Greetings to everybody.
Today has come the day when, I think, I can speak about Takurua deeper than I ever have since mid-August.
It explains some points of (hi)story, from my own point of view.
Our estimeed Commander Ben Ryder came with the idea of expanding in Sothis, very far from civilized space, with the project of the CG there (the now created Sothis Crystalline Gold) and the help of Sirius Inc. , a minor faction.
This kind of idea can be forgotten the second after the initial post, as well as become a surprisingly popular event. After a few weeks of tiring powerplay focus, CC count and during the excitation of Cerberus Plague, a new goal was a fresh air and the idea succeded. After a difficult beginning, a drama about betrayal and intimidation involving Commander Pheyes and a long work, the expansion failed, to a last day, easy undermining. Even though a vast number of Utopian Commanders participated, it was controversial enough for a group of people to oppose the expansion, probably remotely controlling the opposition from within Utopia.
The cycle of Sothis expansion was marked by a new merit score for expansions : before, 1 ship gave 1 merit, it became 10 merits that cycle. Fortunate coincidence, Sothis needed 70k merits.
But even before that, Utopians from unknown origins and of unknown identitities boosted expansions to an extent that made it out of control. We needed a way to control it a bit more before too many bad systems come into our hands. With the 10 merits buff, it would become a nightmare.
Ben prepared Takurua urgently right before the end of Sothis failure. The first thing I noticed on Thursday was Takurua on the expansion list. I gathered the small team later known as the Utopian Wolves. Back then, it was just Operation Wolfpack, for one cycle. I hadn’t talked to Ben before my recruitment, but it seems we had come to the same conclusion by our own sides : such an expansion had to be driven in secrecy to be efficient and succeed.
During one week, most of this team totally gave its time to expanding. It’s the story of Operation Wolfpack on Youtube.
We were prepared to a lot of fuss, but our main concern was to give a chance to a comparable, yet smaller project than Sothis.
With its numerous merits, The Wolfpack became a group of new and already 5th rank Commanders, able to fortify efficiently.
In the weeks that followed, Takurua was used in Powerplay as a throttle to break unwanted expansions, the ones that would be driven by those we used to call « The Many ».
We never ever barely knew anything about these crazy expanders and I wasn’t really interested, actually. Takurua ate CC and helped from getting too many systems, the very systems many Utopians, including the Wolves, fortified regularly.
As a side note, I’ve never been really in love with Ewah, but working on the fortification trigger to make it easier became a concern, hence Operation Cherokee that a limited number of Utopians participated in, secretly once again. It finally was a success.
Lately, there were smuggling long-range missions from Takurua (they almost disappeared), apart from the CG in Sothis. That, and the yellow drop far from the bubble, made us the attractive, roleplay power with the cool guys in it and interesting science-fiction and lore publications.
As of now, whatever happens to Takurua, may it be conserved, lost, reconquered, this system and its station « Foothold Orbital » will forever make the history of Utopia, and even Powerplay, as the first project not aiming to bring more CC immediately, not sticking to the rest of the bubble, aiming to make a power look more cool than the others in spite of the apparent rules, so to speak. You can abandon or colonize a new land, but will never erase the traces of an ancient civilization that used to shine from its singularity. I have the feeling this is what Takurua have been and will always be, with or without its yellow color, and even with another one.
Takurua had purposes. They were filled. We could choose to let it go or not without having to worry more than the effect on CC, turmoils and economy. The cool guys are still there. They still roleplay and enjoy Elite for what it is.
Thank you for your attention, and enjoy the game.
Utopian Wolf Commander Lorik Eolmin
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteAntal/
Today has come the day when, I think, I can speak about Takurua deeper than I ever have since mid-August.
It explains some points of (hi)story, from my own point of view.
Our estimeed Commander Ben Ryder came with the idea of expanding in Sothis, very far from civilized space, with the project of the CG there (the now created Sothis Crystalline Gold) and the help of Sirius Inc. , a minor faction.
This kind of idea can be forgotten the second after the initial post, as well as become a surprisingly popular event. After a few weeks of tiring powerplay focus, CC count and during the excitation of Cerberus Plague, a new goal was a fresh air and the idea succeded. After a difficult beginning, a drama about betrayal and intimidation involving Commander Pheyes and a long work, the expansion failed, to a last day, easy undermining. Even though a vast number of Utopian Commanders participated, it was controversial enough for a group of people to oppose the expansion, probably remotely controlling the opposition from within Utopia.
The cycle of Sothis expansion was marked by a new merit score for expansions : before, 1 ship gave 1 merit, it became 10 merits that cycle. Fortunate coincidence, Sothis needed 70k merits.
But even before that, Utopians from unknown origins and of unknown identitities boosted expansions to an extent that made it out of control. We needed a way to control it a bit more before too many bad systems come into our hands. With the 10 merits buff, it would become a nightmare.
Ben prepared Takurua urgently right before the end of Sothis failure. The first thing I noticed on Thursday was Takurua on the expansion list. I gathered the small team later known as the Utopian Wolves. Back then, it was just Operation Wolfpack, for one cycle. I hadn’t talked to Ben before my recruitment, but it seems we had come to the same conclusion by our own sides : such an expansion had to be driven in secrecy to be efficient and succeed.
During one week, most of this team totally gave its time to expanding. It’s the story of Operation Wolfpack on Youtube.
We were prepared to a lot of fuss, but our main concern was to give a chance to a comparable, yet smaller project than Sothis.
With its numerous merits, The Wolfpack became a group of new and already 5th rank Commanders, able to fortify efficiently.
In the weeks that followed, Takurua was used in Powerplay as a throttle to break unwanted expansions, the ones that would be driven by those we used to call « The Many ».
We never ever barely knew anything about these crazy expanders and I wasn’t really interested, actually. Takurua ate CC and helped from getting too many systems, the very systems many Utopians, including the Wolves, fortified regularly.
As a side note, I’ve never been really in love with Ewah, but working on the fortification trigger to make it easier became a concern, hence Operation Cherokee that a limited number of Utopians participated in, secretly once again. It finally was a success.
Lately, there were smuggling long-range missions from Takurua (they almost disappeared), apart from the CG in Sothis. That, and the yellow drop far from the bubble, made us the attractive, roleplay power with the cool guys in it and interesting science-fiction and lore publications.
As of now, whatever happens to Takurua, may it be conserved, lost, reconquered, this system and its station « Foothold Orbital » will forever make the history of Utopia, and even Powerplay, as the first project not aiming to bring more CC immediately, not sticking to the rest of the bubble, aiming to make a power look more cool than the others in spite of the apparent rules, so to speak. You can abandon or colonize a new land, but will never erase the traces of an ancient civilization that used to shine from its singularity. I have the feeling this is what Takurua have been and will always be, with or without its yellow color, and even with another one.
Takurua had purposes. They were filled. We could choose to let it go or not without having to worry more than the effect on CC, turmoils and economy. The cool guys are still there. They still roleplay and enjoy Elite for what it is.
Thank you for your attention, and enjoy the game.
Utopian Wolf Commander Lorik Eolmin
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteAntal/
