DECOY

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2024-03-14 21:30 - KZFV-4 Ihub Defence (INITIAL TIMER)

The Initiative brought a 120 pilot fleet to KZFV-4 and spooled up on our ihub:

They shot our ansiblex whilst waiting for the ihub timer - we jammed their entosis pilots wasting a bit of time. PanFam flash formed a Ferox Navy and Barghest fleet to brawl in KZFV-4.

Instead of gating out towards 2-KPW6, INIT took a 23-jump detour away from Scalding Pass through Great Wildlands to get home… only to be ambushed anyway.

Today, DECOY + PanFam prevented an INITIAL TIMER being created against us. Incredible work!!

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2024-03-15 14:00 - Astrahus Onlining

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2 days ago, we attempted to anchor an Astrahus in N3-JBX - and INIT responded with a 79-pilot fleet:

Today, we asked our friends to come along to support.

30 minutes before the timer started, INIT began entosising N3-JBX Ihub. Our team quickly mobilized and jammed their entosis (Great job @yabaa6418!!) and pushed them off grid, preventing another initial timer.

When the Astrahus became vulnerable - INIT decided they didn’t want to fight us and instead started to create another initial timer in VOL on our Athanor. We managed to ambush them in HLW on the VOL gate.

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2024-03-17 09:30 - F4R2 Keepstar AAR

Courtesy of alphaempire via Reddit

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Summary:

  • Imperium assaulted Pandafam Keepstar and mass pinged across all alliances - including INIT who is not in Imperium.
  • INIT vs Frat/BFL kicked it off in Curse as multiple fleets were pre-positioning for various Pandafam forts. INIT were in Tengus/Vagas and Pandafam largely in Paladins/Pancakes/TFIs.
  • As these fights were progressing, Imperium started attacking the jammer in F4R in Sacs, Zealot/Deimos, and CFIs to prepare for the Keepstar timer.
  • Pandafam F4R defense primarily used Rokhs, Barghs, Ravens, Nightmares, Vagas to defend.
  • INIT Tengus then came in F4R to help support vs the jammer.
  • Imperium and friends killed the first jammer, sacrificing dps against defenders as they were focused on the module that would stop capitals from coming in. Defenders (Pandafam) were shooting Imperium with full dps.
  • As Imperium and friends celebrated the jammer’s death, a stranger typed in local: “I anchored another one.” A second system jammer started to online this time with bubbles on it and Pandafam fleets sitting at optimal range with short range ammo loaded.
  • Ultimately, Imperium and friends warped to an Imperium Fortizar to disengage, but Pandafam kept pressuring and this time Pandafam fought on an Imperium Fortizar… Imperium and friends decided to take advantage of the grid that was in their favor. However, due to unknown reasons, two Imperium Zinitras, Black man, and Halal Csillag decided to not stay tethered on a safe Fort and started getting hit by 675 Pandafam subcaps. The impact was swift, and the battle report clearly showed the toll.
  • Imperium called off the assault, disengaged and ordered all caps to dock/leave, and subcaps exited or logged off in the system. F4R Keepstar repaired. INIT in the mean time went off on a high sec adventure.
  • As a side note, there was an interesting Imperium supercapital that was tackled in HY-RWO by Frat and BFL, where Imperium had to use supers against Frat/BFL subcaps. The resulting battle report can be found here.

DECOY formed Retributions & Dictors and headed towards our former home, G-0Q86. Our plan was to engage The Initiative and prevent them turning up to the fight; but we ended up fighting in this system anyway. We watched the fight happening from afar, and brought our team to execute the stragglers and provide support for the larger fleets on grid.

Once the fighting in G-0Q86 was over, we made our way across to F4R2-Q to do the same tactic here. In the end, we got around 40 kills and zero losses :slight_smile:

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2024-03-27 - Defensive Update

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Over 2 weeks of INIT’s deployment, DECOY has lost only 4 ihubs. Through our planning and readiness, we have intercepted several attempts before they even started:

13th March: Bifrost | Kizuto Nolm | Killmail | zKillboard
14th March: Drake | Shrisander | Killmail | zKillboard
15th March: Slasher | Enas Jaynara | Killmail | zKillboard
18th March: Slasher | Jason Droneslinger | Killmail | zKillboard
20th March: Slasher | Oreitina Shrisander | Killmail | zKillboard
21st March: Sigil | Mr Jump | Killmail | zKillboard

We’ve also taken great pleasure in following them home:

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2024-03-28 - THE INITIATIVE OUTFORMED & OUTMANEUVERED

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Earlier this week, The Initiative brought a 256-pilot Tengu fleet to reinforce our infrastructure in KZFV-4.

Today, we had a series of armour timers that Pandemic Horde & friends came to support us with.

INIT travelled with Vagabonds and setup on the strucutre ready to shoot it, but got distracted in 2-KPW6 by a roaming gang. As INIT travelled back to our structure, Pandemic Horde bridged in a Paladin Fleet to the same position, allowing them to spread tackle and volley through.

INIT were losing ships incredibly fast, forcing all their pilots to ‘starburst’ out of bubbles to save themselves:

This tactic happens when the fleet commanders are unable to control the positioning of the fleet and have been overwhelmed. Instead of coordinating, every pilot in the fleet is on their own - trying their best to extract from a dangerous situation.

DECOY is recruiting!

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Thank you friends for coming to help, it was a blast to see that warp-in and then the starburst!

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Do you like challenges and playing in null-sec within a small but close-knit alliance?
JOIN DECOY!

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Go touch Grass

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THE INITIATIVE UNDEPLOYS FROM G-0Q86!

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INIT has returned their deathclones to Fountain, leaving only jump-clones in G-0Q86. This means they will have very little presence in our space outside of organised ops.

They tried cloaky camping us and making initial timers against us - but they were ineffective and useless unless they formed 100+ pilots. And even then; thanks to our friends in Pandemic Horde, we annihilated INIT every time.

It is a testament to our alliance strength that INIT gave up after just 3 weeks.

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Come back init I was enjoying that spice.

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Last night, FL33T captured a TCU/IHub previously owned by VAPOR in F-5FDA.

It is unclear what FL33T has planned for this area; but fielding this many dreads looks like they’re willing to fight. So far, we have had a couple of sovereignty attacks on DECOY, but nothing significant yet.

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How does scan.eveonline.it know what ships I’ve been in without being on a killmail?

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G-0Q86 LIBERATED

As INIT has moved their assets out of G-0Q86, they have lost both their staging Fortizar and their Evac Fortizar. DECOY will continue to be aggressive after their departure.

Meanwhile in Scalding Pass; DECOY has ramped up their historic offensive campaign against Death or Glory, who previously invited other Russian alliances to deploy against us when we setup in Curse:

FL33T has also been causing grief to the region by attacking VAPOR and destroying their citadels, so DECOY attended a recent timer in Machariels:

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Scalding Pass - DoG & Frenemies

Since moving into G-0Q86, Death or Glory has consistently been a threat to DECOY. When numbers are evenly matched, DoG do not show. But when they have help from their allies, a lot of force comes towards our team.

Over the last few weeks, Deepwater Hooligans has shown an interest in owning metenox across in Curse; so DECOY found some more opporunities for conflict.

2024-07-28 16:45 - DoG Athanor Double-Kill

DECOY reinforced 2x DoG Citadels earlier in the week - both Deepwater Hooligans and Synergy of Steel turned up to help kill them too!

Shortly after we began making progress against DoG, the winds changed and The Imperium deployed south. Their MAX-CTA to anchor a Keepstar saw INIT create 9 offensive timers against DECOY:

2024-07-30 22:00 - Skyhook Fights

The Initative used their MAX CTA on Sunday to reinforce 3 of our skyhooks; they returned today with a Retribution fleet followed closely by BRAVE + GOONS.
DECOY truly acted like a DECOY today, and distracted INIT long enough that they didn’t make it to support their brothers in combat. We lost one Skyhook, in exchange for 18b of The Imperium.

2024-08-04 19:30 - DoG Fortizar + Imperium Gatecrashers

Today, DoG formed a TFI Fleet to fight against SYN’s Hurricane Fleet Issues. DECOY formed Harpies anticipating Tornados, so we didn’t do much damage at the beginning, but managed to catch a few warping off for safety:

After SYN engaged DoG, a cyno went up and Triumvirate came to assist DoG. Moments later, a second cyno went up - BIGAB arrived to shoot Triumvirate :Burn:

DoG + TRI were pushed off quite comfortably, but as DECOY was on grid… Goonswarm appeared with an additional 100-pilot fleet. Trapping themselves in a dead-end pipe, Horde + FRT then dogpiled BRAVE, as they attempted to regroup with Goonswarm.

In the end - we had an 800-pilot showdown, where we were incredible ISK positive. Great work everyone :partying_face:

2024-08-06 20:30 - Flashform for 220 INIT in Local

We saw a large amount of INIT Kikimoras in N3-JBX, which can only mean one thing - they want to reinforce our Fortizar.
DECOY travelled through first and started playing with the back of the pack, giving enough time for PanFam to arrive and nuke the INIT fleet. A timer was not created against us on this day; we killed them too soon!

It is currently uncertain how aggressive INIT will be, but once again, we will be ready.

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2024-08-13 21:00 - Watching Utopia

INIT formed to destroy a nearby neutral Metenox, and DECOY blops’d in to kill one of their stragglers on the first jump out of system. They sat their 100 pilot fleet on that gate for a further 20 minutes:

2024-08-18 20:00 - INIT DEPLOYS CLOSER

Wanting to be nearer to the action, INIT redeploys their army to the G-0Q86 Fortizar. A lot of our infrastructure is now in range of their stager, so DECOY remains on high alert.

2024-08-20 20:00 - Tuesday Night Reinforcements:

Over the course of 2 hours, INIT brought 230 pilots to reinforce a collection of our citadels, all of which safely repaired:

System Citadel Type Status
N3-JBX Ansiblex Repaired
GN-PDU Astrahus Repaired
HJ-BCH Athanor Repaired
71-UTX Athanor Repaired
WFFE-4 Athanor Repaired
Y5-E1U Athanor Repaired

2024-08-22 08:00 - Hostile Prep Work

INIT formed a 30-pilot fleet to shoot our ansiblex, giving them an advantage later that night. We managed to push them off with a Vargur and light tackle.

2024-08-22 22:00 - More Reinforcements, ft Goonswarm

Knowing the Ansiblex was a target, I unanchored it shortly before Goons and INIT arrived. They pushed our N3-JBX Fortizar into an armor timer, AND reinforced the ihub in the same system. DECOY repaired the ihub in record time and the Fortizar turned into a massive brawl.

2024-08-24 - 10:00 - Fortizar Defence

Friendly Ship Type Hostiles
0 Titan 1
0 Supercarrier 43
0 Carriers 119
0 Dreads 22
0 Fax 4
132 Battleships 678
2 Battlecruisers 208
433 Heavy Assault Cruisers 0
567 Effective DPS Ships 1,075
206b ISK Lost 138b

Despite being significantly outformed; PanFam still wanted to take the fight and destroy and many Faction Battleships as possible. The best thing for the Battle Report would have been to extract the moment the Supers/Carriers dropped, but we chose to continue fighting.
More impressively, DECOY had enough in fleet to have their own seperate wing. We’ve come a long way since forming Harpies to thin-out tackle/support ships!

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THE INITIATIVE UNDEPLOYS FROM G-0Q86

That’s right; DECOY has survived a SECOND eviction attempt vs The Initiative. In fact, we’ve only grown in size.

We had to restage after our main Fortizar in KZFV-4 was destroyed, but this minor inconvenience was resolved by anchoring a new home in IAK-JW a few days later.

As INIT left for Fountain, they transferred their Fortizar to a neutral entity to avoid a lossmail. :thinking:

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With The Imperium moving away from us, DECOY is now embracing the new sovereignty system and upgrading our ihubs and infrastructure. Let’s see what changes without the Zarzakh projection!

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Dominion. has joined DECOY! Find our corp info here if you want to see what life is like in Scalding Pass!

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DECOY - 2024 Wrap Up

What’s happened with DECOY this year?

January - We were comfortably established in Curse having taken most of the Moons from the local residents and owning a freeport Fortizar. We had a small amount of sovereignty in Scalding Pass and became good friends with other alliances within the SEA.

February - DECOY officially joins PanFam.

March - INIT deployed against us and destroyed our staging Fortizar in G-0Q86. We move our stager to KZFV. Our friends from Core Industries setup a new corporation called Lemming Tranining INC. and join DECOY

April - INIT undeploys from G-0Q86. A few aggressive alliances push into the SEA territory and DECOY supports the defenders, earning the hearts of NAVY, VAPOR and APOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYIEK5PoTY

May - We destroyed the remaining INIT infrastructure from their previous deployment. DO.IT hosted a corp meeting in Livorno, we had an incredible party :slight_smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5LvuTL_SrI

June - DECOY actively supports the Panfam push into Catch

July - DECOY held an alliance meeting in Nottingham, meeting some incredible people from all over the world!! (Time to start planning the 2025 meet!)

August - INIT redeploys to G-0Q86, destroying some of our sov in east-Scalding Pass

September - INIT undeploys from G-0Q86. Dominion. joins DECOY

October - DO.IT and Lemming Training Inc. leave DECOY to pursue a different playstyle. Wishing you all the best!

November - EVE: Revenant was released and DECOY quietly observed other teams playstyles. We ramped up local harvesting and deploy across to PR-8CA with Horde.

December - A quiet month, as we get more involved in roams and smaller skirmishes. Dominion. leaves DECOY for Sigma Grindset.

So what’s next for DECOY?

DECOY’s goal is to always have something available for pilots to do - whether that’s combat, industry or exploration - and be proud to wave the DECOY flag whilst taking part.

With the changes implemented by EVE Online, there are a lot more tasks to complete to maintain space. We will create several groups to oversee this - which will benefit us as we upscale.

With the changes implemented by players, 2025 will begin as a year of heavy roaming. We will see more traffic than usual in our home space, but we will also be the traffic in neutral space.

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2025 - Grand Reset, Growth and Content Deployments

We started this year taking part in the Grand Reset across the map; getting involved in the ‘roaming’ content. I do miss the campaign-style gameplay, but it’s nice to wander in and out of hostile space.

Imperium alliance Shadow Ultimatum deployed against us and created a wall of 30 timers across 4 days. DECOY successfullly defended every one, with a few BRs to show for it:

2025-01-28 19:00 - XV-MWG Astrahus Defence

Goonswarm, Brave, Sigma and Shadow Ultimatum all formed for our Astrahus today; DECOY formed an Artillery Machariel fleet alongside BFL, HOLD MY PROBS, Phoenix Cartel and No Value.

Prior to the fight starting, DECOY decloaked and killed two in-cynos from the hostile fleet:
Arazu | linputz | Killmail | zKillboard - SIGMA Arazu
Manticore | Foxy Foxythefox | Killmail | zKillboard - Goonswarm Manticore

Knowing they had to walk, DECOY setup Arty Machariels on the ingate. Goons entered from a different system, so we repositioned onto the Fortizar.

Goon Tengus, SIGMA Jackdaws and SHADO FNI’s began orbiting the structure, as friendly FNI’s landed on grid to defend it. The FNI’s detethered to aggress, but this was a trap - BRAVE Vagabonds warped on top of them at zero.
Fortunately, we were prepared - BFL Barghests counter-dropped the Vagabonds, scrambling their FCs and killing the command ships early on. This gave DECOY a chance to position so we weren’t in range of ALL the hostile fleets at the same time. Our logi was primary early on, but we didn’t lose anything :trophy:

We fragged some of the Vagabonds, then switched to the Jackdaws coming close, then had to warp away from a bombing run. Whilst the fight was happening, both Goons and Horde pinged for reinforcements; attached is an audio clip from the Goon fleet as they got scared by our numbers.

Please enjoy the screenshot of the BRAVE FC ejecting from their ship :slight_smile:
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2025-01-28 20:45 - KZFV-4 Astrahus Defence
Goonswarm formed a fleet from UALX to finish off our Citadel. Predicting their moves, etin eram kept our structure bubbled at zero and several bees swarmed towards it, and Miwanow Kregoolan bubbled their outgate and decloaked the rest. Flawless victory, citadel saved :sunglasses:

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DECOY WILL BE EXITING THE PANDEMIC FAMILY

On Sunday March 2nd at downtime, DECOY will no longer be a member of the Pandemic Family. Our pilots have had some great fun with fleets, deployments and fighting off multiple Imperium deployments; but ultimately we are seeking adventure from a team with a similar mindset to our original vision.

DECOY is taking its pilots across to Phoenix Coalition; a team formed at a similar time as the SEA, but who made it important to collaborate on the defence of its space as opposed to multiple different alliances trusted to just ‘play nice’. These pilots are living to the same values as we did as we started - and I know this is a place we will thrive.

We are excited for our future collaboration!

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