This week saw Snuffed Out, the big bad guys of low sec space, declare that they were going to attack the Tranquility Trading Consortium (TTC) Keepstar in the Ignoitton system in a low sec stretch of the Sinq Laison region. The TTC is a combined operation of TEST, Pandemic Horde, and the Imperium, who split the profits from these structures. While the primary money maker is the Tranquility Trading Tower in Perimeter, one gate over and in the same region as Jita (which means you see results from it when you do a market search sitting in Jita), the TTC runs other structures, including the one in Ignoitton, which is used for third party capital and super capital sales.
Snuffed Out had been paid to leave the structure alone but apparently decided, with everybody burning ISK and resources in the war, that it would be more fun to just blow it up. Which they did yesterday.
Vily issued a statement advising people to evacuate their stuff before it ends up in asset safety. Elsewhere (I cannot find it at the moment) Snuffed Out issued a statement that they could no longer abide a structure like that acting as a safe haven in their back yard.
At the beginning of the month Snuffed Out destroyed the Sixth Empire Keepstar, the most majestic structure of his holiness Max Singularity VI, also in the Sinq Laison region.
Delve Front
The past week saw PAPI’s operational tempo continue to escalate. The completed taking all of the ihubs in the SG-CTQ constellation, which includes the KarmaFleet home system of 39P-1J. Then on Wednesday in EUTZ they made a major push against the ihubs and cyno jammers in the O-EIMK constellation, which includes the Imperium capital system of 1DQ1-A.
The subsequent battle saw nearly half a trillion ISK in destruction as both sides traded blows in the constellation. The 8WA-Z6 system was the main focus of the clash, seeing 355 billion in losses alone.
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At the end of the fight, PAPI had managed to reinforce zero ihubs and only destroyed five cyno jammers, which could be replaced.
The fight, which saw fairly equal numbers, seemed to take the wind out of the PAPI sails again, and the remainder of the week saw only small actions in Delve, including the occasional feint towards the M2-XFE hell camp. Progodlegend blamed CCP node reinforcement for PAPI’s failure.
Delve – Feb 21, 2021
The Imperium continued to lose structures, but the main base of the coalition, 1DQ1-A and its surrounding systems, remains mostly unscathed nearly eight months into the war.
Meanwhile, on the weather watch, the two metaliminal storms that have come to Delve are both still hanging about. The Electrical storm, which looked to be headed to 1DQ1-A, turned back and headed towards the constellation containing the M2-XFE hell camp. I wonder who is hurt more by the lack of cloaking in the area. Then the Gamma storm headed into a dead end constellation, so will eventually roll back out into the rest of Delve at some point.
Other Theaters
In Querious, Brave and Siberian Squads have been in a shoving match over ihubs, with both sides taking and losing ihubs over the course of the week. Brave did score a coup just yesterday however, taking the ihub in W6V-VM, the Imperium staging system used by Siberian Squads. But the region is still in flux.
Querious – Feb 21, 2021
Catch and Impass, the other end of Brave’s problems, also remain in play.
Catch – Feb 21, 2021
Systems were reinforced that Brave had to defend and The Initiative managed to take another ihub in Catch. Brave’s core systems remain intact, but ihub timers there continue to be set, forcing them to defend.
Immensea was also the scene of more ihub action.
Immensea – Feb 21, 2021
Federation Uprising and Warped Intentions were both under pressure to defend.
And down in Esoteria, The Bastion and its allies kept the pressure on TEST in the region.
Esoteria – Feb 21, 2021
They did not take any further ihubs, but they managed to kill a TEST Sotiyo in what may be the most expensive engineering complex loss so far. The loot on the field valued at 100 billion ISK, is alleged to be greater in value than Brave’s SRP budget. Those in the know say that there were two titans in build when the structure was destroyed.
Further afield, Evictus began to evacuate Feythabolis, unanchoring structures, with an eye to moving into Delve.
My Participation
Valheim ate up a lot of my time, as it did the previous week. I still managed to find some time to go on a few fleets and sit in the M2 hellcamp, which always seems to have 100-150 people in it just waiting for some abandoned PAPI line member to log in and take the hit.
The bubbles still stand around the M2-XFE Keepstar
I did managed to log in to the 1DQ1-A constellation fight towards the end. There was a call for ECM burst interceptors to break locks on entosis ships as the vulnerability timer ended. I went out in a Malediction and made several runs at the PAPI forces around the ihub, which padded my kill board a bit.
As part of that I also managed to close with the TEST Wyvern that ended up trapped on its own and was quickly bubbled and attacked by Imperium forces.
Just had to get close enough to fire my pop-gun laser
I got on the kill and got to watch it explode. In that screen shot you can see a Nestor exploding… it may have been out to give the Wyvern pilot an opportunity to refit as the Nestor has that ability… the Wyvern itself, an Imperium Rorqual on its tail hungry for the loot and Salvage, and my Malediction interceptor racing to catch up.
Despite a couple of close calls, my losses for the war remain as follows:
- Ares interceptor – 15
- Malediction interceptor – 7
- Crusader interceptor – 5
- Atron entosis frigate – 6
- Rokh battleship – 5
- Drake battle cruiser – 4
- Scimitar logi – 3
- Ferox battle cruiser – 3
- Purifier stealth bomber – 3
- Guardian logi – 2
- Scalpel logi frigate – 2
- Raven battleship – 1
- Crucifier ECM frigate – 1
- Gnosis battlecruiser – 1
- Bifrost command destroyer – 1
- Cormorant destroyer – 1
- Hurricane battle cruiser – 1
- Sigil entosis industrial – 1
- Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I – 1
Other Items
With the Tuesday update CCP managed to break jumping to cynos. While an emergency fix went in quickly, requiring a launch restart for those already patched, this is the sort of thing that causes consternation out in null sec.
CCP released the Monthly Economic Report for January 2021, which includes the carnage from the hull timer battle at M2-XFE.
There was some alliance drama in Red Alliance, an ally of the Imperium. This led to people and corps jumping to other orgs, including Siberian Squads. The Russians are fractious and it is best not to get in the middle when they fall out.
Also, somebody on Reddit put together a map of null sec to illustrate the sides in the war at its start.
Null sec affiliation in the war
When somebody complains about the “blue donut” and they are in one of the alliances in the blue zone on that map, you are free to point and laugh.
At one point last week both sides in the war accused the other of padding their alliance numbers with freshly minted alts so as to hide any fail cascade. That sort of thing, if either side is doing it, won’t help with numbers in fleets, which is where line members count.
Brave chief Dunk Dinkle was attacked by a bee this past weekend. But he keeps bees. I am sure there are multiple metaphors for the war in that.
Also, I went through all of the weekly updates and added the tag WWB Weekly Update to them. Now you can click on that if you want to scroll back and see how the maps have changed over time, when Fountain Frank showed up, when I started actually putting maps in the weekly update, or any of the inconsistencies in my own reporting, of which I am sure there are many. It is all there in one long continuous scroll.
But you don’t have to go back to see the weekly peak concurrent user numbers, because I keep that going every week with the full list. This past week saw Saturday once again take the top spot for the week as the numbers fell back down to about the 36K mark:
- Day 1 – 38,838
- Week 1 – 37,034
- Week 2 – 34,799
- Week 3 – 34,692
- Week 4 – 35,583
- Week 5 – 35,479
- Week 6 – 34,974
- Week 7 – 38,299
- Week 8 – 35,650
- Week 9 – 35,075
- Week 10 – 35,812
- Week 11 – 35,165
- Week 12 – 36,671
- Week 13 – 35,618
- Week 14 – 39,681
- Week 15 – 40,359
- Week 16 – 36,642
- Week 17 – 37,695
- Week 18 – 36,632
- Week 19 – 35,816 (Saturday)
- Week 20 – 37,628 (Saturday)
- Week 21 – 34,888
- Week 22 – 33,264
- Week 23 – 33,149
- Week 24 – 32,807 (Saturday)
- Week 25 – 31,611
- Week 26 – 39,667 (Saturday)
- Week 27 – 34,989 (Saturday)
- Week 28 – 34,713
- Week 29 – 35,996
- Week 30 – 38,323
- Week 31 – 38,167
- Week 32 – 37,259
- Week 33 – 35,886 (Saturday)
Related
- INN – World War Bee: Week 33
- CCP – January 2021 Monthly Economic Report
- TAGN – The January MER Shows Destruction and Mineral Prices Soaring
- NEP – Red Alliance Rogue Director Crashes the Company Car
- INN – PAPI’s Current War Strategy
- INN – Ignoitton TTC Complex Under Attack, Destruction Likely
- INN – The Imperium Fights Back in 8WA-Z6
- INN – TEST Loses Most Expensive Sotiyo Ever
- INN – Fedup Loses a Legacy
- Reddit – Frat vs The Freemen of the North Week 7
- INN – Freemen hold D7-ZAC
- INN – FRT & The Freemen (ceasefire)
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