Star Patrol News

As the Rikti Invasion weekend draws to a close I had the pleasure of participating in a “dropship raid.” As you may guess, this type of raid involves a larger number of heroes (or villains) ganging up on a rikti dropship in order to destroy it. This is no small task. However, unlike other raids I’ve been on (ship raids in the RWZ or Hami raids for example), a dropship raid seems to require no more finesse or planning than getting a larger number of characters in one place then shouting “get it!” as the war walls go down. Seriously, there were roughly 70 heroes massed near the northwest corner of Steel Canyon, all huddled together with no plan other than to ensure everyone could get into the air. No arrangements for healing, buffing or other such luxuries other than what appeared to be a sure-if-you-can-but-keep-up mentality. The only broadcast mention of such things I caught was Agent Tavarisch kindly asking not to be Speedboosted while she filmed. So that’s the way it went… first sight of a dropship and three score of heroes of various levels and archetypes descended (well, ascended) upon it like a swarm of drunken locusts.

And it went down fast.

And then another went down… and another… ten in total I believe. The sight of dropship after dropship falling from the sky as they fell apart and ultimately exploded not unlike the death throws of a Death Star. It was most satisfying.

Of course, since a member of Star Patrol was present, I leave you with the following screenshot while we await @Samuraiko’s video…