Antares Fleet Yards
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December 2004.
Antares Fleet Yards (AFY) was founded, consisting of just a handful of people, building items for the Everyshore market. Making use of our luckily (at the time) acquired lab slots. Building stockpiles of equipment, BPO's and experience.
December 2005.
AFY's first birthday was celebrated. With a hangar full of BPOs and mods, the doors were opened to the public for the first time. Players of experience in charge, willing and able to help those just starting out.
Some of our earliest members still remain. We recruited quite a few people over the next few months. Many good members who remain with us, and many who have moved on, from the game, or to other corps. About the same time as the corps opening, Red Moon Rising was released, and armed with an interceptor, and later a cov ops, BPOs and skills released in RMR were later bought back to empire and sold giving us isk for our first freighter (AFY-03 'Sundive'). Which was destroyed and replaced not long ago. (Nov 06)
Aydoteaux, Evershore has been our HQ system for the corps entire history, many belts have been mined there, agents run nearby and trades made on the market. We've run level 3 and 4 missions together, mined omber missions, made numerous treks into 0.2 systems to mine Hemophite, some successful, others learning experiences.
June 2006
We were looking for an alliance, to experience the challenges and rewards of 0.0 space. Just at that time we fought a short war (AFY's first) with Isk Sink Inc. Some members first taste of PvP, but not much to be had vs a 3 member (alts) corp. We joined SMASH as July began, and some members started to move to our (as we would find out), short term, home. A not so short 50 ish jumps to Esoteria.
Bistot and Crokite mining appetites were whett in BY-MSY and UG-UWZ, guest of Prime Orbital Systems, and paying the alliance 15m/member/week to build alliance funds. At this time, the dread pilots of SMASH were off fighting with Goonswarm.
August 2006
In August, with under a week to prepare, we invaded Geminate. RATEL had put up an outpost, and we wanted it. We had been in negotiation for some time with them, about helping them put one up in the area, just not there. That was to be our space. One may have thought that selling us the 30 billion isk worth of dreadnoughts we were later to use against them might have encouraged them to heed our warning.
The campaign was long, almost 3 months. We started on the wrong foot twice, jumping into a gatecamp on day 1 with the fleet (due to a lack of scouting). We had a decent sized fleet, but enemy preparation, and lag, ensured that losses were significant. We spent some time jumping from safe spot to safespot... VTIL had recently joined us, and took the initiative and put up the first tower in TDE4-H. However without guns or strontium, it didn't survive the night.
A ROME tower was put up not long after, setup as a deathstar, it provided our home for a while. VTIL setup the next tower, with AFY and TFUNK setting up. (our first POS) It stood strong through the whole siege, unchallenged. At one point both sides had empire war decs against them, from 'merc' corps. This was laughable at best. Their contracts weren't renewed. Our enemies splintered and dispanded, Black Flag Alliance, Free Trade Coaliton, fell swiftly. Some Black Flag corps joined RATEL, then offered to join us later :o. When it became clear tower sieges wouldn't win the war (node crashes all around), SMASH put up 30 POS's in one night. TDE was ours within a week. Allies Roadkill placed their own outpost in nearby K25 soon after.
October 2006
The invasion over, and our new 0.0 home ready for us, AFY comissioned our first carrier, a Thanatos Class Carrier christined "AFY-01 'The Lady Kathryn'". Donated by Wilko. Shortly after we bought our second carrier another Thanatos Class, though it was mothballed until recently when comissioned as "AFY-02 'Kejwahh'". Donated by Kejontes and Takwahh. Our first capital ship was lost when the Sundive went down in Eurgrana with a full load. Scouting and insta's doesn't help when the enemy knows you're coming. They had been waiting 4 hours. Almost a billion isk of stock, plus the Obelisk class freighter was lost. Vital to corp operations, a new one was purchased the next day.
The day after capturing TDE4-H - CDC, Pure & Euphoria Released commenced hostilities against SMASH Alliance. Their suspected aim was to remove the outpost system from SMASH's control while it was in a weakened state. However, we were more than ready, everyone in TDE was already battle hardend, and the system was fully militarized. 36 POS's all bristling with weaponry. Ship's ready at POS's and most pilots not yet settled into the outpost. SMASH aided Roadkill in fighting them off as their system K25 took the brunt of the attack. They almost succeeded, but they had to fight for every inch, taking losses that were obviously too much, for a prize not as juicy as some. Even calling in D2 didn't save them. E-R has since left the area selling BWF to ESA and CDC/Pure have gone quiet. Isk making is to be had in this new place we call home.
December 2006
Revelations was deployed early this month, and we bought a swag of BPOs, keeping up our ship BPOs we have all ships to Battlecruiser level. We also put up a research POS in empire space to help research our new BPOs. Our goals turn towards populating the TDE market, and continuing moon mining. With the hope of making more isk, to continue to support members, and progress the corp. AFY is 2 years old, it has at times topped 100 characters in corp, and we're the largest corporation in SMASH alliance, with newly claimed space of our own. Earlier this month SMASH drew the attention of the Privateers alliance, giving us something to think about, as anywhere in empire is possibly a warzone.
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