SARANEN, Lonetrek — The Imperium, after being camped for days on their station, undocked and dealt a sound blow to the MBC.
On May 16, just before 0100 EVE time, a fight kicked off on the Imperium’s staging station in Saranen. In an all too common situation, the Imperium was being held inside their station as Pandemic Legion insta-lock Lokis camped them in. While this station is in lowsec and bubbles are not an issue, it still makes leaving the station in a bigger ship quite impossible without a proper insta-undock bookmark.
A ping went out to round up the troops for a fight against Pandemic Legion, prompting the Imperium to form a Hurricane fleet. The fight began, and as Pandemic legion undocked an Apostle for triage support, they soon realized the fight was not in their favor. In an attempt to dominate the field, Pandemic Legion jumped in at least nine dreadnoughts and nearly twenty Apostles. This, however, would not be enough, and the dreads melted to the gunfire of the Imperium fleet.
Although Northern Coalition came in with T3 cruisers to support their friends, the Imperium fleet reached what they call “critical mass”, which enables the fleet to attack with full capacity and effectiveness. This meant terrible news for the NC, as hails of gunfire one-shot their T3s. Pandemic Legion’s answer was full-on escalation; however, as they jumped in their super capitals, two titans bumped and were hurled away from the main fleet.One of the titans lit a cyno, bringing in multiple FAX carriers and supercarriers into the mix.
Although the Imperium took 681 losses during the fight, they still managed to destroy nearly 100B ISK in ships belonging to the MBC, while taking 55B ISK in damages. The nearly 155B ISK fight lasted for over two hours with TiDi ever-present. Many pilots guess that this was the MBC’s attempt to draw out a B-R 2.0, though the Imperium never escalated to anything heavier than battleships.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was written by Lemba, and originally appeared on TheMittani.com under his byline.)
