Intergalactic Summit

Interesting touch.

I like it.

Caldari pilots blaming the Federation for their boneheaded decision to participate in a terribly-planned, highly-publicised excursion into nullsec, an area of New Eden which by neccessity the majority of Empire loyalist forces - who take it upon themselves to defend Empire space - have little operational experience with? No, the responsibility for that decision falls squarely upon your shoulders. In fact, I, a Federation pilot, was telling people it was a bad idea and that they should avoid it.

I wouldn't feel so smug about being right if Provists weren't whining so hard about being wrong.

How large was your fleet?

The fleet I was in, a shield fleet, was some 250+ pilots, and it was well coordinated for the most part, but the enemy seemed to have a mole in our operations as our fleet commanders were immediately removed from the field by overwhelming firepower once we made it through the gate into Doril.

Smells like a trap; a well baited trap. Out of curiosity, I took a Cheetah to see what it was all about. Sitting in Serpentis repair dock after a warp bubble situation, I had an opportunity to reflect. I don't believe this was a CONCORD failure. Quite opposite, CONCORD did not need any capsuleer help to do what they planned with the research stations. What they wanted to do was to bait large numbers of capsuleer pilots in order to test a new System-wide stasis device. This is not a bubble, but much more massive. I recorded 80-90% reduced efficiency across the board in my ship systems. This included warp engagement and module activation. The "Empires" as they are so affectionately known as have for some time now been in a quandary over what to do about the "capsuleer problem." How does one get these "demigods" to destroy each other? How does one control their movements and disable their fleets. Today was a good example of technology sufficient to grind to a halt large numbers of egger pilots.

Like many other pilots, I struggled to swim through the thick molasses of system after system trying to get to the target systems only to arrive late. Today, Concord learned that it can control who arrives where and in what numbers. I wonder what the rest of us learned?

Maybe the idea was to convince all the Empire Loyalists that they can't do without Concord?

All it taught me was that you never go into a situation as anything other than part of a proper fleet with a Commander you trust, good intel, scouts and so on.

That and Concord owes me nothing and I owe them less.

We had 190+ pilots, specialized in armor tanking ships. We started travelling to Ihal as soon as we got a message from Amarr commander, that we are needed there. It happened way before designated time, but we got in a traffic bottleneck already in Sarum Prime. We travelled 23 system in high security space, most of them got less than 10% traffic bandwidth.

We started gathering in Ihal on Mifrata gate. But then our... "FC" decided to jump with those, who landed first (light ships), leaving core of the fleet (slow battleships and battlecruisers) behind. After they jumped, they... i mean, this "FC" decided not to continue getting through, but to stay in Sendaya and attack other capsuleers, like last jakal, of course, forgetting about the main fleet, that was waiting already on Mifrata gate. At this point I has left and joined to much smaller militia fleet. And with small numbers we had no trouble getting through, but, unfortunately, it was already too late.

And I repeat. Most of the time, we wasted in traffic bottlenecks in high security space.

Watch out, we got a bad ass over here. Because nothing says superior skill to justify bragging rights like a couple hundred pilots.

This bears support and repetition.

YOU are responsible for your crews.
YOU are responsible for your ship.
YOU are responsible for your fleet (If FC)
YOU are responsible for your intel.

Despite Pyre's track record of support for the State and for the CEP, you might find it interesting that not a single Pyre Falcon pilot attended the Charlie-Fox that was the CTA. If we had gone, you can bet your baseplate that we wouldn't have jumped through the Concord designated immediate euthanasia gate.

Risk/Reward. Size of assets and amount of support available, coherence of friendly forces and scope of expected opposition.

This is news to you?