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<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Alright, so I will give you guys the big announcement. We're not gonna bury the lead here. Most important thing, we have a Keepstar anchoring right now. We are moving forward. I told you guys we're gonna keep moving forward. We're moving forward. This, it will be anchoring in a few moments. We will be moving everyone forward from N3- to attack further up. This has always been part of the plan, N3- has been a temporary staging system. So, some of you are formed on the Keepstar to make sure that the anchor goes fine. I don't think our enemies even knew this Keepstar was anchoring until long after we dropped it. So that has been pretty funny. We haven't hyped it at all because we don't feel like we need to. We will be packing up. Pack up your capitals. Should be easy. Everything's in N3-. You guys already packed before. Just throw it in again. We're moving forward.

This will put us in direct range of EFM, which is the entrance to the drone lands. It'll put us in range of most all the parts of Insmother that we want to hit. Right now they've been taking fights that have been outside of our capital range that will no longer really be a, an issue for them or an option for them, I should say, that they can actually take fights outside of capital range. We will be in direct range. So pack up. We're moving forward. We are going forward. We're not stopping. We have the impetus. You guys have been incredibly strong this week. Flash forms have been amazing. Numbers have been amazing, and we're gonna keep it that way. We've been planning, we have a plan for the next week and the week after. And you guys are gonna like it, trust me on that one. So get ready. Get packed. We're gonna get going.

Numbers have been great. The one thing I will say guys, is we need more Logi, we are in the, post patch thing. There's gonna be a lot of Logi being shot. We need to have more Logi showing up. So guys, get in Logi, get in Basis, get in Guardians if we ever call for 'em, that kind of thing. Be there in Logi, be ready to go. We need a ton of Logi, I don't want our FCS having to be like, guys, come on. More Logi more Logi before we undock, more Logi. Just make it easy for them. Get in Logi. Logi is gonna be the most important ships for these fights now, okay. So Logi straight away, I can't, I can't stress this enough. Our numbers have been amazing. Is someone Lancing? Oh my goodness. Why? Why is someone Lancing? Oh, that's a Reaper. That's a Reaper. Well, it looked cool, I'll say that.

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Wow. Look, the first time anybody fired a reaper. 

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Yeah. Yeah. Literally the first Reaper I've ever seen, I think. Except whether they got released.

Alright. So, I got some notes to tell you guys then I'll answer questions, then we're moving forward.

All right. CAD in Delve. Obviously, I was just telling our guys that the enemies appear to have BDS, that's Brave Derangement Syndrome. All they think about is Brave all the time. They are obsessed. They're weirdos about it. They're odd, but they've got BDS. They're just focusing on Brave, so we need CAD. Lots of CAD, get your Delve jump clones if you don't have them, we are gonna be fighting in Delve. Like that's gonna be, especially, especially if you're EU time zone, a lot of Delve fighting. Guys have been going, hey, I wanna fight. There have been fights in Delve pretty much every day, so get your CAD and get your clones, in Delve. Okay. Tons of fights there to be had. 

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Important point from Alterarri in chat. Please send ISK to your CAD Alt so that you don't have to swap back and forth to get ISK. Please have money for a reship while you're at it.

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Great point. Bashti asked me to mention Air skill point doubling. Can someone talk about this? 'cause I don't know what that is.

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Yeah, I got it. 

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Great. 

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: So the Air Career Program, even if you haven't intentionally interacted with it, you probably do a bunch of shit in game that is applied to it. They doubled the rewards for omegas. So you just want to go into the activities menu, I wanna say, somebody can correct me, they're probably gonna be more right than I am. And when you open that up, you're just gonna be able to click a button and claim a bunch of extra, extra skill points that you didn't have. Activities second down from the top Air Career program. Thank you, Elysium. 

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> All right. I'm not gonna do it 'cause I have to focus on other things, but yeah. There you go.

Guys, guess what, do you know what we need more of? You're gonna be shocked by this. You're gonna be really surprised. PI. PI is important. We need more PI. Is that bingo for anyone? There you go. Especially robotics is needed right now, for guns. So PI and then, we are doing a ton of move ops to N3-, obviously now moving forward from there, don't go on yourself. They're camping the route. It's not really them, it's just random people, but, you know, go ahead and wait for a move op. We are doing a ton of them, so.

Alright, I, I will answer a few questions. We had a lot to do today, so I'm not gonna be out here for the next 30 minutes, but you got questions, throw 'em out here, I will try to answer them. Please do not ask me. Hey, when's the next Titan fight? I'm just gonna give you future plans. Don't ask a question that you're not getting an answer to.

Op after fireside? Yes, we will be doing moves, immediately after the fireside. Immediately after we're done here. 

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: There was an ask about capital move ops. We've probably had 50% of the time between the state of the Goonion and now there's been a cyno chain fleet up. You need to look for it. You need to check your pings. It goes to all the cap SIGs and crap swarm. So if you don't have, the, the skills for the, the combat, but, you can jump it around. Join Crap swarm. Can somebody link that in Elysium please?

https://esi.goonfleet.com/Group/238

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Charnik says Multi boxing, multi boxing Basis is painful. People want cap chain every second, even in zero enemy systems, Asher, any comment? So, yeah, I have noticed that too Charnik, that comes from a good place. Our guys want to get the chain up. They want to do chain practice. We used to do that because goons were really bad at chaining. I think goons have got good enough at chaining that we probably don't need to do it in every system.

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: They haven't.

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> I will talk to our, our, I will talk to our Logi guys about it because it is a pain point for multi boxing. So, we will, we'll discuss that. I think we can pull back on that get the chain up in every system thing.

Cap op to new, cap move op to new staging. Yes, immediately after this Glowing Bulb. It is direct cap move ops for everything to come to ULAX to this. So it's super easy.

Everyone who says we're bad at chaining, you really did not miss the dark times when we were terrible at it and we're, we're bad at everything, but we're better than we were before.

Lenora says, don't multi box. That is the wrong answer, dude. That is entirely the wrong answer. 

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Yeah, don't multi box poorly, but if you can do it, do it. 

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Victoria asked is Logi booster okay to multi box? Yeah. Perfect. She, he or she says, that was my plan. And yes, a hundred percent.

When will we get expedition upgrades at home? Vivian, that's not really on our mind right now, we're gonna get 'em, but we got a lot of stuff that we're focusing on.

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: The constellation between N3 and X2 has one if you want to mess with the new sites. 

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Daniel says triple box logi during TIDI, easy, triple boxing logi without TIDI, crack pipe required. Yeah, that's fair enough. We agree. 

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Fantastic.

<br> <br> '''Ranger Gama:''' <br> <br> That was good.

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Dawn says, we are deployed, this is home. Yeah, correct. When we are deployed, wherever we are is our home while we're deployed.

Is Gobbins saying he's winning? It's a good question, says Soft Insanity. No, he's being very...

<br> <br> '''Snipereagle1:''' <br> <br>: Quiet.

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> Yeah, that's a reasonable way to say it. He's focusing a lot on their, getting their crabbing up. There's a lot of talk about mining. There was a Vily post that was interesting to read a couple days ago on Reddit where he talked about how money doesn't matter in wars and, and all this kind of stuff. And its tempting to, say it's cope. It's not really, it's just they, they view the game in a totally different way than we do. I was talking to, an unrelated autocrat and he was like, we were talking about this, offensive. And he says something that I think you guys will really like to hear. He is like, Goons are gonna go forward. They're gonna attack, they want to get a fight, and they don't mind taking a fight, wherever it is. Like, and they'll put themselves in a bad position to get a fight and that's just not Horde. He said the Horde, that's not them. They will only take a fight if it's really good scenario for them. And he is like, it's just different styles and we prefer yours. And I'm like, thank you. Like that's what we want to hear. That is our goal.

The Horde that crabs is excellent. Raul, we like that one.

Diogenes just asked me a question. He teased me up with a softball. Is it a good idea to throw supers or capitals around in UALX right now? Can I sneak a few quick crab beacons in Impass, even though beehive is down? Can a Rorqual mine in a ice system? Is Delve911 still open to save me? None of those things are true. We are not sending people back home. Do not throw your stuff out. Thank you, Diogenes.

Will we get an NPC station in drone lands once we burn it down asks Xavindo Sirober. So that's actually one of our major concerns is if we ever went, full hog into drones and tried to move in there, we have a real concern that as soon as we do, CCP would decide that now is the time to have NPC space in drones, which, makes us not as interested in it as, it would be if it was sort of a guaranteed it would stay like it is. So that is a real concern. But, that's certainly a long time future plans thing.

How supply market on N3. Any specific thing we need to supply. So we are looking for builders. Yeah. If you guys can build Vultures, Basis, Raven, Navy Issues to a lesser degree, Rokhs and support ships. We want you on the market. We talked to some of our, our like alliance level builders that are doing it for the alliance, they're gonna move their prices up a little bit. The reason is, is we want to make room for, builders to come in under them. So if you're a private builder, we want you to be able to get the alliance, stuff at a percentage that makes you some money, but is convenient and not ripping off our members. That is the most important part. So, we know you're not working for free, but our members also need to pay, fair prices. So we're trying to make that happen right now. So if you're building, go for it.

Is there a name for this war? Some people, people will suggest the capsaicin conflict. But I don't think we are, one we don't think we have a good name for it yet. Let's see what happens. Usually an event gives it the name.

Rose says, I've done 900 ships this week. Excellent.

The Keeptar war. Yeah. Maybe. Kyra says the great retreat. I don't like, we're not gonna put any feathers in our cap until this thing's over. Okay guys, so, we have an objective that is to drive Horde outta Insmother. It is what I told you during the SOTG. So do not get, acquainted with Hu. If you're familiar with Hu Bris, we avoid him as best as we can. So, I don't want anyone, celebrating any victories 'cause we have not won shit yet. We have taken, what, 29 systems. We've killed 12 forts and we moved forward one Keepstar. That is all we've done. We've done nothing else yet. So I need you guys in fleets. I need you guys in Logis. I need you guys in caps. I need you guys ready. Like we're no lifing it here. I've been doing 10 to 14 hours a day of Eve. Like I, I'm here with you. We're no lifing it. We're winning a war. We're going hard. All right? So, that, but no, no, no hubris, no arrogance. All right.

Drop asks, where're the cap battles. So we are in capital range now of almost every system that they have left. So, the chances are much higher now than before.

Weasle asks should I call in sick, my first swing back after my seven week holidays to keep playing EVE? Weasle, that is a personal life decision. Don't make any, don't make anything that's really bad for you, but, you know, I think you'll know what timer if you know, you'll want to call in sick for if you want to do that. But we have never asked anyone to call in sick. We've asked people to alarm clock. We've asked people to miss some sleep. We have done that before. We'll probably do it again. But most timers, just show up if you're there. Be around your computer, be watching your pings, be ready to fight. That's what we're asking.

People asking about, when will this fight happen? When will that fight happen, guys, it takes two to tango. We know what we want. We know what we wanna do. We're here, we're ready to go. It's all up to them, do they want the same thing? We'll see, I can't force them to do anything. I can do what I told you, which is we're gonna keep pushing. And that's what we're doing this week. We have gone forward. We have taken everything around N3 that we wanted and now we're pushing forward. That's what I can promise you. Forward impetus, push hard, go forward. Again, push hard, see if they show up or see if they run. That's all we can do. Right?

So the goal is Insmother, excuse me. The goal is Insmother pushing their SOV, going for it. That's what we're doing. Pushing them out. If they wanna fight, they can. If they wanna retreat in front of their guys, they can, like their guys are watching just as much as we are, right? So. Man, apologies about that. Their guys are just watching just as much as we are. And if they see them running backwards and saying, hey, floodplains, that's fine. They've been saying floodplains a lot and I really dislike them saying floodplains. The reason why is because it, it totally ignores what we did with floodplains. Like we did say floodplains, we said Fountain, Querious. Those are flood plains in in World War Bee. And then we defended them. Floodplains didn't mean we don't want this space. It means we're going to slow you down. We're gonna fight you on the floodplains. And, and they're not doing that. So, let's see if they actually do floodplains, or if they care at all. I don't know.

That's what I can tell you. We're gonna keep pushing. That's all I can tell you. We push, we push until they fight. We're gonna keep pushing. We have a goal, if they're gonna run and not do the goal at all, that's on them. You guys show up. Be ready to fight. Be ready to win. That's all you can do.

I'm gonna help you write your EVE story. I told you when you got here, we're writing a story and I'm gonna help you do it and we're gonna keep pushing until we get one of those stories, okay? And that's what I can promise you.

All right. Thanks guys. We are moving out to a Keepstar and we are going forward.

<br> <br> '''Apple Pear:''' <br> <br> Keepstar is online. Keepstar is online.

<br> <br> '''Asher Elias:''' <br> <br> We're going right now, we're moving forward. We have a new stager. Get packed up. Let's go. We're pinging. See you on fleets. Bye.