#geminate

During the final timer they were much more prepared to shoot bombers and during the timer Shines DMed me and said that the BR showed they had already killed 800 of our bombers and I responded “Shines, I have 8000 bombers” and I believe his reply was the Ace Ventura allllrightythen.gif. -Asher Elias, Victory in Geminate post The word came down on Thursday evening that we were done for now in…

I was tempted to go with the German title for that allusion, Im Geminate nichts Neues, which I think better reflects the situation in what is now being called the Vexor War. It was just a week ago that the WinterCo Keepstar in 4-HWWF was destroyed, a task that saw the Imperium burn through more than 20,000 ships across two timers as we turned about the WinterCo plan at Atioth in order to return…

Strictly speaking the Imperium’s campaign against WinterCo has achieved success.  Beyond success, really.  Asher declared our objective back at the start of the month as follows: Our objective is straightforward: we will attempt to destroy their staging Keepstar in Geminate. That we destroyed WinterCo’s main staging Keepstar in Vale of the Silent, the region beyond Geminate, feels like we over…

As I mentioned on Friday, CCP put out a dev blog around the Keepstar battle at Atioth that took place.  And, I will say up front, that I appreciate them putting in the effort.  I love me an info graphic and CCP has provided that up front.  (Also, I’ll put all the links at the end of the post.) The CCP Battle of Atioth info graphic While the silhouettes do represent some of the hulls on the field,…

Well, it has been wet here in California, or wetter than usual.  And that is a good thing, since dry years tend to end up with a good portion of the state on fire come the summer. Wet weather also means an extended allergy season, but I guess having a runny nose and sneezing when you go outside is better than being on fire. Anyway, enough of the idle banter, I have some bullet points about EVE…

It has now been over a week since the Imperium’s shaky start in the Geminate campaign, where we lost 33 titans and assorted other capital ships and subcaps totaling up to around 8 trillion ISK in value in our first attempt to deploy a Keepstar in Geminate. One of my few screen shots from later in the fight The more superstitious in the Imperium claim this is because we neglected to sacrifice a…

Did you expect anything less? But there were things to do first.  The battle over the first Keepstar in Atioth ended at downtime, when CCP restarts all the servers and everybody gets logged off. Most of the Imperium pilots got the message and did not log back in when the servers came back up.  The instructions were to stay logged out until cover fleets could be organized.  Generally the winning…

TL;DR – 10K capsuleers in local turn Asher’s cunning plan into a disaster. The Imperium’s attempt to deploy a Keepstar in Atioth was set to be the first real struggle in the conflict between them an WinterCo.  The gauntlet had been thrown down.  Asher asked if WinterCo was a sleeping dragon or a paper tiger and so it was on yesterday morning. We did move ops on Friday and through the weekend into…