Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Day One of the Invasion (29/April/2008)

Invasion of the newly established CommonWealth fortress galaxy B56 began on the 27th of April, 2008, at 12:30 PM server time when over 200 million worth of ships from the guild Our Wealth Too were seen inbound to B56, with an LZ at (B56:49:81:11).

The first major engagement took place on the 29th of April, 2008, at 7:07 AM server time at the LZ Chernobyl (B56:49:81:11), a base controlled originally by the player known as Space Jim, who was a member of CommonWealth. However, as it turns out, Space Jim was a spy for the OW invaders, and as soon as the action started to heat up, he showed his true colors and switched sides, renaming himself Benedict Arnold and his base Saratoga. The first invader to land at the newly renamed Saratoga base was Evalia with 31000 fighters, 5000 heavy bombers, 3000 cruisers, and 500 carriers. He was hit immediately by YukiKashimaru with 20000 fighters, then by shaunthegamer with 31814 fighters, then by Ufal with another 20000 fighters, then by Chippy by yet another 20000 fighters and by .ЯдκÆ with 21851 fighters. These fighter drops brought Evalia down to 2773.4 cruisers and 273.4 carriers. Following this, YukiKashimaru hit him with a Leviathan in 3 attacks and reduced his fleet further to 1766 cruisers, which fled to the neighbouring system at Dune (B56:49:81:40). There was some confusion about what his intent was, but Evalia soon recalled his fleet to the LZ at Saratoga (B56:49:81:11), where it was promptly finished off by YukiKashimaru with his Leviathan and shaunthegamer with his fleet of destroyers. Total debris at Saratoga: 956304 credits.

Several hours later, additional OW forces began to land at Saratoga. ┼ r ª╘ landed with 220344 Fighters, 20499 Heavy Bombers, 5511 Corvette, 10744 Destroyer, 15999 Cruiser, 725 Carriers, 4251 Heavy Cruiser, 126 Battleship, and 287 Fleet Carrier. He was hit right away by Battalion and Chippy_, but their fighter drops only took out a very small portion of his fleet. ┼ r ª╘ then proceeded to attack and destroy YukiKashimaru’s fleet at Saratoga, including his Leviathan as he was not online at the moment and unable to move it out of harm's way... As of the 29th of April at 3:17 PM Server Time, we no longer have eyes at Saratoga. The rest of the OW invasion fleet will be landing today and tomorrow, and we no longer have any position there. Now we wait for them to spread out and begin the full-scale attack on our fortress of B56...

The 29th proved to be a busy day, as more OW fleets arrived at the LZ Saratoga (B56:49:81:11) and began spreading out to engage us in other systems. With the CW fleets scattering to avoid being caught napping at any one location, the OW invaders were able to gain occupation of several CW bases in the vicinity of the LZ with relatively little opposition. One of the first to fall was Baleares ID (B56:55:35:20) owned by Snot2000 (BLC). Following this, at (B56:55:18:20), Bowtie Bob (BCL) lost a raiding force of 2500 corvettes to Dinkydogo who hit him with a fleet of 200 battleships. Then Dinkydogo hit DΣLTÅ at (B56:55:18:20) with those same 200 battleships and destroyed DΣLTÅ's fleet of 2015 destroyers. Evalia got back into the action again at the LZ Saratoga and caught emperor quintus off guard, destroying a small fleet he had moved in there.

At 6:00 PM server time [~OW2~] Chaz arrived at Bowtie Bob (BCL)'s level 7 Jump Gate base BT-020-J at (B56:46:38:22) with a force of 68608 fighters and 14403 cruisers. With this he hit holy cow's fleet of 2072 fighters, 684 bombers, 184 ion bombers, 4 frigates, 20 ion frigates, 566 cruisers, 1 carriers, 28 heavy cruisers, and 12 battleships that was stationed there and completely destroyed it. Immediately on the heels of this attack, at 6:01 PM server time, Juggernaut landed a strike force there with 97490 fighters, 7900 destroyers, 11660 cruisers, 3353 heavy cruisers, and 626 battleships and hit §ŦЯдΰβŽ™'s fleet of 43700 fighters, 7000 recyclers, 8000 cruisers, and 200 carriers, completely destroying it. A few minutes later at 6:09 PM server time Mustakraken landed a fleet there as well. His 170364 fighters, 569 destroyers, 7350 frigates, 5 scouts, 6934 cruisers, 100 carriers, 1620 heavy cruisers, 72 battleships, and 328 fleet carriers destroyed Bowtie Bob (BCL)'s reduced defenses of 9632 fighters, 5 battleships, 10 pshields and 10 prings. Mustakraken lost 333620 credits worth of ships in the attack, including all his carriers, scouts, destroyers, and a good number of fleet carriers and battleships, making the attack quite unprofitable economically, however he did occupy the base, negating us the use of its jump gate and providing a foot hold for OW...

At 6:18 PM server time Dinkydogo hit Jordan Pulsar at Phase-Shift (B56:55:75:40) with 45268 fighters and 116 cruisers, losing practically nothing against Jordan's already damaged photon turrets and pshields. He conquered the base and made a pillage of 18875 credits. Meanwhile. Bowtie Bob (BCL) began delivering fighter spawns at BT-020-J (B56:46:38:22) to annoy the OW occupiers and make their stay unprofitable... The fighting continued at BT-020-J (B56:46:38:22) for some time as .ЯдκÆ and Chippy_ joined the fight against Mustakraken who was joined on his side by Sphinx™ and Mara Jade. These battles lasted for approximately one hour, and ended up adding over 7017181 credits in debris at BT-020-J (B56:46:38:22) as of 7:15 PM server time. With more CW and OW fleets inbound, however, these numbers are sure to increase...

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