Yesterday one of my corp mates was looking to sell a few larger ships that he no longer needed. To help him out I agreed to purchase an Archon he had in a nearby system. I wanted another Archon to re-fit with the new carrier boosh system to test out anyway, so it worked out for both of us. The neighborhood was unusually quiet yesterday, so I decided to go next door and bring the carrier into Ouelletta. He agreed to scout the gate for me.
After I collected everything, double checked the fit, and put on a skin - I was ready to undock for the single jump into our home system. That's when the call came in that something was happening on the gate. It appeared that a Loki had grabbed something large and needed some help. Without even thinking I undocked the carrier and aligned to the gate. Convos were being had and we weren't entirely sure yet what was happening, so I warped the beast to a perch above the gate. Just to be careful.
By the time I landed it had all been worked out and so I warped the rest of the way down to the gate. Daniel was already there helping and the Obelisk was in low structure already, so I just put my neut on it and started aligning back to the station. Again, just out of caution. The freighter exploded and we were all bug-eyed over the sheer amount of cargo that had just dropped in our laps.
We all scrambled to find transport ships and a few people in local were surprised to see Rixx undock in an Iteron and warp to the gate. But yeah, even Rixx keeps a single transport ship on hand for situations like this. You can't always take the time to log into an alt. Sometimes you need to move quickly.
Most of the loot went to the Loki pilot, which was only fair.
Sometimes it is all about timing.