MEANWHILE, BACK IN...

When last we left off, spirits were high off that carrier kill. It felt good, man.

The part that I HADN'T mentioned though, was right as we began our operation, a joint fleet of Exhale. Surely You're Joking, Brotherhood of Starbridge, and, for some silly reason, Insidious Design, rolled up into one of Talocan United's home c5s, named Asgard.

Was only 70 people with a rev and like, 15 logi for the t3 brawler fleet they brought. Totally not overkill.

What? Sarcasm font isn't you know, a thing. Italics only do so much!

Anyways, so there's this fleet in Asgard. Big mucky fleet. Were they hired? Couldn't tell you. Were they looking to bring even more people in? Oh yeah. I know one of those Exhale pilots, and he loves his moros something fierce. He's also got it pimped out to a stupid good degree, and I bet it's become even more pimped since the last time I tangled with him.

But yeah. Bad situation. Good thing for my side that we have

BERNIE NATOR, TALUN DIPLO!


on our side. And yes, it HAS to be caps, and italicized. Loses meaning otherwise.

So, similar to how Transmission Lost had to deal with them last week, I dialed up the Batphone and started pulling favors from the various groups that we've done favors for before. And since I was the only leader really on, it feel to me to amass as much help as I could muster. Eventually we had this massive ball of people rage rolling holes to try and find our hole. It was literally maddening. [Editor's note: Rage rolling a hole means slamming mass through a hole so hard that the hole collapses. A c5 to c5 connection takes roughly 3 bil in raw tonnage to collapse. That's 3 battleships and a carrier, or two battleships and a Phoenix (IT HAS USES PEOPLE) and your hole will collapse. All normal mass restrictions apply, except in Alaska. Because Alaska.]


So, it's about 7 est. Exhale et all have put up two towers; one belongs to Exhale, the other to insidious design. No defenses though. It's also right at that time that a Transmission Lost fleet found a k162 into Asgard through a c5 they found in low sec. Which is good, because TL can bring huge numbers, and given that we had about not enough people on in Asgard at the time, we were immediately grateful for anything they could bring in.


So when Exhale and company up and left, we were kind of baffled. They literally just took their shinies and left. Not even a fight. Maybe they knew about the incoming shit storm and decided to leave while they still could? No idea, still can't get an answer out of Chitsa. Maybe at some point I will.


Funnily enough, they left the towers. So we went ahead and reinforced exhale's tower for them. Full stront bay. Makes sense. By this point TL had set a tower up as well. So we take that fleet over to the Insid tower, reinforce it, and...


2 hours of stront. I shit you not. We killed it 2 hours later just because it needed it.


Oh, wait, shit, forgot that exhale watched us reo the towers and then while we were asleep (well, while I was, since I'd been up for awhile at that point. Same day as previous post, remember?) they went and reo'd the TL tower THEN left. In their haste they left/abandoned some pilots in Asgard. 


Like this poor guy. Which is a shame, because I liked this guy. Really swell dude. Still, it's what happens when you invade someone.


There's more to this story, but this post is long enough as is. I'm going to come back in a bit and finish all the bits. Also, I'll have plenty more stories! Like how there's always a pressing need to observe your surroundings, and how a sleeper tank is viable for pvp!


Blue Probes Out.