Phoebe seems to have opened up fronts for smaller alliances to attack. Supercell, formerly a renter alliance of Brothers Of Tangra and Shadow of xXDeathXx, are one of these alliances.
A week ago, RAZOR Alliance managed to capture HB-5L3 which connects Tenal to Cobalt Edge. Supercell, who live close to this system knew that it was time for them to stake a claim and plant their flag because their corporations weren’t making any revenue as they sat.
They knew that RAZOR would likely have difficulty defending the structures as they onlined, so Supercell started forming small groups of bombers. With these small fleets they started performing their ”Stealth-bomber terror”. SBUs that were in system were engaged and took damage with no retort from RAZOR.
**UPDATE** The bombers that took down the SBU’s were actually a DeepSpace Manufacturers fleet, who are part of Shadow of xXDEATHXx and was nothing to do with Supercell.
**UPDATE** Supercell. did attack the TCU’s of RAZOR Alliance with a Battleship fleet along with a wing of destroyers for extra DPS. However Supercell. have since stated that they hold no interest in capturing HB- or any RAZOR SOV at the current time.
A fleet was formed, members joined and they all flew over to the IHUB preparing to fight a possible RAZOR defense fleet. They started attacking the IHUB, but again there was no response from RAZOR alliance….
The IHUB went into reinforced and Supercell members, who had previously seen themselves as just simple renters, began to see themselves as an alliance which can engage in sov warfare with one of the oldest entities in the game, and were now looking forward with dour-eyed determination, ready to do whatever it takes to capture a system they could call their own.
**UPDATE** As of 1130 ET on the 17th November 2014, there is no IHUB in reinforced in HB-5L3. Considering the timer shown in the picture and the timestamps of the TCU killmails, there should still be a couple of hours left on it at this time. According to sources in RAZOR the IHUB was never in reinforced in HB-.
However, it didn’t all go Supercell’s way. While attacking the TCUs the alliance brought their battleship fleet with a wing of Catalysts as escort. Out of the 82 Catalysts that Supercell fielded they lost every single one and also managed to lose a Raven and an Abaddon. This was not to a RAZOR Fleet, or indeed any fleet. The losses came courtesy of a Minmatar POS Tower with a lone RAZOR Malediction pilot manning the guns.
I tracked down Dograzor, one of the Razor Alliance’s diplomatic contacts. They confirmed that two of their spare SBUs were destroyed but refused to comment whether they will defend against Supercell’s aggression or form to defend the IHUB when its reinforcement timer ends.
Whether or not this has anything to do with the recent loss of the Repercussus [-R.P-] corp, which included a lot of their USTZ members and one of RAZOR alliances’ main USTZ FCs, is something on which RAZOR would also not comment. However, until RAZOR field a fleet in the USTZ and commit to a fight we will not know how this has affected their alliance.
**UPDATE** I received this EvE Mail from wooooooooo, CEO of Supercell.
FIRST OF ALL, this is not a RIOT. AND WE DON’T WANT TO GAIN THAT SYSTEMS SOVEREIGNTY. AND WE DON’T WANT TO GAIN DRONE REGION’s SOVEREIGNTY. YOUR ARTICLES MAKE US RIOTER, BUT THAT IS NOT A FACT.
1. We are not after RAZOR’s sov.
2. Catalyst fleet is just for extra dps.
3. Holding sov is extremely hard. we are weak. and WE DON’T WANT TO GAIN THEIR SOVs. WE know we are weak, not enough to gain sov, and maintaining that sov.
4. We want to ally with XIX
we want sov? yes.
we want sov right now? no.Your articles says we want sov and we want to conquer hb-5l3 but that is not true. This is not a riot. just we want encouraging drone regions and finding corporation, alliance against that incidents. THIS IS NOT A RIOT. WE DON’T WANT GAIN THAT SOVEREIGNTY. NOT A RIOT.
Your articles make us a rioter. This is really bad. You need to changes your article
Kill: Sovereignty Blockade Unit
Kill: Sovereignty Blockade Unit
Kill: Sovereignty Blockade Unitand, this SBU Terror is not performed by supercell. this is planned by DMANS, and performed by DMANS,
**Retraction from the Author** Due to faulty information this article is pretty much awful, I do not have to much of an ego to admit when I make a mistake.
Facts should of been checked before going to print and this is my fault and my fault alone, taking what people say at face value and printing before checking the facts is a big no no in reporting and I will endeavour to learn from this and bring you factual, up to date EvE news.
I apologise to RAZOR Alliance, Supercell. and Shadow of xXDEATHXx for not representing you correctly in the article and I also apologize to you, the readers of EvE News 24.
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