Wormholes

Disclaimer: This AAR is as true as I can remember, it has been verified by Blood Union to not contain any major errors. Oh and I love w-space, where everything can change in a split-second, from 0 to 100 and leave you spinning.

Just a few nights ago Blood Union rolled into us from a C5 C5 magnetar which appeared to be a temp ops base. Funnily enough only a couple nights before I lost a brutix to them outside what appeared to be their home magnetar C5 C5 while diving for pew through low sec.

We discovered the wormhole relatively quickly and watched it closely while I quickly scouted the system. They rolled the wormhole and while I saw the only scout we had seen return, we had absolutely no guarantee another scout had not entered and remained after we watched the wormhole shudder closed.

But things always happen in threes right?

Fast forward to last night. Was pretty quiet with a lot of people choosing to go to bed early and get some rest. We were just chatting **** on comms while I scanned and scouted the chain. I remember commenting as we waited for downtime about how relaxing my night was, feet up on the desk leaned back in my chair. I had found no-one for us to shoot, but this is not unusual in our timezone. We debated doing a couple sites after downtime, with opinion leading towards no. However we decided to see who turned up and make the decision then.

Downtime came and went and a couple extra people logged on, so we decided to just run a couple as I expected us to be moving soon. We aren’t exactly a big corporation and evictions are just run of the course eventually and we had been in this hole coming up to 4 weeks.

We double-checked wormhole security and made sure we had all the appropriate pilots ready. The first site went perfectly and we were getting ready to warp in the noctii to clean up the wrecks and move on. I hit D-scan again to see a sabre with all too familiar tags. I quickly evaluated our situation - 2x moros, 1 nag, 2 archons and 3 tech 3s in site. All with very limited pilots online.

This was not perfect, but I never really planned on it happening in a perfect situation. The stage was set and it was all or nothing.

The sabre landed as I started calling commands I have practiced all too many times in my head.

“Tackle the sabre”
"Dreads refit full tank"
"Sub-capitals get back in close"
"Check siege/triage levels"
"Additional cap pilots get back to POS when you can"

Someone mentioned our out of game contact service and I asked one of the guys to quickly put out a message. I knew it was late, but every extra pilot would give us more tackle.

Then Blood Union landed.
2x Naglfars.
1x Nidhogger
5-10 tech 3s (IIRC)
1x phobos

Their dreads sieged as I called the second naglfar to land primary. Their damage started on my moros. I had been first dread for the site so I had been expecting to be their primary. While refitting for tank I had popped a blue pill.

Then I made the call after doing a quick check of their position vs ours, the bubble and our POS.
“All dreads log on and warp to Hagen Ra"

I am not here claiming to be good, not even mediocre. I have been dropped by Blood Union once before and evicted by those that claimed to be alts (not casting dispersions I have no proof either way). We were stomped that time. Stomped so hard, my face still hurts from being pushed into the ground.

But as the saying goes, fool me once …

So since that incident I have spent a fair amount of time learning everything I can about them. I have watched videos of their previous drops, read the reports, examined the fits of their capitals that have been destroyed, and playing with EFT. Luckily this coincides with my habit of reading/watching everything I can that has anything to do with wormholes. Have I mentioned I love w-space yet?

Blood Union is a constant threat in C5/6s to any small-medium entity (even some of the largest ones have not gone untouched). I respect them for that and I love what they do. However that doesn’t mean I intended to just let it happen to me and mine.

When someone new to w-space asks “Who are Blood Union?”
My answer has been “The boogie monster of w-space, except they really are under your bed waiting.” (Not sure if this will translate well culturally).

I knew the EFT numbers, we had even done some practicing. But all of that wouldn’t matter if we couldn’t make it work when it counted.

Two extra moros logged on and were in warp to the fight as soon as their feet touched the ground at the POS. There was no question from those of our pilots that were relatively new to pvp, especially wormhole capital pvp. They were following commands to the best of their ability all without any hesitation. While this may sound basic to some of you, everyone has to learn somewhere and it made me smile.

Despite being at around 30-40% cap when they landed, my moros was tanking the two nags. However my shields were getting low with my cap following as I was not trying to conserve it. The big blasters had not stopped firing since Blood Union had landed. I had overshot my siege cycle from the site. So when they had landed I was already a quarter way through. This worked out for the best as I coasted out as my shields touched armor. Called the archons to feed cap as I exited siege. With both triaged archons feeding the big moros cap, it was back up to full quickly.

I was a bit too eager to re-enter siege and pressed siege as chunks of the moros armor were still being blasted away by the naglfars autocannons. However I knew the numbers and was confident (hopeful) that my shield booster wouldn’t let me down.

A nice read! Sounds like fun for all there!

Great read. I still check under my bed for blood union before I go to sleep at night. My wife thinks it strange.

In hindsight it was definitely premature.

Yeah I wasn't sure about noctii.

It is like sheep, which is both the plural and singular? It sounded alright so I figured I would just go with it.

Nice read!

Insist more.

Very well written AAR. Thank you for taking the time to share.


Per our chat, No-Local News has published your AAR. Cheers!

Nice write up.

Did they really try threaten you in order to stop you from hunting them? Talk about a pansy move...

PS: I recommend storing a long point in your dreads for this situation since it can't be jammed off ;)

Can't believe nobody on either side got this on fraps.

At our side dialog was:
1st warped nag: we need spots, we need spots, combats on dscan.
FC: ofc u see combats, they will chase us, would u let 2 dreads just leave? im making spots, align to...
So ye he didn't mention to treat u or smth, that was just making fun from funny situation, 2dreadnoughts with agro Vs 5 rly mad guys;)