Frantic 13
Dates: Second Weekend in May 2004
Winners: Krilgorians
Best-Known Boraxian LC: None
Best-Known Ajaxian LCs: ABSURD, UnBeatable
Best-Known Tibran LCs: Hermione, DarkRaven
Best-Known Krilgorian LC: Britnoth
I joined tick 16 or around then so not sure what happened before that, right as I had got my ship (bomber) the order cam through to converge on DH and bomb the Bors ST, which we did very easily with virtually no resistance, this point was when the points started to seriously pile in, with Ryu03, Ecvej and myself the 3 bombers who had to task of taking it down.
Once it had blown we moved out to rep and then moved on to SC to try and catch some sleeping Tibs of guard, but by the time most people got there they had left.
So we all moved on to the Tib ST which like the Bors fell fairly quickly due to the bombing trio and a small group of us including DW and im not sure who else, I think Britnoth did, pulling a all nighter to destroy the Tib ST. At the same time a few high level Tibs used the HW-HW to get to PK and then on to MH to attack out ST, the two ST’s fell almost simultaneously and due to heavy damage taken the few Tibs (Hermione and DR, not sure who else) who were there ran to Perosis (not sure) and went into vac mode for most of the rest of the game.
With all ST’s gone and the top Tibs in vac mode and very badly damaged we thought it was the best time to attack Tibrar, but due to lack of co-ordination and some people being a way for a while we gave up on that attack and instead went to Boraxus which had been damaged by a few earlier attacks by myself, and even with the small pocket or resistant there we were able to destroy Boraxus fairly quickly.
After a short break to rep up we moved to MoK and prepared for the final battle, which turned out to be lots of battles, with only small resistance at first turning into the Tibs repelling us more than once. Then when we had Tibrar down to about 15000 Ryu who wanted to claim the top spot from myself went rogue and destroyed me (I was already badly damaged from the pds and ship attacks, and about to leave but was taken of guard by Ryu) and due to loosing two cruisers the Krill blob had to pull out of Tibrar. But after a renewed alliance with Ryu to finish of Tibrar and some time to Rep we jumped back in and finished Tibrar of.
Then the rest of the time after the victory was spent chasing Ryu all over the galaxy before he went into vac mode in Tripe and then trying to defend DW who was a carrier at the time and had about 6 people inside him who had gone to sleep in MoK and was eventually destroyed over night by DR and a small group of high level Tibs who had been repping in Tibrar while we chased Ryu. There ended the Frantic.
Krill LC: Britnoth
Main Bombers: Ecvej, Mabus, Ryu and then joining later Vald and not sure who else.
Main Reppers: DoomWarrior
Main Cloakers and fighters: Britnoth, Trout, Anakin
Sorry if I’ve forgotten to add anyone’s name who played a key role, or if ive written anything that’s wrong, add what ever u want in following posts, and in more detail, and hopefully some one from each legion will do the same and say what happened with the legions doing the game.
See u next game. Taken from a post by Mabus on the TVS forum in May 2004
I don't remember what tick I started playing in, I think it was around tick 20 or so when I spawned to life as an Ajaxian and immediatly (and foolishly) jumped in to Star City expecting freindlies to be there. They weren't. I died in the first 10 seconds due to incredible Tib activity, and I was only level 1 going up against 7 level 2+ ships. I later discovered that while I was jumping in, everybody else was jumping out. Xin did stay in SC for quite some time however, cloaked and all.
After that, I more less went out on my own to have some fun and traveling the galaxy and getting points. That trip was short lived because after I went through Apollo, and Tripe, and landed in Dragor, I died a tick or two after I arrived, killed by Trout in a Microw fighter. That would be my second and last death of the Frantic. While we still had a base, me J5 and Diamondblade traveled down to Canopus West in search for points. We found them, but they were cloaked in the shape of a level 2 EyeContact. Finding EC cloaked there, it was decided we sit there and do pick-ups on him before he went in to vac mode (I wasn't sure if he was or not) and after a good many ticks--the number I can't remember--- I finally got the kill shot on him and we all fell back to Garen to sleep and go in to Vacation mode. I came out of vacation mode the next day to find J5 dead and my HW gone thanks to a pilot named ABSURD. Shortly after coming out of vac mode, I decloaked to fire on a repair ship but was too slow, as the repper hypered out. But Absurd hypered in, at the same time in a level 1 Tibran bomber. I tried to pick him off and was delighted to see he wasted a move shooting at me. But he got lucky and found a random hyper-gate and escaped with 600 HP's left and me angry. Ok, more angry since he SD'd our base before.
Anyways, after this the Jax activity and living ships fell drasticly. Many were killed and taken by other legions, others just stopped playing. Getting an LC in this game with the few actives we had proved very difficult, since the elections were too long and I assume the votes all got tied up most of the time, so the game was made even more frustrating with the lack of any communication coming from any of the few remaining Jax in the game. Toward the end I was very alone and flying around the galaxy like a nomad, on occasion joining sides with DarkRaven to get points.
After Tibrar blew up, and I came out of Vac mode in Aquarious I found myself sitting in the middle of a feeding frenzy--- DoomWarrior was offline and being targeted by DR, LordWilli, joesphine5, D@rio and others. I uncloaked after DR yelled at me in Tara's to help kill Doomie, and for the next several ticks helped shoot him down. with 14 HPs left, I tried to get the kill, but that honour goes to J5 after that nothing spectacular really happened, aside from terrorizing the few active Krils and such. So after awhile I cloaked in Aquarious, set my Vac mode and went to bed---only to wake up to find the game login finally disabled.
And that is an account from one lone Ajaxian survivor from Beta 13s Frantic
Taken from a post by Cronian on the TVS forum in May 2004
Tib account We went to SC right off the bat and with about 5 bombers lead by Hermione, myself and Chainsaw (chilidog) finished it quickly. We went to Ajaxus, but when the krills began moving we went to Tibrar. Realizing a TMC defense was pointless and futile, Hermi and I went to MH using the tibrar-PK gate, later joined by Stalthos, Orith and NebulaSky (a rogue). We blew the MH tower just after TMC went. Stalthos got killed, and the rest of us bugged out to Pero, then Orb. Orith got killed somewhere, Hemie went into extended vac mode. I came out the next day, repped up, attacked ajaxus, it blew by SD, so i cruised around with bounty then went to bed, woke up with Tibar on like 10k HPs. Defended, lost, went off and killed Doomie with LordWilli, Dario and SpiderWolve (under a different name). Then putzed around PK killing bunnies till game was closed.
Taken from a post by DarkRaven on the TVS forum in May 2004
The short account of Nertanef, the brave!(or suicidal nut)
Well, i joined in really late, about 164, Krils owned the galaxy pratically and i decided to go travelling, i flew to the orbital secotr where i saw NebulaSky and attacked him in my black knight, after ammasing a score of thousand points and only really doing 100 damage all up, i was obliterated. I then ejected and found my way back into another Black Knight, I travelled the galaxy aimlessly untill i stumbled upon two Tib ships and a jax vessel, where i was promptly destroyed. Back home i decided to go for a different approach, i chose a Demon attack vessel I flew to the asteroid field where i came across a level one tibran, who i promptly destoryed and got my first kill. After small amount of repairs i hypered to Tibrar where it was under seige by my great legion, upon arriving i started firing my little guns and leveled for the first time! (turn 189) then i had to go offline because dad came home, i came back to find myself destroyed and learnt that 8 ticks have to go by before you enter vac mode *sighs* so i was destroyed once more, another attempt on tibrar i was able to join for two attacks before god imposed a penalty (Go to bed mike! you have school tomorrow...*grumbles*) so i flew into the carrier DoomWarrior, who had the finest bars, room service and much more . I awoke the next morning and saw Dooms health was at 3000 but no enemies around, so i flew off in search of a kill, that was in the form of a tib Graydragon level 4, being the brave man i was i blazed away my little cannons and eventually crippled him where Refunk arrived who i think took a few pot shots at him, scraping the barnacles off Graydragons hull, after blowing Graydragon up i flew to Tibrar in my level three where i found a few tibs, i began to fire then i realised i was late for my drama rehearsal and left, two ticks later i was destroyed. After that i restarted at KC and saw most of my legion back as level 1 ships, with a few tibs in the southern sector, so i flew there and got blown again, believing that i could annihalate the high level tibs . This time i decided to fly to Ajax, i arrived at the Apollo sector via Dreadlar and decided to fly to ajax, after engaging my hyper drive space, time froze. I can only conclude that my hyperdrive must have picked up large amounts of magnesium and engaging the hyperdrive caused a chain reaction that froze time throughout the universe,
Taken from a post by Nertanef on the TVS forum in May 2004
