English is not my first langrige, so sorry for typos.
I Wish remain nameless, as i not give any name out in this writing. Reason simple: i wish not create drama.
This events happened 2 year ago, human memory inperfect maybe i miss things, if dear reader find error somewhere pls comment on it to fix it.
TLDR:
i started play eve as invasion happened.
Joined Edencome, do battle after battle aginst trigs, learned to be logi,prober,fc. Have tons of fun.
Probably a bit burned out.
After event and betrayal plus removal accesible invasion stuff, went afk.
Intorduction
I started this writing after i seen fanfest 2022 on youtube.
Here CCP annuanced new story driven arc comming similar to Triglavian invasion.
After the video i visited eve uni to check out how others remember the invasion. Not so many things recorded. This point i know i have to write down my experiences before all got forgatten.
Here i write down what i experienced, what this do to me( i mean feelings), what and what and how happened, what tactics and shinigans deployed .
Where i shuld start this loong story? maybe the end? maybe the begining?
The end is unhapy, so we start the beggining.
Chapter 1
Prologe - Begginings my eve carrier during invasion
I heard EVE existence years before i started playing in 2020. Pick my intrest as online game with lot of oportunity and extrame complexiti in it.
So i started read about articles what is this “thing” how its works ect. I found intresting the inner mechanicks ect. EVE Uni. and other soruces helped a lot understand the game
without playing. When i created my first character i hope i not do evrything wrong only 60% percent or so… then realized no amount of article and reading can prepare me to what is inside.
This si aboslute positive from me, i liked it lot of new stuff to discover try out and the same time avoid getting killed by others( as i learned this common occurance 
).
I know from the start in this game no mater what players made, the things only made to get destroyed, the question is only when and how get destroyed.
The time i get used to basic things around trgilivain invasion final chapter is in full swing. As new pilot who started learn how to fly frigattes and capable to do T1 missions i wished to join.
Become one of the heroes who defend New eden hig sec aginst the invaders. I wanted take part of it!
With my T1 frigatte as i get enught brave i raced to the nearest invaded system and tryed fallow in-game guides to take part of the fight.
I found something called minior conduit in anomalys i jumped it and i see a large fleet killing triglavians so i joined to fray and started killing the invaders.
I dont know at this time how to request invitation to Edencome sided fleets that fight aginst invaders. Nethier i know how this Triglavians realy dangerus.
After first few conduit my luck run out i get primeryd by Triglavians and killed before i realized what going to happen.
In other games most player probably say like this:" Poor noob not knwo what is in, trying to punch above her wight and get killed. Go do missions that your level."
But this is EVE! One pilot in the 120+ man fleet started conversion to me, soon he find out my intention and started help me. Give me isk invited me to the fleet that killing traglivians.
I get a new ship a logistick ship, joined a sub grup of the fleet that contained logis only. At the time i dont know this part of fleet called O-Logi or offensive logistic.
Later episode i write more the invasion mechanics and what role what job do when and why. At this point i know nothing things like it.
I know only i need repair Edencome NPCs that get ultimatly slaugathered by other players that call them self kybernauts, flying same type of ships as invaders do.
Most of them in poratit wear strange balck amsk and clothing. I gruped up with few very big white ship, called Nestors. Fly alongside them and do repairs, fallow the kybernauts grup from site to site.
No matter how hard we tryed keep alive the npcs they get killed, but at this point soemthing important happened.
I started feel waht littile i can do its matters! As i messed up my repair cylces or run out of cap. the npc i reped died more quik, if i do all thing right npc live more.
As littile firggate logi can keep few npc live just a littile bit longer. This time the npc do damage the other players and slow them down.
Quickly understand what happening in the system: Both side kiling each other, i mean npcs (mostly…). The side that do more killing win the battle. Simple is that.
As i and others keep npc alive a bit longer others in the fleet do killing of the invaders. This way i can slow down the death of Edencoem NPCs and give more advance to my side.
We do this gods know how many hours long. I get littile shakes as i remember and write this lines. The old feelings first big fleet memorys, many many first.
Ower time we win the battle aginst the invasion this system. Feelt great i become one of the many who foguth for higsec in EDENCOME side.
During this event i to busy the realise how lucritive is this to me. I got mabye a million or three million isk not remember.
At this point of the game it is very big money for a new character! I got back 2 or 3 times of my invesments isk whise!
This all happened becuse one player in the fleet started help me, started talk to me. This and a lot of help i got in the fleet set me the way. The way that lead events effected great my time in eve.
I write down here this experiences.
I learned all of eve player extremly new player frendly, and help the fresh players a lot. This is fantastic i love it!
Chapter 2
Corp, the first big ship, big fleet experience
I not remember the corect order of things. After my first explosure to triglavian invasion or after i becoem a member of tiny littile higsec corp. This corp sided with Edencome.
Give me metric tons of help, destroyers, knowlage isk, books to start my carrier in eve. Cannot say thanks for this enught to them.
As days passed new system get invaded. This time a highsec iland system that cowered around low sec systems. I wanted to join the fleet that pulled togedher to do this fallowed ony of my corp mate advices and instructions.
Brought a very expensive Gnosis. This big boy( probably 4 times larger than my frigatte) cost a furtune of isk, equiping it coretly with t1 standard items take another fortune.
To particapte this fleet i needed at least 50% resist to all type of damage and lost of hitpoint. Dont rememebr the correct numbers.
I insured my ship as evry article suggest and loaded some ammo. Let lot of free space in my cargo.
As joined the fleet i in coms, this is my first time i meet a seasoned FC. Striking me how patient he is no matter what stupid thing i or others done.
Leatter learned most FC has same attitude, need very i mean very very patient to handle things as FC.
I remember this things as its happened few weak ago not few years ago… yes i exicited! With this big ship i go in and do real killing of triglavians!
Not rememebr the fleet size i take part of it maybe 20 or bit more ship started tha action. We safly arrived to the invaded system trought the low sec place.
Nothing bead happened. I feel no fear we are many and with many big ship, i mean crusiers and battle crusiers.
After we started doing the sites: minior conduits to precise. FC got message from outside sources: the local pirate grup blocked our exite rute! If we wish leave in one pice we need pay them isk for ree passage.
Yes this is my first tiem i get ramsomed… or at least attempted ramsom! This make as a fleet furius! We fight for evry player in new eden! The priates probably lost their livinghod if this system fall to triglavians.
Probably the pirates not understand or not care the effect of what they doing.
Lucky to us this system not contested by kybernauts so we fight aginst only npcs and not needed do killing faster than kybernauts.
Our littile fleet over time get bigger and after probably 10’is hours of cosntant site clearing we secured the system.
At the end the priates left the system and the fleet safe to exit from highsec iland XD .They probably not know this take lot of time.
This place i learned if you have cargo space in your ship fill it with ammo unless you use ammar standard weapons. We run out of ammo during our mission to save system. Lucky for us one playr in the fleet has probe scaner and found a wh that lead another highsec system.
This way we got ammo and drome supply. We losing drones non stop as running sites.
By the way this is the first time my gnosis get lost to Triglavians becuse of my mistake… failing fallow fc orders to letter then panicking leads bead things.
FC ordered us not take the secund jump but i not understand how not to take. Then panicked and emergency jumped out from the site before get takkled by triglavians.
My emegency jump lead my a place where a triglavian fleet camped…
I lost my ship and evrything in it. but i happy. I got big money from this action so i can afford buy more gnosis and some alpha injector.
Then realised i got only few isk form my insurance… Gnosis has realy bead playout from insurance.
Chapter 3
How i become a Logi pilot
I think this is the point or some fleet leatter i realised sometiems our fleet i in failed to operate becuse not enught logi pilots in it.
Triglavians do constant big damage that our ships cannot whitstand if no logi in fleet we cannot complite sites we get killed one by one simply.
As type of person if i see some one need to do a thing, to keep things rolling, i go and start do this thing. This is how i started learn logi skills.
I got realitve quick big isk as new pillot to buy alpha skill injectors, no problem this way become usefull alpha logi pilot.
My isk come from killing triglavians with my corp or with public fleets, gathering loot form wrecks, and mostly taking reward from killing triglavians compliting sites.
Ower time i get character skil to fly Minnmatar, Gallente, Callidary logi crusier, become cappble reparing both armor and siheld. Get skill for repair drones to but this take very log time and isk to archive.
One may ask why i need both siheld and armor repair ability, as Edencome sided fleets fly Shield tanked fitts?
Answer is: most biggest fleets yes shield tanked but not all, some grups that sided edencome fly armor tanked only ships and fitts.
This is less known outside… i tell more about this things latter.
getting right skills, is one thing knowing what how and when do is another. Doing right evrything as logi pilot is very important from the others point of view.
To put this into perspective: common to T1 logi cruiser Alpha pilot keep alive T1 Battle ships or T2 ships, this ships hull alone cost 10 times or more isk that T1 ship with full fitting.
The feeling as i done this… no words to tell. That pilot trusted me and other logis we do our job well. Same time we are part of the team. Intresting times
This things get intresting if you play armor logi role when the repair appiled end of the repair cycle and some of the fleet member dont know how to call repair becuse first or secund time fly in fleet.
This get even better if the logi to first timer! Intresting times! Many of as quick to learn how to do this things of corse, but most thing i learn during the eve play cost me something in loss, ships or isk.
I think this is the price of learning. okay back to my history:
So you as logi need keep track of others heath and look for ones that primed by triglavians.
Other times pepapol join wrong fitted ship, let say armor fitted to shield fleet. Worst case they not tanked well for all type of demage. This cases needed extra attention from logis.
Add this some cases we need deal with gankers… of corse do this middle of the site where triglavians shooting the fleet
Good old times! I love it! Not joking missing this things as writing.
The feeling as i see my fleet member get priemd and losing armor and siheld no matter what we do… then finaly keep them some how alive… its intese!
Killing npcs is common things to happen, losing players to triglavian is not. My worst nightmare to let this happen. Some times as logi i cant save others, this feel bead this times.
A player who do combat from start to end of invasion as logi pilot, probably become very skilled at this profession.
We have tons of opportunity to learn this things…
Hardest logi job probably flying ammar or calidary logis and set up cap chain, and same time do all the other logi stuff.
Those who dont know what is cap chain: calidari and ammar logis has low capacitator. This ship ment used a special way: they use energy transfer module to other logi ships, doing it they geenrate energy and fill others energy reserve.
Doing this transfer give more energy to target that use to send energy. This way all logi in chain cap stable.
All chain cap logi pilot in fleet need to know who is his chain partner and need give them energy. if its fail all the logi in the chain run out of energy soon. Chalanges this cap chain logi system evry time we jump we need re make the chain.
This mean need lock up others start giving energy after evry warp, and trust me we do lot of warp around the system. Need re organize the chain after a logi join the fleet or leave it.
Training first timers what need to be done and how need to be done, happened as we fly as fleet or during fleet form up.
Do this things as we fly with the fleet, constanty watch the fleet brodcasts and try figure out who got focused. Good times i miss it. All the chaos that some times happened.
First it is bit dificult to learn how to behave as cap chain logi after first few hour any player can be used to it. Its great fun, rewarding experience Especialli getting intresting when your cap chain member forget link up and start transfer energy and fleet under mass Triglavian attack.
Bous to cap chain logis: if you find a chain partner you probably found your partner for loong time.
Chapter 4
Greatest logi memorys from invasion, first time part of PvP action
My logi carrier beggining i rember flying a Gallente logi crusier to some low sec system that get invaded by triglavian. We fly under one very experienced Faction Warfare FC.
He know how things work and what need to be done to keep fleet allive, how surive low sec.
This is happened probably my first month of eve carrier. I think i bit brave this time to. Going to low sec with fleet where most of Edencome sided pilot not go.
This time i unable to deploy repair drones only figting ones becuse of low skills. Same time i start of my logi pilot carrier so needed more field traning to get expert my profession.
All in all we go lowsec to kill some Triglavian with a good FC some 10-20 ship armor tanked this time and few brave pilot. Soem of them barly know what doing.
What can go wrong???
As dear reader can expect at this point: lot of things.
For start some of us get suspect flagged during a site clearing. I dont know why and how exactly. At the time of this event unfold and probably not changed as i write this the flag system work this:
if i get suspect flagged as logi and repair somene they get the flag to. As logi i canot repair others that flagged as suspect, if i do it i get suspect flagged.
This means if one member of fleet get suspect flagged and during the 15 min timer need get repaired… logi get suspect to and 2-10 minutes later the entire fleet get suspect flagged.
Becuse the logis spreed the goodies!
Add this i operating as DPS drone ship and repair ship at the same time. So i need target lock enemy ships order my drones to attack them and lock frendly ships to repair.
A everiemnt where if we happen fire a focus target stay alive 2-7 sec. Doing this with intense stress everiment for 6 hours or more with littile 10-15 minute stops evry 2-3 hours.
Sometimes i send my drones by accident to attack my fleat mates insted reapring them. This happen becuse i needed switch out my safety setting to yellow from green.
Maybe important mention: latter i learned the option exist assign my drones other player and my drones attack whatever target this player attack. This way i can focus only my main rolein the fleet.
This same system happened the fallowing event: Becuse we are low sec and flying crusiers, some grup started look after us. looked what we are doing here and displayed un easy intrest about us.
They fly naga and thanatos if i remember correctly… FC told us they probably long range fitted kiters that can shoot us down from 100+ km. This duble or triple our guns range.
To understand the things that unfold need understand the sites layoud we in.
imagine a large circle of minible asteroids. The center of the asteroids a conduit where the enemys spawn in wawes. the circle radius is 50km ( i mean from center of the circle to the asteroids 50km the range)
the players who go the site to 0 arrive a entry point. This entry point outside of the circle imagine a player spawn point in the left side of the circle.
This player spawn point exactly 156-165km from a asteroid the outer side of the circle. This asteroid we call “rock” mostly. our warp in point. After landing the site fc need quick target this rock and warp fleet from this rock 100km
this put the fleet where exactly needs to be edge of the circle ideal for shoting target with long range weapons, give time deploy drones, set up cap chain for logi before get attacked by triglavs.
This is our normal procedure to run sites at this time: arrivwe the site, whait fc jump as into the middle of circle. The fleet we flying using short range wepons not long ones!
After arriwal deploy drones kill npcs wawe after wawe, then pick up drones finish repair jump to next site.
Idealy done within 3-6 minutes, or less.
FC told us the other players plan attack as as we deal with the triglavians. As triglavians point our fleet members, web, paint them we are easy target to them.
So FC dicided next time we jump the site not execute the secund jump just wait in player spawn point where we landed.
We deployed our drones and waited. Normaly TRiglavians in this situation start move toward from center to the player spawn point to start fight.
This time not just triglaivan jumped in but the littile grup of players… with his long range fitted ship.
After my first PvP happened…I not remember evry details. I now as i writing this with my full bady getting shaken. I just do what i can to keep my fleet members alive and send my drones to enemy do mutch damage as possible.
We not equiped for pvp at least most of us not. So we cant point them, but the triglavians has tool for this!
AS i remember we not lost a single ship during this action. I got a message a kill mail. My first conformed player kill as LOGI!!!
Many of them lost their ships during this fight, some escaped from certin destruction.
This pvp hapened 10 secund maybe 1 minute but to me time get slowed feeled like 2-5 minutes.
After we finished this low sec system turn to edencome victoy we done some pvp the exit gate. i not remember the exact details after so many hours of grinding in system i got tyered.
WE not lost ship to them if i recall corectly. Maybe we killed some of them i remember some of them escaped.
Great memorys!
Chapter 5
How i become FC, first time
Simple, i see a new system get invaded and none started form fleet! Lot of us in in game chat and all waited someone start form fleet.
With lot of exitment i started form a fleet. First time of corse, quick others joined i puto thers to FC position in fleet as others better know where the find the rock and how operatet he fleet…
Good times! The great need made me to do this first time… latter times as i get more experienced i take the fleet some times as replacment FC as needed.
My corporation give me help improve my basic skills in fleet mengment wise. As new player to eve i acted as FC things that many more expereinced not done.
In pratice invasion fleet can operated witout real fc. This possible becuse we all know ower time what need to be done and what order. A well praticed fleet if only dealing with triglavians not need a FC inputs.
FC job in this cases just jump the fleet. maybe do some target calling. If the fleet smole sized and not ower powered compered the triglavians real FC needed who knwo what and how need to do.
Same hold true if fleet need to move trought or inside a low sec system.
I learned quickly: If i make mistakes our fleet lose ships, or worst case we lose systems.
Maybe not the best place to start learning how to FC. I loved do it, sadly some times my fleet lost ships becuse my mistakes.
This oen has great burden to me. I happy let others do leading the fleet.
Chapter 6
Home invaded
Imagine the fallowing scenario: You go work as you avarage day start. Last night you have good time in eve done some stuff as usual, made some stuff blow up. Evrything okay and normal.
Then you go home and realize that damm Triglavians invaded your home system made them Final Luminal as you working.
You basicly need evacuate all your stuff from home as during so need evade triglavian patrols and possible player attacks. Your structures probably newer be possible to unanchor and save.
This is what my corp mates faced in the end of they day.
Imagine you are the only corp meber in your corp that active the time this invasion happens, you do evrything in your powers to stop or even slow them down!
Then you see CODE with kybernaut forces active in system and whatewer you do no use. The system going to fall no matter what…
Trying save evrything from hangars corp and own included. This is what i faced. Unable to do what i hoped to do: save highsec systems from invasion, save own hoem system from this.
This last experience stay with you for a long time granted. Many eve player get this, experience including me and my corp.
Sometimes If invasion started the wrong time zone EU prime for example this time kybernauts are more stronger than Edencome.
If they predicted correctly what system may get invaded and ahed of time put ships and other suplies in stations this can adn will happened.
Remebering this make my eyes wett.Dont forget lot of player has similar experiences.
For this what happened here i not mad at kybernauts, they do what they needed to do, and done well. This is part of the game.
After this we set up new home, we continued do our things.
next chapter come in first comment, i run out of character limit
