on the way, someone managed to grab a neut drake on the way but it popped before I managed to lock him, now he knows what's it like to fall under running train.

From J5A to PNQ we have moved in tight group, local intel must have warned everyone that large fleets operate in the area and all locals were either in CTA or docked safely out of harms way. Without any resistance we have parked 50km below station in PNQ and almost immediately 2 defense fleets landed on the grid. Comms cleared, brackets off, shields and weapons armed, everyone was awaiting for first contact. Eventually it happend, fleets warped towards station and first targets were called.

Initial lag was as expected horrible, after fight started I realised my missiles are on auto-repeat. I tough "What a noob I am", took me couple of minutes to switch auto-repeat off and I eventually could start shooting. Without brackets I didn't see where I am in relation to rest of the fleet, so when I hit keep at range to FC, it turned out I drifted almost 40km away, MWD on and burn back to safety of my bloob. During fight FC pased command to his 2nd as he had some friends arriving at the door, talk about timing lol. Anyway, 2nd took command, called targets and we proceeded dismantling enemy defences. Fight was going on for about 20-30 min, and enemy fleets started thinning noticeably, eventually rest of them warped off. I switched on brackets and there it was, sea of juicy loot. Auto-repeat back on, missiles went towards targeted station and I proceeded to scavenging wrecks of defenders. Cargo filled quickly, station went back into reinforcement and FC called alignment to enemy POS.

Warp to POS there they were, like rats in the cage, 2 enemy fleets sitting in safety of a POS. While they were clearly not interested in engaging us we have incapacitated couple of missile batteries and at that point command decided that is enough for today. Aligned to 9-V gate and off we went, WI slightly ahead of us with Goons at the back of the train. Upon jumping gate we were told that possibly defenders will want to jump on Goons during retreat, quickly re-approached gate we waited for signal to jump back in. Signal came in seconds later and we jumped back. That was much shorter fight, after loosing few logis, enemy decided it is not worth it and they warped off. Way back was pretty uneventful, one unfortunate neut who was at wrong gate at wrong time ended up in a clone.

So my 2nd CTA with MH was much more exciting, I have scored few kills came back with cargo filled with enemy belongings and I was accepted into PXIN Navy at the same time, go me!