Intergalactic Summit

The recent battle in B-R5RB, with many capital ships involved, has drawn the attention of naval analysts across New Eden.

With hundreds of capital ships, and innumerable smaller space vessels taking part in the action, the amount of data about relative ship performance is vast, and is expected to shape ship design for years.

This has drawn the attention of many junior Federation Navy officers, who have called for a hammer blow to smash the Caldari State and force them into peace.

"There were no Caldari designed Titans involved at B-R5RB." said one shaven-headed Lieutenant. "That tells a lot about the performance of the Leviathan"

"As we saw at Luminaire VII, when the Shiigeru was shot down, the Leviathan has several weaknesses", said another officer. "While clearly the Erebus is superior, as you can tell with the numbers deployed at B-R5RB."

"The performance deficiency is something the Caldari will surely be looking to correct", said a third. "The Federation needs to do something before they close the gap, and the opportunity is lost"

Several officers have forwarded their suggestions to their Senators, a highly risky move, which could jeopardise their careers.

The most common suggestion is a "Decisive Action", involving the bulk of the Federation Navy capital fleet, to force the Caldari into action, and defeat them, compelling the State to sign a peace treaty to end the Militia War, which has now raged for several years, at great cost to both sides.

Ah, an illustrious military career beckons for these young people. In the merit-based military infrastructure of the Federation Navy, such vigorous jingoism and yes-manning will serve them well I'm sure.

Of course, the fact that Shaven-Headed Lieutenant is entirely wrong and that in fact Leviathans WERE on the field at B-R is besides the point. The reason none were destroyed is because the Leviathan is the most heavily defended Titan. I won't bore you with the technical numbers, but it's enough of a difference to mean that a well-prepared leviathan that's overheating its defensive modules can need up to five more doomsday shots to bring down than the next closest contender, the Avatar, and that's assuming that it's receiving no remote-repair.

Those five shots are better used in weakening a softer target, and as it happens the softest titan in terms of maximum defensive capability is.... the Erebus.

That's not to say the Erebus is a bad ship - quite the reverse, it's a damn good ship! Its sophisticated armoured warfare command override protocols and banks of tactical calculation arrays allow it to micromanage every ship in a 256-vessel fleet and give them an effective boost to the effectiveness and durability of their armour plating of up to 15%. That's an ability of great tactical utility, which is the other reason the Erebus saw so many losses - they combine being the easiest titan to destroy with a tactical asset that the enemy will want to neutralize ASAP.

I sense a bright future for Shaven-Headed Lieutenant. Good for you, young one! don't let troublesome little things like facts and reality get in the way, they'll only slow you down.

Another Officer has a similarly bright path laid out before him, I note. It's good to know that "vulnerable to sustained volleys of fire from hundreds of ships" is a design flaw and that the superior Gallentean design has eliminated the critical and moronic error the Caldari engineers made when they forgot to make the Leviathan-class invulnerable to all harm.

The future of the Federation Navy is of course, autonomous drone warships, with orders given by human officers.

And of course, failsafes, should the autonomous drone warship believe its commanding human officer to have been subverted by the Enemy. If the autonomous drone warship believes it has been given an order, and a human officer countermands that order, but is unable to establish the identity of that officer, then naturally, the autonomous drone warship should continue following the orders given.

After all, what could possibly go wrong... It's not like autonomous drone warships could fail to recognise legitimate human commanders and go and infest entire regions of space, now, is it ?

Granted, I oversimplified. Then again, if those jarheads that Muck Raker was interviewing are anything to go buy, I may not have oversimplified enough.

Don't listen to her Muck! The purple lipstick is awesome!

I just read the link you posted Alizabeth Vea. You tailored it nicely for a wide audience and your use of graphics was very well done. Your access to first hand accounts makes it a must read that is absent in some of the others I have read.

Thanks for posting that and congratulations on your alliance win!

Mind you it was factually accurate, historically interesting and very professionally drafted... Not exactly gutter press material... but what the heck... those of us who enjoy Gutter Press will read pretty much anything!

Hey question for everyone... I heard a rumor that the the holoreel movie rights were sold to Impetus...

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Impetus_%28NPC_corporation%29

Can we get confirmation on whether that is true or not?

Some fellow named Victor, I think. I heard that he gets to write history.

Ribbit?

Meow?

Not sure what noise gelatinous marine creatures make, so I'll just go with the feline.

It was a joke, Morgan. Gutter Press is known for drumming up sensational stories from questionable sources. Sorjat is just being sarcastic, is all.