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Serpentis Corporation building up capital fleet in Fade

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Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-04-28 23:46:59 UTC
Don't trifle with these new Serpentis titans and dreadnoughts.

It took us a titan and several dreadnoughts to blow up a Serpentis Titan that had invaded O1Y-ED, and when we tried to kill a dreadnought in K4YZ with the O1Y Home Defense Fleet, consisting of a large smattering of smaller ships, we lost 5 ships, including my Svipul, which got instantly webbed, disrupted, neuted to empty and then destroyed with a single blast of the Moros's weapons in one second.

If you don't have overwhelming force, STAY AWAY. Unlike most of the Serpentis Corporation's forces, these capital ships are not to be underestimated..

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost

Sinjin Mokk
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2016-04-29 00:58:36 UTC
I could have warned you...

"Angels live, they never die, Apart from us, behind the sky. They're fading souls who've turned to ice, So ashen white in paradise."

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#3 - 2016-04-29 02:20:07 UTC
Would be nice if Seprentis use these ships against gallentean occupants.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Morgan Wulver
SAYR Reserve Guard
SAYR Galactic
#4 - 2016-04-29 02:42:45 UTC
How is it that a group of rogue pharmacists have managed to secure their own private capital fleet again? I realize that they have a large and extensive cartel and enough money to fund their own fleets but erecting a capital fleet large enough to challenge capsuleers? That's not drug money, that's rogue state money.

Kirjuun! Uakan! Teknikiara! Kanpai kameitsamuu! Ra ra ra!

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2016-04-29 02:52:46 UTC
Morgan Wulver wrote:
How is it that a group of rogue pharmacists have managed to secure their own private capital fleet again? I realize that they have a large and extensive cartel and enough money to fund their own fleets but erecting a capital fleet large enough to challenge capsuleers? That's not drug money, that's rogue state money.

The same way I hear that a bunch of death cultists and the servants of a failed utopian state got hold of their capital fleets.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Rinai Vero
Blades of Liberty
#6 - 2016-04-29 03:00:34 UTC
How many years is it that they've had that stolen Titan squirreled away?
Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-04-29 09:22:17 UTC
At present, the Serpentis Corporation seems to pose a larger threat to the region than the Imperium.

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost

Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#8 - 2016-04-29 11:06:24 UTC
Jason Galente wrote:
At present, the Serpentis Corporation seems to pose a larger threat to the region than the Imperium.

Ha ha.

Ha.
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2016-04-29 11:11:03 UTC
Rinai Vero wrote:
How many years is it that they've had that stolen Titan squirreled away?

That was an old Solteur-class. The Federation fleet replaced it with the Erebus-class a long, long time ago.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2016-04-29 11:14:11 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Rinai Vero wrote:
How many years is it that they've had that stolen Titan squirreled away?

That was an old Solteur-class. The Federation fleet replaced it with the Erebus-class a long, long time ago.


How can you tell the difference?

Just looks like a weirdly-designed Erebus to me.

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2016-04-29 11:19:15 UTC
The Serpentis stole a Solteuer-class titan stolen more than a decade ago, back when titans were a bigger deal than they are today. Nowadays, though, it'd have more value as an antique than as a fighting vessel - it's down more than a decade worth of combat upgrades and retrofits which Sarpati doesn't have access to.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Kalaratiri
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#12 - 2016-04-29 11:25:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Kalaratiri
Morgan Wulver wrote:
How is it that a group of rogue pharmacists have managed to secure their own private capital fleet again? I realize that they have a large and extensive cartel and enough money to fund their own fleets but erecting a capital fleet large enough to challenge capsuleers? That's not drug money, that's rogue state money.


I don't know man, there's a lot of people looking to get high these days. I should know, I sell to enough of them.

We at the Guardians have always prided ourselves on a high standard of corporate security, these new capitals are just an extension of that. The massive capital fleets wielded by capsuleer alliances are considered great enough of a threat to our security, and the security of our employers, that measures are being taken to respond.

It's honestly not that surprising.

She's mad but she's magic, there's no lie in her fire.

This is possibly one of the worst threads in the history of these forums.  - CCP Falcon

I don't remember when last time you said something that wasn't either dumb or absurd. - Diana Kim

Tabris Katz
The Forgotten Children
#13 - 2016-04-29 11:42:09 UTC
I fear the Serpentis Corporation and Sansha's Nation capital fleets are only the tip of a very deep and dangerous iceberg and I'm sure the Angel Cartel is not far behind them. Soon we may be dealing with capital fleets flying under all pirate flags.

However if we act quickly, decisively and as an unified front we might be able to contain this nightmare before it overwhelms us. To that effect I'm asking any that cares to join me not just hunting down these capital ship and destroying them, but also destroying their infrastructure. If we can take out their shipyards, mining operations or financial operation we might be able to prevent more capitals from being constructed in the first place.

I don't expect everyone to turn all their resources to this task but I fear the consequence if we don't take this seriously. I'll be doing my part in north against the Guristas, it is my hope others will join me.

P.S. Jason Galente, what was the security rating of the system in which your corporation encountered the Serpentis titan and dreadnought respectfully, also was encountered in an asteroid belt or at am active Serpentis site?
Kalaratiri
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#14 - 2016-04-29 11:50:57 UTC
People seem to keep making this mistake, so let me clarify: the "Serpentis Fleet" is designed, flown, and maintained by the Guardian Angels. If the Serpentis are using capitals, you can be sure that the Angels already have them. Curse may simply have decided not to show it's hand just yet.

She's mad but she's magic, there's no lie in her fire.

This is possibly one of the worst threads in the history of these forums.  - CCP Falcon

I don't remember when last time you said something that wasn't either dumb or absurd. - Diana Kim

Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#15 - 2016-04-29 13:26:22 UTC
Well, it is to be expected that a Serpentis faction dread would have 90% webs.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#16 - 2016-04-29 13:34:26 UTC
Morgan Wulver wrote:
How is it that a group of rogue pharmacists have managed to secure their own private capital fleet again?


Their financiers are all hepped up on goofballs, and are unable to see, through the drug haze, the long-term financial consequences of such immense capital ship construction programmes.

Also, those goofballs cost like, pennies to make, and sell for thousands of isk, so they just push a little more goofballs, and blammo ! enough funds to buy stuff.

The moral of this story, is quite clear:

Don't get high,
on your own supply.

Goofballs. Not Even Once.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.

Rinai Vero
Blades of Liberty
#17 - 2016-04-29 14:21:26 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
The Serpentis stole a Solteuer-class titan stolen more than a decade ago, back when titans were a bigger deal than they are today. Nowadays, though, it'd have more value as an antique than as a fighting vessel - it's down more than a decade worth of combat upgrades and retrofits which Sarpati doesn't have access to.


I'm sure that's correct, but my point wasn't that the old Solteuer-class Titan is a particular danger to capsuleers in combat. More like, they've had a unique opportunity to be conducting research and reverse engineer Titan level technology for more than a decade. Even so, any Titan in the hands of terrorists and pirates is a major threat. We capsuleers may have more than sufficient combat capability to defend against that ship, but there are plenty of isolated Federation colonies that are at risk. The devastation on Reschard V and Caldari Prime should stand as testament to the damage that rogue Titans can inflict.
Morgan Wulver
SAYR Reserve Guard
SAYR Galactic
#18 - 2016-04-29 16:47:43 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
The Serpentis stole a Solteuer-class titan stolen more than a decade ago, back when titans were a bigger deal than they are today. Nowadays, though, it'd have more value as an antique than as a fighting vessel - it's down more than a decade worth of combat upgrades and retrofits which Sarpati doesn't have access to.

I was under the impression that the Molyneaux iapetan was too massive for a group of (lets face it) mostly biologists to successfully maintain and that it was rotting somewhere in Fountain. If they did manage to gut it and spent the last ten years on research and development, it might explain some of their more recent advancements.

Kirjuun! Uakan! Teknikiara! Kanpai kameitsamuu! Ra ra ra!

Rinai Vero
Blades of Liberty
#19 - 2016-04-29 18:44:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Rinai Vero
I take it you've never flown or faced either the Vigilant-class or the Vindicator-class warships in combat. They are not to be trifled with.
Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2016-04-29 19:06:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Jason Galente
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
The Serpentis stole a Solteuer-class titan stolen more than a decade ago, back when titans were a bigger deal than they are today. Nowadays, though, it'd have more value as an antique than as a fighting vessel - it's down more than a decade worth of combat upgrades and retrofits which Sarpati doesn't have access to.


Is that the titan we destroyed? Doesn't really look like it.

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost

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