Tortuga R.I.P Dec 07- Apr 08

Tortuga is collapsing, like a house of cards made of feathers. Feathery cards. If you can imagine feathery cards. Hmm.

Midway through our Scalar contract, we heard that BoB had sieged H74, a system in Querious, and an important one for MC. They took it quite quickly, we were greeted on Sunday morning with the fact 1-N was under siege. This is MC's home, and a direct attack on this made the most sense for BoB. The cyno-jammer was taken out, and BoB's capitals moved on, starting the beginning of the end.

We all clone jumped back again to Period Basis, not sure how happy our employer was about this, and attempted to mount some sort of defence in conjunction with MC. We were told to move our ships into 1-N and await instructions. Which never really came.

Rumours were circulating that MC was fracturing from the inside, pro-BoB elements inside MC were at loggerheads with anti-BoB elements, and as such, there was a 'failure cascade'- a fitting use for that term I think.

KIA was told to get our assets the hell out of PB, but keep the defence ships we'd put there. So, Sunday was spent moving our stuff out. There appeared to be no organised resistance to speak of, BoB vastly outnumbered any forces we could put up. Although we (KIA) were all keeping in touch on comms, there appeared to be no cross-alliance gangs. We organised within our corps to get all our assets back to empire, which seemed to go very smoothly.

In a combat op on Sunday, BoB obtained a POS password that a few of our ships were in, warped in 2 Titans and DD'd the area. KIA only lost a few ships there, MC lost about 16, mainly battleships. It's not very sportsmanlike, but this is war I guess, and BoB has an axe to grind.

Speaking of Titans, it turns out KIA have a Titan being produced in a shipyard in L5D, and it's due to be complete in a day or two. As it turns out, the person who gave BoB the POS password was an MC guy who was having a Titan built (due to be complete a few days after ours). He was trying to get a deal where he gives the password over to BoB, in return for them letting his Titan complete. MC kicked him out, and aborted his Titan build! Harsh, but very fair. Was he stupid enough to think BoB would honour this? Talk about an easy PR victory for BoB, win-win for them.

I am a bit hazy on POS stuff, but I don't think BoB can now destroy the building Titan before it's done. I am sure they haven't overlooked this, and have probably just concentrated on 1-N. Of course, once it's built, it'll be more fun for them to try and kill it, so this chapter isn't over quite yet.