One day in Eve
Yesterday was fairly action packed for us. The background is that we have been doing more in 0.0 recently and have been a little thin on the ground in our low sec home. There is a mainly Australian time zone Alliance that is close to us that we have been fighting with forever and we're fairly sure they have a spy alt or 2 in our Alliance.
So a few days ago, they gang up with some mercs and raid our low sec systems in a 30+ battleship gang. We have very few people on during that timezone and they attack 3 POSes. One was just a placeholder and had previously been reinforced, so it popped. Another had really poor amounts of stront in it and only had a 6 hour timer so it was vulnerable during our slow time and they were still active, so they popped it too. They put the 3rd into reinforced and they dropped a small tower at that spot with some basic fittings.
So we call a CTA to pull us back to our home systems and get our capital fleet ready for POS repping. A few of our friends from 0.0 come down to be with us as well. Right before the POS comes out of reinforced, an Alliance called Bright Side of Death comes by. They visit 1 or 2 times a weekend in a remote rep BS gang and they often have a triage carrier or 2 available. We form up on theb gate they would come through, they scout us and then go away. We know that means they're getting their capital fleet together.
We jump to the POS and start up the capital shield repair units on the carriers. We are most of the way done when the BSOD gang comes back. We pull our support ships to the POS and keep repping away. They're scouting us again. With our carriers in system (and some dreads on standby, we have way more than they do, but they know that so we know they have their capital fleet ready. They get bored and leave. Our scout gets to their home system and finds over 30 cap ships ready to jump us. We get the POS back online and the cap fleet and support fleet goes back to our main system.
So far we had gathered a big fleet together but not had a fight. Like normal, the ADHD PvPers start whining and frothing at the mouth for a fight. One of our allies reports to us that some enemies are using a dread at a near suicide station to undock behind people undocking to bump them out of docking range and then kill them. We get a bait Navy Megathron ready but the dread pilot gets bored and logs off. We still decide to try and kill their BS gang that was doing the ganking on the station. So the bait undocked, they bite on the bait and the cyno goes up.
Stupid capital drop
There actually were 3-4 more carriers that dropped. We looted the wrecks and jumped back home.
The enemy POS was coming out of reinforced in a few hours, so we formed up a small HAC/BC gang. We have been experiementing with smaller ships and remote repping ships. We were planning on roaming when a 15+ man neutral fleet entered our space. Most of them were BS, we were all in smaller ships except for me, another logitics Dominix and the bait Navy Megathron. They set up so they had 2 bait ships on the gate and most of their fleet on the other side (with a few more in our system).
So we were faced with a 15 man fleet, at least 10BS in the enemy fleet and we had 3 BS and some smaller ships, but were outnumbered. What did we do? This:
The Slaughter
They attacked the outlaw Navy Megathron (I tried to bait in my Domi, but no good) and jumped their gang through the gate to help. There were 10 BS there over the fight but they showed up in small waves.
Ignore the Thanatos and the hauler kills (the killboard goes by time for related kills). We faced them down, had global criminal countdown and fought 4 minutes of hell. We were constantly broadcasting the need for remote rep help. And killing. And killing. And killing. 4 minutes of killing. We had to react immediately when the need for reps was called as small ships have a very small buffer. The managed to get on of our Brutixes to 1/2 hull but could not bring it down. Their morale broke, they deagressed and jumped through the gate.
So 8 enemy ships down for zero losses for us and we were outnumbered and out gunned the entire fight.
The last part of the day was the enemy POS that was coming out of reinforced. By then, we had lost a lot of our Euro members and had a tiny cap fleet. 20 minutes before the POS was able to be shot, our scouts saw them form up another 30+ man BS fleet and start rolling towards us. We had 15 pilots ready at that point and another 10 coming as fast as they could. The FC made the call to get to the gate and try and hold them there. We got 15 ships to the gate and had 2 carriers undocked. They hit the gate and scouted. And hesitated.
I was spamming Alliance chat and our intel chat demanding that more people join. People hurried and started arriving in 1's while our allies burned towards up. Their FC continued to hesitate. At any time if they had attacked us, they would have won. But now our friends arrived and we had fairly even numbers. Their morale broke and they decided to stand down. They headed back to their home system. We went over to their POS and this was the result.
POS goes down
Note that Martimus helped kill the POS in his Thorax ...
Michael (as mentioned before my corp is open for new members)