A Sudden Hit, and a Major Loss

Some things are never over. You think they are, and you go merrily on your way not thinking about it for a while. Then one day they come back and suddenly face you, and you weren't expecting it.

In the time since the OW war, we've been working on economic growth, assisting Mordor as needed, and generally doing internal reorganizing here in our home galaxies. Everything had returned to normal, we gave invasion less thought... until today. Today I was hit by a traitor, a traitor named Frutol.

With the recent loss of many CoRE higher-members and the breakoff to form [-2-], much has been debated about the future of B57. While the discussions on the CoRE side of things remain unknown to us in MI5, it appears that not all has been as smooth as we would like. Frutol, a longtime member of CoRE, has left the guild and struck out on his own, briefly becoming a member of [SFC© ] before throwing everything away. His intentions are unknown, aside from the obvious hostility. Perhaps he is quitting AE and wanted to make life miserable for everyone around him in the process, or maybe he was hacked. We simply don't know yet. But what we do know, and what gets me more than anything is his blatant inefficiency in the way he handles combat. It's one thing to betray people who were formerly your friends, it's another to do so and then be so inefficient at it that it's insulting just to look at the horrible botched attack that was made.

Basically what happened, though the motive is still lacking, is that at about 7pm (server time) Frutol made a sudden and massive attack on the bases of my home system: Ardreas and Cerus. Unfortunately for me, because I was not on at the time he managed to catch my mobile fleet napping and completely wiped it out. But it was not without disgusting losses on his own side that he managed this. For one thing, his attack included all his carriers and recyclers, which were torn to ribbons by my Prings. In addition to that, he didn't fighter drop at all, but included his capital ships with everything else, in the process losing a dreadnought and a Titan to my defenses. He came close to losing a Leviathan too, but managed to spare it... just barely. As soon as the battle was over rushed his fleet over to a base belonging to [Huntr] Quintessence in the same region at B57:57:02:11. Shortly after its arrival, he suicided his fleet into Quintessence's defenses, and then just left the rest of it sitting there. Guesses abound as to the cause of this, but no absolute answers are forthcoming.

StRiDeR and Aledujke were preparing a counter-attack on him to liberate my bases and wipe out his marauding fleets, but [-HUN-] Dark One Of Night beat them to it, destroying Frutol's fleets in my system. She took a small amount of debris, then left. Following her departure StRiDeR came in and took the rest of it. So for now I wait, and watch, and remember. At level 34 I cannot offer much military strength on my own, but I can offer knowledge, insight, and memory. And what happens to me now is not something I will ever forget while I roam this game. I will be riding the stars long after inefficient buffoons like Frutol are gone from this place. And my journals shall reflect all my experiences on my way there...