Rank 3's Battle Footage Hits the Gallery
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Just watch it and talk.
I'm calling it straight-up insane.
Out of nowhere, some completely anonymous throwaway account dropped a "tastefully" edited video of the battle between Icarus and the Unity Clan.
Unlike Icarus's own post — which, of course, contained zero actual combat footage and only left behind a few verification screenshots and the final results — this one had everything.
From the five-man clan's initial invasion all the way to the pirate fleet materializing at the end and raining indiscriminate fire across the battlefield. Every dull stretch had been cut clean, leaving nothing but pure combat. The moment that highlight reel hit the gallery, the users lost their collective minds.
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How the fuck did he do that?
And if you count the ships in the video, Icarus started outnumbered from the jump lmao
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The second he pins down that main fleet — roughly 400 ships, including seven battlecruisers — he fakes a retreat and immediately jumps the light carrier player lmao
His own fleet was getting shredded in the gunnery exchange, and he still rammed straight into that light carrier without a second of hesitation and completely locked in the rest of the fight.
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I roughly counted and it looks like at least 4,000 ships
Don't tell me he drained every resource the second the mercenary bureau came back online?
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During the light carrier ambush they were already snatching ships, and in the base siege they straight-up seized five vessels in a row and suddenly had a mini-fleet sitting in the middle of the enemy formation
And in the late defensive phase, yeah, they got pushed back by raw numbers at 5-to-1 —
But flip that around: five players' entire Super rosters slammed into him, and mid-fight they even punched through a completely different route to pile on the pressure, and he still held. That Super pool is fucking cracked.
In the Central District — which is basically a den of thieves — he's got to be considered number one.
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A lot of Supers show up in the video, but I'm only listing the ones I can confirm as Icarus's:
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1. Ignis, SS-grade
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2. Partia, SSS-grade
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3. Pashtura, SSS-grade
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4. Unknown — estimated beast-type Super, probably S-grade or higher
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5. Belial, SSS-grade
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6. Also estimated beast-type or Xenovia-side hero, estimated S-grade or higher
And during the base defense, the clan players looked like they committed at least five SSS-grades plus somewhere between fifteen and twenty S-grades or higher — so odds are there were more inside the base than just the six I listed.
Reactions like these flooded the gallery, but overall the overwhelming majority were straight-up Icarus praise posts.
Had the man himself been scrolling the gallery through all of this, the sheer weight of attention probably would have left him groaning under the pressure. Fortunately — or unfortunately — the person in question had closed the gallery and was focused on his own work, so he never reacted at all.
And because the man of the hour stayed silent, the gallery's discourse settled into analyzing the battle between Icarus and the clan.
In the process of which, for reasons no one could quite explain…