Slugfest in Akidagi

Last night we joined up with other Gallente Militia corporations/alliances in a Navy Mega/Mega fleet and went to shoot at a Templis CALSF Astrahus in Akidagi system of Black Rise.

Our fleet was about 45 pilots and we anxiously scouted the Templis HQ system of Aivonen and other system of known pirates and other Cal Mil forces for incoming fleets. Soon reports of a Rattlesnake fleet in Aivonen were heard, as well as an incoming Megathron fleet from The Bastard Cartel. As Templis jumped in we warped to the Aivonen gate and engaged the enemy, but it quickly became apparent we lacked the reps from our erstwhile Guardian logistics wing so we called in FAX triage reps and the enemy called in a Dreadnought.

Over the next 30 minutes we exchanged blows, targets, kills, and deaths. We lost one of our two Apostles but destroyed an enemy Naglfar, and as our fleet moved from one battleship target to the next we finally forced the surviving enemy to retreat. Despite being significantly outnumbered we held the field and won the ISK war.

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Major props to Cal Mil foes for bringing the fight and our Gal Mil bros for a great battle! Video incoming...

The Gallente Militia Civil War

You can read the basics of why this war started in the excellent EveNews24 article but to summarize: militia corp Rapid Withdrawal (RDRAW) made an arrange with low sec big dog alliance Snuffed Out (Snuff) to blue each other and work together. RDRAW gets a friendly batphone for escalations against hostile forces they can't deal with on their own while Snuff gets a feeder corp for new pilots and another source of content as RDRAW acts as bird dogs for them. Since a lot of GalMil corps don't like Snuff they see the arrangement as problematic at best and traitorous at worse and have accused RDRAW of working with Snuff to kill GalMil ships while RDRAW claims they are free to make their own working alliances and the old guard of GalMil is being unreasonable since RDRAW has never actively tried to "awox" GalMil ships using Snuff or any other method.

The tension escalated for months until a recent incident in which RDRAW any or may not have been trying to kill a known GalMil associated vessel caused the escalation unto war footing for three of the main GalMil corps.

Aideron Robotics has been watching with dismay as the once coordinated Gal Mil warmachine has broken down and begun to tear at itself. As partners in the "South" of the Gal-Cal warzone Aideron has worked a lot with RDRAW for a long time and many times over the past years has seen a lot of assistance from RDRAW fleets and pilots in defending our home and assets (to be clear, other corps and alliances have also helped). At the same time, our pilots and fleets have worked with the "Northern" GalMil corps frequently, so we don't like seeing either of our allies coming to blows.

As such we've taken a neutral stance in the war in the hopes that it will be short and cooler heads will soon prevail. Nevertheless, a line has been crossed and I fear the unified Gallente Militia war machine will not be seen again for a long time.

Gallente Militia Training Fleet

Aideron's Dear Leader is having a training event for new pilots in the Gallente Starter Corp Friday night:

Due to increased tension between the empire factions and new emergent threats, the Senate has authorized additional funds for training Capsuleers in defense of the Federation. The Federal Navy Academy will be making use of these new funds to conduct a training fleet in low security space on 2015-04-04 @ 01:00 (Friday night US TZ) open to all Federal Navy Academy pilots.

Form up will be at the Villore VI - Federal Defense Union Logistic Support station. Each pilot will be given one of the following ships:


Atron: Asgard
Catalyst: Battalyst


Both of these are less than a day to train and should be pretty easy to get into.

As this is a training fleet, no PVP experience is required. There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions during fleet as well as Q&A after fleet. To join these fleets you must have Mumble installed.
// Instructor Cyr Nardieu

If you are a new pilot, please join the fleet! If you are an older pilot, please create a new alt and feel free to join us!