After running down to Siseide at the start of the month, we’re back in Insmother or Tenerifis or the other alliance capitals down in the southeast of null sec again. Or we’re mostly back. Move ops will no doubt continue for a while. But they started on Monday as we had finished up our deployment to low sec to provoke fights and blow up expensive stuff.

As is my usual routine, I got on the earliest move op I could, which was an EUTZ op on Monday morning. The fun of working from home is that I can do a capital move op and keep working since all you have to do is undock, jump to a cyno, and down back up again and wait for 15 to 30 minutes before you go again. It was seven jumps and 60K units of fuel for the trip in a capital.

My Archon jumping from a station undock

The deployment itself was good. I ended up in a few small fights, though most ops were just shooting structures to set timers.

Typhoons out setting timers

The real action took place during EUTZ where some of the structures were contested by the locals. Amamake saw a big thrown down between the Imperium and well known low sec residents… *checks notes*… The Initiative which set fire to 4 trillion ISK in spaceships and structures according to the battle report.

Amamake battle report header

The time dilation was reported to have been oppressive… just the way we like it. The complaining about it by the locals was said to be amazing. I am sorry I missed it, though there were some excellent images of the fight posted on Imgur that give a sense of the scale of the operation. That link is worth clicking on.

In USTZ I got to be there for the kills on a Sotiyo and Tatara that belonged to Deepwater Hooligans and and the EVE Guru Tatara that allegedly dropped so much stuff that it broke the kill mail. GSOL showed up and carted off billions of ISK in reactions from the wreck.

GSOL Rorquals picking up the loot

Asher said it was a pirating expedition for us, and we certainly seemed to have cleaned up on the loot front as GSOL was there after every kill scooping up the spilled booty.

I never got to undock my Archon during the deployment, save for the move ops coming and going and the brief transfer from the NPC station to the Fortizar that was anchored to serve as our home for the duration.

I spent my time in the Typhoon subcap fleets. Our targets were all fairly close to hand from our staging point in Siseide… a name which became “seaside” once the deployment was in motion… so we mostly gated back and forth across the corner of low sec between Amarr and Minmatar space.

Having arrived without titan support we could not be bridged, though for one operation we were delivered by carrier conduit jump.

CCP/Fenris, in an attempt to find a role for carriers, added the ability to conduit jump up to 30 subcapital ships as part of the Equinox expansion back in 2024, a feature I had only seen used a few times.

For one of our ops we undocked and got on a set of Archon carriers in our fleet, which proceeded to conduit jump us, 30 ships at a time, to our destination where they docked up. (A conduit jump is like a normal jump drive hop, it just brings additional ships with you.)

We then went off and did our business, blew up some structures, then warped back to them as they say undocked on the station, where they conduit jumped us all back.

Carriers conduit jumping us home

A handy way to get us around. I think we had eight carriers and the fleet size was limited so that they could bring us all along.

So I got to shoot a few things, got on a few kills, and helped the alliance shake things up in a corner of low sec.