Pandemic Legion and the Northern Coalition take down 2 Solar Fleet super carriers, multiple capital and support ships, in WH-2EZ a system in the Geminate region.


Around 19:00 first RA tower (we RFed 2-3) was coming out and reports of 200+ hostiles was reported to be coming around the general area. I was able to merely glance at the reports since my playtime didn’t get kicked off until the evening — but from what I can see from the IRC logs, the hostiles repped their two towers without resistance camping MR4 for FDZ/H-5. 

When I came online properly, hostile numbers had gone up to close to 300 in MR4 with WN/XIX joining RA/SOLAR and another 150 NC were reported in H-5. This kinda excluded us from using any kind of conventionals, so off to bombers we swapped gathering about 30 of them things. 

It takes a while to setup properly that amount of bombers, so unfortunately by the time we were ready — hostiles started to make move from MR4 towards WH where PL Tech was coming out of RF. Thus we quickly gathered on a BO in MR4 and bridged over to WH where local was now at 360 with SOLAR/RA/etc cap fleet entering system. 

We setup on the M-M gate for bombing run and quickly got few good runs at RA fleet, killing both BS and support. I think we did about 5 runs in total, results of which can be seen on the KB report linked earlier. Crucially, this allowed us to trim the hedge enough to swap out to our HAC outfit and have a fighting chance going in there. 

We lemminged out of system to FDZ and reformed quickly when word came of a dozen dreads shooting a POS 5j out in a deadend constellation. Unfortunately jogyn had no cyno, nor point on his cov ops (he claims he had no isk to buy them) – so it took us a while to get setup on them with another cov ops. 


In the scramble everyone forgot to check one crucial little thing… Ly range on the system from FDZ where we were now sitting on a titan… So as the cyno went up and a dread got pointed — the titan pilot reported “system out of range”. I was ready to throw the towel in at this point, but as it turns out — good thing we didn’t . 

We marched over to M-M via gates, since my faith in bridging was gone for the night and warped @ 0 on the WH gate where approximately 70 SOLAR/RA support were camping @ optimals. As we landed, to my amazement — SOLAR/RA capital fleet of about 22 Dreads and 7-8 carriers ALSO landed on the gate @ 0 . 

Well, quick theorycrafting later — I ordered jump in and we swapped to support overviews burning off the gate repping in the process. SOLAR/RA support quickly died off and we got to work on some BSes who had warped on the gate. At this point in time, we had not lost anyone with reps holding well — so I got everyone grouped up and we approached the BS group killing any lighter stuff in range before getting to work on their BSes next. Fighters/Drones/Sentries were doing dmg from the carrier/dread blob but we seemed to be able to take it on the chin and carry on. 

Encouraged by this, I got us to orbit a Chimera (they only had few shield transfer carriers) which we primaried and chewed down despite 3 thanny and 2 niddy reps. Just as the Chim died however — 2 supercarriers landed on top of us with 2 more following closely behind. Oh well… this just got interesting. 

SCs were doing good job neuting, webbing and pointing with their officer stuffs while ECM bursting us occasionally. Unfortunately to them — this didn’t really have too much of an effect on us as we started work on fighters (nothing else we could shoot was on range and secondary Thanatos just wasn’t dropping with the SCs there). I put the call in for HICs and soon the SCs found themselves bubbled on the gate with good reps going on the HICs alternating bubbles. 
At this stage TheAdj logged on and started to gather PL cap alts and supercap alts and made the call to pass message to Imperian saying he really wanted to kill some SCs. We were doing OKish with the HICs until few good neut cycles and 2 of them died in quick succession.

Since SOLAR/RA only had about 15 support left alive — the SCs decided to take this opportunity to GTFO — but we spread point on their Dreads with fleet stabbers and kept their normal caps locked down with regular dictors nor arriving back on field. We started work on a Thanny again — but before we could get it anywhere near close — 5 SCs dropped out on top of us again . 
Well, TheAdj sounded pretty happy on comms and called cynos in system, which took about 10 mins to sort out since everyone was triple boxing all sorta characters… At this point we only had one SC tackled and some cursing went on — but once again, the 4 others arrived back on field to help out the tackled Aeon. 

At this point, remaining HICs were warped in, cyno popped and PL entered field with dread alts, 3-4 SCs and 4 titans. Second cyno went up with NC cap fleet arriving with no support in tow and a Nyx was primaried. It seemed like forever, given there were 8-10 carriers now on field repping him — but slowly he did start to go down. We scrambled for more HICs/Dics — but lag in system made our job pretty hard given the awesome job SOLAR SCs were doing neuting the HICs and guardians. 

As the Nyx died — we latched onto an Aeon, which seemed to drop pretty quickly to about 25% armor… until few well placed bombs and good neut / ecm burst cycle cleared tackle on him and another Aeon who both warped out. Angel had her alt perma pointing while remote energy transfering with a carrier the remaining Aeon however, which fell while PL caps were clearing remaining RA/SOLAR capitals still on field. Most of them had jumped out after the 2 Aeons made it out but about 6 dreads and 7 carriers fell regardless. NC jumped out, PL went to RF the moon we had just lost and a 2 hour looting session followed with much hilarity on TS. 

Thanks all for an awesome fun tonight. 

I did not make this awesome video, or the battle report.