13th vs. Min
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13th engaged Min by surprise attack and crippled a large amount of Min players. They then moved en masse from galaxy to galaxy, cleansing each one of any appreciable Min fleet while trying to keep an eye on Min's "blob". Weeks and weeks into the war, 13th had lost track of Min's main fleet but found it in A67. They had decided it was time to go after their "blob" and bring the war to a decisive end. Unfortunately, before 13th could bring their fleets to bear, Min proceeded to move their blob to parts unknown. An intensive search for the location of the new site for their blob ensued with every 13th member, and any friend they could call upon searching the Alpha universe. After some time, the new location was located in A52 with many millions of fleet incoming, most of which not arriving for several more days.
Unfortunately for the 13th, they had no bases in the galaxy, so they persuaded several players from another guild to aide them with their jump-gates by joining them for a potentially historic operation. The 13th decided to split their forces with approximately 800 million in fleet heading to A52 from A67 via a gate in A51. This fleet was comprised of Heavy Cruisers and smaller since speed was important. It was decided that a fleet primarily comprised of over 100 Levis with supporting ships would head to Min's jump-gate of origin in A67 to destroy any returning fleet.
Never in the history of AE had a "blob" been caught in transit with the opposing guild having enough fleet on either end to virtually destroy it.
The 13th fleets headed to A52 arrived after approximately 100 million in Min fleet had landed, with another 550 million in transit. The attack began by taking the A52 gate, and destroying much of the fleet there. In the meantime, the gate in A67 was taken, with a smaller contingent of Min fleet being destroyed there. It was immediately apparent to Min that they were trapped, and that the only way to keep from being virtually destroyed was to surrender. A unique demand of the 13th's was that they would be allowed to kill any fleet that landed at the gate in A52, but that any fleet recalled to the gate in A67, or any fleet anywhere else would be allowed to live. As a result, only 200 million of their mobile fleet was destroyed. 13th cited the fact that they did not want to destroy any guild utterly, and that such action was bad for the server.
Min surrendered shortly after, but not before some forum antics by Bruskie.
Original Alpha P&W Thread: http://forum.astroempires.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=57731
Alpha P&W Surrender Thread: http://forum.astroempires.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=62723
