Anyone still reading this?

So I don't even know if anyone is actually reading this anymore..but oh well!
Truth be told, reason why I write on here so little is because I usually don't have engagements that I consider entertaining for y'all. I do not have the writing skills that other bloggers do that turn mundane encounters into epic stories, so I have to wait until I have something that is (at least for me) exciting. This changed a little bit in the last two days:

Ronan's Nano Op:

On wensday afternoon, Ronan organized a nano op. Our aim was to head to amarr space and see what we could take out. Our complete fleet composition was made up of 3x Vexors, 1x Arazu, 1x Omen, 1x Stabber, 1x Ares, 1x rifter and myself in a Blackbird. Everything engaged at 15kms and further, as that was the requisit for the op, we wanted a forced which would not get itself caught in scram range and be able to disengage at will.
There were a few notable kills through the night. One that Ka Jolo will specially be proud of is a flashy drake taht we killed at a gate. Why do I say he would be proud? Well we have a bad habbit if forgetting to leave someone on each side of the gate when we find something juicy to kill. Most times we do it, but it is only because Jolo notices this and decides to hang back himeself. This time however, the fleet showed great composure and we had the main force on one side, with a vexor and the ares on the other side. With no webs or scrams, the drake was able to jump back and forth a few times, but eventually he fell to our fire.

At another point our Ares scout spotted a neutral hauler heading our way through a gate. Now in normal circumstances, in cruisers, we would have just let him go on his merry way. However, when we looked at his info and saw "CvA FRIENDLY : DEATH TO PIRATES", we knew we had to gank him, if not for any loot he might be carrying, simply for the name of all pirates out there.
The pilot jumped into our system, and after waiting a few seconds, uncloacked only to activate a cloaking device. Our pilots quickly accelerated to his last known position and were able to decloak him. A great job that was rewarded to us as his ship cracked like a piñata and spit out all its wonderful candy! We left a couple of pilots ferrying all the loot to a container and then waiting for a hauler to come pick it up, while the rest of the fleet hurried forward about three jumps as our tackler had fount 2 vengeance at a belt and had tackled one of them. With our fleet arriving, one of the vengeance escaped (for now) and so we quickly dispatched the one that was left. THe loot gods, unfortunatley, were cruel with us, and even though all the lows were fit with faction modules, we did not get a single one :(

At this point, things got a little hectic. The main force of the gang (everything BUT the ares and a vexor which was racing to catch up to us) was able to get a tackle on a 'Geddon we had been chacing at a planet. Just as we did this, our Ares pilot was able to get a point on the other vengeance that had escaped 2 jumps back. The plan was to kill the 'Geddon (and his zealot buddy if he decided to try and help) and have the ares hold the vengeance. However, the vexor that was catching up instead went for the vengeance, and together with the Ares, burnt up the assault ship and raced towards us for the battleship kill. As expected, the zealot warped in to try and help out his 'Geddon friend. Unfortunatley for him, he came in at 0kms (even though he fit beams...mistake on his part) and was very quickly dispatched by our fleet, and not long after followed by his 'Geddon friend.

Eventually we decided to have some fun, and after chacing a neutral anti-pirate myrm who would not leave the gates, our FC decided to kindly ask him to eject from his ship. When the pilot asked how we could possibly ask for such a thing before getting a point, we informed him that we had simply decided it would save EVERYONE some time. Failing to see the humour in this, he responded in quite the rude manner so we decided to leave him, and his fleet of BC's, alone. However, a few jumped later, thanks to a client crash, I was caught at a gate by his harby buddy. Quickly jamming him, I was about to hit the warp button, when I noticed he was taking sentry fire. Into armor already, I quickly overheated my measly 3 heavy launchers and engaged him, quickly calling for someone to come help with DPS and get a point on him as I lacked one. Unfortunatley, just as Ronan was landing in his stabber and the harby was reaching the 20% armor (or less) point, the rest of his fleet jumped in which constituted of a myrm, hurricane, brutix and falcon at least (they later would catch Menthez' Blackbird as he attempted to catch up to us, we usualyl don't field more than one ECM ship, but that was the only one he had available and with me so far from home there was no other choice).

The final action of the day would come from a hulk and its escort, a devoter. As the devoter was blinky, we decided to try and kill him at the gate. However, a couple of our members decided to gank the neutral hulk that he was escorting, even if it engaged the sentry guns. Because of this, we were missing a couple of DPS ships on the devoter and we could not break his tank. Eventually Egrat warped back in his omen to try and help, but got destroyed due to sentry gun aggro, marking our only loss of the night.
One more notable engagement was at the begining of the op. The scouts fount and tackled a pretty new player in a brutix. Just as he was about to enter structure, the idea came forth to randsom him, not for ISK, but for its ship. Although the pilot answered in quiet a rude manner, spewing all kinds of profanity towards us, he ejected from his ship and we took control of it, dropping it off at a station and continuing on our way...Are we true pirates or what!!?

The fleet called it after this, a good showing and some good kills. Some great fun was had by all (evident by the amount of time we spent online) thanks to the kills, and some good banter by everyone on vent. At points we could barely stop laughing long enough to pilot our ships. One of the most notable points was where Ronan, as FC, lost the fleet, and upon asking where we all were, was told that if he could guess CORRECTLY, he could continue being the FC. Despite of all the joking and talking, Ronan did a good job at the FC position, and the fleet members did a great job following orders and keeping discipline when it was needed, stopping the joking and talking and focusing on the fight/intel.