Day Four: Max CTA Be There
Period Basis At approximately 1600 the IHUB in system of XZ-SKZ came out of its reinforcement timer. This system is quite important as it is in jump range of almost the entirety of Period Basis excluding the westernmost constellation and the southernmost constellation of Delve, granting huge control of the entire region and establishing a beachhead into Delve. The Imperium assembled a Baltec (Megathron/Bhaalgorn battleship) fleet of over 200 ships including 87 Megathrons, 39 Bhaalgorns and 28 Guardians along with over a dozen HAW dreadnoughts and several FAXes. Under fleet commanders Apple Pear and Alfius Togra, they set up on the CJF-1P gate in XZ-SKZ. CJF-1P is the regional gate in Stain that Legacy forces had to come through. The Legacy forces included a whooping 385 Munnins and 18 Cerberus from Invidia Gloriae Comes with 79 Scimitar logistical support, 55 Machariels from Siberian Squads with their fleet commander Hanzo Viper, 11 Claymore command ships and tactical destroyer/frigate wing composed of 40 jackdaws, 32 crucifiers, and 14 Harpy assault frigates. This is the first time Fraternity, the once bitter enemy of Legacy Coalition, was on-grid offensively as they, along with members of Brave, Evictus and Warped Intentions composed most of the Munnin fleet. Legacy’s opening move was a bombing run that attempted to clear some of the sentry drones the Megathrons had dropped. The Confessor tactical destroyers sitting next to the megathrons cleared most of the most incoming bomb waves. Combined with the HAW revelations perched above the gate and the sniping sentry drones from the megathron fleet, the gate was surrounded with attackers' wrecks as they struggled to get out of the bubbles. Despite that, Hanzo’s Machariel and the IGC Cerberus fleet slipped past and started work on entosising the node. Legacy would pay for that node losing 21.6b isk over 234 ships compared to Imperium forces losing only 4.5b over 43 ships. Concurrently, the bulk of TEST Alliance’s forces were next door in 35-JWD, next door to another Imperium fleet in 0-NTIS. TEST was bringing over 3 fleets worth of ships with 538 being Munnins and Eagles and 25 command ships under fleet commanders ShutUpAndShave and Manfred Sideous. Anticipating an extremely large fleet, The Imperium had placed over 100 carriers - archons and thanatos on the in-gate to the system. Once again, the Legacy fleet jumped through and moved past the gate camp of carrier fighters, paying approximately 10b in heavy assault cruisers to do so. Despite that, they would trade more evenly, losing 18.2b over 153 ships to Imperium’s 18.9b over 127 ships. Surprisingly, despite the large concentrations of forces on the gates, then nodes were mostly free of Imperium forces, allowing Legacy to completely kill the node a little over an hour later. Around 1730 Legacy dropped their own IHUB and completed the entosis making the first system change in the war. The overall fight for the constellation was about even, with Legacy losing 38.6b over 359 ships compared to Imperium which lost 29.2b over 252 ships.
Fountain Northern Coalition flipped the system I-CUVX in Hydra constellation of Fountain around the same time as the fight happening in Period Basis. A large Pandemic Horde munin fleet pushes off a small fleet from The Bastion over the IHUB and wins the objective losing 210m isk to Imperium losses of 2.9b. The IHUB timer in the system D4KU-5 went uncontested and regenerated back from vulnerability.
Minor Skirmishes
Imperium loses two Ansiblex Jump Bridges, the first one in U-HYZN in Querious and the second in 1-SMEB in Delve. The structures were killed undefended.
Imperium bring two fleets, one fleet of 250 Munin and Sacrilege heavy assault cruisers with support along with five Revelation dreadnoughts under fleet commander kocicek kill a Caldari Control Tower POS belonging to Black Omega Security in TCAG-3 in Period Basis.
A large Imperium Jackdaw fleet engages with a TEST gate camp fleet on the TCAG-4 gate in G-M4GK. They kill the fighters of the TEST carriers losing only approximately 270m to TEST’s losses of 1.1b.
Pandemic Legion loses a Ragnarok Titan moving through in the system of Maseera in Arida by the infamous titan and supercarrier group LowSechnaya Sholupen.
Goonswarm loses four Amarr Control Tower POSs - 3 in Paragon Soul in 5AQ-5H, JI-K5H and ZBY-01 and 1 in Esoteria in HAJ-DQ.
Daily Campaign Metrics For the start date of July 8th to July 9th, the attacking Legacy and Pandafam Coalitions lost approximately 89.5b isk over 1596 ships compared to the defending Imperium losses of 119.9b isk over 1160 ships lost.