Saturday night I relocated my mission running base. As there are Lvl 4 agents in a nearby low sec system I plan to peek in there and have a look if they by chance offer missions in a nearby highsec system. So I fitted another Helios as a cloaky shuttle (all speed and such). When done, I ran some small volume courier missions – carefully NOT by autopilot. On my way back from Jita I was passing by an Iteron which seemed to run by autopilot in low sec!? Well, on the next gate a flashy Rokh did await. I snuck silently through the gate. Then I got curious what happend to the Itty. I burned back to the gate, jumped through and saw the wreck of the hauler. Now I got greedy and I went straight to the wreck to see if anything valuable was left. It was: another lesson in Eve game mechanics.

  • The Rokh either decloaked or warped in.
  • I tried to run from the wreck to reactivate the cloak before the Rokh could get a lock on me.
  • Finally I wondered why the Rokh dealt damage without having a target lock…

Solution is: the Rokh did not bother with target locks, he just smartbombs small targets to even smaller pieces. When you look at his killboard you see that he regularly does so to keep a high kill count.

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