After their previous attack on the Itamo POS resulted in superficial damage to a few gun batteries, the BLACKFLAG alliance tried launching yet another assault on the 27th April. POS defense systems were activated at approximately 20:15, successfully engaging a number of enemy Leshaks, and Drekavacs and forcing the aggressor to retreat to prevent further losses. But what made BLACKFLAG decide to even try such a futile attack in the first place? Our deathstar POS in Itamo is well known in the EVE community as being practically invincible against most fleets. INIT needed 700 Leshaks just to tank the incredible barrage of DPS being put out by our gun batteries in the Battle Of Itamo last year. So what made BLACKFLAG, who have at most 30 combat-ready battlecruisers  and no combat-ready battleships remaining, decide to attempt such a futile endeavor? What made them decide to feed what little ships they have left, trying to take down a virtually invincible fortress?

Our campaign against BLACKFLAG has resulted in the near complete destruction of their military capability. We have destroyed the vast majority of their infrastructure, we have destroyed their entire battleship fleet, and our spy inside the alliance confirms they exhausted their entire drone stockpile in previous attacks against us. We have suppressed their ability to project any kind of military capability in highsec for at least a couple of months. So I think the reasons for these attacks is simple. It’s a desperation attack, by an utterly crushed alliance that knows they are on the brink of defeat, and are trying to inflict as much damage as they can first. But they cannot defeat TSOTH, and our POS remains standing. A few gun batteries could not be repaired and had to be unanchored and replaced, and some have been moved to provide better coverage of the POS grid, but none of this impacts the defensive capabilities our the deathstar. We will continue to repulse attacks by any aggressor.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

CARLOS WARREN