¶ One of the reasons I pulled DFIAS out of 0.0 space was to get away from the alliance politics. Now, though, I’m finding that even if you’re not in the alliance yourself, if you want to do anything besides dedicated piracy you can’t really avoid the politics.
¶ In my last entry, I explained how DFIAS had taken up Not Red; Don’t Shoot RoE inside of the Molden Heath region. This has led to three very different interactions with three different alliances: Electus Matari, Foundati0n and the lesser known Valhalla Alliance.

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¶ Alright, so… Readers of this blog already have an idea of how DFIAS has progressed, from High Security empire space, to Low Sec, to Zero Sec with alliances. Venom was established, but was very poorly run. Anthrax Death was a start-up outfit relying heavily on GoonSwarm to ensure its existence. But the fragile nature of such an existence is evidenced often by threads like this: Anthrax Death Eviction Notice by Zapawork, GoonSwarm diplomat.
¶ When we left ANTX to join DEFI4NT, it was with the understanding that DEFY was to be led by ms kypp and that it would be a PvP alliance working toward its own goals. In my last entry, Ambition, I explained why this did not work out. The alliance we joined, Code Red Alliance, didn’t work out much better…

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¶ Far and wide. Sometimes, that’s how you have to travel in search of fun or profit in New Eden. Sometimes, that’s where you have to look for affordable equipment, especially if you’re like me and have committed so many crimes that the Four Empires don’t allow you in their high-security systems.
¶ If you’re lucky, you’ve got a close friend or two who might be persuaded to pick things up for you and bring them to your lowsec base of operations. I’ve managed to befriend a young Caldari capsuleer with a penchant for Badgers – the last few days, he’s been invaluable as many of the things I need to outfit the “Wendigo” are either unavailable in low-security areas of Molden Heath or they’re ridiculously expensive. It saves me quite a bit of ISK and travel, and what’s more, the Caldari works for Tobacco.
¶ Still, while Tobacco isn’t overly expensive, it adds up. And though CONCORD pays well for killing Angel Cartel employees by the Machariel-load in Omist, that’s not one of my favorite pastimes. Not that I mind the wholesale slaughter of less-skilled fighters… it’s just boring. Besides, I think of myself as a pirate and shouldn’t a pirate make his living off of other capsuleers? It was time to hunt.

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¶ I’d heard that, when in a time of extreme, insurmountable and inescapable danger, a pod pilot might simply shut down all of his ship’s primary and secondary systems, logging off his connection to the vessel through the unique interface created by the capsule technology.  The idea is that upon realizing that the pod pilot’s connection to the ship’s systems has been terminated, all of the ship’s available power will be diverted from all of its other systems to the warp drive, flinging the ship to a random point in space and effectively out of harm’s way.  This emergency warp, using all of the ship’s available power for the warp core, is generates a strong enough warp field to defeat any manner of warp scrambling.  This is called a “logoffski”.
¶ I’d also heard that, when a pod pilot uses this tactic to escape from harm, they must make sure that they have not come under fire already, because it takes much longer for the ship’s power to be diverted to the warp drive if it has recently been employed in defense of the ship whether it was being used to power weapons systems, shield systems or armor systems.  I’d heard that it can take up to fifteen minutes for a ship to enter emergency warp under these circumstances.  If a ship is sufficiently sturdy, it might just last the 15 minutes and escape destruction.
¶ I present to you a Tale of Two Logoffskis.

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¶ I’m not dead yet. To the contrary, in fact. And I’ve finally been able to get away from the training simulators to fly an actual ship and fire my weapons in anger. Between training and politics (both within Anthrax Death alliance and without), I just haven’t been able to find the time to do much of anything, let alone record my experiences here.
¶ Tonight, though, I managed to get some pod time in flying first a Wolf, then my old Stabber (which I’d forgotten about), and then a couple of Stiletto-class interceptors.

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