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Ugleb
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.09.25 10:17:00 -
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I've had some of my best and blackest days since leaving the academy over recent weeks. We've had glorious victories and have taken some deep wounds, sometimes on the same day. This has been one of the most vicious and focused conflicts in capsuleer warfare. It may lack the sheer numbers of some deep space wars but this month has seen what was considered a strategically minor area of space draw the focus of the galaxy. New technologies have been testing to breaking point, a truly epic battle of wills has played out.
I think that the war was effectively deadlocked for several weeks. Neither side could hurt the other hard enough quickly enough to really decide it. In the early weeks we were on the backfoot against superior numbers with every pirate organisation in the area worth mentioning lining up against us in unprecedented co-operation (I have to credit EST with pulling off something special there, there has never been a pirate coalition like it IMO) and we saw groups quite foreign to the area such as Veto coming across. Over time our allies and old friends gathered and came to help defend the symbol of Matari freedom, Unity Station. To all we are eternally grateful and honoured.
In the last couple of weeks I think the war reached a rough equilibrium. One side had dominance here, the other there, and it all shifted around. This could have gone on for another month until someone brought in more forces to tip the balance, and both sides did. Muffins Of Mayhem arrived in the latter stages and things tilted the other way for a little while. SMACK were hired briefly to tip the balance log enough to take out a few pos, MC were finally brought in the bring an end to the war.
On the issue of lag, I think it screwed both sides pretty equally. SMACK were hired to help kill two large POS. Both were put into reinforced but when it came time to kill them a GM ordered an 8hr ceasefire in 9UY to prevent server crashes. EST were able to rep both pos and we lost all of our invested effort and advantage. At other times we probably came out of node deaths better off than the enemy. I don't think it's fair to say that lag won the war, it crippled both sides offensives at times and which is one reason the mercs were brought in. Quick decisive battles were the only way to end it.
As monumental as the past month has been I look forward to a return to our true mission - the liberation or our people. Soon the Amarr will have us to fear once more. We come for our people!
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Ugleb
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.09.25 10:53:00 -
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 Originally by: Eddie Gordo
might want to edit your post to replace SMACK with SMASH there Ugleb 
Accurate summary though.
We paid for smack? Think I've said too much... 
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Ugleb
Khumatari Holdings
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.09.25 14:07:00 -
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Originally by: ElCoCo
Looks like at least you had some fun. Nice. 
Btw, when the nodes crashed during the sieges, where your pilots placed "randomly" around the system after logging back in, as if they hadn't spent any ammo, but were missing drones left behind and actual strontium consumed? 
The pos we were hitting regenerated its hp back up the point when it had come out of reinforced. We had to kill its shields 3 times before we killed it.
I found that my guns re-loaded to an ammo type I had unloaded before the crash. Which was interesting. All hail the temporal anomalies of 9uy!
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