Second Siege of Sempiternal: Difference between revisions

The vault-break began at approximately 5am EST. Under the pretense of griefing the bedrock outside the vault, as they had been doing for the last few days, Krallen (Mir) was sent to the outside of the fourth ring to begin mining a port of entry into the vault's ground level, followed soon by the rest of Mir Team 6, hitting snitches immediately. Utilizing Lysika_Lantariel's (leader, Mir) previous vault-breaking experience, they employed his preferred tactic of ring skipping—mining into the second to last ring before breaking the bastions. This was possible due to design of the rings, being that only the outer edge of each ring was trapped, creating a safe zone for bastion breakers on the side closest to the center of the vault. They were also able to do this without much initial danger because there was only a single defender online for quite a while. shadedoom (Columbia) had again been the first to log on and notice the attack, but despite his efforts to harass the Mirian forces in the vault hole, he was poorly equipped and had unwisely moved his Columbian-based combat alt from Sempiternal to Hallow's vault the night before, thus making an effective defense impossible without reinforcements. As a direct consequence, Mirian fighters were able to break the outer rings very quickly.

 

 

Eventually, although NATO had successfully slowed Mir Team 6's advance somewhat, the defense had become arduous and LyndonLaRouche realized they could not hold the ground level much longer without reinforcements. He shortly retreated into the sky bunker and logged off for about an hour. At this time, shadedoom organized himself and Gbalelul to evacuate materials from the ground bunker to the sky bunker, and begin filling the ground bunker with reinforced obsidian and cobblestone grief. The Mirian forces continued breaking the final ring whilst the evacuation was going on, almost entirely uncontested in their attack tunnel.