The Heaven's Gate Seige | December 15 - 29 (or longer)

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The NEMP is to trigger the human defenses to be taken down when the massive surprise spearhead force goes in to infiltrate the station.

The fact also that the end of the event will have everything restored to it's order is also making this event not rigged.
I could have said "oh this station is mine now if we win" but actually no matter to result, Heaven's Gate will be restored to its current owner and players will have fun in the event.

I have read the event. Carefully. And I'm pointing out that in your standard PvP event both sides are given a means to win. The fact that your entire argument goes to what happens after the event is irrelevant. How does the defending side actually defend against the NEMP launch while engaged? You state quite clearly that the NEMP's detonation is the entire point of the first stage. If so, the defenders must be able to turn that around yes?

The fact that they will be engaged by factions with more players and have to watch out for a single ship carrying the NEMP, which will be fired at an NPC, so they don't even get a warning, is what I am pointing out as the problem. Add in the fact that a NEMP has 10k range, and a station can't move, and its effectively guaranteed that Stage 2 will happen. Which cycles back to my question of how is the defending side given a reliable means to counter the NEMP strike?

If they're all pvp dead, or just offline when you launch it, it doesn't make a difference, just as not even knowing it's been launched is uncounterable.

the NEMP is the trigger for the event to start.
The initial PVP battle will be balanced for it

If you also look at how people request normal NEMP events: they can fire a NEMP without no one being around. I dont see what your problem is