Last night, death was a shrapnel bomb.
I wasn’t even worried when it hit. We had just warped out to regroup before going back in, and a stealth bomber that I didn’t even see dropped a bomb on us. That kind of thing isn’t a big problem for larger ships, but I was flying an Interceptor. The bomb one-shotted me, and that was the end of my night. I was able to help tackle a couple battleships and a heavy interdictor, though. I’d had some scarier moments earlier, but escaped mostly unscathed until the bomb hit.
These kill-board read-outs are kind of confusing, but I’ll dissect them in the near future. When you kill someone, you basically get an email with details of the ship you killed, and a list of everyone who dealt damage to the target. There’s a lot to learn from these, but it’s a longer story than I can tell here.
The Alliance forums are already buzzing about this. There were some tricky details about how this fight was organized (this is the 1000AU / safe spot stuff people are talking about) that in reading the post-battle analysis I’m starting to understand. It looks like in the end our side lost and the tower we were defending went down. From the perspective of the poster, I’m part of the Northern Coalition (NC), the nominal bad guys. It’s all relative, though. Since TRI held the field, they went to the forums to gloat and claim good-guy status. There might be a reprise of the fight tonight, though, as the station in the system comes out of reinforced. Not even sure what that means yet, just hearing some chatter about how it’s not over yet and we might be going back in.
Much more to say about this epic engagement in the days to come. I’ve got lots of screenshots and some footage that I can hopefully get processed and posted this weekend.
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