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One week ago, CVA, Sylph, Paxton Federation, Aegis Militia, Sev3rance and Libertas Fidelitas engaged on Ushra’Khan POS’s that were being used as a tactical point to perform attacks in the northern providence region.
The operation started on saturday, 14th February, and ended 2 days later with the destruction of Ushra’Khan’s last tower. Here’s a little report from the first day of the operation that I found:

Saturday 14th February, 2009

“I woke to the howling of an alarm siren over my bunk in Promethia. Now that in itself wasn’t unnatural, it happened at all hours of the day and all hours of the night. But this one was louder and accompanying it a constant audio feed from our admirals.

“ALL SYLPH PILOTS GET IN YOUR BATTLESHIPS AND GET TO ERVK-P.” The message repeated over and over. “ALL CAPITAL PILOTS ARE TO ASSEMBLE THERE AS WELL. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE THERE.”

[...]

I queried the station for undocking, my ship waiting for clearance before it could be placed in the launch tubes for battleships. Next to me, a Revelation Dreadnought was already launching, going out the launch bay for capitals. It just barely fit.

“Permission granted, clear the bay.” The Promethia automated docking system replied.

My ship was lowed my magnetic locks into the launch bay and catapulted into space. Immediately I aligned and warped for BR-N97, followed by ERVK-P. Upon arriving the fleet was assembling nicely, with our capitals on standby and our conventional fleet also holding steady.

Our allies were on their way, with us joining up when they reached ERVK-P. Together, multiple fleets with hundreds of ships began working their way down to the target area. Our destination was still classified, but we all knew what was going to go down. We were hitting GE and GMLH, two system currently being used as a staging ground for UK.

Status: 3 POS towers reinforced, with almost no resistance, but we knew that tomorrow would be when they came out of reinforced, and tomorrow was when they would be finally destroyed”