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This is the saga of how one Proteus wandered into Raum and jonny on a wormhole while they were out scouting, and after an epic clash, died. Jonny and Raum shot up the Proteus, the H contingent started juggling bookmarks and making their way towards killmail-whoring, and then more hostile DPS showed up. Jonny could really use a hand! DPS and ECM flails its way towards the battle, aided by the bookmarks inexplicably going topsy-turvy for sembur and various DCs. We get there, we start melting face, and they land yet more reinforcements with one Guardian. There is another Guardian on dscan. After a debate about whether or not to fall back, we continue punching faces.

The slugfest continues. We can't break their Guardian reps but we can make them busy. They sit at 50 km for a while, then venture into our bubble. We start playing musical targets to confuse the Guardians, and hammer a few things into hull before the Guardians save them. They very slowly force a couple of people off the field in low armor, some of whom reship and others chill on thw wh to provide a warpin. We form up some Guardians of our own, who land, rep the injured, and join the fight. It turns into a stalemate; they can't break us by a long shot, and it's going to take us a lot of forcing their Guardians to play Guardian Hero on expert mode to be able to inflict enough hull damage in between hostiles being repped up to full. Still more reinforcements are arriving, so we hope to neut and DPS them to death.

Suddenly, a wild Archon appears! And jumps right on through the wormhole. We jump after it, sensing a lockout trap and also CARRIER. The entire fleet RAMMING SPEEDS at the carrier. Some of the hostile fleet jumps after, gets shot at, and all but the original Proteus makes it back before the carrier jumps back. So we consume the Proteus and its pod at long last.

(...) The exact order of the following items is fuzzy in my memory

• We have two guardians and folks are looking for a third. The guardians we do have don't quite have their stuff worked out.
• Johnny jumps through and bingo. Pulsar, and a whole lot of shiny and explosive **** is sitting on grid with him waiting.
• There is a Poll posted on the forums about whether or not we bring a carrier to support us.
• The poll is reset and a revote is called for as the corporation needs to decide which carrier to bring, which could possibly be none. Kwashi says Asay is bringing his, and the polls close.
• I see a single Tengu decloak, and eventually approaches the hole, and this is announced on comms.
• Folks warp from the deep safe 40 some AU with the fleet.
• Kefka's gate cloak and he is jumping back into.

Kefka is clearly running things on comms. He has said *I am back in * and a bunch of other really helpful things. Folks are asking who to warp to. that's adrenaline for you.
I drag/drop him into fleet chat.

The badguize bring a wall of targets in and break gate cloak, ready to catch him. I'm about 25km off the hole. Not quite as far as I would like to be with that size of a force but whatcha gonna do. When I see Kefka's gate cloak drop I count "one-thousand-one" and drop my cloak and start locking targets to jam based on the threat vector while the cavalry is warping in. It doesn't look good, cuz they have a lot of ******* DPS and I only get 2 of my initial 4 jamms off (Brutix and DPS Tengu).

Kefka goes pop after folks land and start dishing it out, but Kwashi calls targets like a pro starting with the Rook which disappears from my overview and then the Basilisks. I change tactics from mitigating DPS with jamming to breaking their cross tanks. I never get a successful jam off on the Thanatos but didn't pause long enough after the first failure to see if it was a failure to activate (Triage) or just a failed roll. I get one success on jamming the non-primaried Basilisk, and fire focuses, but the Thanatos manages to rep up the damage. Kwashi switches just as my jam drops, and we get the Basilisk.

I'm not seeing a lot of support ships left on their side (one basi, what I now confirm is a triage carrier ... think that was it) so I go back to gleefully letting their Brutix or Phantasm or one of the Drakes reestablish locks before I drop another jam on them.

Their targets generally jump when they get low in tank, but the Phantasm just gets overwhelmed and possibly caught too far off the hole.. They start mass-withdrawl back into their Pulsar where we are NOT going to persue in our armor gang. Someone(?) brings up the fact that the hole is Critical. Someone else(?) suggests sending a battleship through.

Shake says "I'll do it."

Hole crashes with their Thanatos still in triage.

Thanatos tanks pretty well against our focused DPS and there is yammering on mumble about self-desctructs, bringing baahlys and curses, and mass remaining on our hole. Then he comes out of triage, his tank starts to fail spectacularly.

We kill the pod.

When I go to turn off my plate on my falcon before jumping I discover it's offline (derpa derp wonder why a drake and tengu were melting me so fast...). :facepalm:

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