Early on the 7th November 2014 a message went out from LadyScarlet of the Northern Coalition. alliance that was meant for the entirety of their renter alliance, Northern Associates.
Sent:2014-11-07 03:45:00
there is much goon activity around omist area you need to watch yourselves don’t be useing caps without proper defense.
shoot hostile sbus when you can
e appreciate all those who been helping keep up the good work!!! please be safe and watch intell channels. Always”
Northern Coalition. are currently stationed in Querious and are concentrating on the local area and Period Basis, having taken a number of systems, and they are making good headway into securing the patch for themselves and the N3 as a whole. However, they are meeting resistance from alliances like Fatal Ascension, Get Off My Lawn and C0VEN, who also live within a couple of regions of Querious.
I asked LadyScarlet if shooting SBU’s should be an NC. job and not a job for their renters? I also asked if this means NC. will be using their renters in a more combat oriented way in the future? Or is this just to try and keep NC. focused on Querious while also trying keep other regions?
Well, you first have to understand Omist and so on is N3 space not just NC. space.
NC. is predominantly around Querious/Period Basis and so on. That doesn’t mean we won’t help but we also have russians to deal with in our own area of operation. Nulli Secunda and the other N3 groups are around omist and are dealing with that side of things.
Many of our renters ask what they can do to help out with the war effort. Obviously shooting enemy Sovereignty Blockade Units is the biggest and most simple thing they can do, because many aren’t pvp corps and we wouldn’t want them needlessly dying to stuff they can’t defend against.
This makes total sense to me.
Why try and split your forces, or have your forces concentrated on minding the home fires, when you have a group of capable pilots that can, if push comes to shove, help defend their own space? Grinding things like SBUs is easy to do, doesn’t take a greatly skilled FC and can be done in bombers or other cheap and cheerful ships. In doing this Northern Associates. have freed alliances like Nulli Secunda and Northern Coalition. to continue harassing the CFC and take more space for the N3.
However N3 need to be careful because if they continue to expand, they leave themselves open to attacks on numerous fronts and this will continue to stretch supply lines. It will also make it difficult for themselves to react to a catastrophe, should one arise behind their lines.
Over expanding, especially since the Phoebe patch, could sign the death warrant of a number of large alliances if they expand too far and are unable, through jump limitations, to redeploy quickly and react to attacks on individual borders.
One loss that occurred just after LadyScarlet sent her mail regarding the careful use of capital assets was a Nyx belonging to Lingua Mortis, of Combat Matous, Northern Associates., destroyed by a 70 man CFC Ishtar/other stuff gang in L-AS00 in Omist. There are suggestions that he may have been shooting an SBU at the time of his destruction, however I have been unable to verify this and when asked, LadyScarlet said she had no information about the Nyx loss or it’s activities at the time.
It has been rumoured recently that a small gang of CFC pilots have created what has become known as a ‘Reaver’ gang, with the sole purpose of getting behind the N3 lines to disrupt their ISK making in certain regions while also taking pot-shots at POS in the area to generate annoying notifications for the owners.
Whether or not this kill proves the existence of a ‘Reaver’ gang or whether it is merely evidence that Phoebe has brought back the art of roaming for kills rather than sitting on a titan is still up for debate. One thing is certain: winter is coming.
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