This was one of those days, that you should’ve stayed in bed. The Nyx pilot involved wishes that she would’ve stayed in bed and I most sertainly wish I could go to bed under my blanket and hide from the shame. In the end, everything worked out fine (well not for the Nyx pilot) – but there was some epic failing all around.
On YC 1120126 we went and destroyed the LFA Territorial Claiming unit in F9E-KX resulting the system being out of LFA sovereignty. There was no hostiles to stop us. The D-GTMI Infrastructure Hub was scheduled to come out of it’s last reinforcement cycle and we were heading back to take it down. Proviblob was again trying to defend it and this time had the upperhand as they were already in the system when our fleet was returning from F9E-KX.
Since the siege of D-GTMI had started the system was pretty much in complete lockdown by ourside. All the gates were heavily bubbled wiht Mobile Warp Disruption Bubbles and had various number of ships covering them, willing to engage any and all hostile ships that were jumping in or trying to get out of the system. At the same time the clean up of the other systems were in action and on YC 11201224 Libertas Fidelitas (LFA) lost sovereignty in 9KOE-A.
On YC 1120123, our offencive for D-GTMI begun. This was a remarkable thing, as we were now invading Providence – and a station system on that. D-GTMI was the main staging system for the Proviblob operation “Deliverance” which was aimed at invading Catch-region. What followed was a seriuos of large battles over a weeks period including one of the largest fights in our times history.
The First battle of SV5-8N was followed by numerous smaller battles in SV5-8N, WD-VTV, 9KOEA and F9E-KX. On YC 1120113 SV5-8N was captured to -A- control. After that there was a small lul in the fighting as there was cleaning done in the system and both sides thought up their strategies. -A- was fighting in Querious against GoonSwarm and finishing up that operation there. Read the rest of this entry »
After All Against Authority had completed their objectives on forcing GoonSwarm return to defend their space and thus relieving the pressure on IT Alliance advancing in Fountain, they decided that it was time to punish the Providence Space Holders attack on Catch region. The offencive goal was to drive Libertas Fidelitas Alliance (LFA) out of SV5-8N, WD-VTV, 9-KOEA and F9E-KX which they had claimed on YC 1120108, and as a form of punishment, capture the station system of D-GTMI in Providence region. I try to cover as much as possible of this offencive, but as I wasn’t present in all of the systems, the more detailed reports will be limited in the main battles. Read the rest of this entry »
To even try to write up the Captains Log on the past week is a task for a fool. And perhaps I am one as I will try to do all that. But before we get into the subject itself there needs to be made few announcements.
First, the numbers of fielded ships and losses on both sides are accurate to a point. They are the numbers in those large scale battles I fought with. However they do not complete the truth, as so many smaller skirmishes was fought along the main battles inside the system and on other systems some distance away. All these skirmishes did contribute on the main battles and to the result of this offencive, but to accurately collect all data on those encounters and losses on either side is a task, that even I dare not to partake. Then there are the FSI (Fleet Salvage Iniative – or Logisticships, such as Guardians and Scimitars who repair damage on the field). These FSI ships rarely have time to take part in the battle as damage dealers, but never the less their value to the battle is undisputable. Unfortunately the combat data computer on my ship do not register ships that do not take part in actual damage dealing, so many FSI (and other equally valuable support ships) might have been left out from the numbers. All this does not matter in the end. As the numbers are distorted on both sides and thus give us a fair view of the battle and its outcomes.
Secondly, this is the view of me and my crewmen from the offencive. As I try to write this as unbiased as possibly, I do realize that not being fully achieved – this is my point of view after all.
Thirdly, before I can start discribing the actions taking place in the offencive, I need to write a little of the history of Ushra’Khan and Curatores Veritatis Alliance, as well as the galaxy wide politics and actions that have some effect in the birth of this war. Read the rest of this entry »
The Polaris Syndicate had hard time of finding a home-system and the fact, that our alliance leader and the CEO of Howling Griffins were AWOL for extended periods of time before stepping down and appointing Tekola as the new CEO of HGR, did not make things easier. Camcalens absence in the leadership and eventual stepping down did hit me and my brother quite hard. We had joined HGR when we were both still fresh out of Fleet Academy. In Camcalens leadership HGR had provided us a great corporation to grow up in as well as a family like surrounding and fellowship. We had fought gladly and without hesitation for HGR and after the birth of HRR for the alliance as well. Now HGR had lost it’s leader. Tekola was an able leader and a best choice to follow Camcalen, but he was not as charismatic and more over, not as tactical leader as Camcalen was. And even worse was, that there wasn’t actually any leadership for the alliance after Camcalens resignation. The was a council, but in its goal for equality it managed to shoot itself in the leg and making the whole leadership ineffective. After our venture in Pure Blind dried up, my brother and I decided it was time to move on. Howling Griffins was a great corporation and the Polaris Syndicate was a promising alliance, but neither of them no longer provided us the things we were looking for. Read the rest of this entry »
Day 0, Prologue – Silvershadow Shipyards HQ, Luminaire
Finuc was standing in front of a huge screen which showed multiple different blueprints. He was engaged in conversation with few of his lab-technicians about and pointing to another screen which had a wireframe picture of a huge capital-class ships labeled “Orca”. A door to the room opened as a sergeant walked in.
“Sir, Lord Camcalen has sent you a urgent message”, the sergeant said as he stood in attention and saluted.
Finuc turned around and took the holodisc from the sergeant. He then turned back to the lab-technicians.
“See that those adjustments are done to the blueprint before we begin production.”
“Yes, sir.”, said the technicians as Finuc exited the room.
Finuc walked towards his own room and inserted the holodisc to the player. Lord Camcalens face popped in front of him.
“Finuc, the time has come.”
That was all there was to it. Finuc stopped the player and pressed a call-button next to his desk. A lieutenant entered the room soon after.
“Prepare FSS Silversword for departure. And send this message to my sister.”, Finuc said as hive gave the disc to the lieutenant.
“Yes, sir. Right away sir.”, the lieutenant answered and left the room. For a moment Finuc was in deep thoughts and then – he smiled.
Day 0, Prologue
Captain’s Log 250820081200 – Mamet, Domain
It is almost exactly 8 months since the last war. Me and my brother Finuc have been on leave of absence from our corporation and had a nice summer holiday with some nice training in the side. Finuc had his brand new flagship build and fitted up (FSS Dictator, Astarte-class Commandship). As we were readying ourselves to return back to work, I received a class A1-critical message from one of our directors (Jahe) saying, that a war has been declared against The Polaris Syndicate [HRR]. Me and my brother looked at each other and then we both broke in to a nice grim smile. Excellent! This will be just the thing to get us back in to the business.
The aggressor is called The Legi0n [MMIV]. It is fairly unknown corporation to me, but no matter, I will gladly enjoy the task of shredding their fleet apart. Read the rest of this entry »
