I just want to point out that Iceland is going to the world cup and the USA isn’t. America has a shit soccer team and star citizen. Iceland: Better at football and space ship games.
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So we are here at the three years mark of the Reavers SIG.
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I remain a bit cloudy on the exact founding date for the group, but middle-ish October works as a general rule. It isn’t like the hard launch date for a video game… back in the days before early access and whatnot… where there was a line between when you couldn’t do something and when you could.
Anyway, here we are at the third year. Summaries of the past two years are available here:
As for the last year, the map of null sec has changed some since then.
October 14, 2016 and October 14, 2017 compared
Probably the largest change to note is the alliances that were pushed out of the north in the wake of the Casino War, many of whom landed in space to our east and led to a refactoring of various coalitions. (Also, as I mentioned on Monday, look at LowSechnaya Sholupen losing the same area of space in Fountain two years running.)
Those changes influenced what Reavers did over the last year.
The first Reaver operation I went on after the last anniversary was in December and involved us helping Volition Cult pop an Astrahus that had been dropped in the territory in Catch. It was a temporary alliance with them against Honorable Third Party. Thomas Lear led us in our new Sleipner doctrine, getting on the citadel kill, a carrier kill, and an ESS kill along the way home.
In February Thomas Lear again led us in our Sleipners, this time up north into Pandemic Horde space in Cloud Ring, again to contest an Astrahus being anchored. That went less well as PL dropped some of the newly OP Rorquals and used sentry drones to hit us. I lost my Sleipner there, but at least I didn’t have to fly all the way home.
Asher led us north later to join in on the fights going on around the Circle of Two Keepstar in M-0EE8. I had to go back on my own for the kill though.
Once CO2 moved south we set up to camp their ratting and mining ops in their new home in Impass. I killed a lot of MTUs while we were out there. It was also my first time flying a Stratios and my real introduction to scanning things down to shoot, though mostly I shot MTUs.
In May we all deployed out to one of our favorite locations, H-ADOC in Curse to stir up some fights. I lost a Cerberus almost right away. We lingered out there for a time, setting up an Astrahus to work from so we could switch clones/implants at need. We went home for a bit, but returned again in July.
From there we ranged out into the Great Wildlands with our new Typhoon doctrine to shoot a Silent Affinity Fortizar. It cost an Apostle but we helped take it down.
I used my MTU scanning skills to blow up a bunch of Fraternity MTUs in the area. They like to rat and run missions around there and have a habit of leaving their MTUs behind.
Eventually we were called home to Delve. That run took two days and featured a heated discussion about BBQ sauce, pizza, and other aspects of cuisine.
We were back home to join in on the deployment north to Hakonen. While that wasn’t a Reavers specific operation at all, it did see wide-spread use of the Reavers Typhoon doctrine.
Reavers however got the opportunity to fly a special doctrine during the fight. Azure and Argent led a little fleet of us in Atrons fit for ECM Burst operations that we would fling into the midst of the enemy, after which we would hit the burst and warp back to our perches to cloak up. (Ops one, two, and three.) An interesting new experience, but hell on your sec status.
After that it was time to come home. I fixed my sec status and flew my Typhoon back to Delve, only to learn that we would no longer be using the doctrine, at least coalition-wide. It might still be a Reavers thing. Things were beginning to brew to the east of us… and then Judgement Day hit and the war was aborted.
All of which doesn’t sound like much activity from Reavers. I know I missed a couple of Reaver adventures, like the flight of the armor tanked Drakes. But it hasn’t been like the first year of Reavers when we seemed to spend a lot of time behind enemy lines. Not only has the sovereignty map changed since then, the reality of holding sovereignty has changes as well. And Asher led a lot more ops around the map over the last year (like this one), they just weren’t Reavers exclusives.
Overall though, that is about as many things as I posted for year two, so I suppose we’re steady.
Anyway, that was my view of year three of Reavers. We shall see what the future brings.
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