Not Sneaky Enough

I was hanging out in in a C2 with my Tengu when I decided to do a little combat site. They’re not worth much ISK at that level, only 24m or so, but as I completed the site, a heron warped in from an NPC corp. They saw me there, and warped off.

Curious.

Unless they were a brand new player and didn’t know better, there’s zero reason for a heron to warp to a combat relic/hacking site, and even though they were in an NPC corp, they were NOT a new player – so I figured something must be up (as usually is in the case of EVE Online).

The C2 had a C1 connection and two HS connections, but not much else. The C1 had a POS stick set up though, and a NS static. A few seconds later a hound showed up on d-scan (a covert ops ship that deals with instant lock and torpedo so they have a lot of range), and I had an ah-ha moment. This is why it’s important to just spam the V key (d-scan by default) any time you’re out and about in a WH. I cloaked up and moved away from the site a bit. Sure enough the heron returned. I knew they must have been scouting for the hound, even though I didn’t see the hound on d-scan any more (covert ops, so of course they were just stealthed). I decided my 1b+ ship +implants were not worth losing over 20m in blue loot, so I wandered off for a while and completed some hacking sites down the chain and came back with 150m in loot from that. When I returned almost 2h later, I saw that they had indeed looted my wrecks – but at least I lived to tell the tale, and didn’t lose my ship.