Whatever, Bondai

It's been 5 days in sector 369 and I think they're catching on. I have all the drac fields in the sector bookmarked, as well as a handful of quality targets that hit salvage a lot. About 4 times a day I will click on the fields, looking for big targets. Many of the miners are repeat victims that never talk in comms, or help with the defense or offense of the sector. Standalone players. No fun.

222bk Nico gave my base a rim job, circling the outside perimeter,  looking for high value targets... and he was successful in taking out one of my warehouses and my dock with his booster3 scorpion/HH fleet. 96 range goes a long way, especially when he ran his ships aground to squeeze a little more range out of his boats. I  logged in and started making fun of the level 33 that gives rim jobs to level 31 players like me, because he can't actually beat my base. He bragged about the dock and warehouse till he was blue in the face. That's fine.

I did some errands around the house, and chatted a bit of philosophy and politics with the locals in comms, then went back to work hunting fleets that were salvaging and high value miners and guardfleets. I was hitting miners right next to last week's biggest sector cop and he just accepted that I was hitting, and kept hitting salvage. That's what I like to see, right there.

"Is this still a no-hit sector?"
no answer

There is an out of sector pirate hitting one of my neighbors when I sit back down to the computer, so I launch a longship fleet, but he's already gone. Then I see two sector cops speeding toward the retreating enemy... I launch a levi fleet. two shockwave levis and 3 assault missile levis. One of the cops sees me and says "no, I'm not going to chase you Bondai, you'll just run". The other guy engages me- excellent. I wait till he stacks his wolfs up, and sure enough his missiles start firing. As soon as my shockwave levis fire one volley, I pinch his fleet. The last wolf sinks as the pinch wears off.

"Bondai, did you just leave a guardfleet out?? Did you make a mistake? OMG hahah!!"

Just then his attacking fleet heads home and I grin.
No USS_Water_Log, that was a setup. His wolfs got to play 'catch the mortar'.

I could taste their sadfaces as one guy says.. 'whatever bondai'.