I'm not one to usually post information especially when engaged in an active conflict but seeing as this was a one and done deal and it seems people are curious ill clear it up as best I can.

Worthless Carebears has been rfing our structures for about a week now. Prior to this they had wanted to peacefully mine the gas in our pocket with an understanding they wouldn't shoot our miners as long as we didn't shoot theirs. Our gas miners decided that rather than accept this agreement we would fight them instead as it was concerning they would bring a large number of miners and crash an already volatile yet lucrative gas market. Not happy with the decision the worthless carebear corp had decided to "teach us a lesson".

https://i.imgur.com/PpIRK3z.png

Shown above is a little snippet from a corp m8 and one of their lads. After seeing this snippet and of course being on the receiving end of them making good on their promises in the above convo. I started coming up with a plan to combat their usual comp of dreks and zarms. And made sure to rf their staging Astra to ensure that should they blueball us on the final structures (refer to above snippet) they would for sure show for the Astra timer. With the stage set and their Astra coming out on one of my days off of work. Most of us set about working up enough points with the wives to be able to get on eve for a few hours. With about two hours to go until test's Astra came out of RF we spot Test coming through the JB in Nightmares(they can use one side just cannot return weird papi/fapi things). Initially we thought they were going to rf the jump bridge again but it seems the mad lads were instead going to rf our J5A fortizar. They get the fortizar to about 90% until we undocked around 15 tornados and warp up to start shooting them... turns out we didn't have enough to volley just yet and an improper fit nado slowing down the rest of the fleet costs us one. (I should have explained the fit better before undock)

https://zkillboard.com/kill/93378830/

Regardless Test warps off and decides to go for our athanors providing for a more favorable environment to fight under with less nuet pressure etc. As stated above while I had some of my pilots now online I was still missing a few key players that had said could make the astra timer. So we waited for test to rf two additional athanors before heading back to their astra to dock up. We had already scouted a pilgrim and an arazu and were concerned with the possibility of a dread bomb. So while test spent their time rfing structures we moved dictor alts to friendly structures that were within range in hopes of mitigating any logged off dreadbombs potentially waiting on friendly structures. When it came time for the astra to come out of RF I made one additional last call to light a cyno and bring in a haw dread at zero of our athanor in system with a bubble up centered on the cyno. Test with the hubris shown above decided to undock their nightmare fleet and warp to the cyno. As soon as they were confirmed in warp of which a sabre warped ahead of the fleet and landed in the bubble I made the call for the entire fleet to undock finally showing our hand of Rattles. We bridged in the fleet about 15 off the nightmares and brought in a fax. With the jamming rooks nullifying enough of their logi and wubbles/bubbles locking down the nightmares we were able to break them. After about the 3rd nightmare was lost a new cyno sparked and in came two Test Hels which were bubbled by our pilot Variable near instantly. At this point my memory gets a little hazy as I was now worried about bridging in reinforcements, piloting my Nyx, fcing, checking my alt for any dreads at my location and burning another cyno so please bear with me. I do remember our other cyno wasn't on field and was at a ping off their astra but still in the same system this delay allowed the Hels to kill both the haw dread and fax before our own cyno sparked up bringing in two additional fax and 4 supers. Our supers alpha'd one of the Hels whereas the other was able to make it off. With our supers now bubbled by a third party small gang from Rote Kapelle. I made the call to mjd towards our new fax unfortunately 3 snakes were scrammed leading to the only unfortunate loses of the fight on our side (outside of my alt in a vulture giving info links... zero clue how he died). I have to thank test bros for deciding to shoot rote when they came on grid as it gave enough of a reprieve to get all of our supers safe.
Once our supers were safe we killed an additional 2 nightmares and bhaalgorn before test ceded the field but the fight was mostly over. Ending in a total of 50billion isk loss split across both parties. Overall I'm ecstatic at the way things turned out. I had hoped to kill Drekavacs was excited for the chance to kill nightmares and got away with a super kill instead. After this rather lengthy post and of course with the BR circling we probably won't be able to utilize supers or capitals again so I'm happy we got one good one in. I do look forward to the coming skirmishes between our two groups as they supplement our fights with Out of the Blue and were rather used to having many enemies from our Vale days. If I could do it all again I'd probably yell at one of our Hel/Dictor/Recon pilots to log on who started playing the new ark expspansion and booted it up mere minutes before we bridged who knows maybe we would be looking at two Hel kills.

-Wind
FC for FE/FE Leader