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' Wrote:There shouldnt have been these battle groups at the Freeport in the first place.
As a precusor to my post, two points I'd like to raise: 1) I'm writing this on an iPod so the post is going to be moderately, well, crap... and 2) I'd never heard of him before today.
I was actually one of the very first people on the scene with my Bowex character and another Bowex escort. As we passed the Freeport, we caught an extremely brief glimpse of a BDM ship docking. We decided we'd wait for it to come out in order to see what it was up to. While we were waiting, a Sails Corsair and numerous indys turned up as well as a Hogsha fighter and a Bretonian privateer.
The Sail came over presumably because it noticed the two Bowex) tags sat outside. The Corsair indys appeared a little later because they were close by anyway, and are veritable magnets to drama. Insults were swapped between us inRP, with everyone present eventually murdering a Corsair Ptrans that kept mutely shooting at people.
The BAF appeared because of the BDM and Corsairs in Omega 3, as well as all the blue messages being spawned by the reengaging Ptrans. The BAF, BDM and Corsairs attracted the SCRA and RHA. The combination of all of the above attracted the Reavers. You can see how this is going.
At any rate, before the BAF turned up, it was just random indys milling around, being silly (afterwards it was factions milling around being silly:P). While I was about, there was eye-meltingly horrifying levels of raw stupid being tossed around like it was going out of fashion. Of course, none of this is strictly relevant to Zelot's original point, but what I'm trying to get across is... ironically enough, people and factions didn't head to the station for Dakun's sake (except maybe the BDM) but rather for a number of far sillier personal reasons. :D
I believe I wrote a less serious report of the above in the News area. Feel free to post comments in it. Part two will be up tomorrow. :lol: