Well alright, that escalated rather quickly. I log in instead of grabbing food.
However, they have a lot of stuff on grid, so we can't engage. Also...
...yeah that is kind of relevant to our interests.
So, they're baiting our caps. Well, we don't have the numbers to commit them anyway, so we let them continue grinding down the Citadel's shields at a chilly pace and poke other campuses for reinforcement. In the meantime, we mess around with ECM tomfoolery to see if we can make their Logi die to the citadel, but to no avail.
However, in the process, Melkor, Rose and Steffen get caught and podded out. Not sure how that happened, but should've been more careful.
Anyway, reinforcements from other campuses arrive, and WHC members log on too as we enter EU prime. We tally our numbers and get 10 Guardians, the same number as the enemy fleet has. We get the arrivals set up with ships, and prepare to undock. I'm not willing to commit for 5 minutes given the enemy reinforcements, but am confident in our ability to hold for 1 minute, so I decide to commit Pehuen and myself in Archons.
The enemy fleet is sitting right off our undock, so we get a cloaky to bounce 100km behind them, then undock the fleet and pounce on top of them. The Archons undock and deploy fighters from the safety of 100km away, while the Griffin swarm spreads out and makes life hell for the enemy Guardian wing. I primary a Guardian, and it melts. I primary another Guardian, but he manages to get caught in low armor. Their reps stabilize on him, and I don't want to wait for him to burn out stuff, so I hard switch to a third Guardian. It dips into structure, then gets caught. I hard switch again, then back. This time he doesn't anticipate it, and he dips to low armor. A fighter salvo bags us the second kill of the fight.
I hard switch again. The target is caught with its pants down and gets obliterated without being able to overhead. We cycle fighter salvos onto another one and bag it too. At this point, I decide to help our logi which are struggling and eliminate a Scorpion and Armageddon in rapid succession. The opposition warps off and we loot the field.
And thus, the fight ends, or so I think. The Citadel repair timer ticks down, and ships are organized, when suddenly, amazing visionary Inniar Arnoux pipes up in comms: "Break, break. Z1H hole has collapsed. Repeat, Z1H has collapsed. Parts of the enemy fleet are still inside, and they are stuck in their own bubble."
Yup. That happened. The enemy Sabre thought it'd be smart to drop a defense bubble before jumping out - but the connection died on them, and now half their fleet is still inside.
Welllllllllllllll............
We pounce, and point whatever we can. Practically unopposed, we pocket a Bhaalgorn, Legion, Armageddon, Guardian, Damnation (and associated 2.3b pod), another Legion, and finally a poor Proteus.
What parts of the enemy fleet managed to limp away run through eggs. The citadel re-enters invulnerability (don't you love not having to repair these things). We collect loot and go home.
Total butcher's bill:
Killed: 8.95 billion ISK
Lost: 0.2 billion ISK
Efficiency: 97.7%
The good
- Awesome turn-out from the other campuses on short notice. Thanks for dropping by, hope you enjoyed it!
- Fighter salvo is OP. Deserved nerf soon.
- We murdered some Russians.
- I didn't accidentally swear at people this time.
- Guys, please don't get caught in ECMgus (or ABCs) if all we're trying to do is mess with them from a safe distance. That Sabre aligning to you from 160km away is bad news, as is that Damnation that has a weird effect around it and is precisely 100km away approaching you. If in doubt, just run away.
- Citadel weaponry was woefully ineffective on its own - but maybe that is to be expected against 10 Guardians.
- Form-up took pretty long. We need a better setup for getting people access to WHC ships.
- Seriously, how do you manage to bubble your own fleet on a collapsed hole? That's almost on par with getting an Orca stuck deep in Russian Sov.
- We should really have corporate tacticals on grid with ALI.
Really out of practice. Watch those yellow boxes!
) and you will begin to see enemy logi pilots blow their top in frustration, and then actually blow up. 
