Cool move agents.

Cool move agents.

Originally shared by Greg Lennox

Ingress Field Report
Operation #Tealadelphia: Fields of Brotherly Love

OBJECTIVES:
1. Contribute substantially to the global MU count in time to impact the 1 billion MU measurement for Devra Bogdanovich's portal virus.
2. Promote positive cross-faction relations in a city with very active and passionate agents on both sides.
3. Demonstrate the potential of [occasional] cooperation and collaboration between humans regardless of allegiance.

PLAN:  Construct a large-scale multi-layered field over Philadelphia, USA with equal numbers of green and blue layers.

OUTCOME: Success

#SITREP:

2014.08.05 – Agents TheSquirm (ENL) and FiendlyFire (RES) begin discussions and achieve consensus on objectives. Recruitment begins, as does the search for viable anchor clusters.

2014.08.06 – Field plans Alpha and Bravo begin to take shape. Planners limit knowledge of the operation to a small cross-faction contingent to avoid organized opposition from agents opposed to Objective #1. Recruitment proceeds within both factions. Target measurement checkpoint selected.

2014.08.07 – Field plan Bravo rejected due to volatility of anchor clusters. Field plans Alpha and Charlie completed. Tactical assignments developed. Recruitment continues.

2014.08.08 (morning) – Field plan Alpha selected. Portal key acquisition and distribution commences. Selected preparatory clearing of blocking links begins.

2014.08.08 – 2014.08.09
• 1800 EDT: Prep team clears and deploys target portals in southern anchor cluster before park closes.
• 1900 EDT: Field team meets at rendezvous point [redacted] to review and refine tactical plan.
• 2100 EDT: [Checkpoint]. Field team (nine agents) splits up into two cross-faction vehicles and begins clearing blocking links. Clearing will last approx. 7 hours.
• 0200 EDT: [Checkpoint]. Clearing continues.
• 0355 EDT: Final blocking links cleared. Anchor clusters deployed. Linking begins.
• 0356 EDT: First layer created (511,525 MU for ENL).
• 0506 EDT: Twenty-third and final layer created (620,611 MU for RES). Operation transitions into protective phase, with both factions reaching out to active agents and requesting that all anchors be left intact until checkpoint.
• 0700 EDT: [Checkpoint]. After two hours with zero attacks thanks to cooperative agents in both factions, Big Teal still stands. Field team enters long-overdue and well-earned dormant cycle.

STATISTICS:
• Fields: 39
• Layers: 23
• Total MU: 13,218,687

CONCLUSION: The Tealadelphia op demonstrates that even with fewer than four days to plan, dedicated agents can achieve incredible success if they are willing to set aside faction differences and work together in a cooperative manner. It is hoped that agents around the world remember this lesson when in-game opposition and rivalry threaten to create hostility and antagonism in human interactions.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Field Team:
• [ENL] 4everseptember Annie Ding 
• [RES] GanosLal May Be 
• [RES] Maxxzimo Jose Reyes 
• [ENL] Nerdyfro Marshall Carpenter 
• [ENL] shanzt Shannon Tsai 
• [RES] thesolo Mike Palumbo 
• [ENL] TheSquirm Sean Sweeney 
• [ENL] tigerdash Kevin Cheung 
• [RES] tinylittledot Claire Crawford 

Prep Team:
• [ENL] BuzzBuzz Jacob Birnbaum 
• [RES] jbzdaj Jennifer Carson 
• [ENL] prairie Theresa Cranmer 

Intel:
• [ENL] ElHuevoGrande Kenneth Schwa 
• [RES] FiendlyFire +Greg Lennox

Strategic and moral support:
• [RES] BaronKernville Mike Eisenstein 
• [ENL] dproteus13 Dan Feizet 
• [ENL] llrjerseygirl Lindsay Feizet 
• [RES] padalabra Pedro Owsik 
• [RES] philadelphia Phil A. 
• [RES] sensalia Debbie Castelbuono