Wormhole Space Redux (stop shitposting or I will start infracting)

[whispous]

The scene: Thursday night, Snuff Box are elite PvPing on the Tama gate w/ instalock ships and lots of RR, just in case some of the Caracals and Iterons fight back.

I find a Muninn on scan a couple of systems over, and probe it out. Warping to it with my Deimos, I quickly find out it's sat on a wormhole, and he engages me first (without any tackle n1)

I blast right back at him, losing scram three times as I move away from him to get bump-run-ups, and the wormhole twitches, a fearsome Osprey plopping onto screen. Check. The Muninn's shield loss suddenly slows right down, and with a 100% increase in hostiles, I call for backup.

Backup arrives just a minute later, and a optimistic Muninn dies, leaving behind rubbish salvage. However, the same corporation keep on appearing in local long afterwards, so our French war hero vmmmmffffs himself into the unknown, to find an entire fleet (four or five) angry hostiles waiting on the other side. He baits with his Cynabal on the known side, and the enemies jump through and engage him - that's our cue to send a Phobos into the wormhole, bubble up and we light a professional cyno, dropping 7 or so BLOPS.

The startled enemies zoom back to the wormhole, and we excitedly follow the startled hostiles, enthusiastically pumping our MWDs as we pass through into the C2.

Enemies dead, we high five each other to congratulate ourselves, and an observant corp member reports:

"the wormhole is about to collapse..."

I break into a sweat.

Snuff Box is a very poor corporation - our Tech Level Two battleships are all we have in the world, our meagre Slave clones all that stop us from caving in to the call of ending it all.


Our French hero confirms my desperate enquiry - he DOES have a covops in here with us, but we have no clue where we might end up. I ask on comms who's the poorest. A destitute, gangrene ridden friend weedily calls out - "me, please sir... Eddie Valvetino..." I do the honourable thing and tell him to jump home - the wormhole collapses - MattfighT decided he wanted to take the coward's way home instead of eddie.

Eddie, the gentleman that he is, bursts into tears - we're all too distraught to be able to embrace him or offer any words of comfort (I think maybe Matt said something helpful like "So long, spackers!")

Frenchy Mc Frencherson finds us an exit - we pile through in an orderly fashion, discovering ourselves many many lightyears from home, in the boring depths of Minmatar lowsec and on top of an exceedingly unlucky Armageddon. Many boring cloaked minutes passed, the only consolation being that with so many faggotty alts, we got to use our favorite travel method to return home - the cyno.

We returned home to the embraces of our imaginary girlfriends and wives, thankful that they have us safely in their arms after such a harrowing sense of uncertainty and loss.

We live to battle against overwhelming Drakey evil once more - for how long, who knows. We returned wearily to the gate, and continued to destroy all evil that dared pass into Sujarento.

[Pattern]

^^entertaining read.

[Artjay]

The scene: Thursday night, Snuff Box are elite PvPing on the Tama gate w/ instalock ships and lots of RR, just in case some of the Caracals and Iterons fight back.

I find a Muninn on scan a couple of systems over, and probe it out. Warping to it with my Deimos, I quickly find out it's sat on a wormhole, and he engages me first (without any tackle n1)

I blast right back at him, losing scram three times as I move away from him to get bump-run-ups, and the wormhole twitches, a fearsome Osprey plopping onto screen. Check. The Muninn's shield loss suddenly slows right down, and with a 100% increase in hostiles, I call for backup.

Backup arrives just a minute later, and a optimistic Muninn dies, leaving behind rubbish salvage. However, the same corporation keep on appearing in local long afterwards, so our French war hero vmmmmffffs himself into the unknown, to find an entire fleet (four or five) angry hostiles waiting on the other side. He baits with his Cynabal on the known side, and the enemies jump through and engage him - that's our cue to send a Phobos into the wormhole, bubble up and we light a professional cyno, dropping 7 or so BLOPS.

The startled enemies zoom back to the wormhole, and we excitedly follow the startled hostiles, enthusiastically pumping our MWDs as we pass through into the C2.

Enemies dead, we high five each other to congratulate ourselves, and an observant corp member reports:

"the wormhole is about to collapse..."

I break into a sweat.

Snuff Box is a very poor corporation - our Tech Level Two battleships are all we have in the world, our meagre Slave clones all that stop us from caving in to the call of ending it all.


Our French hero confirms my desperate enquiry - he DOES have a covops in here with us, but we have no clue where we might end up. I ask on comms who's the poorest. A destitute, gangrene ridden friend weedily calls out - "me, please sir... Eddie Valvetino..." I do the honourable thing and tell him to jump home - the wormhole collapses - MattfighT decided he wanted to take the coward's way home instead of eddie.

Eddie, the gentleman that he is, bursts into tears - we're all too distraught to be able to embrace him or offer any words of comfort (I think maybe Matt said something helpful like "So long, spackers!")

Frenchy Mc Frencherson finds us an exit - we pile through in an orderly fashion, discovering ourselves many many lightyears from home, in the boring depths of Minmatar lowsec and on top of an exceedingly unlucky Armageddon. Many boring cloaked minutes passed, the only consolation being that with so many faggotty alts, we got to use our favorite travel method to return home - the cyno.

We returned home to the embraces of our imaginary girlfriends and wives, thankful that they have us safely in their arms after such a harrowing sense of uncertainty and loss.

We live to battle against overwhelming Drakey evil once more - for how long, who knows. We returned wearily to the gate, and continued to destroy all evil that dared pass into Sujarento.

Awesome

[Bane Nucleus]

Wormhole space has been pretty quiet lately....

[Korenchkin]

The scene: Thursday night, Snuff Box are elite PvPing on the Tama gate w/ instalock ships and lots of RR, just in case some of the Caracals and Iterons fight back.

^ made me lol. Great BR

[Alundil]

The scene: Thursday night, Snuff Box are elite PvPing on the Tama gate w/ instalock ships and lots of RR, just in case some of the Caracals and Iterons fight back.

I find a Muninn on scan a couple of systems over, and probe it out. Warping to it with my Deimos, I quickly find out it's sat on a wormhole, and he engages me first (without any tackle n1)

I blast right back at him, losing scram three times as I move away from him to get bump-run-ups, and the wormhole twitches, a fearsome Osprey plopping onto screen. Check. The Muninn's shield loss suddenly slows right down, and with a 100% increase in hostiles, I call for backup.

Backup arrives just a minute later, and a optimistic Muninn dies, leaving behind rubbish salvage. However, the same corporation keep on appearing in local long afterwards, so our French war hero vmmmmffffs himself into the unknown, to find an entire fleet (four or five) angry hostiles waiting on the other side. He baits with his Cynabal on the known side, and the enemies jump through and engage him - that's our cue to send a Phobos into the wormhole, bubble up and we light a professional cyno, dropping 7 or so BLOPS.

The startled enemies zoom back to the wormhole, and we excitedly follow the startled hostiles, enthusiastically pumping our MWDs as we pass through into the C2.

Enemies dead, we high five each other to congratulate ourselves, and an observant corp member reports:

"the wormhole is about to collapse..."

I break into a sweat.

Snuff Box is a very poor corporation - our Tech Level Two battleships are all we have in the world, our meagre Slave clones all that stop us from caving in to the call of ending it all.


Our French hero confirms my desperate enquiry - he DOES have a covops in here with us, but we have no clue where we might end up. I ask on comms who's the poorest. A destitute, gangrene ridden friend weedily calls out - "me, please sir... Eddie Valvetino..." I do the honourable thing and tell him to jump home - the wormhole collapses - MattfighT decided he wanted to take the coward's way home instead of eddie.

Eddie, the gentleman that he is, bursts into tears - we're all too distraught to be able to embrace him or offer any words of comfort (I think maybe Matt said something helpful like "So long, spackers!")

Frenchy Mc Frencherson finds us an exit - we pile through in an orderly fashion, discovering ourselves many many lightyears from home, in the boring depths of Minmatar lowsec and on top of an exceedingly unlucky Armageddon. Many boring cloaked minutes passed, the only consolation being that with so many faggotty alts, we got to use our favorite travel method to return home - the cyno.

We returned home to the embraces of our imaginary girlfriends and wives, thankful that they have us safely in their arms after such a harrowing sense of uncertainty and loss.

We live to battle against overwhelming Drakey evil once more - for how long, who knows. We returned wearily to the gate, and continued to destroy all evil that dared pass into Sujarento.

Nice BR. Reading again.

More like this please.

Sent via highly charged bolt of electricity.

[Daneel Trevize]

I desire to know how this combo happened http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13878165

[Apolyon]

I desire to know how this combo happened http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13878165

those guys are bored and rf one of our tower in a farming system. bait archon worked but the guy doesnt know how to probably use his archon

[Rengas]

I desire to know how this combo happened http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13878165

Actually it is a well known fact that VoC is the wormhole farming division of Romanian Legion and thus we were merely protecting the assets of our exalted overlords.

[Mister_AL]

Translation of the fragment of AAA-alliance meeting (Russian part):

"But we have an ability to make T3 for everyone. People from wormholes sure help a lot - our corporation The Dark Tribe, very big help. What they do for the alliance, in time of war usually. When we don't have a war they give nothing, but in time of war we get an actually endless stream of T3 from them and actually they work their for the whole alliance. Actually what they do is a big-big-big help."

Original: http://soundcloud.com/russianreversal/hsl6pnudxe5f 17:45

[Daneel Trevize]

URL is broken

Apol, your post just raised more questions than it answered

[Artjay]

Translation of the fragment of AAA-alliance meeting (Russian part):

"But we have an ability to make T3 for everyone. People from wormholes sure help a lot - our corporation The Dark Tribe, very big help. What they do for the alliance, in time of war usually. When we don't have a war they give nothing, but in time of war we get an actually endless stream of T3 from them and actually they work their for the whole alliance. Actually what they do is a big-big-big help."

Original: http://soundcloud.com/russianreversal/hsl6pnudxe5f 17:45

Those fuckers took a wh from us and I still have an alt in one their wh's. Just sayin.

[ShoNuff]

While this wasn't an epic cap battle or anything of the sort, it was still a fun little fight.

https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_...&kll_id=489011

We were out fighting the sleeper menace, when we noticed a new sig pop up and then an anathema on dscan. Our scout jumps out the k162 into venal to see a couple of Black Legion dudes in local. We decide to crit the WH and just in time as BL are gaining numbers up to 20ish in BCs, a few tengus and support. The totals outside our hole now outnumber us about 2:1, but we have a triage carrier, so we engage the portion that jump through to tackle our abomination of a closing raven. The WH pops after eight of so of them come through. After the fight, gfs are had and they leave through our static.

[Orar Ironfist]

While this wasn't an epic cap battle or anything of the sort, it was still a fun little fight.

https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_...&kll_id=489011

We were out fighting the sleeper menace, when we noticed a new sig pop up and then an anathema on dscan. Our scout jumps out the k162 into venal to see a couple of Black Legion dudes in local. We decide to crit the WH and just in time as BL are gaining numbers up to 20ish in BCs, a few tengus and support. The totals outside our hole now outnumber us about 2:1, but we have a triage carrier, so we engage the portion that jump through to tackle our abomination of a closing raven. The WH pops after eight of so of them come through. After the fight, gfs are had and they leave through our static.

Don't nano's reduce mass? why have them on a closing raven? unless i seriously misunderstand wh mechanics(this is a strong possibility)

[Cue1*]

While this wasn't an epic cap battle or anything of the sort, it was still a fun little fight.

https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_...&kll_id=489011

We were out fighting the sleeper menace, when we noticed a new sig pop up and then an anathema on dscan. Our scout jumps out the k162 into venal to see a couple of Black Legion dudes in local. We decide to crit the WH and just in time as BL are gaining numbers up to 20ish in BCs, a few tengus and support. The totals outside our hole now outnumber us about 2:1, but we have a triage carrier, so we engage the portion that jump through to tackle our abomination of a closing raven. The WH pops after eight of so of them come through. After the fight, gfs are had and they leave through our static.

Don't nano's reduce mass? why have them on a closing raven? unless i seriously misunderstand wh mechanics(this is a strong possibility)

No, they don't reduce mass. To my knowledge, the only thing that reduces mass is the bubble on a HIC. That said, that's a pretty piss poor WH closing BS. Geddon can fit a full rack of plates and is bigger than the Raven.

[Orar Ironfist]

Ah ok they reduce hull hp, had that confused. still i think just rocking all plates might have worked better~

[ShoNuff]

Ah ok they reduce hull hp, had that confused. still i think just rocking all plates might have worked better~

Oh, I completely agree hence calling it an abomination.

[Mister_AL]

It was once noted, that our alliance had few alliance operations and those we had – we had as a part of bigger coalitions (first helping other Russian-speaking alliances against AHARM invasion, then together with named AHARM and others evicting AAA). Anyway, we had to evict someone, but not some big fish – summer was coming.
Once Stone Circle guys found our gas-harvesters. It was funny. Then we started checking our common chain for some pew-pew. And found it we had! It was a J220924 system which, according to our notes, has been inhabited by a Bloodpack corporation for at least a year.

They had only one POS online, but what a POS!

Archon
2 Chimeras
2 Moroses
3 Orcas
Revelation
Thanatos

Structures:
Ammunition Assembly
Component Assembly
Equipment Assembly
Subsystems Assembly
X-large Ship Assembly
Polymer line
9 Corp. Hangars
Experimental Lab
Intensive Refinery
2 Labs
8 Ship Maintences

No resists, Minmatar tower

Defenses mostly anchored
4 Neutros
2 ECMs each type
1 L. arty
6 L. auto
3 M. arty
7 M. auto
2 dumpers
4 S. arty
7 S. auto
5 webs
6 points

Second POS anchored, but with some defenses, including fraction.

Quick check on the corporation gave us the following: Koreans, not very active in PVP, but having some idea, how to do it. In sheer numbers – one of the biggest non-alliance corporations. Who knows, what surprises they can show? But a year-old POS gave a good chances for some loot.
Having scanned the system we found a direct highsec connection just to see someone’s freighter jumping from it to k162 in front of our nose! A hictor on that k162 ensured they won’t close that highsec. It was a bad idea no to cloak that hictor, or we might’ve caught that freighter on the way back. Anyway, our orca is already packing up with the things needed, capitals are being prepared too, the date is set – next weekend.

By the end of the first day we have 2 dreads, carrier, orca with everything needed and some scanners in the system.

During the week we bring more capitals and keep a close eye on the victims:
Koreans, sure. Some people online from very early morning and up-to our prime-time. (I have to remind that most of us are +4 from EVE-time, as TZ tricks were a great part of this OP.) Which is good for our offensive. On the other hand – they had little farming activity, mostly PI and gas-harvesting. The fact they didn’t bother to collapse their static allowed us to chain-collapse every evening without making them curious “where is that hole?”, as it had to die at night anyway.

We have found an abandoned cov-op at the deep-spot, which showed us some possible allies of the victims, and the fact they knew how to do spots.

Having put all the corporation on the list I found that about a half of active pilots were not in the WH and the big numbers in corp-info had nothing to do with numbers of people active. Anyhow – we had to be ready for at least 10-15 people active. The CEO was in the wormhole.

It was first planned to bring support on Thursday, but we had problems with finding a way. In the end our little fleet decided to have some pew-pew on the way. Bad idea. As a result the fleet was cut-off with one of scanners.

On Friday I sought for a new entrance. It took some hours but in the end I find t-5-1-High path with 1-High hole being in 4- time. And a fleet was not in time. While in 5CL someone was active I found another Highsec, which was luckily near the first one, and we moved in, explaining to those guys in CL5 they should sit still.

In the target system we went to the deepspot, loged-in capitals (7 dreads, 2 carriers), orca. Then it was a long re-fitting and re-loading and so on.



At last we warped to the POS. It was to be reinforced before anyone could come online. Then some capitals went offline (not to be seen, just in case). The timer was a surprise – the POS was to come out in the Sunday morning, not evening, as expected. Support fleet was left there to incapacitate defenses and we dispatched one ship to lead way for capitals to the offline POS. And here the circus started! He couldn’t warp to the Moon 1. So he warped from Moon 2 to the planet and then to Moon 1. But he came back to Moon 2 into the bubble. And several times again and again! CCP is so CCP. At last 4 dreads go and kill that POS. Funny thing again – none of those tengus was in that grid! Nice attempt “let’s not show numbers”. We took defenses from that tower and put at our staging POS, ammo for them was brought beforehand.

And then it was night-camping. We knew it could’ve been very active camping – TZ difference was not at our side this time. Deep into the night (around 3 am for me) first patient logged-in. Looked around, jumped into a Bustard and tried to take something from hangars. Then started jumping between ships. Then some more arrive and started trying to take our bubbles down, with us scarring them off with some tengee. So they tried to use a carrier. Then two carriers in spider left the safety of the field and managed to kill our Large T2 bubble! That thing is expensive! Their problem was a Moros, that warped directly into the hole in bubbles to its optimal, alongside with another Moros and Chiemra, coming from the other side. Chimera died just meters away from the safety. The pod was nice. Despite this, Koreans continued their attempts with new and new people logging in. Their Mach had a nice chance to kill our lonely tengu, but decided not to try. Somewhere around 6 am they actually had more people than us and had all the chances to break blockade against our forces, week after the all-night stand. And we had one more night ahead. In the morning our people started coming back and we could go to sleep.



About an hour and a half before the DT I was woken up by a message, that Koreans had a lot of people and could try breaking through. Really, they had about two times the numbers I had in my list for the “wh-dwellers” for them. But instead of trying breaking the bloackade directly before or after the DT, which we expected, they started the “Red Button Festival”. The counts were like this:

Basilisk - 2
Scimitar - 1
Badger Mark II - 3
Noctis - 3
Hulk - 8
Hurricane - 7
Viator - 2
Drake - 5
Tengu - 1
Huginn - 1
Rokh - 1
Blackbird - 3
Maelstrom - 2
Iteron Mark V - 10
Cyclone - 3
Charon - 1
Moa - 2
Badger - 3
Tornado - 1
Scorpion - 1
Prophecy - 1
Gallente Shuttle - 3
Retriever - 3
Condor - 1

Total: 68 ships.
Best: Charon and Tengu, which SDed without its pilot jumping out (actually, all ships died like that).



After the DT we managed to catch a just-logged Rorqual. After it Koreans logged-in no capitals. Pod was nice again.



Not to waste time we reinforced all the POCOs in the system.

Koreans started breaking through the bubbles in cov-ops ships. First one managed to break through. The second was not that lucky and turned to get back under the field. He died already under the field. At least one T3 warped from under the field to deep-spot and logged there. I thought it would stay there for 15 minutes, but it disappeared in a minute.

At night one scanner jumped through a “uncamped hole” and was soon followed by a Tangu. And there it was cought. Nice pod again.

It is strange, but the last night was calm. And in the morning we somehow managed to open our eyes to kill the tower and have a long and boring looting session.



Related. The pod just sit under the field and waited to die.

Had some more sleep, then killed POCOs and started moving out. Capitals were not a problem, a full hangar of loot was. Capitals were at our homes by Wednesday, but it took us a whole evening to bring all the loot to highsec. And only then 2 capitals, a support fleet and a T1 indy with our fraction tower left through a nullsec hole. 2 jumps from high, but somewhat scary.

Loot (some of our things too, but doesn’t matter):




Profit: 16.5 billions, not taking into consideration blueprints and some loot we’ve left for future operations.

Well, this is the way W-Space Alliance spent one weekend. You may’ve noticed it was some time ago, but it is only now I’ve found time to write about it.

Thanks to all our pilots.

[Lallante]

Good effort, nice payoff, great report

[Mister_AL]

Another system has been cleansed from the AAA infestation this weekend, at least for now.
Thx to Ash for inviting and for to the rest for joining!

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14097398

PS. Smacktalk in local was immense