Brave Newbies have been successfully involved in Null Sec warfare and POS grinding out in the Catch region for a couple of months now. With Brave Collective now owning 70 systems in Catch and along with their blues of Test Alliance Please Ignore, Spaceship Samurai and others are quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with.
On Friday September 19th 2014 things may get interesting between these friends. Brave Collective announced a few days ago, and without informing their Coalition friends, that they will be holding a 24 hour ‘Piracy Day’. In five systems in Catch the normal rules will be suspended and Not Purple Shoot It will be enforced.
POS’s in the marked systems will be out of bounds and fleets should not be more than 10 men, though alliances are allowed to be formed between different pirate ‘fleets’
Friendlies will shoot friendlies, corp and alliance mates will smack each other in local and Coalition ties will be tested. Gangs of BNI that will be participating have been encouraged to fight each other, break each others camps and make alliances between other pirate ‘groups’ that can be made to fight other gangs and then broken just as quickly to back stab each other.
The five systems where this will take place are as follows; HED-GP, 9-8GBA, U-QVWD, Q-S7ZD and 3GD6-8. These are all the main entrances (and exits) from Catch. Anyone not purple in these systems will be considered fair game. Coalition member, corp mate, neutral, participating or not.
The BNI Leadership will be running a fleet throughout the day so if any of membership have always thought ‘I am better at PVP than these guys’ they will have the chance to prove it on the battlefield. This will also be a great way for Junior FC’s to climb the ranks a little, I foresee a number of BNI Junior FC’s fighting each other to try and be the best on the day.
BNI Leadership have announced that if any blues are destroyed outside of the marked systems (or ‘Pirate Coves’ as they are calling them) then they are to be reimbursed three fold by the attacking side. However within the zones marked for piracy all SRP will be suspended, whether you meant to be involved or just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
HED-GP station is also going to be free-ported by BNI on the day to ensure supplies can be sold from that market.
Let’s just hope enough time was given for all of Brave Collectives allies and friends to get the message, or there may be some very upset ex-allies by Saturday.
In related news September 19th also happens to be International Talk like a Pirate Day’ so fleet communications could be very interesting!
