Day One Pt II: Sir Molle Sends His Regards
Corrections in previous post:
Hophib was misspelled ‘Hophip’
Sentence in introduction was rewritten to clarify and correct grammar ‘announced the breaking of the non-aggression pact or NIP between Legacy Coalition and The Imperium would formally end on July 5th’ → ‘announced the ending of the non-aggression pact or NIP between Legacy Coalition and The Imperium. The NIP would formally end on July 5th.’
Fixed incorrect keepstar onlining time from Sunday July 6th 2200 to the correct Sunday July 5th 2200
Adding missed BR in the Fountain and Aridia section as well as put more detail in that was given later
Sunday July 5th could go down in history as Talkshow Sunday as more than several alliance figureheads appeared on various news and media outlets to drive the narrative for their sides. Among the notable include Fu1crum, a high ranking leader in Army of Mangos and Noraus, the alliance executor of Fraternity. Both entities have a past conflict that lasted for a year that was encompassed in the 2019 Extinction War PT II with Legacy Coalition fighting over the southern regions against Winter Coalition. Pandoralica, strategic FC from The Initiative appeared on the Sunday episode of Talking in Stations, supported by TiS Senior Engineer and Executive, TheMacCloud. TEST Alliance leaders Progodlegend resurrected his Twitch channel to give a state of the coalition address, Vily appeared on a special Sunday edition of TrashTalkTuesday and RonUSMC, strategic fleet commander, hosted a nine hour stream looking at various points of the conflict. Here is the recap of the war from both sides for the second part of Day One.
Multiple Skirmishes The day continues on as multiple fleets from both Imperium and Legacy + Allies take shots in the following regions of descending alphabetical order. Please note that this by no means every fight, just anything I could find that was over 1billion in losses. There might be overlap between the previous tally as battle reports finalize and timezones change.
The Initiative forms a Munnin and Jackdaw fleet composition, augmented with Lokis and support frigates continues their harassment of Panfam staging in Hophib. The fleet, well suited to fast fighting, deals 2.5b in damage, killing 67 ships of various sizes and cyno ships losing only one command destroyer totalling 108mil in losses.
Returning approximately 3 hours later a similar fleet led by Dark Shines, continues the aggression, killing approximately 2.1bill over 66 ships while losing 1.8bill losing 15 ships.
A fleet of Caracal-class cruisers from Brave Collective killed a gang of stealth bombers from Imperium as they attempted a bombing run in HED-GP. Imperium lost 1.3b and 34 stealth bombers and 1 Sabre to 364mil and 27 ships from Brave.
Five hours later at 1600, a 130 member Imperium Ferox-class Battlecruiser fleet rocked through 4-07MU, killing a Cormorant-class destroyer gang from Legion of xXDeathXx which lost approx 760mil and 38 ships. It is unclear if the Ferox fleet was reinforcing a structure when they pushed off the XIX fleet.
A three-way went sideways for Panfam as they met the wrong end of a smartbombing group of Proteus-class strategic cruisers led by Goonswarm strategic FC John Hartley in the Goonswarm capital system of 1DQA-1. The remaining ships and capsules were killed by a stealth bombing run by a small neutral gang of Fwaming Dragons.
Two kitchen sink gangs - one from the wormhole corporation, Odin’s Call and an Imperium fleet - collided in K-6K16. The battle was narrowly in the favor of Odin’s Call with 1.9b in isk over 12 ships destroyed while losing 1.3b over 10 ships.
The region of Esoteria saw multiple smaller scale skirmishes throughout the later part of the 5th. For clarity, the battle report follows fighting in three constellations: the constellation of KUSW-P which directly follows U-WLT9, the entrance into Stain from Esoteria, 3WN-1T, the constellation that holds the D-PNP9 system, one of the capital staging systems of Legacy Coaltion and finally E-ILCH which is the constellation directly following JI-K5H, the entrance into Paragon Soul. Legacy Coalition lost approximately 3.7b isk over 65 ships to an amalgamation of fleets from The Initiative and Good Sax altercations. The latter lost 2.9b from 91 ships.
The majority of fighting took place in D4KU-5, the entrance system of Fountain from Hophib in Aridia. The first fight at 1300 saw two fleets, one from The Initiative clashing with Panfam and TEST, both in heavy Muunin and support based compositions. The fight went to The Initiative, who killed 3.4b and 35 ships lost 1.9b of their own 10. The second fight at 2000 was more even with Legacy bringing a Talwar-class destroyer gang and The Initiative with a handful of Muunins and support ships. INIT lost 1.1b over 16 ships while the attackers lost 962m over 18 ships.
ShutUpandShave led a Muunin and support fleet in O-MCZR, gaining 2.5b in kills over a Kikimora-class destroyer stuka fleet. The TEST fleet lost 977mil over 7 ships. He then traveled two constellations over to O4T-Z5 and O-97ZG to fight against a smaller Imperium Jackdaw-class tactical destroyer gang. It was unclear what the initial catalyst was but the entire Imperium gang was wiped out, losing 3.1b and 47 ships to TEST’s 1.5b and 10 ships lost.
Probably the biggest fight of the later half of Day One was an op to reinforce the Goonswarm Ansiblex Jump Bridge in TCAG-3. The Imperium flew a heavy Baltec (Megathron and Bhaalgorn-class battleships) with Jackdaws and support frigates against a Muunin fleet stacked with Basilisk-class Logistic cruisers and Claymore-class command ships from Legacy. The jump bridge was successfully reinforced with Imperium losing 28.3b over 120 ships to Legacy’s losses of 3.6b over 26 ships.
The Imperium have some allies across the regional gate of Period Basis into Stain. The Stain Russians including groups such as Ferrata Victrix and Good Sax, evicted from the south in The Winter War of 2017, are set up to be quite a thorn in Legacy’s side. Reports have come in that the TEST fortizar in 9U6-SV has been reinforced to its final timer. Setting up a gate camp in LGK-VP with Dead Terrorists, they took 6.3b in kills from Legacy and Fi.Re (Final Reunion) Coalitions while only managing 282mill in losses.
Brave Collective and Evictus. lost 2.4b over 120 ships in a caracal heavy fleet in OGY-6D. Engaging them was an Imperium Jackdaw fleet that traded 550mil over 10 ships to them.
Pandemic Family Supercapital Fleet The Pandamic Family supercapital fleet was seen leaving G-QTSD in Etherium Reach at the beginning of their 2+ hour journey south to aid Legacy. Bringing over 200 Avatar, 110 Erebus, 46 Ragnarok and 7 Levithan-class Titans as well as two Molok and six Vanquisher-class faction titans, they are supported by over 300 Apostle and 15 Minokawa-class Force Auxiliary ships. In addition, 275 Nyx-class and six of their faction cousins, the Vendetta-class,supercarriers were brought as well.
FAT-6P Keepstar Onlines Successfully While some were unsure what would happen given the bold opening move by Legacy Coalition, all went well as the keepstar anchored, repaired and came online successfully. Vily, alliance executor of TEST Alliance was the first titan to cyno onto the new keepstar while it was still repairing with 4 minutes to go.
Keepstar Transfer, Second Keepstar and Sotiyo Anchors in FAT-6P At approximately 2300utc, the new keepstar was transferred to the Northern Coalition., who immediately set the new keepstar’s name to ‘Sir Molle Sends His Regard’. This name is significant as the system FAT-6P was one of the last holdouts of Band of Brothers, led by Sir Molle, in the 2006 Great War which saw BoB disbanded by a high level director who turned for Goonswarm. The ‘descendents’ of which are back 14 years later for that vengeance as well as many others inflicted over the last few years. At approximately the same time, a new keepstar was anchored several hundred km behind that one as well as a Sotiyo-class engineering complex.
Stagings
Multiple Timers
5V-BJI - 2x INIT Fortizar, Raitaru and Athanor Unanchoring, time unknown
JD-TYH TEST Pharolux Cyno Beacon reinforced, Monday July 6th 1800 UTC
35-JWD - GSF Fortizar anchoring, Tuesday July 7th 0629UTC
4-07MU GSF Astrahus reinforced, Tuesday July 7th 1630 UTC
TCAG-3 GSF Ansiblex reinforced, Tuesday July 7th 0152UTC
8QT-H4 GSF Fortizar anchoring, Thursday July 9th 1845UTC