| Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 :: one page |
|
|
| Author |
Reply to Topic | Show CCP posts - 1 post(s) |
Ange1
Gallente
The Establishment
Establishment
    |
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:42:00 -
[1] - Quote
Edited by: Ange1 on 04/04/2007 15:49:34
Many people here celebrate the birthdays of their Corps or Alliances. Today, The Establishment celebrates the 1st Birthday of one of the most notorious and oldest Motherships on Tranquility - Hera. This thread is dedicated to her first year of service and is a lengthy read of her history during the past 12 months. If such things bore you, I suggest you move on to the next thread before I waste your time. Should you continue to read this and feel your time was still wasted, I can only say it was your own fault for ignoring my warning :P
Originally just called The Establishment to signify the center of power for our rabble, Hera - piloted by Rawthorm with his character Ign0raMus - has gained herself a reputation of perhaps being the most feared and respected Nyx in the game to date. In fact the usual Cyno pilot for Hera has gotten a reputation of being the Herald to her presence if attacked or in the area. There is just something immensely satisfying watching a fleet of ships run away from a Crane without lifting a finger :D
Hera was probably the only Mothership on TQ to actually be exclusively used for daily combat for many months before other people started getting their own Motherships. As such, The Establishment is immensely proud of being pioneers of Mothership combat, setting the example for other Mothership pilots to follow should they dare. Many said we would likely be the first to lose a Mothership, given the highly aggressive use of Hera since day one. Thankfully for us, this has not happened... yet :P
Her first victim, probably the first victim of a player controlled Mothership (not counting Events), was a poor low-sec miner named Nairb Tsuj. Whether this pilot is still playing today is anyone's guess, but he deserves an honourary mention for his destruction and one can only guess at what he thought happened to him. At the time, her jump skills were so limited so she had to take a massive round trip just to get her back to Providence, even though the region she was built in was more or less next door to Providence. She also had no ability to use Capital Repairers during her first few days of life and could only field a meek 13 Fighters. Despite this, we jumped her in directly to combat against Ushra'Khan and another time to assist Spontaneous Defenstration in which she also participated in her first Carrier kill. You can see some fraps of this battle here.
Over the last 12 months, Hera has paid a visit to pretty much every region in the game and very few Alliances have been left unscathed by her presence. Yes, even BoB have had a small taste of Hera by losing a faction/officer fitted Carrier that was NPC'ing without a care in the world that pirates were stalking him. She's also caused the local populations of Gyerzen and Otsasai to flee and warn everyone about her presence while doing a spot of low-sec YARR'ing. Most notably perhaps, is that she has single-handedly gone up against fleets ranging from 20-40 ships on many occasions, usually smashing them to pieces in the effort. She was also the spearhead of our operation against Ushra'khan during the 9UY Siege last year, where she reportedly had a 10 Billion ISK bounty placed on her for MC.
The Establishment is at your service...
|
Ange1
Gallente
The Establishment
Establishment
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:42:00 -
[2] - Quote
Edited by: Ange1 on 04/04/2007 15:38:53
Below are some noteworthy engagements Hera has had in her time:
Battle of W9-DID: Two 20-man ISS fleets attempt to engage Hera after she and other Establishment members were looting an offline ISS POS. The first fleet was reported by our scout heading up towards us. Just before they arrived, Hera warped to the incoming gate at 15km just as the fleet jumped in. A battle ensued which saw half the ISS fleet destroyed. Both the ISS fleet and Hera withdrew after the engagement became more of a ranged battle. 15 minutes later, another 20-man ISS fleet is reported heading up. Hera once again warps to the gate as the fleet jumps in and the remainder of the first fleet warps in at range to help the second fleet engage. This time Hera holds the field firmly and ISS take another round of heavy losses before withdrawing. 5-10 minutes later, they appeared to conceed defeat and jumped out of the system back to their stations. Estimated total casualties for ISS were 40-50% with 5 or so Fighters lost for Hera.
Deklein Contract: For a single week, the Freelancer Alliance hired The Establishment against the Northern Freedom Coalition and its allies. During this time, we locked down a particular choke point with Hera and other support, strangling almost all traffic to a standstill. One particular engagement saw Hera on the field with an FLA fleet during a massive engagement against NFC and its allies as they attempted to attack a Station. Despite this we were unable to hold the field and the NFC fleet pushed us back and we were forced to try frigate runs with Fighers attached, with limited success.
9UY4-H: Seat of power to Ushra'Khan. During The Establishments residence in the area, many battles took place here as well as the siege of 9UY itself when The Establishment formed a coalition with other Pirate groups and attempted to capture the station. ISS and other local Alliances and Corps came to the aid of U'K in response to our attack. The result was a prolonged 3 week stalemate which was finally broken with the arrival of the Mercenary Coalition and its huge Capital assets, finally defeating us in some truly titanic final battles that were afflicted with terrible lag. Months later, MC were given some payback when a Freighter convoy deep in Period Basis decided to jump into her system. Hera ambushed them on the gate and MC lost an alt-corp Fenrir and Larsson7's Navy Raven (sadly not officer fitted :P). I would highly recommend reading our withdrawl statement and Seleene's 9UY War Stories.
Battle of G5ED-Y: PURE Alliance attempt to engage Hera at a complex entrance, which to their detriment, affected the environment of the Battle largely in her favour as the PURE fleet was uanble to warp at their desired ranges or able to drop a Cyno on top of her. My Thanatos, Valkyrie, which was also involved in this engagment, was saved by Hera just in time as I started to take structure damage. The enemy fleet suffered an estimated 75-80% casualties while Hera lost half her total compliment of Fighters (20+). You can find some fraps footage of this battle here.
The Establishment is at your service...
|
Ange1
Gallente
The Establishment
Establishment
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:43:00 -
[3] - Quote
Edited by: Ange1 on 04/04/2007 15:40:11
But she's also had a number of near-misses.
The first that comes to my memory was in fact when most of The Establishment had a RL meetup in Oxford. 9 of us had gathered together for a weekend, and we had a LAN session of EVE. Many of us were intoxicated with alcohol or other substances and there was a distinct lack of discipline when compared to our normal TS operations. It was during this that at some point during the op, we had annoyed the then Huzzah Federation and they had quickly gathered a fleet of ships. Hera was cloaked in a spot where we had previously killed someone and had not moved. The bad guys had noticed this with a covert ops....
The jovial atmosphere in the room suddenly turned to dread and tension when Rawthorm reported a 30 man fleet had landed right on top of him, decloaking Hera. Many of us gathered around his montior to see the fleet completely surrounding, nossing and bumping him as they engaged along with a massive amount of lag. However, managing to keep his cool, a Cyno was opened up next door and with a roar of cheers in the room, Hera jumped out to safety before the enemy fleet had time to drain her of cap. The fleet followed and the Cyno ship was destroyed, but in an effort to be cheeky, Hera came out of warp at range from the enemy Fleet, sent her Fighters after a Battleship and killed it before running off. More Rum was consumed after this :pirate:
0utbreak have probably had the best attempt of killing Hera, jumping her by susprise in Otsasai with a fleet of nano ships and some Capital backup. However their strategy of bumping her worked against them in the end by bumping her into warp by accident. Rawthorm reported after the battle that his screen had frozen up for the first 2 mins of the fight, unable to deploy Fighters, and when it finally came to, his cap was completely empty. I think there is some brief fraps of this, but I can't find it.
I also recall a time where Rawthorm decided to cloak Hera at a planet, and a large fleet travelling by just happened to warp to this planet. The fleet was dangerously large to engage for us at the time and they came very close to decloaking her. We don't know if they actually knew she was there or not. This happened as we were making our way to do the Deklein Contract.
These near-misses have served as valuable lessons to remember and those lessons are put to use in the engagements that have followed. In total, 1359 ships have fallen victim to Hera, causing - at a very rough estimate - over 250 Billion ISK worth of damage. Of this total, 571 were Battleships, of which 15 were Faction, 15 Carriers, 2 Dreadnoughts and 11 Freighters. Dozens of Fighters have been lost in the process as well, but the wrecks of enemy Carriers have often proved useful at resupplying Hera ;)
In closing, I'd like to leave you with these images of the Nyx reskinned to give Hera a unique look. It is still a work-in-progress, but perhaps you would support us in having her officially reskinned by CCP with this skin in-game as homage to the first Pirate Mothership ;)
Hera
I'd also like to open the floor to any of you who have engaged Hera, to share your own fond memories or stories with us.
Here's to another Year 
Angel
P.S. Wouldn't it be a bugger if, after making this thread, Hera died the next day? :P
The Establishment is at your service...
|
Johnny ReeRee
The ReeRee Brigade
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:49:00 -
[4] - Quote
Isn't that the mothership The Big Blue was killed for building? Might at least give TBB a nod here, if so.
Pretty bad decision by them, but at least the ship has had a cool history.
|
Darius Shakor
Minmatar
Freelance Unincorporated
Ushra'Khan
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:49:00 -
[5] - Quote
I salute the pilot of Hera in respect for his skills as a super cap pilot. o>
And of course he is only as good as those that back him up. So kudos to EST. I respect you guys more than most people that have been a thorn in our side during our time in 0.0 space.
------
Shakor Clan Information Portal |
Velsharoon
Gallente
Endgame.
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:50:00 -
[6] - Quote
Good read, I want a nyx :(
|
Crovan
Eternity INC.
Mercenary Coalition
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:53:00 -
[7] - Quote
I always give The Establishment a great deal of respect for putting their mothership on the front line. At least now there isn't the old argument that motherships are invulnerable, so it doesn't take any courage to field one. I have to admit that I always expected you guys to lose yours first. I was a little sad, while shooting at Helen's Aeon, that your rightful place of honor as the first to lose a player-piloted mom was being taken away  .
But yeah. Lots of respect. Motherships are nasty frontline vessels, and you guys really were pioneers in the field of the one man blob-eater. gg
 Originally by: Major Stormer
Quote:
What should the MC do?
Make things explode.
|
probablecause
Infinite Improbability Inc
Dusk and Dawn
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:54:00 -
[8] - Quote
I spent hours trying to scan it down in the brief intervals it uncloaked, back when it was called The Establishment and you were flying in those systems where Pure Blind, Deklein, and Cloud Ring all meet.
I know I had it inline from my position to a celestial object, perhaps if multiple MWD's were allowed I would have run into it. :P
 |
Horza Otho
Minmatar
Infortunatus Eventus
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:56:00 -
[9] - Quote
Nice post.
|
Szprinkoth Sponsz
Chaos Reborn
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 15:56:00 -
[10] - Quote
The skull on the landing strip should be white, tbh.
 |
|
Electric Cucumber
Amarr
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:02:00 -
[11] - Quote
awesome
|
Thut'ankh Amon
Exit 13
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:05:00 -
[12] - Quote
great read, may Hera live forever
Originally by: Noluck Ned
*Notify* Concord is on their way to help you, just hang in there, they are waiting for overlord to respawn |
Smagd
Encina Technologies
Namtz'aar k'in
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:07:00 -
[13] - Quote
Happy birthday!
The number of "Just how exactly DOES one kill a mothership?" threads it caused over in Crime and Punishment is amazing, oh, and the number of outright wrong answers :)
Tassi> INFOD members kill people in low security space to destroy their precious ships. |
siliconix
0utbreak
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:11:00 -
[14] - Quote
Congrats to one sexy mother of a ship :)
Daniel Jackson : in my opionen PVP'ers (people who fight other players) are killing this game
|
Seleene
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:13:00 -
[15] - Quote
>3 EST.
You guys dove right in and started fighting with a mothership when most people were still talking about how to build one. Long may Hera prowl the space lanes!
-
Vid - 'P-2 Defense' |
Splagada
Minmatar
Tides of Silence
Hydra Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:16:00 -
[16] - Quote
great story !
could you tell us newbies how you ended it having such a baby in your hands?
------
Relaxed corp recruiting |
Mynas Atoch
Eternity INC.
Mercenary Coalition
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:17:00 -
[17] - Quote
Edited by: Mynas Atoch on 04/04/2007 16:16:16
There will be many Nyx built and eventually lost in this game, but for many of us Hera will always be The Nyx. I'm one of those people who was shocked at being able to succesfully tackle a Crane from a Scorpion, only for the Crane to tackle ME back, and to receive a face full of mothership and fighters as its cyno went off. In those days a cyno ship was invulnerable. Me: "Guys, I think you had better warp out, I'm going down." Reply: "LOL we are already away - we warped as soon as we saw the cyno!"
I was in the 2nd ISS fleet to jump in during the battle you recounted. In a Scorpion. Looking at my fittings, hoping there were some support ships to jam, and almost certain that the result was going to be ... yep ... I'm primary ... I'm down.
I plotted for hours on how to kill The Nyx. I talked to everyone I knew. We bought untold numbers of smartbombs just in case. Convinced many corpmates into training 'dictors on the off chance that we would find it camping a gate in zero zero and be able to get a fleet onto it. But we were never able to pin it down when we were free and didn't have other priorities. ISS went on to kill IAC's Nyx after I left, but it just wasn't the same as the dream of killing The Nyx.
But in the 9UY War we saw the tactical limitations of its use. There it was mainly relegated to being yet another fighter carrier living at a POS. The situation has completely changed since Rigs and the Hit Point buff for capitals which made new tactics and much more aggression possible. To me, now, your crown as the most daring and deadly ship in the game has been supplanted. For Motherships it has to be Seleene or Waagaa in their Nyx and Aeon. Nobody else comes close to the pure OVERKILL and PWNAGE they lay down time and again.
It was still the first, and is still The Nyx!
Here's to it not surviving till its second birthday. May its demise be glorious. (raises glass) Cheers!
Myn
 |
Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:17:00 -
[18] - Quote
Great stories. Somehow I don't see you guys losing that thing any time soon 
--23 Member--
Listen to EVE-Trance Radio (back up, new address!) |
RootAccess
VersaTech Interstellar Ltd.
SMASH Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:19:00 -
[19] - Quote
Edited by: RootAccess on 04/04/2007 16:17:14
Im pretty sure it was in Geminate the other day or near it. It wakes you up seeing Ign0ramus in local.
Originally by: CCP Sharkbait
will explain when i have the time i promise
|
Ozzie Asrail
Exploited
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:22:00 -
[20] - Quote
Grats Hera I've had the pleasure to shoot at and run away her quite a few times and it never gets boring  And always impressed with the way you guys use it in real fights.
Originally by: Ange1
I also recall a time where Rawthorm decided to cloak Hera at a planet, and a large fleet travelling by just happened to warp to this planet. The fleet was dangerously large to engage for us at the time and they came very close to decloaking her. We don't know if they actually knew she was there or not. This happened as we were making our way to do the Deklein Contract.
i think this was during the nfc\fla fighting in dek. NFC had a fleet heading up the pipe when we got reports of you lot in a system, a lucky covops thought he saw you warp to a planet and cloak. Chancing our luck everyone warp at random distance and all land so close only too see the nyx unlcloak and cyno out right at that moment.
Was some crys on TS for sure for missing you. Would have been a good fight and saved us the weeks of torment when you camped our pipe systems lol.
-----
 |
|
Waagaa Ktlehr
Amarr
Body Count Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:23:00 -
[21] - Quote
Congrats on her first birthday, may many more follow! :) (unless we get to kill her ofc. =])
Rawthorm has truly been an example for a bunch of us Mothership pilots. :) The way you guys have used the Nyx ha at least inspired me for some tactics.
Hope you keep having fun with Hera, any plans for a second? :)
-
- |
Rhamnousia
Caldari
Pelennor Swarm
R i s e
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:24:00 -
[22] - Quote
good frakkin read, omg ...
i think Hera deserves her own monument in EVE, for she lives and fights with honor, courage, for she puts fear into the otherwise-cocky blobs, for she will live on forever in the world of EVE should she fell in battle.
i havn't head the honor of coming across Hera, but if i ever do, i'll pee myself coz of excitement. (and that's an understatment) i think i saw Rawthrom in Assah (Derelik) about half a year ago, unknown to me at the time, he was the owner of the most nostorious mothership ever in existance.
props to Rawthorm for bringing the mothership into the frontline, leading by example and show the rest of the world how it's supposed to be done!
props to EST for their endless consumsion of alcohol baverages and such while making killing Hera as hard as possible for anyone daring enough to come into her crosshair.
Long live Hera. let us drink!
---------------------------------------
- yes, im a noob
- yes, im a nut job
- no, i dont give a .... about what u think of my noobness
- now, tell me sumthing i dont know |
Karrimdra
FATAL REVELATIONS
FATAL Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:31:00 -
[23] - Quote
Hera , her pilot and the supporting group behind her ll deserve a lot of respect from everyone that plays this game.
I will put my name forth for a reskin of Hera , and for a memorial to her when and if, she dies :)
From nothing to something in just one corp!
Your signature exceeds the maximum allowed filesize of 24000 bytes -Sahwoolo Etoophie (mods@ccpgames.com) |
Lucus Ranger
Gallente
Kaimetsu
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:35:00 -
[24] - Quote
Great post 
/Prince of Darkness at your service..
 |
R0ot
InNova Tech Inc
Xelas Alliance
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:36:00 -
[25] - Quote
Edited by: R0ot on 04/04/2007 16:33:15
Remember you lads running a muck down in fountain, good times 
EDIT: Yeah give them a reskin
 |
DeMundus
The Establishment
Establishment
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:37:00 -
[26] - Quote
Go read Ange1, sums up our adventures over the last year nicely - lets see what the 2'nd year of Hera will bring, since it has some smaller siblings flying with it now
 Abandon all hope But take care of teh cake!11 - Immy |
Goberth Ludwig
eXceed Inc.
INVICTUS.
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:38:00 -
[27] - Quote
Happy birthday Hera =)
- Gob
|
Klezz
FinFleet
Lotka Volterra
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:40:00 -
[28] - Quote
Gratz to Hera 
And i have also had the pleasure of meeting her , needless to
explain the outcome of that meeting .
Lets hope Rawthorm have more luck on his Ign0raMus char and the Nyx,
that what the Rawthorm char had with a 100% Navy fitted CNR in Fountain
Some years back.
 |
Buxaroo
Constructive Influence
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:44:00 -
[29] - Quote
That was a pretty good reading for my lunch break man.
I was always wondering about the history of The Establishment and the mothership. I am also glad that you were not afraid to show the mistakes you had made with it as well. Kudos for that, not many do that anymore.
Oh, and seeing you guys in local when I was messing about in Empire for the last 2 weeks and doing some missions, I took it as a sign to get my happy as back to 0.0 where I belong
"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai |
Nyana
|
Posted - 2007.04.04 16:47:00 -
[30] - Quote
Great post. Happy birthday
|
|
| |
Reply to Topic |
| Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 :: one page |
| First page | Previous page | Next page | Last page |