Ahoy good sirs and siresses. 

As the La Familia Director of Shiny Objects, I have 2 issues to address with you today.

1.  <redacted>

2.  Just dropping in to say hi.

Redaction is always an interesting issue.

Hiya Savet!  Ya see my new shiny trident yet?  My other one fell prey to misfortune!  hehehe

I wanted to talk to you about that....I've been dreaming up an organized capital ship battle with you and TRS's trident, and a full crew of gunners, assault ships, and repair crews.  I've got more specifics in mind if you're interested.

I also, can't wait to see the new trident! ;)

Sounds like fun to me!  One thing they should change on the trident is the ability to have a 5th ship dock for repairs.  Right now, if you have 4 gunners, nobody can dock and repair.

It would also mean they drop more cargo when esploded!

Need a plugin or addition to the Trident that says "Eject eject eject" when say at around 10%.

Ok, here's what I'm thinking.

2 teams 1 capital ship per team, with FAMY on one side, and TGFT on the other.  Nationalists such as ONE and ITAN would be on the TGFT side while BLF, CHRN, etc would be on the FAMY side......unless the team balance was way too lop-sided.  We might have to have some volunteers to balance things out, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.

Unlike nation war, anyone can rejoin the fray, but you must home 1 wormhole away.  So if we choose Pelatus, you could home in Bractus or Edras.  The battle ends when one trident is destroyed.  I'd like to plan this out in advance so we can get maximum involvement.  What I'm envisioning is approximately 4-6 repair ships per side making strafing runs on the trident, keeping it repaired.  1-2 gunners in each trident keeping gems going at the attackers (despite what you say red, those little gem turrets work when the attacker also has to worry about fighters), and 6-10 fighters per side.  Ideally 10+ ships per side, but 20 per side was the scale I was hoping for.

Now, my concerns....with such a large group, will the tridents simply go pop faster than repair crews can keep them up?  I'd like this to be an endurance battle.  Any thoughts or suggestions?

LOVE IT

If the objective is to blow up the tridents, then you would need to ban chainsaw hornets. Otherwise the winning team will be the one who has the most chainsaw hornets. Until they get shields your repairers cant keep up with them so there wont be any actual fighting, just chainsaw hornets.

We really can't do a decent battle like this until there are shields, because there is no bomber/escort dynamic where people need to get their rags safely past the other escorts to deliver the shield breaking run. The winners are simply the team that diverts more of their fire to the trident, rather than the enemy fighters, making the defensive aspect kind of irrelevant.

my 2c.

'scuse my combat ignorance, but what's a "chainsaw" Hornet?

... and where can I get one?

A hornet (preferably the Orion variant) with 4 Charged Cannons, set up for Chain Fire (no idea what delay, haven't used that in eons since it didn't really work for me). the ToasterCrush Plugin has a ChainFire setup option.

try 0.06 or 0.07 for the delay.

This sounds epic! What a show it would be!

This would be cool! When do you plan this event? I'm asking, because I cannot log in till april 1st. If you can do it in april, I would readily take part!

April 16th is the big 10th anniversary celebrations. That sounds like a good arbitrary date yeah?

Sounds good to me.

Everyone ok with a restriction on chainsaw hornets in the interest of battle epicness?

First motion: An exemption on chainsaw Hornet restriction for droid users and noobs.

Second motion: Further, if both droid and noob, can use Avalons, though strictly BYO (FWIW - likely contribute random advantage to both sides).

... On second thoughts, second motion withdrawn.

I am TRS and I approve this message.

Quiet!  Star Destroyers don't speak!  Or....something like that.

neither do fluffy pirates. ZING!