The burning of 6VDT-H

I am going to try to write an entry about this massive fleet engagement that is going on in EVE, so I apologize for the stream of consciousness post, the leader of our alliance is going to be making a speech, should be entertaining. Seven hundred people on the teamspeak server and no one talking, moderated channels are good stuff, normally with even a fraction of those numbers, it becomes impossible to hear the fleet commander. With a thousand+ people on the TS2 sever, its amusing to watch it creak under the stress and the user count climb like a drunken ape in pursuit of a banana.

Up to 1200 connections now, not bad for a game about important internet spaceships, this is certainly the nerdiest and largest thing I have ever done in a game, feels epic bro. After a rousing speech by our glorious leader, we mobilized all 1200 pilots in only 20 minutes, a victory of logistics and scrambling if nothing else. Once I get a transcript of it I will post it here, however, I have recorded the speech and it’s a pretty good listen. The speech was generally well received and scared the bejezzus out of our victims, they were scrambling to evacuate all their valuable ships and modules before we locked the system down completely.

After a short bout of waiting for the titan to bridge us to the a connecting system and a short traffic control wait, we jumped into the target system and watched the enemy station get bubbled and locked down hard and fast. We quickly warped to one of our foes POSes and put it into reinforced mode in a matter of minutes, despite the admittedly valiant attempts by a few bombers and one lone interdictor trying to harass us to no avail. After we dealt with that pos we move onto another one, rapidly neutralizing its various guns and ECM modules. This tower, however, was much better shielded then the last one and thus took a bit more doing. That being said, there isn’t much 200 maelstroms and 50 logistics ships can’t do, and doing is what we got done.

We jumped around the system for several minutes, to a greater or lesser effect and with what seems to be no plan or direction, at least that I could discern. Eventually we were directed to a friendly POS that had just finished anchoring and all 250 of us were relegated to guard duty for some time. Eventually we moved on to shoot at still more poses and listen to the antics the capital ships fleet were participating in. At about this time we got to see the cap fleet in all its glory…and it was GLORIOUS, more ISK then I can even comprehend warped in to finish off the pos we were blasting, quite dramatic stuff.

Now we are in for the long haul, and I am in for a long night, we are expecting our foes to counter-attack around 4 AM and the campaign is intended to last for 5 days, so until Sunday evening the grind is on.