Alasse Cuthalion
01-09-2005, 12:29
On the 2nd of July 2005 a fleet of 50+ RKK, BNC and Evol ships moved from NOL-M9 to YZ-LQL, the FA alliance home system and deployed a POS and began its invasion of Fountain.
Initially the FA forces rallied and made a brave attempt at trying to nuke our forces protecting the fledging POS whilst it was being anchored/onlined, naturally, most of them left in their escape pods for the loss of an empty industrial ship.
With the POS up we poured our offensive forces in to Fountain core and the ganking began in earnest within a couple of days. Throughout the day time in Euro land we were the dominant force without question, our forces swept through the core systems killing everything in sight... No one was spared.
In the evenings the FA fleet commanders would log on and attempt to engage our forces by warping battleship fleets in at 200km+ and attempt to snipe our support. It soon became obvious they weren't going to achieve anything by doing so and eventually they began warping in closer and closer... Eventually they were coming in at around 120km and the only outcome possible at that range as we all know is... OMGWTFBBQ. This lasted for perhaps two weeks at the most, mounting ship losses and an increasing amount of dissent within the alliance about the way the invasion was being "handled" was begging to take its toll.
Two weeks in to our invasion it was obvious the FA was doomed, their homeland was completely under our control, every system was locked down and anyone who dared to try to go about their daily business there was soon paying out for a new clone. Dissent within the FA escalated from sly digs and moans to full on flame fests on their own forums, it was blatantly apparant that the two "powerhouses" within the FA, Xan and BIG, weren't even attempting to defend Fountain, instead they sat in empire raking in ISK and selling ships to the members who were actually trying to fight at an increased profit. It wasn't long before corps began to leave the IGA which at its peak numbered over 1,800 members.
With the FA floundering Molle deemed it necessary to put one final nail in the coffin, one of his own members infiltrated an FA corp (Sturmgrenedier iirc) and quickly gained access to their POS's, one of which was located in Y-2ANO. Early one Sunday morning all the fuel was removed from the control tower and all the structures surrounding it unanchored, in total Evol "liberated" just over one hundred ships, including battleships and hacs from the forcefield/maintance array. With the large tower now sitting there with no defences RKK and BNC moved in to help destroy it. Once destroyed an RKK small POS was onlined in exactly the same place with the sole intent of taking out any FA members who had logged off there, the first casualty being an Iteron mk V loaded with a full rack of local hull expanders :D
The POS incident ensured that what little morale was left destroyed, they knew nothing was safe and several more corps left the IGA in the following week, total members had slowly slumped to little over 800 at this point.
Finally, after weeks of jibes from their own members and the general EVE populace Xanadu and BIG teamed up and decided to show everyone that they COULD fight and began moving forces in to YZ-LQL in dribs and drabs and logging off, a trademarked FA tactic we had encountered many times in the past in Delve so we were well prepared... Just like clockwork they all logged on simultaniously and engaged our smaller fleet, losses in the intial engagement were high on both sides but we soon gained the tactical upperhand and split up their forces and destroyed them with relative ease. Once destroyed, they did not return.
As time went by, the number of FA members in core went down from "fuck all" to "absolutely zero" and our claim of the Fountain region became official which Xanadu helped cement by leaving the FA IGA and thus dropping their total number down to 600, a third of its original number.
The FA is dead, long live Fountain.
Coming Soon - Outer Ring & Imp
http://www.reikoku.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7714
Initially the FA forces rallied and made a brave attempt at trying to nuke our forces protecting the fledging POS whilst it was being anchored/onlined, naturally, most of them left in their escape pods for the loss of an empty industrial ship.
With the POS up we poured our offensive forces in to Fountain core and the ganking began in earnest within a couple of days. Throughout the day time in Euro land we were the dominant force without question, our forces swept through the core systems killing everything in sight... No one was spared.
In the evenings the FA fleet commanders would log on and attempt to engage our forces by warping battleship fleets in at 200km+ and attempt to snipe our support. It soon became obvious they weren't going to achieve anything by doing so and eventually they began warping in closer and closer... Eventually they were coming in at around 120km and the only outcome possible at that range as we all know is... OMGWTFBBQ. This lasted for perhaps two weeks at the most, mounting ship losses and an increasing amount of dissent within the alliance about the way the invasion was being "handled" was begging to take its toll.
Two weeks in to our invasion it was obvious the FA was doomed, their homeland was completely under our control, every system was locked down and anyone who dared to try to go about their daily business there was soon paying out for a new clone. Dissent within the FA escalated from sly digs and moans to full on flame fests on their own forums, it was blatantly apparant that the two "powerhouses" within the FA, Xan and BIG, weren't even attempting to defend Fountain, instead they sat in empire raking in ISK and selling ships to the members who were actually trying to fight at an increased profit. It wasn't long before corps began to leave the IGA which at its peak numbered over 1,800 members.
With the FA floundering Molle deemed it necessary to put one final nail in the coffin, one of his own members infiltrated an FA corp (Sturmgrenedier iirc) and quickly gained access to their POS's, one of which was located in Y-2ANO. Early one Sunday morning all the fuel was removed from the control tower and all the structures surrounding it unanchored, in total Evol "liberated" just over one hundred ships, including battleships and hacs from the forcefield/maintance array. With the large tower now sitting there with no defences RKK and BNC moved in to help destroy it. Once destroyed an RKK small POS was onlined in exactly the same place with the sole intent of taking out any FA members who had logged off there, the first casualty being an Iteron mk V loaded with a full rack of local hull expanders :D
The POS incident ensured that what little morale was left destroyed, they knew nothing was safe and several more corps left the IGA in the following week, total members had slowly slumped to little over 800 at this point.
Finally, after weeks of jibes from their own members and the general EVE populace Xanadu and BIG teamed up and decided to show everyone that they COULD fight and began moving forces in to YZ-LQL in dribs and drabs and logging off, a trademarked FA tactic we had encountered many times in the past in Delve so we were well prepared... Just like clockwork they all logged on simultaniously and engaged our smaller fleet, losses in the intial engagement were high on both sides but we soon gained the tactical upperhand and split up their forces and destroyed them with relative ease. Once destroyed, they did not return.
As time went by, the number of FA members in core went down from "fuck all" to "absolutely zero" and our claim of the Fountain region became official which Xanadu helped cement by leaving the FA IGA and thus dropping their total number down to 600, a third of its original number.
The FA is dead, long live Fountain.
Coming Soon - Outer Ring & Imp
http://www.reikoku.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7714