World War Bee Six Month Review

Time to sum up the story so far, if only to organize what I have written.

Munnins and Ishtars together in EI-O0O

The war officially started on July 5th with the end of the non-invasion pact between the Imperium and Legacy Coalition.  But nothing like that just happens on a single day.  The roots of the war go back much further and various points have been pointed to as where things began to head towards the state of affairs today.

I am not going to go down that rabbit hole.  Instead, I am picking as the start of things, the date when it became public that Vily and Legacy Coalition had been working PandaFam to attack the Imperium.  That extends the timeline by a couple weeks, but that was when things started moving… and when I started writing about the war and tagging it as such

Below is my post journey through the war so far in headline form.  This includes some events outside the war zone that involved the involved parties.  Each link goes out to the post named naturally, and often the headline is sufficient to tell you what to expect.  But somehow… and this was entirely unplanned… I ended up writing a weekly summary post.  For those posts I have added a few sub bullets to hit on the topics mentioned beyond just the state of the fighting.

• June 2020
  • Consolidating for Casino War II
  • Consolidation and Preparations for World War Bee
  • The Last Keepstar out of Cloud Ring
• July 2020
  • Hangar Work as War Approaches
  • Opening Moves in the War
  • Day One of World War Bee
  • Theaters of Operation
  • Entosis Warfare
  • The Imperium Loses the XZ-SKZ Infrastructure Hub
  • A Week of World War Bee
    • Lots of fleet ops
    • Fighting in Fountain
    • The 35 million ISK Cormorant meme gets its start
    • TEST tries to push into Period Basis
  • 9CG6-H – Flash Point in Querious
  • Imperium Setback in the Taurus Constellation
  • POS Shoots are Still a Thing
  • Lurking in Catch
  • Two Weeks of World War Bee
    • CCP ignoring the war
    • PAPI still trying to break into Fountain and Period Basis
  • Losses in Fountain but a Win in Period Basis
  • The June MER Sees Mineral Prices Sag as High Sec Takes Over Mining
  • Legacy Sweeps into Eastern Querious
  • Three Weeks of World War Bee
    • PandaFam in Fountain
    • Legacy attacking Querious
  • Chasing Dreadnoughts with DBRB
• Aug 2020
  • Four Weeks of World War Bee
    • First month loss summary
    • DOTLAN now has an ihub owner map view
    • PandaFam advancing in Fountain
    • Legacy peaks at 41 ihubs taken in Querious
  • Defending Odd Allies in Stain
  • Fighting on the Keepstars
  • Five Weeks of World War Bee
    • French Connection joins the Imperium
    • Fountain Frank officially a thing
    • PandaFam attacking Keepstars
    • Querious is mired in entosis warfare
    • Legacy down to 25 ihubs held in Querious
  • The Fall of the IGE-RI Keepstar
  • Defending the Y-2ANO Keepstar
  • Six Weeks of World War Bee
    • All Fountain ihubs taken
    • Three Keepstars dead
    • GSOL anchors 68 Athanors in A-CJGE in Esoteria
  • The Fall of Niarja and the Shape of High Sec
  • The O-PNSN Keepstar Blows Up
  • The Node Crash at KVN-36
  • Seven Weeks of World War Bee
    • CCP starts to take notice of the war
    • Another Keepstar down in Fountain
• Sep 2020
  • Eight Weeks of World War Bee and the July MER
    • PAPI lays down 13 Keepstar chain to move supers to Fountain
    • Asher makes his “Good Guys” Reddit post
  • The July MER and The First Month of War War Bee
  • Nine Weeks of World War Bee
    • Six Keepstars down in total in Fountain
    • Imperium anchors two more Keepstars in 1DQ1-A
  • Ten Weeks of World War Bee
    • Horn of Goondor starts warming up with forum emails
    • Vily declares Legacy alliance get “value” from TTT
    • Fountain fights are over, Querious is next
    • Destroyed structure count for Fountain
    • The Initiative retakes some Fountain ihubs
  • Eleven Weeks of World War Bee
    • Vily declares “war of extermination” in Polygon interview
    • Target for victory moved to October
    • PAPI begins moving staging up into Querious
  • The 49-U6U Fight Foreshadows Battles to Come
  • Twelve Weeks of World War Bee
    • Snek Coalition is the joke of the week
    • Fighting in Querious
    • PAPI Fortizar dropped in Delve and destroyed
• Oct 2020
  • The August MER and the Second Month of World War Bee
  • Thirteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • CCP mentions the war in a Pulse video
    • CCP gives us the UI only mode
    • PAPI puts a bounty on Imperium ratters/miners
  • A Tale of Two Keepstars in FWST-8
  • A Costly Imperium Victory at FWST-8
  • Waiting in Niarja as the Gates Flicker
  • Invaders Pass on the SVM-3K ihub Contest
  • Another PAPI Keepstar Destroyed in Delve
  • Fourteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • The Scope covers NPC Delve Keepstar fights
    • The Bastion starts taking ihubs in Esoteria
  • The Failed Trap at YZ9-F6
  • The Imperium Destroys Another PAPI Keepstar in 319-3D
  • Bubble Wrap Plan Gets a PAPI Keepstar Anchored in NPC Delve
  • Fifteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • Quantum cores are now required for new citadel deployments
    • NPC Delve fighting is done with PAPI Keepstar anchored
    • TEST pushing into Period Basis again
  • The September MER Follows the War in EVE Online
  • Sixteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • PAPI takes ihubs in first Delve constellation
    • Period Basis ihubs mostly taken by TEST
  • The Second Battle at FWST-8 Renews Two Guinness Records for EVE Online
• Nov 2020
  • Seventeen Weeks of World War Bee
    • Red Alliance switches to the Imperium
    • Army of Mango Alliance steps back for a breather
    • More Delve ihubs fall
    • Maps become a default aspect of my weekly summary
  • Eighteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • The Scope mentions the fighting in Delve again
    • PAPI continues to push on Delve ihubs
    • Imperium capitals now stage out of E3OI-U
    • PAPI takes an ihub in “Fake” Querious
  • Nineteen Weeks of World War Bee
    • Requiem Eternal is disbanded by disgruntled director, reformed as Eternal Requiem
    • CCP talks with Game Rant about the war
    • The gate camp at E3OI-U is in full effect, bubbles and fighters on the gate
    • The Initiative joins The Bastion in Esoteria
    • Dynamic Bounty System and ESS Banks imposed on null sec
    • EVE-NT Alliance Open tournament begins
  • The October MER Shows Destruction in Delve and Mineral Prices at an All Time High
  • PAPI Drops a Keepstar in T5ZI-S
  • PAPI Keepstar Anchors in T5ZI-S
  • Twenty Weeks of World War Bee
    • Vily says that the plan has always been to live in Delve
    • PAPI Keepstar in T5ZI-S puts the war on the Imperium’s doorstep
    • Gobbins declares start of “The Great Siege of 1DQ”
    • Gobbins also says PandaFam is invading Fountain again
    • Templis CALSF wins the EVE-NT Alliance Open
• Dec 2020
  • 21 Weeks of World War Bee
    • The Doom Clock for Delve ihubs is setup
    • Helms Deep, the area behind the E3OI-U, is declared
    • Explosive Velocity update fixes issue that caused Imperium boson trap to fail
  • 22 Weeks of World War Bee
    • The Imperium loses the K-6K16 Keepstar trying to unanchor it
    • Battles over Delve ihubs
    • NCDot takes a dozen ihubs in Fountain
    • The Army of Mango Alliance steps up to try and defend Esoteria for TEST
  • PAPI Headshot Falls Flat in 1DQ
  • Catch On Fire
  • 23 Weeks of World War Bee
    • The Imperium loses another Keepstar in an unanchor attempt
    • IGN publishes a good article about the war
    • The Initiative and Reavers move to Catch to start attacking there
  • 24 Weeks of World War Bee
    • Progodlegend declares the end of the war a foregone conclusion
    • Pandemic Horde distances themselves from Vily’s extermination message
    • Imperium Doom Clock plan is not working, Keepstars in captured systems in peril
  • 25 Weeks of World War Bee
    • PAPI cynojams and blockades NOL-M9, destroys the Keepstar there
    • The Christmas Truce sees both sides playing “Griffinball” in T5ZI-S
    • Fraternity alliance meeting mentions a “Big Push” coming in January
  • Titan Massacre at M2-XFE
• Jan 2021
  • PAPI Thwarted at Final M2-XFE Keepstar Timer by the Early Bird Imperium
  • 26 Weeks of World War Bee
    • Victory at M2-XFE boosts Imperium morale
    • Waiting for a CCP dev blog to give official loss totals for the M2-XFE fight
    • CCP does say no reimbursement for losses blamed on server issues
    • Imperium begins issuing war bonds
    • Asher Elias tops the kill mail list for Goonswarm Federation
  • The Imperium Retakes the NJU-QV Constellation in Delve

And that is where we sit some six or so months into the war, with 71 posts documenting the path I’ve taken.  The battles over the M2-XFE Keepstar has given the Imperium some breathing room to push back on the invaders, but the war is still in Delve and PAPI still has a Keepstar one gate over from our capital.  There is much left to do.

Related:

• INN – World War Bee: Sixth-Month Summary (Part One)