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Operation Report: The Poutine Harvest

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Amarr Citizen 000001
League of Extraordinary Equines
#1 - 2014-09-18 03:06:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Amarr Citizen 000001
---Recently De-Classified---

This is an invasion post, we're invading someone!

Greetings fellow spaceship pilots.

We're going on an invasion on the weekend of the 6th September.
The target? Quebec United Legion's C6 Pulsar.

"Why?"
They have over 50+ SMAs on 4 Large Towers, with no hardeners online.

---End Message---

On September 6th we started our siege of Quebec United Legion’s home wormhole. Despite QUL hiring both Surely You're Joking (SYJ) and Disavowed, they couldn’t regain system control and ended up self destructing over 42 billion Isk in ships. By the 8th we had pillaged all their towers for almost 35 billion Isk and setup log-on traps to catch the loot-filled carriers they logged off in. After just a couple weeks, we’ve further destroyed just under 77 billion Isk; catching 3 of their carriers trying to escape.


37 Hours until The Harvest

After a few weeks of intel gathering and preparation; we decided to start the siege. With only 4 towers and 53 SMAs, the QUL system was a ripe target. It took only a few days to seed over a dozen capital ships into the QUL home system, for which they were none the wiser. On the 6th of September our wing of dreadnoughts logged in and began reinforcing their towers. Without any hardeners online, all four of the QUL towers were reinforced during the first hour. Once the towers were reinforced, large bubbles were onlined canvassing the perimeter to prevent ships inside the shield from warping of. With our tackle on standby, it would be incredibly difficult for them to evacuate anything during the siege. The first QUL members that logged in, immediately logged off. During the first few hours, a single Kronos did try to escape with a MJD. The pilot made it to a safe, but without a cloak, and all outgoing connections firmly under our control, they didn’t get far.


23 Hours until the Harvest

Quebec United Legion declined our 100 billion Isk ransom when we contacted them. Later on, when they saw the full force of the fleet sieging them, they asked for more time to come up with the ransom. We declined their offer, and proceeded to camp them inside their towers. While normally the most boring part of the siege, we were lucky enough to have the Alliance Tournament to watch all weekend. The sleepover wasn’t without kills however, as a pair of Paladins running C5 sites didn’t see our Sabre until it was too late. Some of our pilots decided to take the “time off” to practice their graphic design skills, creating wonderful portraits for our leadership. Only a few QUL members tried to keep us busy during this time; sending out scanners that never made it to k-space. Others QUL pilots attempted to vacate their towers, but our ships were quick to intercept them, pushing them back into their force fields. One brave QUL pilot did, however, decide they wouldn’t be held hostage and lost their Tengu in glorious combat.


3 Hours until the Harvest

As the timers on the towers ticked closer to zero, a massive squad of interceptors came through the mass-crit static we were guarding. A few interceptors were shot down and podded, but most made it into the safety of the QUL towers. We assumed that QUL had hired both Disavowed and SYJ to defend. The interceptor pilots that survived boarded QUL ships and started forming up a fleet to defend the towers. It looked like their plan was to destroy the bubbles we placed, consolidate all their capital ships in one tower, and then destroy our capital fleet. When the QUL fleet mobilized, they seemed disorganized. Most of their capitals exited the shields at different times, preventing them from successfully coordinating their fire. During this fight, several of the QUL capitals were reduced to smoldering wrecks before they could escape back into the safety of the force field. As we looted the wrecks, we noticed QUL had stripped most expensive modules off of their capitals before giving them to the hired help, effectively minimizing their chances for success. QUL made no more attempts to break the siege after the fight.
Amarr Citizen 000001
League of Extraordinary Equines
#2 - 2014-09-18 03:06:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Amarr Citizen 000001
2 Hours until the Harvest

As we closed up holes and repaired bubbles around the towers, we noticed one of their ships was named ‘asdfrewq’. The name didn’t follow their normal naming convention and we thought one of the pilots might have accidently changed his ship name to the tower’s force-field password. We loaded a couple T3s into a carrier and tried jumping into their towers with our pods. We successfully landed right in the middle of their ejected ships and immediately liberated 2 Moro and a Phoenix. After attempting to bump out the hostile capital ships that were still piloted by hostiles, QUL frantically changed the passwords. This caused many ships, (including a piloted Moros who was fired hundreds of 100kms away from the tower), to be ejected from the shields. After grabbing what we wanted, and shooting what we didn't, our dreadnoughts were warped up to where our tackle was holding the Moros hostage, (now several hundred kms away). The Moros pilot didn't want to trade his pod for the ship, so we graciously accepted the killmail of both.


1 Hour until the Harvest

Once QUL had finally accepted their fate, the fireworks began. Billions and billions of Isk in ships were triggered to self-destruct. Frigates, tech-3 cruisers, Bhaalgorns, and capital ships, all felt the warm embrace of Bob. It was difficult to track QUL’s self inflicted carnage. Because QUL didn’t put aside enough time to finish self-destructing their ships, they had left us a sizable number to take home. As the timers ticked closer to 0, QUL loaded up what they could into carriers and safe-logged inside their crumbling towers. Our final estimate of QUL’s self-destructions, (which didn’t even include destroyed modules), was over 42 billion Isk.


The Harvest

Once the towers were out of reinforce, destroying them wasn't a problem. Tower modules were unanchored, wrecks were looted, and ships were consolidated inside towers `we set up. Nearly 10 billion Isk of ships and 14.6bil in modules were recovered out of the destroyed towers. Knowing that QUL still had several loot-filled carriers logged off inside the towers, we set up log-on traps. Scouts had the offline pilots watch-listed and waited mobilize whenever a QUL carrier logged on. When hostiles did log on, they immediately bounced off the force fields of our tower and were dragged through our bubbles.


Post Harvest Celebration

Several empty industrials, a Bhaalgorn, a Nidhoggur, and a Rattlesnake were the first few ships that bravely failed to escape after the siege had ended. A few days later, one of their loot carriers had logged on and fell into one our traps. The Chimera did not survive. We knew that this first Chimera wasn’t their only loot carrier however. As luck would have it, one of our scouts was poking around a C6 that belonged to La Division Bleue when they noticed a QUL tower with no hardeners (again), low shields on the tower (indicating a recent onlining), and a Chimera (with the same name as one that logged off full of ships). Upon noticing the easy kill, we formed up and sieged the new tower. The Chimera desperately tried to get out of the bubbles our interdictors were dropping so it could warp away before it’s tower was destroyed. The pilot’s desperation prompted us to think he had not put any stront inside the tower to reinforce it. When the tower did turn out to be fully stronted with a full 36-hours of invulnerability, we started getting ready to go back home. As soon as our bubbles had expired the Chimera unexpectedly warped out of the tower. Our hero scanner hastily probed his signature and landed right on top of him, forcing him to lose his cloak. After the pilot was locked down, bubbled, and had no where to go, they decided to self-destruct. This second Chimera kill topped us off just shy of 77 billion Isk destroyed.

Kudos to Disavowed and SYJ for trying to bring a fight. We hope to see QUL back in wormhole space soon.


Our final estimates for the operation:
Isk Destroyed: >76.9 billion Isk
Assets Stole: >34.4 billion Isk
Ships Sacrificed to Bob: >42.1 billion Isk

kawkaw
Amarr Citizen 000001
League of Extraordinary Equines
#3 - 2014-09-18 03:07:22 UTC
reserved
Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
L A Z E R H A W K S
#4 - 2014-09-18 03:20:38 UTC
♥
Sith1s Spectre
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2014-09-18 03:30:09 UTC
Another active group gone from WH space.

GG

Have a cookie

Resident forum troll and fashion consultant
Aquila Sagitta
Blue-Fire
#6 - 2014-09-18 03:36:44 UTC
What do you care? You moved out of wh to null XD

Blue-Fire Best Fire
Sith1s Spectre
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-09-18 03:39:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Sith1s Spectre
Just because I'm not living in WH space doesn't mean I don't care.

Last night I was in TLC's hole.

The night before brought an Ishtar fleet to HK's hole.


Anyways, have fun with more empty space.

♥

Sith

Resident forum troll and fashion consultant
Bhane Celesto
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-09-18 03:42:33 UTC
Sith1s Spectre wrote:
Another active group gone from WH space.

GG

Have a cookie


As dumb as it is, this is the truth of the matter.

Amazing read-up, excellent presentation and well played on the eviction, but the sad fact is that's just -1 wh group roaming the unknown.
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#9 - 2014-09-18 03:46:29 UTC
Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.

If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.

Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound.

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
L A Z E R H A W K S
#10 - 2014-09-18 03:51:55 UTC
Sith1s Spectre wrote:
Another active group gone from WH space.


Hahaha, active? You're out of touch, dude...
KeeganWaffle
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-09-18 04:00:47 UTC
Seraph Essael wrote:
Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.

If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.

Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound.


They made themselves a massive target by not setting up their towers correctly and flaunting 50+ smas.

Also, wormhole space is already dead, all corps failscaded immediately after the patch
Slicedndiced
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-09-18 04:16:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Slicedndiced
QUL are stupidly inactive for a 500+ person alliance. I personally don't like using killboards to measure activity, but they're at the absolute bottom of these comparisons, behind much smaller entities. At that point, killboards can tell you something.

Edit: One of our cap pilots got really drunk one night and RFed a tower of theirs several jumps out of our hole. We then left without doing any hole control. They had the entire RF timer to get people in to defend (no one was even watching the entrances) and the only people that showed up to defend were 5 cerbs. About 10b in stuff dropped and they even left a freighter for us to haul it out.
Kniht
#13 - 2014-09-18 04:17:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Kniht
Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:
This caused many ships, (including a piloted Moros who was fired hundreds of 100kms away from the tower), to be ejected from the shields. After grabbing what we wanted, and shooting what we didn't, our dreadnoughts were warped up to where our tackle was holding the Moros hostage, (now several hundred kms away). The Moros pilot didn't want to trade his pod for the ship, so we graciously accepted the killmail of both.

I was piloting that Moros. I was being bumped out, still within the FF, and less than 10 seconds away from safe logoff (had to wait for DC to cycle down...) when they ejected me -- in their own Moros. When I realized what was happening, I hit siege at 8km/s and just outside the FF. Since they bowled me directly into the hostile ships, without sieging I would have landed smack in the middle of 3 or 4 dreads at the main tactical the attackers were using. If I had been siege green before someone panicked and changed the tower, I would have gone much further. I ended up around 1,800km from the tower. (Don't quote me on that number.) It was fun. :)

I was invited because dread/carrier pilots were lacking. I flew in with a ceptor and no implants -- more because I could sell them the ship and pod myself back home than any other reason, as we first formed up in Disavowed's home and ragerolled. We ended up finding an entrance through a different chain into QUL's static, which Lazerhawks was maintaining control of. We got several frigates inside before their dread could close it. I'm not sure what was up, but while we were waiting, bouncing at safes, for QUL to decide if they should trust us because "it was fishy" we came in through the crit/reduced static instead of through a K162, I used my ceptor to scan out 2-3 statics before anyone else from inside landed. Higher warp speed of 12au/s made up for the lack of scan bonus on the ship, while being nullified and sub-2s align made it hard for their WH-control fleet to catch me. I kept providing the J#s to the fleet, who checked existing chains for that system.

Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:
Kudos to Disavowed and SYJ for trying to bring a fight.

I'm former Disavowed and my corp was invited on the condition we did not mention it to our current alliance for reasons of opsec. It would have been more fun to have them, but it wasn't my call. I was the only one in my corp online at the time, so it was only me from SYJ. I'm glad you mentioned how you got the password, because some people that don't know me instantly started pointing fingers. *shrug*

o/ fly crazy
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#14 - 2014-09-18 06:23:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Seraph Essael
KeeganWaffle wrote:
Seraph Essael wrote:
Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.

If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.

Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound.


They made themselves a massive target by not setting up their towers correctly and flaunting 50+ smas.

Also, wormhole space is already dead, all corps failscaded immediately after the patch

Evicting people because their tower isn't set up right. Oh god, you should go remove every PvE wormhole corp in C4's and down then.
Just today i was in a C4 that had 7 bubbles around it all on the single plain, with barely any guns and an XL SMA with a Phoenix floating, unmanned, in the FF. Sure it was set up pretty as hell, but those bubbles couldn't stop or decloak a damn thing for the guns to shoot...

I have checked QULs killboards, majority of their recent kills have been whoring on Jita gankers etc so they haven't been very active in wormholes so I guess it's not a major loss persay.

As for no people since Hyperion, I know a couple of corps (small time, no name corps) that have thrived moreso than before and one of them corps is a C4 carebear corp turned PvP'ers.
But I can agree I have seen my fair share of people moving out...

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Kadm
Catfish Gumbo
#15 - 2014-09-18 06:29:35 UTC
I'm surprised. We actually got some decent fights when we tried to evict a QUL C1 we assume was solely for PI. Guess it just goes to show where people's priorities are.
Nelly Uanos
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
#16 - 2014-09-18 07:52:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Nelly Uanos
Finally some answers... guess I can give some too! Smile

Nice write-up btw appreciate the efforts you put in there.

Yeah I can confirm, alliance numbers are TOTALLY NOT representative of active players. Roll

I'll leave the bomb here... we struggled to have a full alliance tournament team. So if you catch the drift most of our active member where still in Jita when you seeded your caps in...

So yeah our last months of activity is kinda relied to these 2 things. (Except the lone guys who like to blap flashy thing in Jita)

Also 50s SMA was a legacy of being a lots of people in a 4 moons system... guess the offline hardeners...

Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:
We hope to see QUL back in wormhole space soon.


As for the future and wormhole, we're still somewhat in disarray after this...
some "active" member already went elsewhere... other are in questionning mode...

Sith1s Spectre wrote:
Another active group gone from WH space.

GG

Have a cookie


I'll probably sound biased about this... but this guy might not be far from the truth. We were not the biggest active group in wormhole but we still had thing going on...

Sill I dunno we might bounce back... Only the future will them!

o7

P.S.: I totally know you did this for revenge because we stole an Orca from one of your member who was rolling a C3 static solo! PirateLol
Borsek
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#17 - 2014-09-18 08:19:43 UTC
Nice report, C6 has another empty hole now. Maybe QUL get back on its feet, maybe not. GG
Jessica Duranin
Doomheim
#18 - 2014-09-18 08:29:05 UTC
Thanks Lazerhawks. Wormhole space is soo crowded - I'm glad that you guys are thinning out the herd a bit.
Roll

One more empty wormhole to scan through.
Glyndi
Doom Generation
Best Intentions.
#19 - 2014-09-18 08:32:46 UTC
More 'content' removed from WHs...gj. The whole eviction thought process still confuses me..."They only pvp a little, toss em out!"

At least when BU evicted us its because they wanted our hole.
Winthorp
#20 - 2014-09-18 08:38:53 UTC
So to get this straight you found a group living in WH space that are weaker then you and didn't pvp as much as you and had a lot more bling then you and thought yes they must be cleansed from WH space?

Like you clearly didn't even try to get a fight if that was even an intention by stoping whatever backup they were trying to get in. And 100B ransom is just absurd, who cares if they SD'd 42b and lost more in eviction close you were never getting 100b LOL.

Well another empty WH for you to scan through instead of having a corp with some pvp activity.

I close with top kek, top kek indeed.
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