Victories in HIPs
20899,
112595 and
37844 (thank you PDES!), and
Pathamon—all Alerts repelled once again, now for a
fourth consecutive week! M. Cocijo becomes unable to attack
Desurinbin, and all going well today it will be soon unable to attack
Khwal either.
Evictions at 17:50 26th July 3309:
Ixbaksha Control 40%
*41.1% —
Raijin 23 Ly, 1546 strength
Omumba Control 28%
*28.5% —
Hadad 14 Ly, ~14.3k strength
HIP 6251
Control 18% —
Leigong 31 Ly, empty, 253 strength
HIP 20741 Control 16%
*17.2% —
Indra 24 Ly, 1543 strength
So to test, you'd need to recapture:
- HIP 9016 (9.60 uninhabited)
- Arietis Sector BQ-P b5-0 (14.46 uninhabited)
- HIP 9709 (15.21 uninhabited)
Collecting the 30,000 samples for HIP 9016 would be a substantial piece of work, though! You'd then have up to four weeks to get the 3,000 each for the other two to ensure that they couldn't interfere when HIP 9016 came off cooldown, which would also take some doing, if not quite as much.
With a suitably deep breath and a quite wise option to hold steady until all the fires next week have been extinguished... that can be arranged, spread approximately over two weeks and leaving a bit of room for general defence in between. V needs to off-load some Tritium first, but I think we can store it all!
If M. Leigong actually turns out unable to attack HIP 9016, and if it costs
only 6000–7000 every six weeks to keep HIP 9016 guarded once-removed, that could be at least an interesting drain on its ability to attack stronger inhabited targets, if not a critical step towards ending it. Update 16 and the efficacy of harvesting permitting, consider that a «
Wir müßen wißen; wir werden wißen» moment!
think a few my side don't want to see any more limpets for a while.
Indeed, and a very impactful reminder that Frontier need to be hassled frequently into accepting the radical notion that a war with the Thargoids probably ought to be won by destroying Thargoids!