Of particular note is the fact that FXR only represented 20 of the roughly 250 pilots on the losing side the bulk of the heavy lifting was done by Pandemic Horde and Northern Coalition. Though much smaller in scale than some of the giant fights that have taken place recently, the battle ended in victory for the Imperium pilots, who destroyed over 11b ISK worth of ships at the cost of slightly more than 5b of their own losses. In kcolor’s words, “Hostiles pretended to commit, saw our numbers, and jumped back out.” Left defenseless, the Fortizar was pounded by the subcapital fleets and sent into its final timer.Ī short time later, a hostile fleet formed up to defend an Infrastructure Hub in the FXR system of E-Z2ZX. With cynosural fields functioning in the system again, the defenders and their allies quickly cynoed in carriers and supercapitals in the effort to defend the Fortizar’s timer.įleet pings continued to go out all during downtime, and by the time Tranquility came back online, an entire additional Baltec fleet had filled up. The attacking Baltecs had to steer clear of the titan’s sharp teeth while attacking the jammer, but finally did succeed in incapacitating the jammer a few minutes before downtime. A significant hostile fleet formed up to play defense, including an FXR titan “sticking its nose out of the jammer POS,” in kcolor’s words. After an initial failed attempt to incapacitate the system’s cynosural jammer using bombers, the fleet reshipped into the Imperium’s popular Baltec battleship doctrine, augmented by Jackdaws and support craft. According to kcolor, an Imperium FC who was present at the battle, French Connexion’s staging Fortizar was due to enter its second timer just before downtime today.
The day’s first action took place in territory controlled by French Connexion (FXR), a francophone alliance who have recently been active in small-gang PvP against Imperium pilots.
As the conclusion of a week that saw Imperial Legacy take out not one but two Keepstars, the Imperium fielded a series of Sunday fleets that saw them down three recently anchored Astrahuses owned by Circle-Of-Two, and also putting French ConneXion’s staging Fortizar – market and all – into its final timer.