EVE Search - The silent Incursion

Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:

Joshua Foiritain wrote:

Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:

If I have any criticism of the enemy side, it is to say that they ought not to trust the people whom they blew up the carrier of an hour before, in the future, to be forgiving.[

We have no need for Shadow Cartel to be forgiving. The Angel Cartel informed us one of their fleets was under attack from a carrier so we lend a hand and destroyed it. If Shadow Cartel wants to avenge it they are welcome to do so.

Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:

Looking at the recent combat records for Coreli corporation and their allies in the Reynire system is this a call to arms out of dubious philanthropy or simply sheer ineptitude?

The Reynire fight took place after this call and there was no ineptitude involved (Well apart from fielding Ashimmu's). We destroyed the TSF customs office after which scouts reported a Shadow Cartel fleet. As our primary purpose behind our low-sec campaign is training our pilots and new fleet commanders we decided to engage them.

After killing a rapier and losing a few tech 1 ships we ran into a stalemate with neither side being able to break each other logistics and as we only brought a very limited amount of strategic assets into the area we had no way of escalating while we knew Shadow Cartel could. So the call was made to pull out, abandon those tackled on field and save the rest. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose.

Unfortunately we forgot about actually replacing the TSF customs office so they sneakily dropped a new one. Oops

Shadow Cartel was there before you attacked the POCO, Hulemand. We noticed you 'shooting' at each other in an attempt to bait us out. We also noticed that you all appeared to be shooting at each other with one gun each.

We made the determination that you were working together, either through preplanned co-ordination or on the fly improvisation. We found this odd because you HAD just destroyed their carrier. Either Shadow Cartel was being forgiving in trying to get a fight, or you guys had just set up the most expensive misdirection campaign I have ever seen.

Regardless, we made a count of the ships on field arrayed between yourselves, Shadow Cartel, and Snuff Box, and determined that we could not break the repping power of 19 guardians without significantly more investment, so the the decision was made to let the POCO go and adapt to other tactics.

When you went off to shoot at another POCO, we put another up in the place of the one lost, at which point we learned that the Shadow Cartel fleet had begun shooting you in earnest. Then the so called 'good fights' started going up in local, and someone exclaimed that their carrier had been avenged.

Then everyone started to filter out of the system, as per normal.

So, you guys won the battle, certainly. I am not going to claim that TS-F won this particular fight, because we did not. However, with a few more defeats like this one, I think we will be sitting very nicely.

For the record, Hulemand, you spent roughly 200 million ISK per minute keeping that POCO down. You could destroy every single Customs Office we own and still not cover the losses you incurred in your victory over a single one. I would be seriously rethinking whether you actually consider this fight worth the effort.