"The Ebb and Flow"
Tactical view of The Battle of Honey Pot - As filmed by a Lazerhawks pilot
The operation was a blinding success, beyond expectations. A true credit to Foedus and any others who had a hand in planning, scouting and leading the expedition. For our efforts that day, Isogen 5 pilots who fought were awarded a decoration. It was my first ever medal earned in the field of battle and to say I was feeling the utmost pride would be an understatement as Lotor pinned the shiny ornament on my form-fitting, little while catsuit. For some reason Dani missed out on a medal, a point of contention ever since, despite doing at least as much work as myself. It's one thing to shoot missiles at a primary, another all together to split neuts between targets while simultaneously managing drones. Regardless, my sister made me proud that day and with Legions fast becoming doctrine it would finally see her attending these major ops by my side.
Wormhole pvp corporation Unknown Crusade are a group of relative unknowns. If you have the time to inspect their killboard you might be forced to muffle a giggle, while not incredibly bad they're nowhere near spectacular either. But regardless of killboards you're still going to shit your catsuit when you jump into one of their bubble camps on a hole, as my younger sister Shelby did one morning while taking her new Astero out for a fly down chain.
Shelby Dusette > 2a legion, phobos, loki camping hole
Shelby Dusette > Didnt get corp, had to bail lol
Shelby retreated to the relative safety of our static and kept her eyes on the 2a hole, the other side of which lurked the Unknown Crusade pilots. While only spotting the three ships with bubble up on the hole, she had seen a lot more on her Dscan and knew something nasty was lurking in there. Our pilots were somewhat busy though, with Foedus, evil Blackjack, Jack Miton and some others currently out of our hole and flying either down chain or somewhere in nullsec. They were meeting little success though, and so everyone decided to return home to see if they could get a fight out of these Unknown Crusade people. Before everyone could get home, however, Camp Crusade had moved itself from the 2a hole onto ... our home hole.
Their fleet consisted of Two legions, a Loki, Confessor, Gila, two Guardians, Crow and a Phobos with it's bubble up. My friends couldn't get back in home. All flying non-cloaky ships such as Ishtars, there would be no way past the bubble camp to reship to something more suitable. Eager to give them a good fight though, we made an honorable and genuine offer in the time honored traditions and warm fighting spirit of Anoikin brother/sisterhood.
Over comms we discussed our next move. As it turned out Foedus had a ping off the static hole into our home, able to place him over 100k from the wormhole safely without being pulled into the bubble currently covering it. "I have an idea." Said Foedus over comms to everyone's interest. "Evil, are you ready for some really fancy flying?" . Foedus explained his plan, to warp in their Ishtars to the ping off static, drop sentry drones, blap the Confessor from long range and bail again. Ambitious and innovative, true Isogen 5 style. As she sat off the camp at range, cloaked in her Astero, Shelby watched as Foedus and evil blackjack warped in and carried out their plan with hilarious success, the enemy's confessor exploding almost instantly in a demoralizing ball of flame.
Within mere seconds Foedus had already locked the Confessor pilot's pod, caught in it's own bubble camp it too popped, sending green goo splashing all over the hulls of his now stunned fleetmates.
Life, like Suddenly Barghest™, ebbs and flows - going both ways in all wondrous, painful facets