The Imperium had over 800 pilots to Darkness and allies' 700 pilots, but they were significantly outgunned due to their lack of capital ship support. The station was surrounded in warp scrambling bubbles, placed by Imperium forces to prevent the assailing Darkness from retreating once they joined battle. Reinforcements were able to arrive at the station for the overwhelmed Reaver fleet.īefore long, over a thousand pilots were in ED-L9T fighting. Darkness was only beating us because they just kept feeding ships into it."ĭarkness and their allies had also made a critical mistake by not shutting down access to the system through camping the incoming stargates. "I recall seeing dreadnought after dreadnought after dreadnought getting dumped into a meat grinder. Utilizing incredible use of electronic warfare, The Imperium forces were able to significantly cripple the offensive power of the enemy fleet. ![]() As Suzy told me, that didn't faze them in the least. But compared to Darkness and their allies, who fielded a considerable force of triage as well as dreadnoughts, capital ships intended to burn the remaining defenses of the station and claim it as their own, the Reavers stood little chance. Piloting specialized Assault Cruisers, Ishtars, the Reavers had Pandemic Legion, Imperium Strategic Cruiser class Tengus, BRAVE ( a newbie-friendly alliance whose leader was recently the victim of an attempted usurping), and plenty of others. "It was like a giant middle finger saying you cannot beat us."Īs the battle began in earnest, The Imperium was able to muster a sizeable fleet to back up their Reavers in Querious. This was our claim, our flag in their backyard." "We had decided that, as a group, we were going to hold this station," Suzy said. The idea was that, while the battle was on, any Reaver could immediately warp off to replace lost combat drones without the need to dock at ED-L9T's station, saving them time and effort coordinating.Īgainst the might and resources of Darkness, NCDot, and other rival allies, the Reavers knew that they were fighting a losing battle, but, even so, they were determined to fight to every last man. The Reavers, Suzy told me, had placed mobile depots in various locations away from the battle, each one filled with drones. The night before, Suzy and the rest of the Reavers, along with both sides in the battle, were doing what they could to prepare for the final push to retake the station. In the early hours of June 6, the largest battle for ED-L9T began in earnest. "So, we had this system in ED-L9T and it just got way out of hand," Suzy said laughing. "You don't necessarily have to go to war as a 40 thousand-man coalition, you can do all these subversive things, like the Reavers." "I became fascinated with the political interactions and the manipulative ways of obtaining and maintaining power," Suzy told me. But it wasn't long, however, until Suzy made the leap into null-sec space, joining up with Wildly Inappropriate, a corporation within Goonswarm Federation, the core alliance of The Imperium. He started EVE Online like most, an overwhelmed newbie who, without much understanding of how to get involved in the larger social strata of EVE, shot rocks to make a living. ![]() Suzy RC Mudstone had only been with the Reavers for a brief time, but the battle of ED-L9T has already cemented itself as one of his most memorable moments of his time in EVE. "It was our last system in this region and we fought over it for a couple of weeks, just for this one station." "The last bastion was ED-L9T," Suzy said. They were deep behind enemy lines, far from the bulk of The Imperium forces, and, despite allies arriving to reinforce them, ED-L9T's defense was largely up to them. The battles were bloody, with the severely outnumbered Reavers doing what they could to resist the onslaught. They knew that, in order to get these systems back, Darkness would fight tooth and nail, but as the dust settled over ED-L9T on June 6, few could have anticipated the scope of destruction that was unleashed.ĭiverting their focus from the frontline conflict with The Imperium, Darkness and their allies began a concerted effort to retake the several systems captured by Reaver-led initiatives. Over the course of those seven weeks, they managed to capture several systems including ED-L9T. When the Reavers arrived in Querious, they never imagined that they'd wind up holding the keys to their enemy's back door. ![]() "We ended up actually taking and holding several systems and fighting and fighting for about seven weeks."
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