Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

This is intended. It is there to prevent people from using Bastion for powerful docking games.

This is intended. It is there to prevent people from using Bastion for powerful docking games.

But Bastion Mode doesn't require strontium.

But Bastion Mode doesn't require strontium.

As its not fully energized, it does not get used up like in a POS. Hence it just gets recycled in a process unnoticeable to the ship's pilot. Sort of like how fuel for ship propulsion and power never need be worried about, its all handled behind the scenes.

Furthermore, how would you nano-atomize Strontium Clatherates? If you'd atomize it into particles smaller than Atoms, you're basically using fission, which by its very definition leaves you with different elements. Same goes for 'catalyzed'. This suggests a chemical reaction which would also leave you with different chemicals.

Strontium Clatherate is merely being atomized, excited through electromagnetic polarity field shifts (basically using a microwave) using all the energy from your power core. It is then pumped through your defensive systems where it transfers all the energy. Once it has lost it's superfluous energy, it reverts to it's original state. It can then be excited again. This is a closed system, much like the old refrigerators used to have. Rumors of these systems leaking radiation into the ship are therefore completely unfounded.

Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

Dat lore.

On the other hand, why not fry me and my crew? The crew is replaceable with isk and I have clones...

Your cloning unit only really triggers in response to the outer hull of the capsule being cracked. The burst of radiation would could you without it ever triggering.

Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

No really, you're actually mechanically denying real against-the-odds PvPers from jumping these into gatecamps, and a) moving back to gate while having any EHP & active tank worth a damn, b) now even dropping aggro while tanking??! You really won't let a Kronos/Vargur do this, won't let people upgrade from Hypes & Maelstroms? Ships that people will almost never actually give half a chance to keep a lock or cap level with, because they're actually useful in their tiny niche against a few ships, yet putting a 1bil T2 hull on the line might be the factor to persuade people to roll the dice and go for it. Now pvpers wanting to attempt to get that fight have to try coast the distance and tank the damage without any Bastion bonuses?

If battleships need help, then that help should come in the form of something that helps them win fights. The more game mechanics that encourage tanking out a timer + docking up/jumping, the more that you need a blob's worth of DPS to kill anything.

Tell me CCP, how many Dreads need undock, not siege, and simple fire 1 shot at the dead stationary battleship to alpha it? How many arty fit Nags, if it's actually more than 1, with selectable damage type? Oh yeah and cynos & covert cynos exist too.
How about they do siege, from 100% cap and in dock range, and only get a 1minute weapons timer, so can dock after the remaining 3.5mins of siege runs down, while they have plenty of EHP? Oh and they can refit off of an unaggressed carrier that's also immune. These are ships of comparable worth and SP demand.

He makes a point here. And I always said that considering the price and skill requirements of Marauders, they could use a little more "awesome".

This is intended. It is there to prevent people from using Bastion for powerful docking games.

That makes sense, otherwise people would enter bastion mode when they want to deaggress. However, weapon timer not clearing when you lose your ship and end up in a pod (as it used to be before Retribution) makes little sense as the only thing it does is forcing you to warp around between celestials for 60 seconds. The only exception to that is when you're in a bubble but also in docking/jumping range.

no big change here, there was always a session change timer preventing you to dock / jump when you got killed on gate / station, this is why the first thing one teach to a new pvp pilot is to warp out when killed on gate / station instead of trying to dock / jump

It *is* a big change, session change was 10 seconds IIRC, not the whole minute.

People ITT ignoring bump mechanics

Even if the aggression timer would only start when bastion is activated, without having it refresh, whilst in bastion you will be bumped away from any gate or station in range and get webbed and scrammed there. Nobody will run circles around you, allowing you to stay in dock range or gate jump range whilst tanking insane amounts of damage.

Thus this timer refresh changes nothing. If you jump your marauder in a gatecamp and bastion up, you are committed 100%, weapons timer or not.

..some great lore..

Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

I'm sure I speak for the entie POS workers union when I demand a full scale investigation on the effects of long term exposure to atomised strontium type hardeners on our clone's health.

At first I was like "That would mean you could have invulnerable AI controlled ships!!"

but then I was like "Oh wow, that is the definition of Concord"

Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

Bastion Mode reinforces your tank by pumping nano-atomized Strontium Clatherates through the relevant modules, after running it through a process where it's excited and catalyzed, thus boosting your defenses. It's a process similar to how POS shields are rendered invulnerable. However, the stuff is immensely toxic and radioactive, and so standard automated docking protocols prevent you from entering the confines of a station until it's dispersed.

Incidentally, that's why you can't achieve total invulnerability, too. While it's no concern with a POS tower, the exposure within a ship would fry you and your crew, and besides that, the equipment to excite it enough is too large to fit in a battleship hull anyway.

Now I can see the reasoning behind the weapon timer being applied, somewhat. But why the extra minute? Wouldn't it be enough to simply cause a 60 second weapon timer upon activation of the module, instead of constantly refreshing it every second?