Unfortunately a long standing member had gone inactive which as we all know is a no-no in this game. But we weren't quite ready to boot him even after 11 days. I probed all of his planets to see if they were profitable targets and the one that really caught my eye was the planet with well over 250kk in resources and his entire fleet. I sent an ***Alert*** to Peave to have him take a look which he did. He even lanx'd it and told me there was no fleet activity. That got me wondering about the 2 planets within my lanx range in 2 other galaxies so I took a look at them as well. It's been a bit quiet in 'Origin' for the most part recently but all the top dogs were still in the hunt.

I saw that a player had indeed launched attacks at both of them using RIPs. 10 launched at PyrosisFlame in G1 and 15 RIPs at him in G4. It just so happened that my fleet was in so I formulated a plan to ward off the two attacks by doing an ACS Defend. I knew the attacker would likely 'safety probe, see the ACS fleet and recall' so to save DU I targetted only the 15 RIP fleet. Had I known what would happen next, I would have ACS Defended both the 10 and 15 RIP targets.

No safety probe, no fleet delay and no recall while my fleet sat over the G4 planet! 15 RIP-Kill! I didn't post it as it seemed to small and I've never been much for bragging anyway. That's when I decided it might be advantageous to move a planet next to PyrosisFlame's big target as now I knew it was only a matter of time. But I made the mistake of targeting a move into the same system as the target negating any possibility of another ninja so after cancelling the move I decided to wait for the move timer to time out (48 hours) rather than select another planet to move. Besides, there was no immanent threat yet and Peave had it under his lanx so if there was, we would know.

We worked out a plan to take our ex-member's fleet down safely using our two fleets together to maximize profit and minimize losses and I prepared for a new planet move once the timer had expired. But with less than 9 hours left before the move, Peave told me bfree had moved into the system right next to the target fleet. And within 24 hours from arrival, bfree would have his jumpgate active. We could no longer wait. Peave chose to go it alone. The rest is history!

Congrats, my friend, on an excellent takedown. Just wish I had let the original planet move go though as planned so I could help.

And for the poor soul who lost his 15 RIPs, GLOTR. If you see this, you'll know who you are!

Wow congrats for the top one!
But did it need to be on the same day with my top 10 hit? Now mine will be left in the shadow of yours!

GLIRL Pyrosisflame.

Thanks for the DEDI, Peave.

Just tryin' ta help out.

Moved this to where it should be.