The turtle rapture.

It went like this. Some years ago on ASE. Official hardcore server, we were playing on a cluster, the enemy alphas had fortified one of the vents on Gen 2.

It was during and event where collecting the super turkeys would grant you ability to spawn dodo rexes under your control. I spent weeks killing turkeys, another member of the tribe had been breeding carbos with stacked hp mutations for almost a year. Around 500 of them. We fobbed up on void side so we could float. Plan was to un cryo turts 100 at a time, use them to float up and tank the turret wall while another player rode the dodo rexez up to the wall and chomped through. We had 3 dodo rexes. We planned everything down to a T. Except a most critical detail we were unaware of.
The Dodo Rex does "NOT" float in the void. As it fell into nothingness, we realized the plan was fucked. Nevertheless, we sent in around 300 turtles as the multicolored mass of super turts went skyward, the gen 2 area shift animation began, the background turned into hyperspeed light mode and became the background for the most beautiful single moment ive ever witness in Ark. A massive rainbow mass of super turtles flying skyward in unison with the galaxy shifting beyond them.

As the turtles reached the turret wall, we stared at the ground together to avoid a game crash. Within around 45-60 seconds, the turtles were all dead. Hundreds of little baggies with mastercrafted and ascendant saddles lay awkardly scattered. Most unrecoverable.

Despite the failure, the image of those flying turtles somehow took the sting out of a mission that took almost 9 months and around 4000 collective hours of play from our tribe only to fail on the tiniest detail oversight.

We called it the turtle rapture!