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[MadBurgerMaker]

Geddon #2 lost.  Got primaried by the remnants of a fleet of Romanians who survived a DD.  What's stupid is I had bounced off the POS shields and sat there looking confused for a few seconds before dying/remembering it was an allied POS which means it needs a PW (the dying + remembering happened at the same time).   Oops.   

Oh well...6 KMs from tonight with my name on them posted so far.  55 kills total between the two ships.  That fitting really works.

[CountDeMoney]

That OK, I lost the Hyperion in wormhole space.   Oops.

[Berkut]

What fitting are you using Mad?

IRC had a huge CTA on Friday right in the middle of the workday to go save one of our main systems that RA had put into reinforced. The thing is, this was right during their primetime, which we (of course) are generally not active in. A bunch of people took off time from work, etc. I could not.

Sat there reading the KB and alliance forums all day. Huge battle, at one point there were 350 engaged at once.

RA was taken by surprise I think, and we reinforced all IRC towers, destroyed all RA towers, and killed ~200 RA and friends ships, for the loss of something like 124 of our own. And epic fight, it went on all day, with 4 major engagements.

Most of the IRC losses were actually to a third party that showed up and jumped a support fleet unexpectedly. They wiped out some 50 IRC ships, and were then wiped out themselves.

If 0.0 was like that more often, this would be such an awesome game....

[MadBurgerMaker]

What fitting are you using Mad?

They were the ghetto antisupport Armageddons.  Essentially just plated pulse geddons with tracking gear and a sensor booster.  Probably won't be using them much anymore, since the T2 pulse Apoc is much better at that sort of thing and is a ship the corp/alliance reimburses with each loss. 

Really the only thing that sucks about that pulse Apoc is the initial investment required.  It's much higher than the Geddon, but then again, I can't afford either one right now, so that doesn't really matter atm, right? 

[Berkut]

The Red Alliance War rages on:

http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3089&tid=7

3H58-R, Etherium Reach - Fighting between the Ethereal Crossing Coalition (Ethereal Dawn [ED] / Intrepid Crossing [IRC]) and the Red Alliance and allies continues unabated throughout the region. With Red Alliance currently holding half of Ethereal Dawn's four stations in the 6TT8-Z constellation, or "the loop" as local residents refer to it, the outcome of this war remains uncertain. Both sides are committed to a fight until the end; there will be no surrender, no compromise.

While there has been some relief to the embattled Coalition, Red Alliance forces remain firmly entrenched deep within Ethereal Dawn territory. Pressure was relieved on the Coalition when Majesta Empire [ME] and The Initiative. [INIT.] withdrew from the fight when SOLAR FLEET [SOLAR] appeared on the scene. The withdrawal of United Legion [UNL] due to the war in Immensea with [ATLAS] and Aggression. [AGGRO] alliances, also gave the Coalition a small respite.

Czech Lion of Best Path Inc. [BPINC], a member of [ED]'s High Command, states that forces currently arrayed against Ethereal Dawn and Intrepid Crossing include "Red Alliance, Voodoo Technologies [VIP], LUCKY LEAGUE [LUCKY], Red Army Alliance [REDAR] and Sc0rched Earth [BYRN]." Additionally, while [SOLAR] did act against some of the alliances that were members of the Northern Coalition, it is unknown if they would enter into hostilities against the Red Alliance as they are currently friendly.

According to Red Alliance fleet commander Bapp of Warriors Tribe [W.T.], forces are poised for the last push into Ethereal Dawn's capital system of 3H58-R: "When ED's towers in that system come out of reinforced mode there will, possibly, be the final battle for sovereignty." Although Bapp would not discuss the timing of any assaults, he tells us that has amassed a large force including several titans in preparation for the taking of the system.

Czech Lion doesn't see the loss of 3H58-R as anything significant; "we will have one less grouping point and can focus on smaller territories, until we have the power to get it back" Further he stated "it's a typical war of attrition...but that's what we chose and people don't have to worry, we will stay in combat as long as necessary; it's a challenge we are willing to accept".

While both sides acknowledge that there has been a tentative offer of peace from the Red Alliance, according to Czech Lion it has been categorically rejected. Specifically he remarked "the RA peace offer consisted of wanting to get two titans from us, which we happily denied", adding further that, "as can be seen that we are still in the fight, it is a thing of honor and self-respect to not just fold and be slaves. We either can defend it or not."

With the rejection of their offer, Bapp signaled that there would be no stopping for his alliance in this war, short of completely removing the Ethereal Crossing Coalition from null sec, stating that, "we already offered them safe way to end this war, but they said that price is too high for them and they rejected it. So, it seems like they want to die; we will help them in that way."

On this point both sides agree; there will be no peace. What started out as isolated border skirmishes has escalated to the level of a blood feud. Even if one side or the other loses their sovereignty, they are committed to the further prosecution of this conflict, as evidenced by Czech Lion's closing remarks "Even if we lose the space, we are in this for long haul; we are going to attack their space, hit their infrastructure, and continue the war to kill them."

It would be interesting to see RA come out with a Titan - so far they have been rather absent from the war.

[CountDeMoney]

Meh, I just hope IRC gets assraped.  And how.

[MadBurgerMaker]

   MRCHI totally fucked up dropping an outpost yesterday.   The chatlogs are just lovely. 

> ruh roh
> someone missed 851 plutonium somewhere

Apparently, plutonium is illegal in Amarr space for whatever RP reason (this is an Amarr outpost), so they had to go to Gallente space to get some, but didn't make it back before DT hit (the guy supposedly was within 30km of the egg when the servers shut down), resulting in 25 billion isk worth of outpost egg sitting in space until the next DT. 

I guess thankfully for MRCHI, Kenny and friends are semi retarded, and didn't notice the titan pilots, major logistics guys, and fleet commanders hanging around quietly in an uninhabited system the few times they jumped through there.

Edit: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/1-2J4P

[Berkut]

Meh, I just hope IRC gets assraped.  And how.

Nobody does spurned petulance the way Seedy does it, that is for sure.

[katmai]

Meh, I just hope IRC gets assraped.  And how.

Nobody does spurned petulance the way Seedy does it, that is for sure.

He is an artiste!

[Berkut]

I am not at all surprised that when it comes right down to it, Seedy finds the first excuse to root for the Russians.

[CountDeMoney]

I am not at all surprised that when it comes right down to it, Seedy finds the first excuse to root for the Russians.

Hey, it worked for World War II. Didn't want to do it.  Felt obligated.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I am not at all surprised that when it comes right down to it, Seedy finds the first excuse to root for the Russians.

Hm.

[besuchov]

My corp is joining IRC shorty, hoping to find a lot of commies in my crosshairs 

[Berkut]

Cool, welcome to the fight!

We have been very pleasantly surprised by the number of corps expressing an interest in joining since the war with the Goon pets started, especially when IRC did not fold in a week as Goebbels/Mittani predicted.

And RA is actually pretty good enemies to have. They come out and fight, they don't talk a bunch of smack, and fun is (mostly) had by all.

[Alcibiades]

What the hell were you and mystery man doing last night any way?