Recently Psychotic Tendencies. [TISHU] and Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns <HORN> reset each other.
Under the leadership of Lex Arson, TISHU is agreeing to blue standings to powerful entities in the Syndicate area, such as Overload Everything [8URNT]. This is to allow TISHU easier reign over the local money moons and cement their status as the ‘Big Kid on the Block’.
According to information, HORN did not wish to expand their blue list to the extent that TISHU had, so a reset between the two occurred. Most of the locals in the area did not believe the fracture between the two was legitimate, as it had been faked previously. However recent evidence and an interview with both sides suggest that the new neutrality between the two, once friendly alliances, may actually be real this time around. More information on the split can be found here.
On the morning of the 10th December 2014, HORN set up an extremely well orchestrated titan execution and daringly, staged the attack in the TISHU home system of Vestouve.
I caught up with Andrejs L, CEO of Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns for an explanation and some back story on what happened this morning.
A Psychotic Tendencies. member asked one of his titan pilots, Cormeas Bane to log on and set up a bridge for one of his alts. What Cormeas wasn’t aware of is that the member asking was also a HORN member and this would be the last action his titan would ever perform. As soon as the bridge was activated and the titan was stuck in place for a time while the bridge was open, the trap sprung into motion.
The character who had asked for the bridge, de Berry, dropped fleet and joined the incoming HORN fleet, Andrejs L himself then logged on one of his own alts, one that happened to have POS roles in the corporation which owned the tower where the titan was currently stuck with an active jump portal. The tower was quickly offlined by Andrejs L’s alt.
Logged off Heavy Interdiction Cruisers which were waiting two jumps out began burning to the stricken Erebus. The waiting HORN capital fleet undocked and awaited confirmation of a hard tackle and that their cyno was open.
The cyno was opened and the HORN ghost riders went in first (IE Carriers who had more Heavy Interdictor Cruisers in their ship maintenance bay) Dreadnaughts were waiting tensely the command for them to jump once tackle had been established. The command came and the fleet, including a Nyx, piled in to destroy the titan.
One can hear from the Tishu comms recording (here), that the rescue effort was hasty and ineffective as the information that was coming through from the caught titan pilot was more of a shocked nature than actual information that his alliance mates could use. As one can imagine, the titan pilot was caught completely flat footed by the events, and his current fit did not allow much time to react. Not only had the titan pilot just been betrayed by someone he thought was a friendly, he had also watched yet another blue offline his protective tower and light a cyno. I don’t blame him for being shocked and surprised by this.
The capitals which HORN used in this operation managed to warped to a POS which had been set up specifically for this mission. This shows serious forplanning in the event. TISHU HIC’s landed on field but were unable to catch any of the HORN fleet. Had the titan been tank fitted this may have been a really scary, but not titan-costly, lesson in corporation security and may have even become costly for the HORN fleet as TISHU would likely have called in reinforcements from friendly alliances.
Intensified Hostility, which is the corporation that controlled the POS the titan was in at the time, was once part of HORN alliance. During this period Andrejs L had put an alt into the corporation for POS management purposes and, while the corporation was no longer in HORN, the alt was never removed. After the the two alliance parted ways in, what was reported a friendly manner but has become less an less so as the time has gone on, the alt was used as the key component in this titan awox.
I also spoke to Jayarr Altol, senior member of Adversity. which is part of Psychotic Tendencies. and he had this to say;
It’s (the titan loss) a consequence of a small corp with a lapse of security. We lose capitals in our line of work, such is life. John Selth was first and foremost a member of HORN although some of his alts were in TISHU, alts like de Berry who was instrumental in taking down the titan. We were still friendly with HORN up until tonight.
When asked about why this happened between two previously friendly alliances and what they can see happening in the future Jayarr said this;
Simply, AndrejL will be Andrej. He is quite sociopathic and HORN are basically a dead alliance, their role has been assumed now by tinkerhell. We have no current plans to work again with Andrej, even if he is still around here. It is sad that it comes to this, and leaves Andrej with really one left but his stagnant corp.
Ninja Unicorns have made a video of the kill:
