The first week in a while we’ve had to directly combat the relentless sa-bot-age that prepares the dreadful HIP 1572 every week. Our consolidation vote was weak, struggling to stay above 75%. So in case the worst occurred and the vote dropped further, our haulers were asked to prep-race, and prepare HIP 35209 instead. An heroic effort saw a reported 214,875 merits delivered to this prep-blocker system in a couple of days. Fond regards to all who participated.
We don’t want either system, but ‘HIP 5C’ is so close to Cubeo we would struggle to not to take it, with severe damage to our CC, and could not hope to shed it even in the deepest turmoil. In the end, the vote held at 75% consolidation so we do not have to avoid expanding this week. It is unfortunate that Aisling started out in the poorest region of space, and has great difficulty expanding any further. There are no available profitable systems for us, despite the recent Hudson turmoil that has still, strangely, not made the pages of Galnet.
All this points to the critical importance of the vote: voting is the most important support you can offer Aisling, and takes little effort. If you have been pledged for 4 weeks or more, please consider earning 100 merits this week so you can vote. We’d all rather spend our tritium CG profits on things other than prep-blocking, but what counts is that we can and do defend ourselves when we have to. There was good progress also on hauling forts to our most profitable spheres. Thanks again to you all.
Aisling’s combat pilots were engaged in successful battles against Federal expansions: against Winters in Aeternitas, and Hudson in Mulungu. Mahon expanded to LTT 4461, but all the other expansion attempts failed. Granny Torval was opposed in LP 878-87, Pranav Antal could not take GCRV 2743. There was a furious three-way prep-race for the chance to expand to Nurundere. Grom and Hudson both exceeded a half million merits, leaving poor Pranav behind somewhat. Hudson prevailed so gets a chance to begin to recover his lost domains this week.
Fly safe out there this week, people of the Princess, and remember to have fun.
Objectives for Cycle 368 (until June 23rd)
We don’t want either system, but ‘HIP 5C’ is so close to Cubeo we would struggle to not to take it, with severe damage to our CC, and could not hope to shed it even in the deepest turmoil. In the end, the vote held at 75% consolidation so we do not have to avoid expanding this week. It is unfortunate that Aisling started out in the poorest region of space, and has great difficulty expanding any further. There are no available profitable systems for us, despite the recent Hudson turmoil that has still, strangely, not made the pages of Galnet.
All this points to the critical importance of the vote: voting is the most important support you can offer Aisling, and takes little effort. If you have been pledged for 4 weeks or more, please consider earning 100 merits this week so you can vote. We’d all rather spend our tritium CG profits on things other than prep-blocking, but what counts is that we can and do defend ourselves when we have to. There was good progress also on hauling forts to our most profitable spheres. Thanks again to you all.
Aisling’s combat pilots were engaged in successful battles against Federal expansions: against Winters in Aeternitas, and Hudson in Mulungu. Mahon expanded to LTT 4461, but all the other expansion attempts failed. Granny Torval was opposed in LP 878-87, Pranav Antal could not take GCRV 2743. There was a furious three-way prep-race for the chance to expand to Nurundere. Grom and Hudson both exceeded a half million merits, leaving poor Pranav behind somewhat. Hudson prevailed so gets a chance to begin to recover his lost domains this week.
Fly safe out there this week, people of the Princess, and remember to have fun.
Objectives for Cycle 368 (until June 23rd)
- Vote for Consolidation! Voting is the most important thing you can do for AD, so make sure to maintain rank 2! It only takes 100 merits and four weeks of pledge time. Here's where to vote in the UI. Early votes are the best kind of votes!
- Check the Trello for dynamic fortification targets! This is updated more frequently than the in-game menu. Please, ONLY fortify systems listed on the Trello! There are lots of top-priority systems left to help complete.
- Please do not prepare any systems this week. Spare media materials can be safely delivered to HIP 35209.
- Oppose Federal expansions in Decima (Winters) and Nurundere (Hudson). Check our discord for up-to-date combat targets.
- Join the Discord for guides, mentoring, BGS, insight and combat targets! Remember: PP UI bad, Discord good. Powerplay is a community game, so connect with us.
