Posted - 2006.12.12 16:40:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: SirMolle on 12/12/2006 17:11:40

Combat Report - Fall of a Titan

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In response to the capture of 00YZ-G by Band of Brothers, ASCN assembled a force of ten Dreadnaughts and lay siege into the lone C9N starbase at approximately 03:00 GMT, which had been errected some nights before. The starbase was successfully put into reinforced.

The following morning, ASCN prepared to follow through with its siege. The bulk of the BoB forces assembled itself in 00YZ-G where it set out to reinforce those fighting in C9N-CC.

In C9N-CC, an ASCN camp of approximately 35 battleships and 30 support sat on the X-7 gate with approximately 45 BoB on the other side. Both Titan pilots were logged in by this point. A suicide cyno pilot was sent in by BoB to let Shrike jump into their camp, but failed to survive. As a result of the destroyed cyno, shrike was hurled into a random position within the system. Shrike then aligned for the hostile gate camp and warped. Expecting this, ASCN forces began warping to a position 400km off the gate. Shrike dropped out of warp and incinerated approximately 11 battleships. ASCN support fleet warped back in attempt to hold the BoB Avatar but lost much to his 10km smartbomb, ASCN battleship fleet soon followed to a sniper position and began attacking Darwin's Contraption.

As this was happening, BoB forces jumped through from X-7 system. Support craft were ordered to keep enemy support off the Titan. Battleships were ordered to warp out and reposition on top of the enemy fleet. The main fleet battle of the day ensued, where an Interdictor managed to trap eight more ASCN battleships. Shrike sat on the gate, camping, and was joined by KSUDruid's Wyvern.

As the support fleet was collecting from wrecks, ASCN regrouped at extreme range. Traffic's superfast crow managed to get near enough for friendly covert ops to set up 70km from them. Moments later a cynosural field was opened at the gate, and CYVOK used his Doomsday. Due to our maneuver, it only managed to kill one friendly Raven, one friendly Zealot, and one ASCN Scorpion. However, we were only able to kill a couple support before their fleet warped out.

Meanwhile in Fountain STK Scientific Dreadnaughts, accompanied by its local allies, attempted an assault of POS in Y-2ANO once again. In this engagement however, BoB carriers and Xelas Dreadnaughts downed three STK Dreads along with one Celestial Apocalypse carrier. Weeks of hauling and preparation for STK's invasion of Fountain ended in the loss of half their capital fleet, for no BoB pos destroyed. Their goal was simple; to take the station and force a two-front war. Shortly after, the starbase in Y-2ANO was put into reinforced, and STK anchored another in response.

After CYVOK's timid use of the Doomsday device, BS and Hacs were ordered to regroup at POS as support roamed. Shrike had gone to refuel. In the meantime, Valora ran continuous scans and on the third one discovered an Avatar 90au out. He confirmed that Shrike was not at the POS, and assumed it was the friendly ship. Upon reporting to Shrike, he was told it was not his.

Moments later the ship was scanned down. The covert ops pilot had been keeping track of when the DD was fired, and discovered that CYVOK had logged with two minutes to spare on his aggro timer. The entire fleet was warped in, dreadnaughts, carriers, and motherships included. After the dreads had entered into siege, the ship took approximately 4-6 minutes to kill. Valora then probed down the pod, and CYVOK was sent to his clone station. I managed to scoop the corpse in my Deimos, and am still sitting in C9N at pos, 7 hours later.. too afraid to log or leave for fear of losing it.