Operation Tourbillon - Protecting Liberty

[Omi]

The event was kind of poorly timed, what with this being the first weekend after the Stellaris release and everything, but myself and a few others made an effort to log and provide some sort of ingame presence for at least a short while.

Apparently there was a major buildup after the initial fight, but nobody bothered to tell me about this - or, rather, all I got was some vague mumbling about 'ships at LA'. I didn't mean to skip out before the real party arrived; I didn't even know there was one brewing.

I am tentatively excited for this event, but given the reception and criticism I have already received for simply doing what GRN| has always done and pretty much has to do regarding fleet doctrine revolving around Solaris boats and mixed snubs (we will never have the numbers to mount a truly mixed cap + snub fleet against Liberty unless the winds of indies blow significantly in our way, which is very unreliable), I am already wavering as to my level of enthusiasm.

The skill is stacked on our side, but only because the numbers are overwhelmingly in favour of the other side. This picture doesn't even illustrate the half of it - pretty much all the GRN side is on TS bar about five or so indies, whereas the amount of independent pilots on the Liberty side is as countless as ever. Whatever happens, I won't be apologising for mowing through legions of enthusiastic yet unskilled newbies who take the time to shoot at us, nor will I be offering myself up on a plate like Lyth has to personally address everyone's qualms about not getting a fair fight in brawls that are always hinged on the smaller side being significantly better coordinated than the larger one.

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