This ship has a bit of history. In August of 2011, not too long after AT IX, Tyrrax Thork approached Duncan Tanner regarding setting up a HON match between PL and Hydra. The winner would take home a Vangel and Adrestia. I was a little cautious at first but I agreed to give a Vangel for it as the whole thing sounded exciting.

After around 2 weeks of indecision about whether this would even happen, both sides gave their respective ships to Chribba. Tyrrax got a lot of publicity going for it and managed to get the official HoN cast crew to stream it live with commentary. When the match was actually played out, it turned out that both PL and Hydra/Genos had two players in their team that were out of alliance.

The Genos team won, but that is mostly due to the fact that apparently, the ringers we used was HON professional players, so my loss is sweet in that regard.

The Adrestia is a unique ship, every one I've faught over the past few days, apart from Brick Squad, knows how frustrating it is to fight this ship, I had nearly 20 kills in the 24 hours leading to its death, and quite a few more a few months before


It goes 6.6km/s, has a scram range of 40km, it's essentially a risk free ship to fly as you can position tank effortlessly, the only risk involved with flying it is dependant on being an idiot or not having fast reflexes

I'm usually pretty good at not being a complete idiot, I was trying to get out of 0.0 so I can go AFK in empire, I warped to a ping spot on the Oijanen gate, and I was comfortable that I could warp to the gate and burn through the bubbles and jump out, a Rapier alone is not enough to stop me from being able to get to the gate given their lock time

But between me landing on the pingspot, and coming out of warp, their stiletto and Taranis was able to reposition them selves to 20-30km from my warp out, I was only able to burn 20km towards the gate, from the original 30km, while webbed by the Rapier, with 3 tier 3 BC's applying full damage, I was sure to die, for some reason I decided to eject when I was entering armor - I'm honestly not sure why at the time, a part of me wanted them to have the ship for executing the tackle so well, there's moments in eve where you just have to throw your hat to the enemy for outplaying you, even if you're being bad

So there you have it, combination of me being terrible and brick squad tacklers being exceptional, I applaud them and I have no hard feelings towards them.

A lot of people has been offering their condolences for my loss, but it's part of eve, and it doesn't effect me much compared to the average player, probably because I am used to dying so much, saying that, i'm hoping to trade 3 Vangels with PL for 3 Adrestias