Been watching defenders fleet grow exponentially since the Discoverer Expedition stuff with V7. Noticed they let their fleet land 20-50m before they logged on, but didn't have a planet close enough to take advantage.
Then earlier this month Defender made things easier for me by relocating some planets and only FS'ing in one system. Then I relocated into that system earlier today, launched a ton of MDs, and waited. Thankfully defenders fleet landed before the MDs landed, so I was able to recall those. Sent in fleet and rest is history.
Defender was able to log on before my cargo waves got there, and did get a small portion of DF.
VFR Defender, being it seems most of this fleet was from expeditions over the past 6-7 weeks, I imagine it won't take you long to get back to where ya were.
On 29-01-2020 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker CasualSAB [Pixels]
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Light Fighter 501.425
Heavy Fighter 31.603
Cruiser 60.607
Battleship 15.204
Battlecruiser 30.532
Reaper 1.148
Pathfinder 16.002
Small Cargo 60.000
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Defender Tinky-Winky [Die_Hard]
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Small Cargo 77.683
Large Cargo 14.829
Light Fighter 169.862
Heavy Fighter 23.283
Cruiser 16.629
Battleship 6.123
Colony Ship 9
Recycler 7.680
Espionage Probe 308.981
Bomber 8.537
Destroyer 1.730
Deathstar 3
Battlecruiser 2.076
Reaper 1.164
Pathfinder 8.061
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After the battle ...
Attacker CasualSAB [Pixels]
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Light Fighter 337.839 ( -163.586 )
Heavy Fighter 25.467 ( -6.136 )
Cruiser 56.800 ( -3.807 )
Battleship 15.058 ( -146 )
Battlecruiser 30.310 ( -222 )
Reaper 1.141 ( -7 )
Pathfinder 14.940 ( -1.062 )
Small Cargo 40.394 ( -19.606 )
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Defender Tinky-Winky [Die_Hard]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
350.908.308 Metal, 105.084.330 Crystal and 89.409.062 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 966.203.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 4.325.331.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 2.400.017.677 metal and 1.537.881.224 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 545.401.700 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
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Debris harvested by the attacker(s):
1.962.552.576 Metal and 1.537.937.424 Crystal
422.573.101 Metal and 0 Crystal
Total debris harvested by the attacker(s):
2.385.125.677 Metal and 1.537.937.424 Crystal
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 2.070.786.985
Crystal: 1.361.645.754
Deuterium: 69.829.062
The attacker(s) made a profit of 3.502.261.801 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -2.700.895.308
Crystal: -1.755.807.330
Deuterium: -414.030.062
The defender(s) lost a total of 4.870.732.700 units.