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Over the next year, a team of pilots scouted entrances to Rage and maneuvered freighters full of supplies, hiding them carefully without Hard Knocks' knowledge. Once it was safely inside, the operation began in earnest. Pando, an Initiative fleet commander, told me that 'the very first freighter served more as a proof of concept than actual seeding.' They stealthily moved it into Rage just to prove that it could be done. I couldn't even tell some of my closest friends about the op before it happened. The secrecy of the whole thing was crazy. If they wanted to survive the battle against Hard Knocks, they'd have to stockpile an arsenal inside of Rage-all without Hard Knocks even knowing. Since the wormholes leading to Rage were constantly collapsing, The Initiative couldn't rely on traditional supply lines to stay in the fight.

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Back in 2017, I said that it was 'never going to happen, but feel free to call me out if it does 5 years down the line.' Consider me called out. Those who survive still need to tackle the multiple doomsday weapons and turret defenses of the Keepstar itself, capable of shredding entire portions of a fleet in a single attack. Though there are some clues as to where wormholes lead, there's no way to guarantee which of the 2,600 wormhole systems you might end up in until you jump through.Īnd even if you do find Rage, you have to deal with Hard Knocks' defensive fleet of carriers and dreadnoughts. Rage is found deep within the shifting systems of wormhole space-a place where unstable connections to neighbouring star systems change multiple times a day. The Initiative wanted 'to do something that the EVE universe had decided was impossible.' Sowing the seedsĪs far back as 2017, a plan began to form, one that would require massive amounts of ships, ammo, and supplies. Truly, though, it was 'the desire to do something that folks thought couldn’t be done that drove the move,' Brisc said. 'Everything contained in those two that couldn’t get out was going to drop, and that was a big draw,' Brisc explained. Upon the destruction of a citadel, every item stored inside is jettisoned into space. This risk is exacerbated in wormhole space where all citadels’ asset safety systems are permanently disabled. Unlike many other MMOs, your ship and your equipment are put at risk each time you undock in EVE. The citadels would be worth billions if not trillions of ISK, EVE’s currency. 'These two Keepstars were loot piñatas,' Brisc said. Over the years, Hard Knocks had built several citadels, including another Keepstar beside Fort Knocks, to act as vaults for all their ships, weapons, and treasure. When I asked Brisc about the motives behind this operation, he told me one of the reasons was something anyone could appreciate: money. In a game that's been around as long as EVE, it's rare to do things that have never been done before.

On December 8, Brisc wasn't playing politician. As an elected member of EVE’s Council of Stellar Management, he's part of a group of players working with developer CCP Games to improve the game experience, but he's also a frontline soldier in The Initiative. A fleet of over 300 members of The Initiative had-seemingly out of nowhere-appeared on Fort Knocks' doorstep, ready to burn the entire system and everything Hard Knocks owned to the ground. It was already too late when members of Hard Knocks discovered they'd been tricked. The 'Fort Knocks' Keepstar after it was first built in 2016.