Live Events Discussion

Earlier today, Sukuuvestaa Corporation, following a series of negotations with other corporations and the Gallente Federation, launched a freighter convoy carrying relief supplies to Caldari Prime.

I'm proud to say that despite interference from the Templis Dragonaurs and capsuleer ships, the convoy was safely escorted to its destination and back by warships of the Peace and Order Unit, and a capsuleer fleet led by Grideris. While this will undoubtedly have repercussions in the Caldari political system, particularly since Tibus Heth himself opposed the convoy (instead demanding that the supplies go to the war effort), for today, the civilians of Caldari Prime have enough food and medicine to survive.

Thanks to the bravery of the freighter pilots and the Peace and Order commanders, and the combat prowess of the capsuleers of the defense fleet, the truce and safe passage brokered by six out of the eight Caldari megacorps are intact, and more lives will be saved over the coming days on the surface of Caldari Prime.


--Jace Errata
Incendria

EDIT (OOC): while this is an IC post, I feel it belongs here as this was a live event - I was just in an IC-y mood. Feel free to go OOC discussing it. Anyone have any thoughts on why the Caldari Navy didn't show (quite a few of us expected them to come and enforce Heth's directive, rather than the Dragonaurs)?

Edit 2: I can't spell Sukuuvestaa

I'd say because the Caldari Navy is funded by all the Eight Mega-corporations. Not just Heth/Kaalakiota. So the Navy needs to be careful with what it does.

The perspective has certainly shifted. It now seems Heth opposes the Big Eight and thus the State itself. He's slowly becoming the odd one out. Quite a well deserved shift for Ishukone who was the pariah until now.

Stand-in?
You mean there's a difference between the two groups? When did that happen?

I assume this was scripted so it could have gone either way? The supply ships could have been turned back, rather than getting through?

Initially when I undocked with a couple of the Peace & Order pilots prior to the rest of the event actors logging in, I thought that given the number of people who claim to be Patriots who were present, the Dragonaurs might hold the blockade.

When I realized just how many logistics were locking up the Peace & Order characters though, I was pretty convinced that they'd clear the docking ramps and the convoy would get out. I'll never underestimate the hate for Heth again

That said, if the Dragonaurs had held the field, the convoy wouldn't have happened afterwards.

Funnily enough, the initial plan was just to have the freighters head to the Federation Navy station in Luminaire given how much of a nightmare quadboxing freighters is, but after seeing 100+ people turn up to join the escort, I just thought "ah, what the hell" and decided to go to the planet, then make you guys escort them all the way back over to Yashunen for the hell of it.

i have word from the caldari loyalist Mercenaries that due to that convoy succeding they are now being pushed back on all fronts due to the hidden weaponry that was smuggled in. congradulation, we could very well lose our homeworld due to these traiotors "aid"

Proof?

I am sorry, but what led you to think that the Patriots liked the Provist, especially the Dragonaurs?

I would say that this is one of the more successful live events.
It was scripted to go either way,
It went a way CCP did not expect but was quite willing to accept,
It was not broken by player actions and turned into a mess,
Everyone had fun.

The only thing that would make events like this better is if they happened in my time zone (US West coast).

Well, there's a few people who've been in support of Heth, and there were a fair few people in Luminaire who were defending the titan, even after it threatened to start shooting at the surface