Intergalactic Summit

The thought of you fantasizing about me precipitates within me a violent nausea more crippling than the one I got from drowning my sorrows in Hak'len.

I don't envy your inner torment over the circumstances that led to your actions, but understand what you are going through. I can only offer you advice through experience.

There is more honour in acting in accordance with your own convictions, doing what you fundamentally believe is right even when others would challenge you for doing so, than towing the party line and impotently bearing witness to injustice and wrong doing.

I heard Seriphyn Inhonores ran like a kitten chased by hounds after scoring the kill. Smart with that much Navy Mega on the field, especially after they chewed through, what two Oneiros and one Exequror before turning their guns on Andreus? Should have been faster on his feet at his home. Imprisonment is such an inconvenience.

I'm pretty surprised that Andreus lost his ship. Apparently he is more valorous in space than in person. I expected him to leave faster than Seriphyn. I guess there should be no surprise about valor in space since there is little danger of permanent damage in there, well for a capsuleer.

It's nice to see the FIO at work again.

You have been Released on Bail ? Or have the Charges been Dropped ?

Aww I must have hit a nerve.

Then again I am sure I would be pretty upset too if I let the Black Eagles run rampant over my fleet and destroy my charge. I suppose that is hardly your fault though, more the fault of whatever FC you had. Seems like a pretty poor idea to have logistics close enough to the main fleet to come under fire from such 'long ranged' ships like Navy Megathrons. Keep those things alive and might have made quite the difference against the FIO 'gents.' Maybe if you were a better Captain you would have thought of such things and suggested to your FC.

Even so, your fleet had what looks like the worst group of captains imaginable. Since we are talking about poor captaining... Well looking at the lost fits, A hype without any tackle and only one large armor rep? or how about both Oneiros with very little to no tank, OR without a prop mod? The best fit in the fleet, arguably, is the Exequor, followed closely with the lost friendly Navy Mega.

Ahh yes, the ole cry of putting the safety of one's crew first. Clearly that is the way fight. "Well I better not stick around with all this antimatter getting tossed around... it wouldn't be safe!" Such insight. Maybe being more concerned with your escorting job and less with your own.

I never left my hole. Beauty of the IGS.

Logan, had you left your hole and been present, you would have known that the fleet was forced to take the gate straight into the teeth of those Navy Mega's in an attempt to evacuate the Freighter carrying the intel on the supposed illegal weaponary. Meaning the logistics did not have the time to get to stand off range before being heavily engaged & webbed, nor the luxury of moving freely due to the need to stay in range of the whole fleet which had just come through a gate.
In no way was this the fault of the FC in question, who did a grand job in holding the fleet together & fighting in the face of such a trap. I would happily fly with him again even expecting such a situation.

As to fits, well, some of us will hopefully learn. Others of us will refine.

But next time, do feel free to come along with the fleet, & give us your wisdom from the virtue of first hand, rather than backseat admiraling in hindsight.

If I had showed up, the reception at my presence wouldn't have been listening to my advice it would have been both sides firing on me. Though it would have been fun to rep the Navy Mega you guys killed just to have robbed a kill.

I'm sure you know, even as you say that Logistics "didn't have the time" that the statement is complete garbage. I don't know what exactly happened but let me break down what is always a good idea.

Scenario 1. You jump into the Navy mega's, your logi's hold cloak or jump in after the rest of the fleet, and then move to range, alternatively your logi's jump in, warp out and then warp back in at range to appropriately apply reps

Scenario 2. Your fleet warps to the Navy mega's on a gate, your logi's should be warping in at range, not at 0 to a bunch of waiting blaster ships. And definitely not in the midst of the rest of the fleet.

Scenario 3. You have appropriate fits and you follow advice in 1 and 2 and then you realize how much more effective your fleet is as a result.

I mean these aren't cutting edge or advanced tactics. More along the lines of common sense. I suppose I should just stop talking there.


"Bravery is the ability to act properly even when scared half to death"

In this case acting properly would be deploying forces to correctly combat the situation, not flail about and lose not only the fleet but also the objective.

Don't confuse bravado, stupidity, mistakes and death as bravery. That under-vaules bravery. Instead consider bravery as taking measured and effective action while under fire, even if it means the loss of your ship, crew or life. Not that the last one holds much fear for us. Bravery isn't fruitlessly and foolishly throwing away resources in an ineffective effort to accomplish a goal.

I'm free now, it's cool. Topic's over.

Not everyone keeps a soft clone, mister Khamez. Nor is everyone so impatient and childish as to be unwilling to spend a few days in confinement.

When you commit a crime, not only should you permit yourself to be detained, but you should make every effort to turn yourself in. It is the proper and respectable thing to do. Just because we may have the ability to avoid incarceration and punishment, does not mean it is right to do so.

I agree entirely, sir. Bravery is none of the things in your annotated list. And, yes, it is indeed quite the storm outside.