Northern Coalition Engaged On Second Front As Triumvirate Invade Pure Blind (Eve on line)
January 21st, 2010Last week, on 08.01.112, an Avatar-class titan from Northern Coalition alliance Morsus Mihi was destroyed by a fleet from Triumvirate and their allies while they were reinforcing towers in the Northern Coalition’s forward base system, ROIR-Y.
The fleet, led by Kai Page of Triumvirate, featured a large contingent of cloaking, cruise missile-fitted Ravens and planned to reinforce a few Northern Coalition control towers before moving on to a roaming operation.
SpaceSavage, director of Triumvirate corporation Tr0pa de elite, explained: “Two towers were put into reinforced and then we hit the third; a few of our allies were there too. About halfway through hitting the 3rd tower, our covops, flown by Trinity Angel reported a hostile Avatar cynoing in at another [tower], about 15 seconds later reporting another Avatar titan cynoing in. The order was given to align to the cyno, and dictors go at zero.”
The Triumvirate fleet was joined on the field by vessels from their ally, RED.Overlord, who also began to “bump” the primary target, the Avatar piloted by sNaKe353. The large, clumsy titan was continually rammed off its trajectory while it tried to get safely inside the shields of the nearby control tower.
SpaceSavage continued: “At points he was extremely close to the shield, and we had a total of 3 hostile titans aggressed on our fleet, killing our battleships: two Avatars, one Erebus.
“About half way through his armour, dreads cynoed in, from both sides. Our ally Initative bridged in too, approximately 60 or so. Slowly the titan was dying, eventually going into structure but not before taking out one of our dreads, Brother Assembly, who died a hero’s death!” Battleship casualties were significant on both sides.
The second Northern Coalition Avatar managed to get inside the control tower’s shields and NC forces engaged with the Triumvirate gang in multiple skirmishes between ROIR-Y and the Triumvirate “home” system of X-7OMU during the remainder of the night.
Conflict had also been taking place in and around the Mostly Harmless station system of P-2TTL. Since the start of the year, forces from Triumvirate and their allies had challenged the sovereignty of the system. Multiple large battles were fought with the loss, SpaceSavage claims, of thousands of ships across the two sides. This led Mynas Atoch (Mostly Harmless FC and alliance leadership-figure) to issue a public declaration of defiance to the hostile forces.
On 10.01.112, however, combined forces from Triumvirate’s coalition (known as “TriCo” after members Triumvirate and Circle of Two), gathered for the final conflict, a do-or-die moment for the system… which passed quietly, the system trickling into new hands without engagement.
Imperian, FC and military organizer for the Northern Coalition during this campaign, explained the campaign objectives for his organization:
“The problem is, I guess, that both sides have a different understanding of ‘winning.’ Their goal was to take over the P-2TTL station system. Our goal is to get our high-end and technetium moons back in Pure Blind and Venal.
“We were successful at reclaiming our Venal moons already and go for the Pure Blind moons now. We killed 4 of theirs today without big resistance and replaced them with our own ones.”
Imperian confirmed that at present, the Northern Coalition is focusing on the TriCo invasion as the main threat, working as a unit rather than individual alliances and focusing on the Pure Blind front. By reclaiming valuable moons, NC ensure their warchest for a sustained conflict. TriCo, meanwhile, have little regard for strategic assets and a hunger for battle. The coalition plans to keep pressure on the NC and “kill as much as possible, pick apart the NC one bit at a time and disband their coalition.” The two mindsets, though radically different, both point to one thing: a sustained and hard-fought war.
GalNet References
Triumvirate. Battle Record - 08.01.112
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Capsuleers Turn to Gambling as Another Revenue Source
Jita, The Forge - Unsanctioned gambling has become a popular pastime among pod pilots. Large bets are placed weekly, giving capsuleers a chance of winning huge sums of ISK.
New Eden’s capsuleers have always shown a peculiar appetite for gambling and neocom games like Selene D’Celeste’s EVE Online Hold’Em poker games (EOH) are slowly gaining strength among them as a potential income generator.
According to Selene, a daily average of 200-300 capsuleers direct their neocom browsers to EOH’s site and almost two thousand pilots have reportedly connected during the last 30 days.
While most bets are placed into the 30-100 million ISK range, a number of high stakes games are also played. During such games, it is not uncommon to see between half and two billion ISK laid on the table. “All in all, a few hundred billion ISK is being bet every week,” Selene D’Celeste explains.
Capsuleers who regularly participate in these poker games share stories of wins and losses. Last month, a capsuleer who goes by the name of Dante Edmundo won a total of one billion ISK. “Winning a billion ISK on a weekend … [is] pretty darn good,” he says.
There are also capsuleers who have lost large amounts of ISK in these games. Mynxee, one of EOH bankers, describes how pilots can get addicted to poker: “it’s a bit tragic… I’ve seen some lose billions and billions and just keep coming back for more, asking for loans, selling all their stuff to get ISK.”
Some capsuleers become discouraged early and avoid the trap of addiction. After her first (and last) seat at the poker table, and losing it all, Mussolinka says: “some might call it bad luck, others could suspect the games being set up… I will never play EOH in the future again… it’s foolishly easy to have most of the table work together and then split the winning,” she laments.
Cheating at poker is always a possibility and EOH organizers have to constantly keep a watchful eye on their tables: just recently IDLE alliance’s members found themselves temporarily banned from EOH’s games because one of their capsuleers was suspected of pushing his fellow capsuleers to cheat.
“Luckily these kinds of incidents are rare, but we do always take them seriously,” explains Selene D’Celeste, adding that IDLE’s members were ultimately unbanned due to lack of evidence. “Such bans do happen when we have evidence, but do not stay otherwise,” she concluded.
EOH is not the only neocom-game available to capsuleers and shares the market with lotteries and sports betting. It is certain that New Eden’s pilots consider gambling as a source of revenue and devote alot of time to it, and sometimes all their ISK as well.
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The Scanning Guide Tutorial Video
Scan-curious? Wondering what to do with the Prototype Iris Probe Launcher affixed to your new holiday gift? Feeling like you’ve always wanted to explore the hidden riches of New Eden, from wormholes to archaeology sites, but never could quite reach 100% signal strength? Look no further than the new EVE Online Scanning Guide Tutorial Video and a comment thread may be found here.
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