With the grid secured, PAPI would soon bring in supercapitals at the centre of the defensive formation right on the Keepstar.Īt 17:36 with local topping 6,000 players the Keepstar's anchoring process completed, started its repair timer phase and was once again vulnerable to attack. Numbers in local continued to grow steadily with the local count passing 4,000 at 16:52 as the first battleships consisting a Nightmare fleet accompanied by Eagle heavy assault cruisers landed and began taking up positions around the Keepstar. They were followed shortly after by some fleets of Muninn heavy assault cruisers. The BattleĪt 16:34 on 6 October with an hour to go on the Keepstar’s anchor timer PAPI’s Jackdaw Tech III destroyers began to arrive on grid supported by interceptors and interdictors. It would become vulnerable again in 24 hours and the fight that ensued would become the biggest PvP battle in video game history. However before the smoke had even cleared a second Keepstar had been deployed by PAPI elsewhere in the system and was able to successfully begin the anchoring process. After a 5 hour battle the Imperium forces were victorious and the Keepstar lay in ruins. Imperium forces reacted swiftly to PAPI’s attempt to anchor a Keepstar and flash-formed in response to strike during its initial 15-minute vulnerability window. This represented a threat that the Imperium had to prevent at all costs. A Titan with max skills is able to jump itself or bridge friendly fleets up to 6 lightyears away, meaning that a fleet of Titans based out of a Keepstar in FWST-8 would be able to project their power over 69 systems in Delve - 71% of the entire region. The system chosen for the attempt would be FWST-8.ĭelve is a region that consists of 97 individual solar systems. PAPI would make their move just after midday UTC on 5 October. Of course, the Imperium also knew this was the most logical strategic move for PAPI to make and any attempt to establish a Keepstar in one of the Blood Raiders systems would be fiercely resisted. Because the systems in these constellations were held by the Blood Raiders NPC faction and so contained no Imperium Infrastructure Hubs, it meant that a Keepstar would take only the usual 24-hour period to complete anchoring. So PAPI instead looked towards the Delve constellations of XPJ1-6 and 6-UCYU. This posed a problem since anchoring a Keepstar takes significantly longer – nearly a full week, in fact – in a system with an enemy Infrastructure Hub and high Activity Defense Multipliers something which all Imperium-held systems in Delve enjoyed. And so the next strategic goal of PAPI forces was to online a Keepstar-class Citadel somewhere in Delve as a forward operating base. With a limited jump range there was only so far they could project their power into Delve, and with no safe harbour in the region itself they would find themselves exposed and fighting in the shadow of the Imperium’s own considerable supercapital fleet whenever they deployed. For the time being though PAPI’s supercapitals were held on the borders of Imperium space. In order for PAPI to push into Delve they would need the support of their supercapital fleets - their Titans and Supercarriers. Fighting in the Imperium’s backyard would be a daunting task. Since 2016 the Imperium had been building up their defensive infrastructure: Citadels, Engineering Complexes and Refineries to stage their fleets from, a private jump bridge network to speed their travel around the region and of course accumulating massive stockpiles of ships, modules and ammunition. However, Delve was a heavily fortified region. The next 3 months saw PAPI forces gain ground as the Imperium, reckoning that they couldn’t mount an effective defense of the entirety of their sprawling empire in the face of such overwhelming numbers, ceded outlying regions in a strategic move to concentrate defensive efforts in their home region of Delve.įinally, by 4 October PAPI had arrived on the Imperium’s doorstep. Shortly after, Legacy Coalition along with Pandemic Horde, Pandemic Legion, Northern Coalition, Winter Coalition and many other allies (henceforth referred to as “PAPI”) began their push west towards the Imperium-held regions of Delve, Querious, Period Basis and Fountain. Hostilities in this current war commenced on 5 July 2020 when the non-invasion pact between the Imperium and Legacy Coalition came to an end. Today, we’ll take a closer look at the Fury at FWST-8 itself and provide you with some statistics about what you the players put into creating this record-breaking battle. In it we provided some information about the prelude to this current war, going back to 2016. In October we published an article announcing that two Guinness World records had been awarded to EVE Online in the aftermath of the battle known as Fury at FWST-8.
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