The Four Dead Keepstars

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What a week in EVE!  Legacy Coalition and the Imperium officially join forces.  With no time wasted the Imperium deployed to the north to bring the war to Northerners, as a response to PL’s deployment to the south. The war now has 2 fronts and it a race for destruction.  Will Legacy Coalition burn before the North? On this weeks show we look at the tale of 4 Keepstars – 2 anchored, 1 saves and one destroyed. They are symbols of what it so come as EVE enters a massive summer war. We hear from famed Fleet Commanders Sebastien Saintfrusquin fro C02, and Sister Bliss (Initiative), all after the World Cup – congratulations France – for winning 2018.

On the show:

• Matterall
• Carneros

Guests:

• Sister Bliss (INIT)
• Sebastien Saintfrusquin (CO2)

Show Notes:  

• TEST SOTA and Imperium Blue-up
  • Killah Bee comments that it wasn’t a surprise to NCPL and have been planning based on that assumption for a while.
• PL Moves Super Fleet South to Tenerifis, staging initially from Blades of Grass Fortizars
  • Blades of Grass previously evicted by GOTG from the north after alleged leadership disputes (?)
• Imperium Mobilizes North, creating a second front.
• Imperium Anchors Keepstar (6RCQ-V, Cloud Ring/Fade)
  • it goes somewhat uncontested as Imperium show a force of 185 Titans with 2 Moloks and 215 supercarriers including 111 Nyxes as well as several subcap fleets from Imperium and Legacy including multiple Baltec Megathrons, Macharials, Muninns, Cerberuses, Jackdaws and Bombers 
  • Imperiums Titan Groups are inefficiently positioned on the Keepstar and potentially allows Northern Alliances leverage to attack from certain angles.
  • GotG and Horde try to engage with Ishtars and Gilas respectively but are slowly and methodically dispatched using Titan LR Guns, Lance DDs, and fighters. 
  • CO2s Muninns dance around on grid but suffer losses due to disconnects 
  • Northern Alliances use small squads of LR Dreads in different spots to pause repair timer and create longer fighter travel time for Imperiums Carrier and SuperCarrier Groups. They slowly die to Imperium Carrier Fighters and subcaps.
  • Northern Alliances Ishtar FC is headshot after almost entire FC team suffers disconnects and Ishtars burn straight at the Keepstar nullifying their transversal, allowing titan guns to track them.
  • Horde bring in T1 disruption frigates and cruisers to reduce fighter effectiveness but all die to Initiative Smartbomb Lokis. 
  • NCdot Rokhs attempt to pause timer but are hit with bombs, LR titan guns and fighters due to server performance.
• Imperium Reinforces CO2 Keepstar (DW-T2I, Fade, 7 jumps to Imperium, 2 from D06)
  • NC mobilizes to the west. 
    • Cyno jammers thought unable to be put online prevents Imperium super fleet from cynoing in and engaging.
      • Change in cyno jammer CPU ‘requirements to online’ occurring 3 years prior, goes unnoticed to many except some Null Sec entities that end up fighting sov warfare against large supercap heavy entities, namely NCdot, PL vs Co2 when getting evicted from the north.  
        • Aegis Sov is introduced around the time the Jammer change occurs. Seemingly no patch notes exist for the change in CPU requirements for the Cynojammer module.
        • Imperium loses sov in the north via overwhelming numbers and ceding space in an effort to concentrate forces that ends up ineffective. War is fought mainly using new Aegis Sov mechanics and not large single point conflicts that have to take into account defenders cynojammer umbrella utilization.
        • CO2 gains sov in the north as arranged for flipping sides during the war, their newly built Keepstar in M-O dies around a year later to the same forces they flipped sides to and are evicted from the north, but learn a valuable lesson in cynojammer technique along the way, as do NC and PL who have to deal with the usage of Cynojammers requiring 0 CPU to online as their forces rely heavily on capital and supercapital use.  
    • Northern Forces set up on the 2 Gates leading into the system with bubbles and assigned fighter and bomber groups as they become choke points for Imperium Forces wanting to contest the timer
    • Imperium recalculate their odds and stand down 30 minutes before repair cycle starts
      • Situation not too dissimilar to Imperiums dropping of a Fortisar in Z-Y where Northern Forces stood down from the engagement when Initiative onlined a cynojammer in system and bubbled the Pure Blind In-gate forcing the Northern Alliances into a choke point to contest the Fortisars anchoring. 
• Test loses Keepstar (4-GB14, Immensea)
  • Test buys KS from Fidelas Constans (FCON) reportedly for 30b
  • Keepstar is reinforced by strong supercapital and titan forces backed up by subcapitals of eastern coalition forces. Armor timer fight yields largest fight.
  • Final timer sees massive disparity in numbers between aggressors and defenders. almost 2000 vs 400.
    • Test bring Goku Bomber fleet and regular Bomber fleet comprising allies.
    • Attackers bring LR Titan & Super Fleet, multiple Cerberus fleets, Eagles, multiple Muninn fleets, Typhoons, a Loki fleet, Jackdaw fleet, a T1 Ewar Frigate fleet and Bomber fleets
• CVA anchors Keepstar (9UY4, Providence)
  • Small Russian force from Dream Fleet and allies try to contest through the systems gate in a Bhallgorn fleet but are defeated by both CVAs subcaps and Capital forces during the 15 minute vulnerability window.
  • CVA celebrate their Online Keepstar with a ritual sacrifice of capitals via the new Keepstars Chain Doomsday Device.
• Hard Knocks, Lazerhawks, Tishu and other associated WHers, bait out and kill Ranger Regiment Capitals and Titans in QYZM (Branch) late Saturday evening. 
  • near 400b in losses to RR inc 5 dead titans

Wrap Up:

• Thanks to INN subscribers and tipsters, and TIS Patreons “colored names” 
• For more information on this and other episodes, visit http://www.talkinginstations.com
• Thanks Panel, guests, staff (more specific)

Soundtrack: Instrumental – “But Not Tonight” (Depeche Mode)

More Information and Links:

• https://br.inyour.space/?s=4070&b=8166480&e=90&t=GcGkciIQaaaacaaaaaaaaaai – 6RC Cloud Ring
• https://br.inyour.space/?s=2144&b=8170200&e=524&t=qaaaafzraraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae
• – Test Keepstar Fight in 4-GB14
• https://i.imgur.com/32LQSAn.jpg – Provi keepstar onlining 
• https://adashboard.info/intel/dscan/view/CccQsU5U – Provi keepstar defensive fleet
• how nulklsec is broken up in july 2018 or “r/eve for the next few weeks” by u/KalaratiriS
• CO2 jumly 2018 Meeting Leaked to Soundcloud by u/Hyprviper1_GSF
• Pastebin of TAPI Allaince Update july 2018
• Our Imperial Legacy by Ministry of Truth
• “ignis Aurum Probat” NATO poster by u/MrGothmog
• EVE Online – M-O Keepstar Falls by adamskyride
• Recording History: The Bloodbath of B-R5RB by CCP Games
• July 15th Coalition Sov Map by Verite
• July 15th Alliance Sov Map by Verite
• 6RCQ-V on Dotlan
• – u/RichardTheGaylord’s perspective of 6RCQ-V Keepstar onlining
• 6RCQ-V Keepstar ‘inyourspace’ Battle Report
• 4 notable locations in the north on Dotlan – DW-T2I, DO6H-Q, 6RCQ-V and Korasen
• DScan of goon Capitals amassing on the Korasen Fortizar
• u/irishmafiawku’s view on the Imperiums Capitals massed in Korasen “Titans will never be spammed they said. Hello Imperium”
• Z-Y7R7 system on Dotlan
• CSM Brisc Rubals Battle Report on Imperiums Op to Place FOB in Z-Y using bubbles and Cynojammers
• 4-GB14 TAPI Keepstar final timer Fight Battle Report on ‘inyourspace’
• [Cinematic] Battle for the 4-GB14 Keepstar by Adan Dimaloun
• 9UY4-H CVA’s Keepstar Onlining Battle Report on ‘inyourspace’
• 9UY Dscan of CVA’s Forces guarding their onlining Keepstar
• u/UlpianusBathana’s perspective of CVA’s Onlining Keepstar