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By the time the infiltration fleet had arrived in Innu, the only remaining structure was a fortizar named The Rock, the main docking structure for WHC. The structure was in hull and therefore there was no reason to hold back. Although those of us who had been a part of clean up operation from the unscheduled unanchoring had seen a few capital ships in Innu after years of speculation that there were caps in some director-level hangar, this was the first time that we had seen all the capitals undocked (other than the few that were blown up or trashed to deny opfor the killmail). Unfortunately, the capital fits had not been updated in some time and were not optimized for the engagement we were facing.

That left the subcap fleet, FC'd by Archimede, to try to push off opfor long enough for the structure to repair. While initial shipping up was roughly something of a doctrine, the ships were ill-equipped and died quickly. After initial shipping up, reships were a hodgepodge of random ships that had been turned over by WHC members to be distributed as needed.

That left the subcap fleet, FC'd by Archimede, to try to push off opfor long enough for the structure to repair. While initial shipping up was roughly something of a doctrine, the ships were ill-equipped and died quickly. A lot of pilots who had joined the fight were inexperienced with PVP but eager to help. This meant that even if we had had a proper doctrine ready to go with the right ratio of DPS:logi:tackle:links:EWAR that we would have been operating a significantly lower fighting efficiency and that is not an indictment of all those who took time away from their regular play experience to help with the final fight. It is the nature of a learning corp that draws hundreds of new players each year that there will always be more eager pilots than capable pilots. I'm certain that everyone who showed up to the fight did their best and that's all anyone can ask of them. After initial shipping up, reships were a hodgepodge of random ships that had been turned over by WHC members to be distributed as needed. Eventually the ships that had been turned over were exhausted and people were forced to warp from hangar container to hangar container looking for something they could reship into.

After a few hours that felt like only a few minutes, [https://zkillboard.com/kill/114097962/ the fortizar was destroyed] and opfor podded the majority of defenders out of Innu.

== Rumors and Speculation ==

=== Sparklez ===

In the post-mortem fireside chat and subsequent write up conducted by then-CEO, [[User:Jilokari Kurvora|Jilo]], it was all but confirmed that Sparklez Ripper, though she had left her leadership position officially and moved her alt to Lazerhawks still had several other alts in key positions with access to the strategic doctrines and likely had been the one who had taken WHC's reserves right before the final fight. It cannot be overstated how pivotal her role in undermining WHC's defense was in all likelihood. Her main that had always been in Lazerhawks was part of the opfor group.

At the time there were a lot of rumors that she had done this to prove a point after longstanding disagreements with the way WHC was run had gone ignored. This is certainly plausible for a number of reasons. The first of which is simplest: in any organization that isn't a pure autocracy, there will always be disagreements among leadership about how to handle things. There was also a longstanding issue of absentee leadership, which is to say that there were directors and managers at that time who were either doing stuff elsewhere in New Eden on their mains (the Uni relied largely on alumni putting alts in key leadership positions in order to function) or had real life obligations that kept them from being more involved in the day-to-day affairs of the Uni. Sparklez herself was one of those absentee leaders towards the end of her tenure, though that may have been more because disagreements with the rest of leadership than anything else.

The most infuriating thing about this for me personally was that rather than acknowledge that allowing Sparklez to publicly leave the Uni while quietly

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 By the time the infiltration fleet had arrived in Innu, the only remaining structure was  a fortizar named The Rock, the main docking structure for WHC. The structure was in hull and therefore there was no reason to hold back. Although those of us who had been a part of clean up operation from the unscheduled unanchoring had seen a few capital ships in Innu after years of speculation that there were caps in some director-level hangar, this was the first time that we had seen all the capitals undocked (other than the few that were blown up or trashed to deny opfor the killmail). Unfortunately, the capital fits had not been updated in some time and were not optimized for the engagement we were facing.
-That left the subcap fleet, FC'd by Archimede, to try to push off opfor long enough for the structure to repair. While initial shipping up was roughly something of a doctrine, the ships were ill-equipped and died quickly. After initial shipping up, reships were a hodgepodge of random ships that had been turned over by WHC members to be distributed as needed.
+That left the subcap fleet, FC'd by Archimede, to try to push off opfor long enough for the structure to repair. While initial shipping up was roughly something of a doctrine, the ships were ill-equipped and died quickly. A lot of pilots who had joined the fight were inexperienced with PVP but eager to help. This meant that even if we had had a proper doctrine ready to go with the right ratio of DPS:logi:tackle:links:EWAR that we would have been operating a significantly lower fighting efficiency and that is not an indictment of all those who took time away from their regular play experience to help with the final fight. It is the nature of a learning corp that draws hundreds of new players each year that there will always be more eager pilots than capable pilots. I'm certain that everyone who showed up to the fight did their best and that's all anyone can ask of them. After initial shipping up, reships were a hodgepodge of random ships that had been turned over by WHC members to be distributed as needed. Eventually the ships that had been turned over were exhausted and people were forced to warp from hangar container to hangar container looking for something they could reship into.
+After a few hours that felt like only a few minutes, [https://zkillboard.com/kill/114097962/ the fortizar was destroyed] and opfor podded the majority of defenders out of Innu.
+== Rumors and Speculation ==
+=== Sparklez ===
+In the post-mortem fireside chat and subsequent write up conducted by then-CEO, [[User:Jilokari Kurvora|Jilo]], it was all but confirmed that Sparklez Ripper, though she had left her leadership position officially and moved her alt to Lazerhawks still had several other alts in key positions with access to the strategic doctrines and likely had been the one who had taken WHC's reserves right before the final fight. It cannot be overstated how pivotal her role in undermining WHC's defense was in all likelihood. Her main that had always been in Lazerhawks was part of the opfor group.
+At the time there were a lot of rumors that she had done this to prove a point after longstanding disagreements with the way WHC was run had gone ignored. This is certainly plausible for a number of reasons. The first of which is simplest: in any organization that isn't a pure autocracy, there will always be disagreements among leadership about how to handle things. There was also a longstanding issue of absentee leadership, which is to say that there were directors and managers at that time who were either doing stuff elsewhere in New Eden on their mains (the Uni relied largely on alumni putting alts in key leadership positions in order to function) or had real life obligations that kept them from being more involved in the day-to-day affairs of the Uni. Sparklez herself was one of those absentee leaders towards the end of her tenure, though that may have been more because disagreements with the rest of leadership than anything else.
+The most infuriating thing about this for me personally was that rather than acknowledge that allowing Sparklez to publicly leave the Uni while quietly