Fireside Chat Transcript 2025 09 06

Asher Elias:

All right. Hello friends. How you doing? Thank you for your mandatory claps. You have one week of safety.

Alright, so why are we here 30 minutes earlier than we normally are, although a little less than 30 minutes because those announcements went on a little longer. We've got a Keepstar going down in the Great Wildlands. Somewhat to our surprise, Gobbins has been pre pinging Horde. He did hedge a little bit, so he has an escape hatch. He then pre pinged again. And they're doing some other stuff that is, let's just say unusual. They're definitely trying to make it look at least like they're gonna have a shot at it as that. We are getting ready for it. We're gonna go very serious here. That's why we're sending out pings all the time. We're pre positioning you guys. They have cynos around, they have, I think they have a POS going up in the system. They're doing all the things that make it look like they're getting ready to contest it. I think they might admitted some stuff. I'm not a hundred percent sure on that, I just think a lot of stuff's going on with them. This could be a pop-off in less than an hour. I think the actual anchor is probably an hour and 10 minutes from now or so. So if you are here and you have not got your capitals ready, your sub capitals ready, go ahead, make sure you're getting back to C-J and getting ready to move.

All right, so we just saw the changes. I am processing them. One thing I think, I think there's going to be a nerf to large rails. And the reason I think that is because when Sutonia was talking, he said he was talking about the Megathron Navy and he said to compensate for what's happening with the rails. He said something that, but they never mentioned anything happening with large rails. But I believe that there's probably a large rail gun nerf in there.

A lot of stuff happening. Some ESS changes, which is not relevant to major operations, but day-to-day operations will matter.

And then medium rails, it sounded like the FNI is getting hit pretty hard, which is good. That's a good thing. We're happy for changes. I want more meta changes, not less. I wish they would do this more often. I think we adapt better than other people. Horde just finished copying our doctrine from two years ago, so we'll see what they do with this. Horde does have a Maelstrom doctrine. And the maelstrom got pretty big buffs. Pretty, those are serious buffs that might make it a really serious vessel. So Horde already has a maelstrom doctrine.

Naglfars seem like they're getting some love, which is good. Vertical supremacy. Naglfar my beloved. We don't know about Naglfar Navies . They did not specifically say. So we'll see. The notes are gonna get posted on Tuesday.

Yeah, we will send out a ping saying that we are the first to try out our Maelstrom doctrine. That is a, that is a good call.

X up in chat if you have ever been on an actual real alpha, fleet. Y up in chat if a Megathron doctrine was before your time, not Megathron, sorry, Maelstrom. A Maelstrom doctrine was before your time. All right.

We want tech fleet? I don't know that tech fleet's coming back, but it's always possible.

Let's see, they said something about rigs. I'm gonna presume, I'm just guessing. Obviously we're gonna see patch notes, but right now the way shield rig works, you can get T2 resist shield rigs for much lower cost than you can get T2 resist armor rigs. And I imagine the change might bring those in line with a shield so that you can reasonably run a shield resist rig T2, without just totally breaking the bank. That's my guess.

The Baltic Navies? I'm not sure. We'll see what they do. I mean, we'll see obviously, the team, the fitting team, we're gonna bash heads and figure out what's going on.

What happened with the Leshak? We'll see what goes on with the, everything they announced on Tuesday. If it makes sense in the adjusted meta. The changes weren't as big as I thought they would be so, I don't think it's gonna be a total shakeup, but I think it could be interesting.

Return of the Mach. No, the, the Machariel's not coming back.

All right, so I only have a couple things to talk to you guys about this week. Just letting you know we are doing mind link SRP through Affordable Care. I am just looking, reading off the teleprompter. I have no idea what that means. Presumably mind links are now reimbursable through affordable care.

And here's a, this was given me with a note that said CAD, so, CAD. I'm Ron Burgundy. Yeah.

Domi fleet's? Possible.

So next week, we will definitely talk a lot about ships on the fireside. You guys have a bunch of questions about ships, about what we're doing. I love to talk shop. I love talking doctrines. I love talking ships. So we will do a bunch of that next week. This week though. We're gonna keep this one short. Keep this one sweet.

Here's the deal. This Keepstar that we're anchoring is going to be in range of some stuff, direct jump range or some stuff of Horde, so they're incentivized to fight over it. We have told them for a long time that fighting is the way to keep your guys. We've also been hearing that Horde corporations are looking to leave, that their members are leaking away. A lot of stuff is going on that. So with all that said, they're incentivized to fight today. So in about an hour, we'll find out. We'll see what they do. But, you guys get ready, get in your ships, get midded. Get ready to go. Do it right now.

We are done with the fireside. Thank you for showing up. Get ready for pings, get ready for fights. I will see you guys there. Have a great day. I hopefully get some fights. If not, I'll see you next week. Either way, we'll talk shop. Have a nice day.