A Killer Blow

Remember the day when 7 capital ships, 7 carriers, were lost by Quam Singulari?

Those 7 capitals went down with the help of 80 to 90 hostile ships. If you tried to go get a glimpse of the action, that would have been all you got; a glimpse, before you were sent back to your clone.

The lag at the time was utterly terrible. Just for me to jump into the Tama system meant waiting 5 minutes on the Nourvukaiken side of the gate for it to hurl my ship into the action. When my screen became interactable again, i found myself about 10,000km away from the so-epic-battle.

So I war to 0 on the gate in case I had to make a dashing escape from any flashing reds shooting at me. The screen stutters and lags as we move closer to the star gate. In a few quick seconds, just enough time for 2 screen shots, I find myself back in Todaki where my clone is installed. Well that was fun, I guess?

Didn’t really see much, but that’s ok. The 2 screen shots aren’t bad after some detailed examining.

Later on that day I joined another fleet of 70 ships, ranging from shuttles to battleships. Our objective was to engage a group of gate campers that was about 30 ships big. But when we got there, the intel changed.

About 10 more ships arrived. Thinking that it was no biggie, we engaged and managed to destroy a few Dominixes and Megathrons before 3 carriers managed to cyno in. We couldn’t dent their shields very much so it was time to retreat and move to another system and regroup. Now if they wanted to cyno in again, we would know and they would have needed to use about 80% of their capacitor, rendering them vulnerable.

At this time, I needed to go, so I left the fleet and headed back to Nourvukaiken with my Merlin. As I safely dock back into my station, I thought about the days’ encounters and realized I saw about 10 capital ships. Not bad.

But seriously, Tranquility really needs some upgrades.