Love the name and great work!
Love the name and great work!
Originally shared by James Sugrono
#Sitrep : Operation #BreakingBlue
Brought to you by Resistance NSW , Brisbane Resistance, and Resistance ACT
#BreakingBlue had its origins in a comment made by agent stretch at a Resistance social event - he was headed up to Broken Hill, let's make a field! The planning for this field started as early as a couple of weeks ago, with a few blockers being removed surreptitiously in the week leading up to the operation. These were cleared completely, at times, and replaced with innocent-looking guard links at others.
The anchor points were chosen out of practicality - there was a mix of accessibility (for our local portals in Broken Hill and New Caledonia), and inaccessibility (for the remote portals in Green Cape and Morton National Park).
The day of the Darsana anomalies, I'll admit that I probably had a minor heart attack when the Enlightened field over Auckland went live - I have to say, I was expecting it to create more trouble than it did.
On the morning of the operation, having spent most of the week checking and double-checking for blockers across the intended link paths, I woke to find that not only had an Enlightened agent cleared one of our blocking links, saving us a JARVIS virus, they had also established perfect blocking links, almost as though they were sweeping the path clear for us.
Many blockers were removed well before the links went live, due to agents' other committments. I'm no scientist, but I would say that having these removed early probably added as much stress as it relieved: What happens if it looks suspicious? What if the Enlightened are on Intel and see this unusual play? Fortunately for us, it seems that Enlightened eyes were distracted elsewhere, for whatever reason.
Now, I had another issue: I had organised, and was participating in, a Level 8 farm on the day. This meant that there was a large amount of faith, on my part, that there were no tiny blockers in our linking path. For most of the day, I was hamstrung by being away from my computer, relying on mobile Hangouts and Intel to organise the clearing teams.
Arriving at the Quarryman's Hotel in Pyrmont (which is now my preferred base of operations), I was somewhat anxious: I scoured the link corridors again, expecting to see a 1 metre link that would foil our plans in the middle of nowhere. Alas, no such links were there - by that time, there was less than an hour before our clearing teams were going to drop links (and Jarvis several of them in an area well-known for elaborate field operations, done by an agent well-known for participating in them) and, had additional blockers been present, it is possible - probable - that we would not have been able to organise additional clearers. One of the great things about Australia is seeing the expanses of land, but it means that when we have a blocker in the middle of nowhere, it's really in the middle of nowhere.
At CP-minus 35 mins, I gave the all-clear to our ground teams to commence clearing blockers, saving the more overt blockers - i.e. those that required a JARVIS virus, or several - until all the other links we were are able to destroy were down. By CP-minus 20 mins, most of our blockers were clear and the all-clear to Jarvis was issued.
Seconds after the path was clear, links from Broken Hill to Yadboro State Forest, and Épave Du Melanesia to Yadboro State Forest and Broken Hill were raised - first layer was active at approximately 0746 UTC. Layer 2 followed shortly after at approximately 0747 UTC, and layers 3-6 were live by approximately 0759, mere seconds prior to Checkpoint 23 of Cycle 46. Unfortunately, a disruption in the global portal network meant that we were unable to complete the final link of the final layer before the Checkpoint.
However, this does not diminish our achievement - this operation, passing straight through the heart of enemy territory, was a difficult feat to accomplish. Blocking links, made by both friend and foe (particularly on the Gold Coast, a popular tourist destination) threatened to thwart us at every turn. The well-oiled machine that is the Resistance allowed us to complete the operation, despite the obstacles.
An Enlightened agent was able to destroy layers 6 and 7 at approximately 0956 UTC. At the time of this sitrep, all other fields remain active.
#BreakingBlue***** Executive Summary*
1 VRLA
3 timezones
7 layers
8 fields
80 scoring regions
Field MU yield by layer (agent):
1. 4,836,288 MU (lox)
2. 4,851,428 MU (lox)
3. 4,836,690 + 2,184 MU (stretch)
4. 4,851,216 MU (stretch)
5. 4,851,905 MU (stretch)
6. 5,373,450 MU# (stretch)
7. 5,373,728 MU#* (afpa)
Total@checkpoint: 29,603,161 MU
Total: 34,976,889 MU
* Did not make Checkpoint 23
# Did not make Checkpoint 24
My thanks
I was excited to run with this idea, and being my first attempt at planning and organising a field, I had to rely on many other agents' experience and knowledge. For that, I'm incredibly grateful for the support of agents djthewombat, iged, namarrgon, varthrax, billius, and zauberwald, who all assisted me with their local knowledge and connections, and many of whom were also in the field. Whether it was looking for an agent who could take out a remote link that was a 4 hour drive each way, or knowing which green areas were trigger-happy, their experience was invaluable.
Without the support and dedication of some of these agents - many of whom spent hours on the road, or pouring over Intel maps ensuring linking corridors were clear - this would not have been possible.
My personal thanks to:
Intel
djthewombat
Jarnz
Linkers
lox
stretch
afpa
Keys
gonfishinginoz
bearcat
anouke
junglerunner
iged
namarrgon
Clearing teams:
New Caledonia
IAORANA
Qld
Azurebullet
bulletmagnet
Gold Coast
Benderz
500d
kathyjs
zauberwald
WereCatTC
South Coast
Artejal
Andrew118
Puganaut
ACT
KirieldP
unearthlygreen
smokedborg
deusxm
cerri
iBeCamping
The Resistance would also like to note our gratitude toward agents Ajax and talie of the Enlightened, who so graciously allowed their Very Rare Link Amp on Metoru Island in New Caledonia to live, such that it today fulfilled a nobler purpose, and so that we may deploy our resources elsewhere (#HeExtendsEconomically). This is also part of the reason for the relatively few number of layers, for an operation of this scale - why spend our resources on something relatively localised, when we might deploy them in the service of a globally beneficial pursuit?
Once again, my deepest thanks to everyone involved. It is likely that I have forgotten more than one person - not a comment on your contribution, but an embarrassing revelation that my memory is terrible without an organisational spreadsheet in front of me!
Ingress Brian Rose Brandon Badger Joe Philley Anne Beuttenmüller NIA Ops
Originally shared by James Sugrono
#Sitrep : Operation #BreakingBlue
Brought to you by Resistance NSW , Brisbane Resistance, and Resistance ACT
#BreakingBlue had its origins in a comment made by agent stretch at a Resistance social event - he was headed up to Broken Hill, let's make a field! The planning for this field started as early as a couple of weeks ago, with a few blockers being removed surreptitiously in the week leading up to the operation. These were cleared completely, at times, and replaced with innocent-looking guard links at others.
The anchor points were chosen out of practicality - there was a mix of accessibility (for our local portals in Broken Hill and New Caledonia), and inaccessibility (for the remote portals in Green Cape and Morton National Park).
The day of the Darsana anomalies, I'll admit that I probably had a minor heart attack when the Enlightened field over Auckland went live - I have to say, I was expecting it to create more trouble than it did.
On the morning of the operation, having spent most of the week checking and double-checking for blockers across the intended link paths, I woke to find that not only had an Enlightened agent cleared one of our blocking links, saving us a JARVIS virus, they had also established perfect blocking links, almost as though they were sweeping the path clear for us.
Many blockers were removed well before the links went live, due to agents' other committments. I'm no scientist, but I would say that having these removed early probably added as much stress as it relieved: What happens if it looks suspicious? What if the Enlightened are on Intel and see this unusual play? Fortunately for us, it seems that Enlightened eyes were distracted elsewhere, for whatever reason.
Now, I had another issue: I had organised, and was participating in, a Level 8 farm on the day. This meant that there was a large amount of faith, on my part, that there were no tiny blockers in our linking path. For most of the day, I was hamstrung by being away from my computer, relying on mobile Hangouts and Intel to organise the clearing teams.
Arriving at the Quarryman's Hotel in Pyrmont (which is now my preferred base of operations), I was somewhat anxious: I scoured the link corridors again, expecting to see a 1 metre link that would foil our plans in the middle of nowhere. Alas, no such links were there - by that time, there was less than an hour before our clearing teams were going to drop links (and Jarvis several of them in an area well-known for elaborate field operations, done by an agent well-known for participating in them) and, had additional blockers been present, it is possible - probable - that we would not have been able to organise additional clearers. One of the great things about Australia is seeing the expanses of land, but it means that when we have a blocker in the middle of nowhere, it's really in the middle of nowhere.
At CP-minus 35 mins, I gave the all-clear to our ground teams to commence clearing blockers, saving the more overt blockers - i.e. those that required a JARVIS virus, or several - until all the other links we were are able to destroy were down. By CP-minus 20 mins, most of our blockers were clear and the all-clear to Jarvis was issued.
Seconds after the path was clear, links from Broken Hill to Yadboro State Forest, and Épave Du Melanesia to Yadboro State Forest and Broken Hill were raised - first layer was active at approximately 0746 UTC. Layer 2 followed shortly after at approximately 0747 UTC, and layers 3-6 were live by approximately 0759, mere seconds prior to Checkpoint 23 of Cycle 46. Unfortunately, a disruption in the global portal network meant that we were unable to complete the final link of the final layer before the Checkpoint.
However, this does not diminish our achievement - this operation, passing straight through the heart of enemy territory, was a difficult feat to accomplish. Blocking links, made by both friend and foe (particularly on the Gold Coast, a popular tourist destination) threatened to thwart us at every turn. The well-oiled machine that is the Resistance allowed us to complete the operation, despite the obstacles.
An Enlightened agent was able to destroy layers 6 and 7 at approximately 0956 UTC. At the time of this sitrep, all other fields remain active.
#BreakingBlue***** Executive Summary*
1 VRLA
3 timezones
7 layers
8 fields
80 scoring regions
Field MU yield by layer (agent):
1. 4,836,288 MU (lox)
2. 4,851,428 MU (lox)
3. 4,836,690 + 2,184 MU (stretch)
4. 4,851,216 MU (stretch)
5. 4,851,905 MU (stretch)
6. 5,373,450 MU# (stretch)
7. 5,373,728 MU#* (afpa)
Total@checkpoint: 29,603,161 MU
Total: 34,976,889 MU
* Did not make Checkpoint 23
# Did not make Checkpoint 24
My thanks
I was excited to run with this idea, and being my first attempt at planning and organising a field, I had to rely on many other agents' experience and knowledge. For that, I'm incredibly grateful for the support of agents djthewombat, iged, namarrgon, varthrax, billius, and zauberwald, who all assisted me with their local knowledge and connections, and many of whom were also in the field. Whether it was looking for an agent who could take out a remote link that was a 4 hour drive each way, or knowing which green areas were trigger-happy, their experience was invaluable.
Without the support and dedication of some of these agents - many of whom spent hours on the road, or pouring over Intel maps ensuring linking corridors were clear - this would not have been possible.
My personal thanks to:
Intel
djthewombat
Jarnz
Linkers
lox
stretch
afpa
Keys
gonfishinginoz
bearcat
anouke
junglerunner
iged
namarrgon
Clearing teams:
New Caledonia
IAORANA
Qld
Azurebullet
bulletmagnet
Gold Coast
Benderz
500d
kathyjs
zauberwald
WereCatTC
South Coast
Artejal
Andrew118
Puganaut
ACT
KirieldP
unearthlygreen
smokedborg
deusxm
cerri
iBeCamping
The Resistance would also like to note our gratitude toward agents Ajax and talie of the Enlightened, who so graciously allowed their Very Rare Link Amp on Metoru Island in New Caledonia to live, such that it today fulfilled a nobler purpose, and so that we may deploy our resources elsewhere (#HeExtendsEconomically). This is also part of the reason for the relatively few number of layers, for an operation of this scale - why spend our resources on something relatively localised, when we might deploy them in the service of a globally beneficial pursuit?
Once again, my deepest thanks to everyone involved. It is likely that I have forgotten more than one person - not a comment on your contribution, but an embarrassing revelation that my memory is terrible without an organisational spreadsheet in front of me!
Ingress Brian Rose Brandon Badger Joe Philley Anne Beuttenmüller NIA Ops
Hahaha great title.
ReplyDeleteGreat name xD
ReplyDeleteok just // /**/ comments ... about hardware engineering Linus Torvalds once said that ULA chip was rubbish ... but there is a reason for many design decisions like "... things that I always assumed were just random design decisions, like blue being colour 1 ... " ( G ) (ps sorry this comment here, and not on Torvalds's space there is also a reason for that ;))
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