The Defias Blog

Just a quick Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays; enjoy your alcohol responsibly! :)

As the title says, really. I’ve spent the bulk of my time this week job hunting without success; in a desperation bid I even went sniffing around at the local fast-food joints hoping to at least find something to tide me over. At one place, I was told they had too many people already and that nearly everyone was being cut to 2 days/week - that’s not even 20 hours!

My leisure time has been spent levelling a couple of nationals on Pirates of the Burning Sea’s Blackbeard server, mainly just to get a sense of that side of the game. My main character remains Stephen MacKenna, though - yarr!

I’m considering the 5-day EVE-Online Free Trial offer CCP e-mailed me the other day, sort of a ‘winback’ effort I guess. It talked about all the changes that came with Quantum Rise and offered me 5 free days with my existing account. I planned to resub for a few months after the new year (probably in February or March), but I might at least use the 5 days… haven’t decided yet.

My luck from earlier in the day (See "A Day of Incredible Luck") was holding up and as I arrived at Cayo from the east, so too was a ‘Lexington’ Brig coming in from the north and I saw him with plenty of time to adjust my heading and get between him and the port.


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¶ Despite the terms of the agreement, under which GODS members were to make no shitpoasts or smack about the matter (which we haven’t), it has been clearly and publicly established in two posts (here and here) on CAOD that Pure. has lost their war.  With respect to the arrangements that have been made, I won’t go too far into detail about it.

¶ It is enough to say that Pure. put up more of a fight than any of us expected them to, especially considering that the rest of the Northern Coalition was largely occupied elsewhere defending against MAX and Triumvirate.  Despite the fact that G00DFELLAS came out on top of almost every single fleet engagement (we had negative killboard efficiency on only 3 days out of the O-2 conflict: the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September, when things were just getting underway).  Despite the fact that Papa Pod’s doomsday detonations claimed only 13 G00DFELLAS ships, despite their inability to destroy a single GODS capital ship, Pure. was never afraid to engage and did their utmost to give as good as they got.  Their POS defenses were more than adequate and while it could be said that our failure to destroy POSes the first time was due to our not having enough numbers in every time zone, the Pure. POS gunners and capital fleet can’t be discredited here.

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¶ The three days since the last battle report have been largely uneventful in O-2RNZ. After the destruction of The Perfect Storm (which will be recommissioned at the earliest possible convenience) I returned to ROIR-Y with what little of the crew managed to survive the explosion, hired a new crew and returned to the front aboard The Big Boom, a Tempest-class battleship. Fitted with a pair of plates and carrying a specialized Damage Control crew with the best equipment ISK can buy, The Big Boom is loaded for bear… or dreadnaughts or anything else our FC’s point us at.

¶ With Triumvirate and Band of Brothers threatening NCC titans and motherships in Tribute, there has been little more than sabers rattling back and forth at one another in Deklein. Even so, I’ve managed to capture some impressive images during one of the Northern Coalition’s attacks on a friendly tower in the sieged O-2RNZ system.

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