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Anya relates the events leading up to the liberation of Huola from the Amarr Empire.  EPIC

This is a rough log of how the Huola system fell into the hands of the Minmatar Republic, Voshud Major Anya Sulii transcribing.


2 December 2011
Silence iKillYouu goes on a rampage against Imperial Outlaws, podding one of their more prominent members (Shalee Lianne), killing an Outlaws carrier and finally attacking their customs office in Huola, putting it into reinforced.

Later he contacts me about setting up a Huang Yinglong customs office once the Outlaws one is finally destroyed. I talk to corp leadership and get the OK. Still later in the day Silence asks me to help take the Huola system from the Amarr. I agree to help but entertain doubts that it can actually be done since it is the Amarr ‘main base’ and has never fallen. Nevertheless, I begin plexing in Huola.

3 December 2011
The push to take Huola gets into full swing with Silence, myself, Bischopt, Mazer and Penguin68 taking plexes as soon as they appear. I begin to realize that the new plexing mechanic lends itself more to blitzkrieg tactics than the protracted sieges of previous times and that if we can keep the pressure up we may very well be able to take the system.

(editors note:  Anya procured one of the funniest killmails I’ve ever seen here.  The reaper is in fact a new Tornado heavy battlecruiser, but the Minmatar Militia systems haven’t been upgraded yet.)

Little resistance is encountered from the Amarr at first but after downtime I begin finding Amarr ships everywhere I go and concede several plexes to them.

On a related note while this was going on, sasawong made Raa vulnerable to attack. Sadly repeated pleas for a fleet to conquer the system fell on deaf ears and the few pilots (myself included) that did respond could make no impression on the bunker’s massive shields. After 45min of continuous firing the Raa bunker fleet retreated as an Amarrian counterfleet arrived. I began to doubt whether or not we would take either system.

4 December 2011
The Outlaws customs office comes out of reinforced and a TRIAD-led militia fleet is formed to kill it. The Amarr counterattacked and the battle went badly for us. However our pilots regrouped and attacked again, holding the field in round two and reinforcing the customs office again.

Lacking a proper ship for the fleet, I had continued to plex in Huola. Silence informed me that we were getting close to making the system vulnerable and I redoubled my efforts before being forced out of my pod for a nap. Once allowed back in my pod I continued to plex while keeping a wary eye out for the surge of Amarrian militia that become active around that time. Fortunately the enemy seemed to be in a sort of torpor as I never saw more than two in system at any time.

Upon completing the second plex I received the message that the control bunker was now vulnerable to attacks. I quickly broadcast this on several militia intel channels but didn’t expect much enthusiasm since a similar call to take Raa ended in a humiliating retreat. To my surprise the ‘daylight’ militia formed up quickly and in large numbers, sending a battleship fleet under the command of Annah Kitheran towards Huola while several cap pilots prepared to jump into the system.

Brushing aside an enemy fleet led by Damar Rocarion, Annah’s fleet landed on the bunker and lit a cyno for the capital ship pilots. All was in place; the bunker started to crumble under the fire unleashed upon it.

Then the Amarr tried one last tactic; they opened up two plexes, one small and one medium sized and started to run those down. If they could finish one before the bunker was finished it would become unlockable once more and our attack would fail. I volunteered to attack the Amarr inside the small plex since that would be the one that finished before the bunker could be killed.

I loaded my pod into an old Rifter and together with Bischopt of Ice Fire Warriors in his Cormorant we activated the acceleration gate. Inside were two enemy ships, a Punisher and an Imperial Navy Slicer. I didn’t think we would be able to defeat them as the ship I was in was so old it still had obsolescent ‘tech I’ equipment installed except for the guns. Also the Slicer was piloted by the very dangerous Lord Morgo of the Imperial Feydakin.

I knew I didn’t have to win, just keep them from finishing the plex so I charged the Punisher while Bischopt moved towards Lord Morgo and caused him to move away before turning around and coming to assist me with the Punisher. After a short engagement the Punisher went down and I prepared to watch my Rifter explode under Lord Morgo’s lasers.

Then one of those rare events in ship combat occurred: an expert pilot makes a major mistake. Lord Morgo had moved within scram/web range of my Rifter! I activated both and went in for the kill. Without its speed advantage any Slicer is doomed to die; Bischopt and I tore it apart at point blank range.

With our opponents dead (literally in the case of the Punisher pilot) I prepared to dock up and switch my pod to a battleship to help finish off the bunker but mid-warp I was informed that the bunker had gone down and Huola was ours. With much rejoycing the capitals were cyno’ed back to their home stations and the battleship fleet went back to its start point.

6 December 2011
Silence’s continuous attacks on the Imperial Outlaws customs office finally bear fruit. Not only is the office destroyed but the Amarrian defending fleet was slaughtered, losing five capital ships and a number of other ships.

While Eran Mintor’s Nidhoggur and Daemonde Ardishapur’s Archon were destroyed by the militia the three Revelation dreadnoughts shamefully self-destructed after being abandoned by the remaining Amarrian subcapitals.

Sadly I was not able to participate but Dohl Khrensen brought a customs gantry with upgrade materials and planted the Huang Yinglong standard over the Amarrian-inhabited world of Huola VII.