Blood Money and the Carrier Dance!

This post is very much excuse to post videos.
First of all, as mentioned a couple posts back, we've been having repeated clashes with the Blood Money corp and their Bootcamp group. This has been mainly over the system of Adirain, which has been a bit of a mission hot spot lately.
Tuskers have even missed a couple opportunities to counter-probe a Bloodmoney mission-busting gang. Once a Tusker gang warped into a mission too late, another time Bloodmoney was observed with superior force, actually stealing an Abaddon from which some hapless mission runner had ejected!! Goodjob guys, ya we saw that, watching veeeeery close ; )

The Tusker killboard has a Campaign up for the recent encounters, altho this does not of course recount our first brush with Bloodmoney.........


Long ago, Tuskers did in fact ask a pilot to leave. I say all Tuskers are good Tuskers, and I think I'm pretty safe including this guy, as he was indeed a good guy. But he had a habit of flying above his SP, and his fits were weird.
When he actually bought the character San Rintu from former Bastard Jedziah, Ka Jolo decided this was pushing Tusker ethos a little far and asked him to leave (cuz he was buying skillpoints basically). San Rintu joined Blood Money, and paid us a visit shortly after to show off their shiny toys and gang mates. We ransomed him for 50mil, the biggest Tusker ransom to date, but silly considering how much we knew he was spending (in fact Cap'n Tickles made that tackle, and has a blog post on this I can't find, linkz?)

ANYWAY, haven't seen anymore of San Rintu, and the Blood Money campaign goes well for us, although admittedly we are mainly facing their Bootcamp grunts. One of the two most significant battles fought were in Adirain, where Leo Solunar's Brutix fell to a Blood Money Cyclone and Rupture before Ka Jolo's Ishtar and Prezident1's Thorax could drop them, holding the field.
Also in Yvangier where Crewcifier's Rifter went down, and Tuskers Ka Jolo and Leo Solunar (they sure get rowdy together XD) lost their vexors to a nice trap, all Bootcampers there too.

My latest video has footage of a 1v1 with Ian Morrelan of Blood Money Bootcamp's Rupture (he's only 3 months so go easy on 'im, I didn't =P), and tackling a Bootcamp gang in my Stabber for Ka Jolo and Leo to bring da pain!
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Furthermore, I just had some CRAZY fun last night when these Taurus guys (they're gonna be so mad I misspelled their name in the video >.<) were trying to camp hevrice 5 station. Of course, camping Tuskers is give and take, so Wensley started looking to yank their crows in his Daredevil/Dramiel (i don't remember, it better be the Dramiel tho, all the Daredevil's got is the name...). Perhaps realizing that they weren't going to get anywhere without serious backup, they undocked a Chimera carrier to keep their campers repped. Wensley agreed to one up things, undocked a Rupture and got that Crow. At this point, we can assume things were a little hairy for good ol' Wens.

Funny enough, we had Antillies on station and bored as hell. The most satisfying thing ever was riding my Rupture through the warp to the station, hearing Wens call for backup, 'possibly with remote reps if possible,' then an Archon appearing on scan, and then Wensley goes 'Ace'.
We proceeded to have a crazy, almost totally gratuitous bumping-brawl outside the station, with the carriers managing fighters and drones and competing to keep their gaiz repped and other guys neuted, and us little fella's trying to bump something out of docking range and lock it down.

It was pretty wild, Wensley and I did a helluva job knocking this Myrm about but couldn't follow up. Wensley did lose his Rupture, but Antillies also got one of their fighters, so with the crow kill I think we did pretty well, especially for having such a good time XD

I even frapsed it! And then I probably made Antillies cry by putting it to Lady Gaga, but that goddamn song is addictive and appropriate (carrier fighting w/ effects on is very disco), and you gotta get it out of the system some how.

voila: Carrier Dance