![]() By the middle of October, the Imperium declined to defend against a fourth attempt by PAPI at dropping a Keepstar, allowing the attackers their first toe hold in YZ9-F6. This led to a week of sieges of PAPI Keepstar attempts, with the Imperium spending over 2 trillion ISK to defeat three Keepstars that were dropped. The beginning of October saw the beginning of the real war in Beeitnam as PAPI forces dropped a Keepstar in FWST-8, a system in NPC Delve. By the end of September, PAPI forces were able to push through some of the Imperium defenses in Querious, allowing them to anchor a Keepstar at the gates of Delve. PAPI forces organized a push into Period Basis, reinforcing a dozen or so iHubs, only to be rebuffed during the node fight. The Imperium also began to consolidate in the South, withdrawing supers and titans to D-W7F0, allowing PAPI forces to online a citadel in Northern Querious in former Querious Fight Club space. By the end of August, Imperium forces had deployed innovative attacking strategies, including announcing surprise drops of 70 citadels in Legacy’s home space.īy the middle of September, PAPI forces were attacking Imperium citadels in Eastern Fountain as the Imperium began to consolidate to more defensive lines in the North. Goons and others were able to slow iHub losses to only really what was known as Querious Fight Club, a group that held the iHubs between Querious and Khanid. In the South, on the other hand, the Imperium alliances tasked with defending Querious and Period Basis largely had success keeping Legacy, the PAPI coalition tasked with assaulting the South, at bay. By the end of July, the Initiative lost some iHubs in their staging constellation of Sphinx in Fountain. The Initiative, the Imperium alliance largely defending Fountain, was hard pressed to keep PanFam’s numbers at bay, quickly finding themselves pushed back toward their staging system in IGE-RI. It took a week for PanFam forces, the parties responsible for prosecuting the war in the North against the Imperium, to reinforce the iHubs in the Taurus constellation, a critical entrance to Fountain from Aridia. The war started in earnest on July 5th, 2020 with speeches and some troll reinforcing of iHubs across former Legacy space. Therefore, we are ending our weekly coverage of the war with this final review. While the two sides may not have totally finished their showdown, the war in the Southwest is undeniably over and the Imperium remains in Delve. It’s likely that the war cost more than $2.5 million US in total losses and may be the high-water mark for online gaming wars for some time. That deficit is likely to have widened only slightly following PAPI’s retreat from Delve, as PAPI members have ended up losing hundreds of citadels they had intended to use for permanent staging in their would-be new home. A couple of months before the PAPI rout, INN had projected over 154 trillion ISK in total losses, split 52% to 48% in favor of the Imperium. The war was incredibly, almost inconceivably, costly for both sides. Whatever the logic, the PAPI coalition ignominiously signaled their withdrawal from their forward staging system of T5ZI-S during a would-be attempt on the Imperium’s capital system of 1DQ1-A on August 2nd, 393 days after their initial declaration of war. ![]() Some leaders declared a war of extermination in the media, while others promised it was just the Imperium’s turn to be the galaxy’s whipping boys. For the last 62 weeks, action around New Eden pitted a coalition of over 100 alliances against the Imperium as they intended to invade and unseat the Imperium as the new power brokers of null sec.
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