Losing an expensive ship is a good thing

I lost my maelstrom yesterday to a “stop the thief” level 4. I was webbed so badly that i couldn’t align the smallest amount to warp to safety. This was an important event for me, losing my beloved, expensive maelstrom. I had planned to make the mother of all mission ships, so much tank and dps that my salvager wouldn’t be able to keep up. This involved spending around a bil in isk fitting the ship with officer gear. I wont hide what i lost, because it was a lesson for me and it should be for anyone else who has the bright idea of trying to what i did.

I lost my 3 hakim 1200mm arty’s, my 1 x caldari shield boost amp and 2 x republic gyros.

Now, the amp and the gyros i wouldn’t mind losing. The turrets on the other hand took me AGES to get on contracts. Also, a few days before this happened, i was just about to buy a 1 bil officer cap module so i would be perma-tanking in the mael. Regardless of my shield rep, i would of lost the ship anyway, and if i lost that cap recharger i would of had to jump in front of a car or join goonswarm after losing my sanity.

But then again, its just a Internet spaceship. I have another mael set up for pvp that can replace my old maelstrom. Also, after losing those few precious modules, it has kicked me into realising how flawed my fitting was. I had no resist mods at all. I thought i was brilliant in my almost perma-boosted maelstrom. I couldn’t tank the bonus room on AE, or evidently stop the thief, but a perma-tanked mael was supposedly something epic. I cant even remember where i saw the suggested fitting.

So, the moral of the story is a old mantra that null sec ratters strictly live by, one of those sayings that you want to ignore when you find a domination gyro to fit on your hurricane and go back out to rat in a empty and quiet system, or fit officer gear on a mission maelstrom. No matter how careful you are or what your doing, you will eventually LOSE your ship. Unless you fly a Raven.

Kai.