Hello again Thuban,
As with all big hits, this took a bit of improvisation, a small amount of preparedness, and a mountain of luck.
The story:
Yesterday, I got a cold DM from Rain telling me that Ares's full fleet was sitting in G6. Rain had spotted Ares's fleet sitting hours before and had been futilely trying to contact Zero Two (whose participation was required to have any chance of crashing Ares) and had even crashed one of Ares's deut fleets while waiting. As Ares is normally off during that time, I decided to go for it, and sent out a mobile 1 system away.
Eventually, we managed to contact Zero Two, whose fleet was still a full hour out, and who needed to launch from 50 ss away from a moon with no deut. Thankfully, the first problem solved the latter, as I had time to ship over 50b deut from my duals in G3 to his G6 moon (using my slow Large Cargos, no less). A bit later, my mobile landed, I got a moon, insta'ed jumpgate and moved fleet, and then realized there was still 25 minutes before Zero Two's fleet landed. I occupied myself by first failing to locate Ares's mobile, and then stress clicking more Solar Plant and Space Dock on my own mobile to get 0.4% extra wreck field from Space Dock 5.
Finally, Zero Two's fleet landed, he jumped, and off we went, hoping that Ares was not secretly trying to trap us with mirror fleet using Worldeater (as I failed to locate either his mobile or Worldeater's fleet). After an uneventful 10 minute flight, our fleet connected. It took 8.5 minutes for the CR to finally generate, but boy, was it a thing of beauty.
I wish Ares a fast rebuild, which seems likely given how quickly he made this fleet.
Dedications:
I'd like to dedicate this hit to all my friends and traders; the game just wouldn't be the same without you. And of course to Rain for spotting Ares's fleet, I hope you enjoy your cut.
Also, Zero Two wanted me to include this weeb video, maybe someone could explain the lore behind it to me?
The hit:
Without further ado, presenting the New Number 1 ACS hit for Thuban, as well as the largest hit in all of .org.
On 18-05-2024 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Zero Two [APE]
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Light Fighter 117.709.445
Heavy Fighter 294.985
Cruiser 78.358.994
Battleship 24.796.419
Battlecruiser 51.019.441
Reaper 1.557.403
Pathfinder 10.940.461
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Attacker AGoodSydney [FREE]
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Small Cargo 8.000.000
Light Fighter 110.991.659
Heavy Fighter 20.273.449
Cruiser 52.816.397
Battleship 6.191.492
Destroyer 126.921
Battlecruiser 25.529.051
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Defender A r e s [L T L]
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Small Cargo 2.103.670
Large Cargo 1.552.573
Light Fighter 100.000.000
Heavy Fighter 3.004.864
Cruiser 74.743.313
Battleship 18.512.218
Colony Ship 31
Recycler 10.638.182
Espionage Probe 2.374.255
Bomber 10.000
Destroyer 5.000.000
Deathstar 400.000
Battlecruiser 29.998.906
Reaper 1.001.598
Pathfinder 2.089.819
Rocket Launcher 200.000
Light Laser 100.000
Heavy Laser 50.000
Gauss Cannon 10.000
Ion Cannon 10.000
Plasma Turret 10.000
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
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After the battle ...
Attacker Zero Two [APE]
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Light Fighter 40.069.339 ( -77.640.106 )
Heavy Fighter 130.404 ( -164.581 )
Cruiser 58.739.731 ( -19.619.263 )
Battleship 20.184.263 ( -4.612.156 )
Battlecruiser 42.061.802 ( -8.957.639 )
Reaper 1.285.077 ( -272.326 )
Pathfinder 6.960.598 ( -3.979.863 )
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Attacker AGoodSydney [FREE]
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Small Cargo 2.725.144 ( -5.274.856 )
Light Fighter 39.058.892 ( -71.932.767 )
Heavy Fighter 9.145.827 ( -11.127.622 )
Cruiser 39.565.722 ( -13.250.675 )
Battleship 5.035.095 ( -1.156.397 )
Destroyer 104.746 ( -22.175 )
Battlecruiser 21.043.555 ( -4.485.496 )
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Defender A r e s [L T L]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
376.967.184.338 metal, 324.628.698.177 crystal and 112.179.749.031 deuterium
169.118.899.766 metal, 81.157.174.544 crystal and 28.044.937.258 deuterium
164.061.934.314 metal, 20.289.293.636 crystal and 7.011.234.315 deuterium
41.015.483.579 metal, 5.072.323.409 crystal and 1.752.808.578 deuterium
10.253.870.895 metal, 1.268.080.852 crystal and 438.202.145 deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 3.344.040.591.000 units.
Total damage attacker including follow-ups: 3.344.408.222.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 11.332.843.323.000 units.
Total damage defender including follow-ups: 11.340.030.438.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 3.971.931.565.727 metal, 2.623.125.643.251 crystal and 716.308.148.024 deuterium.
combatreport.raids.debris_deut
The attacker captured a total of 1.343.259.874.837 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
The attacker(s) captured the debris.
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 2.843.511.267.892
Crystal: 1.929.159.226.993
Deuterium: 563.248.082.327
The attacker(s) made a profit of 5.335.918.577.212 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -6.835.453.082.892
Crystal: -4.564.667.744.618
Deuterium: -1.283.169.485.327
The defender(s) lost a total of 12.683.290.312.837 units.
