It has emerged that a capital class warship
belonging to a capsuleer alliance operating in the
northern fringe regions was captured late last week.
The incident, which occurred in the early hours of
Friday morning, is reported to have been perpetrated
by members of the R.I.S.K Alliance - who are
believed to have removed a fully armed dreadnaught
class capital ship from a starbase owned by their
enemies, the Phoenix Alliance.
The dreadnaught - an Amarrian designed Revelation,
the ‘PA Big Daddy’ is the first capital class vessel to
fall into enemy hands since the Molyneux, a Gallente
Soltueur titan was stolen by Serpentis forces early
last May.
Speaking in an interview on Sunday evening -
Rasitiln a representative for the R.I.S.K Alliance
explained that the starbase force field access codes
had been discovered by a spy within the Phoenix
Alliance. This information had allowed a neutral pilot
to enter in an Armageddon class battleship and
physically “bump [the dreadnaught] out of the force
field” where Lordmix, a R.I.S.K pilot, boarded the
vessel and warped to safety while a friendly strike
craft kept the starbase defences occupied.
Rasitiln later went on to declare the capture as a
“significant victory” which had “obviously… affected
moral within the Phoenix Alliance” and would aid
their ongoing conflict. Going on to state that the
R.I.S.K alliance would incorporate the ‘PA Big Daddy’
into its fleet and use it to “crush [the] Phoenix
Alliance”.
When asked to comment on circumstances
surrounding the incident. Anihilus, a Phoenix Alliance
representative stated that the dreadnaught had
originally been moved to the more secure starbase
facility from its moorings at a former Immensea
station in the BKG-Q2 Solar System which is now
heavily contested by both alliances.
He went on to say that the theft had been made
possible by a “combination of spies” and
malfunctioning force field technology which allowed
neutral ships to breach the force field boundaries.
Upon being queried as to whether the Phoenix
Alliance regarded this incident as a setback –
Anihilus replied “Not at all,the incident really helped
Phoenix Alliance to wake up and work as a team, to
retake control of the captured solar systems and
stations and destroy all hostile starbases”. He later
conveyed his personal gratitude to all members of
his alliance and their allies who had assisted
Phoenix Alliance in their time of need.
When asked to comment on this, Rasitiln of R.I.S.K
put the loss of control of these key systems
following the dreadnaught capture down to “human
error”. Adding that R.I.S.K would not be defeated so
easily “though our presence in the area is slightly
diminished until we regroup and formulate a new
plan of attack”.
