"A whole server against a single halcyon-class cruiser? With those odds i'm content with three...make that four kills"

The guerilla war against CDF infrastructure would have been awesome, considering you had the man who made a name for himself destroying CDF trade stations in the crew XD

Gotta say it plainly, that this is the most interesting Space Engineers content/server gameplay I've ever seen. Even the simple arrangement of playing at the same time on a routine basis, removing all the hassle and toxic gameplay that stems from the online/offline dilemma, is great on it's own. But the extra RP elements that have clearly been well managed alongside that, really make it shine. It's the first time I've seen something that actually gives some of the feel that the old trailers implied.

Ya know what's funny? The _Eternity's Advent_ looks like it's based off either an _Autumn,_ or a _Halcyon_ class from Halo which makes it either a Heavy (in the _Autumn_ case) or Light (In the _Halcyon_ case )Cruiser... Which mean it's not even a Dreadnought or Battleship by UNSC classification.

Man I bought Space Engineers on the day it released, back before thruster damage was even a thing and back when all you had was the asteroids and a space station, it's truly amazing to see how far the community and devs have brought this game. I've not played in years but I really still enjoy content like this, really really cool man, this video 1000% earned my sub and bell. Super neat.

Never played this game. Never watched this channel, but found it in my recommended and I'm addicted. Also, I like that you chose RimWorld music for the intro, by far my favorite game.

I like that Eternity is not OP but it sure is hard to kill. It volume and amount of armor makes it very hard to have a decisive critical hit. Chances are you will be mostle be very low on ammo after prolonged fight. In a way fight against Eternity is a resources attrition battle. Eternity can be brought down be sending waves of nimble crafts that will require a response from Eternity. But retreat before nimble crafts suffer big damages and immediately attack Eternity with same configuration. Keep it up until Eternity will run out of ammo and Hydrogen then send cruisers to finish the job. All of it precludes that Eternity will not get reinforcement. Khan could have done it if they didn't start with Malta or didn't separate their battleships with their forces. But I guess that it hard to be consistent when faction is run by Warlords who don't want to share the glory.

"There was only one ship." "One? Are you sure." "Yes. They called it... *The Eternity's Advent."*

For some reason, this reminded me of The Lost Fleet (forgot the author). Basically, a fleet trapped in enemy territory, facing superior numbers, on a chessboard of stars allowing jumps only to neighbouring stars. No faster than light comunications, the fleet tries to get home, the opposing empire needs to guess where the fleet went, divide its forces wisely and either trap the fleet with its superior firepower or apply continuous attrition. A tactical game. No new vessels. Severely damaged ships may be repaired by halting the fleet movement.. Each side decides its movement at best it can, using scout missions that take realistic amounts of time....Very entertaining scifi books. Oh, they also had some hypernet jumps between some of the better systems, contested landings, traps, moral issues, etc... Damn, look at me typing like mad. Would make a marvelous odyssey

I've never played Space Engineers. But as a former Eve Online player I found it very interesting. You used a lot of the same strategies I used as a solo/small gang PVP'er.

This video seems like its a Roleplay of the Kriegsmarine learning why heavy ship surface raiding is a losing battle The death by attrition means even Smaller vessels need to be considered a threat to the dreadnought due to the lacking resupply you have The fundamental reason why multiple vessels gain the advantage is that your attention is always divided If you have 1 ship and your opponent has 3 destroyers you can only actively offend 1 vessel at a time with your other weapons becoming a distraction screen - If you split your main battery fire you can offend 2 primaries but lose any hope of securing kills quickly You then wind up with 1 of the 3 ships completely free to focus on its gunnery, no need to consider more than basic maneuvers and very light DamCon - while it bleeds you with a death by a thousand cuts The advantage of the "Surface raider" concept like you have with the eternity is that it forces the enemy to relocate assets to mitigate you - weakening other war fronts: As an individual effort it makes little sense and would be more productive as part of a fleet but can be a valid part of a war effort where you have your "Fleet" else where and make the enemy weaken its response to your fleet due to needing the reserves to deal with the Eternity

To anyone who hasn't seen it Outlands is well worth watching. In a sea of SE content it's unique and engaging and well worth the time. Can't wait to see what happens next.

29:00 This strategy was a basic battleship move. Keep the enemy at range so that your larger more powerful guns can pick them apart. If it was BB vs BB it was down to who had the better guns/armour.

As someone who hasn't looked into Space Engineers for YEARS... I had no idea this game was still alive.. and that it was this impressive what players were doing with it. Very cool

It is incredible how Bungie absolutely nailed how to make a general spaceship design philosophy that actually stands up in practice. I know that the Autumn and ships like it out of universe were inspired by older sci fi and assumed knowledge of how to make a spaceship best for combat. However given that there was no such thing as an accurate physics simulation, let alone combat simulation available in the 90s/ early 00s to test a low poly sci fi games ship design, it's impressive just how far "common sense" carried this beautiful vessel.

Imagine of Eternity just was like: OK, no fleet? Ill make one...

Me: *clicks video* Video: *starts playing Rimworld music* Me: 'ight, I guess imma spend hundreds of hours in the next 3-4 weeks sleepless trying to fix an unsavable colony from inevitable catastrophic ending yet again...

*The Eternity:* So, like I was saying, I hate fucking destroyers. I can't hit shit, they're too fast and too annoying. *Nemesis:* I just Macross them with homing missiles or blast them with my cannons, don't you have targeting computers? Organics are really predictable in combat. *The Eternity:* Homing... missiles? Organics? *Nemesis:* Don't tell me you don't even have shields.

7:25 "Our goal was to do [what is] called a 'spoiling attack.'" Reinhard would approve.

The circle battle doctrine is very similar to old Age of Sail duels between warships. Ships would end up circling as they dueled. Ships with more long guns would try to maintain range while those with heavier, shorter ranged carronade armament would work to close quickly. Most ships maintained both long guns and carronades, but ratios varied. You even see this in duels between ships as late as the second world war where ships would circle and try to maintain their optimal range while staying out of the enemy's optimal range. Generally, I think this is just called dueling, but you clearly added your own version.

Outlands is the best show on KZfaq for space engineers content. Everyone involved in the production of this series and server do an awesome job. The battles are fierce and entertaining the factions and crew in the factions have some of the best personalities and never fail to keep me on the edge of my seat. There are times When I an screaming at my screen in excitement and in horror ( like when that explosion rocked the back of Eternity during the last episode) What I wouldn’t give to join as a guest on any of the ships in this series just to ride along and see it play out in my engineers perspective. Good job everyone. I seriously hope there’s a 3 rd season because I just can’t get enough.

As a tabletop gamer and an SE fanatic, it really is amazing to see stories created by gamers that are random and end up being pretty enthralling. This is fascinating.

If you want to keep the Eternity as a part of the story it might be a good idea to give them a support ship. Or a handfull of prefab bases that can be droped from orbit. Rapidly deploying on-site to extract resources then ferry them up via shuttle. When the site is depleted the base packs up into a ship that returns to orbit. You can also have a few former CDF ships fall-in with Eternity, let a few support ships gather resources to feed the beast as it were.

I like the idea of a PVP server being a scheduled thing.

Metal Grids are very hard to get, because the developers made it super rare. Our whole Space Engineers gameplay got stuck and ruined, because we couldn't find Cobalt ore. Without the ore, we couldn't progress the gameplay. It was a very bad update, probably done so they can pull gameplay time. Very annoying.

Seems like a very star trek voyager esq scenario. A ship stuck in space making it's way back home, traveling distances and being out in wild space for far far longer than it was event designed for. Love it.

Space Engineers potential is truly amazing, it is not easy to get something at this scale set up and working to allow meaningful ship fights to occur, but you guy's have done it, and it's amazing to see stuff like this video, makes you wonder what other stories unfolded elsewhere with other ships etc.

hearing about the size difference between Eternity and her enemies reminds me of The Last Angel

This video made me binge watch the entire series in the span of a few days. I am now invested in the fate of this chunky ship.

This is exactly kinda stuff I hoped Space engineers would turn into. I was on a promising cluster of servers just before planets hit and we were building up then all the constant patching and performance issues planets brought ended up making me take a break from game for a long time. Server that can handle decent level of large ship combat, in assuming cluster configuration or however its set up seems like it would be super fun.

One thing I love about Space Engineers is you can put months into a build only to realize the flaws in your masterpiece after it gets blown up xD then it's back to drilling and welding.

Reminds me of Battlestar Galactica in many ways - focus on survival and resupply, try to hit strategic battles and come out on top when it counts. Might have to go watch this series now!

Very cool, the Pillar of Autumn/Halycon class ship is an excellent design when taking on targets from the front. It's even more so when there's a group of ships with the design. But it's awesome to hear pointing the ship at a single target is such an effective strategy.

This is a better advertisement for Space Engineers than their actual trailers Also reminds me heavily of a more customizable Eve online. You have me very interested in this game

I like how the sip is designed, not even the look of it, but that it is made like a ship likely should be in this situation with weaknesses. The shape is just a cool bonus, and I could recognize it was based on the Pillar of Autumn near instantly

For some reason this gives me major Battlestar Galactica vibes. Great content i look forward to watching the series when i got the time!

Reminds me of a battle I had on the pre-alpha many years ago.. I brought in my dreadnaught to let people try to destroy it, and one guy battled me spawning drone ships, maybe 15-30 of em by the end, but I kept splitting em with my jump drives ramcore style and barrages like a of a field of rockets while he tried to fight me in fighter ships too lol, it was epic, went for hours.. he had to give up in the end, thing wouldn't die, but it looked a wreck, he did a good job! But that ship could get cut in half and still function as two ships though. Distributed systems ftw!

I loved Space Engineers and the idea of multiplayer PvP, but the servers I went on never played out like this. It was all like Rust, destroying people's stuff while they logged off. This actually looks fun.

I don't understand how you only have 15k subs, your content is so nice, looks quite profesionnal. So keep up the good work!!!

I once set out to make an ankylon titan from sins of a solar empire in real scale in space engineers years ago, i got it half finished before i had to stop due to Life things getting in the way, fun to see this game blossoming.

Funnily enough, in halo lore: the Halcyon class cruisers were considered as having too much armour, until the Covenant showed up.

I came here thinking: Oooh, interesting space battle. instead I got: Holy shit! Interesting UNIVERSE! It's amazing how dynamic and how Organic this whole developed! with faction politics and everything! Kudos to everyone on the server who can keep this thing going!

It it is so cool seeing strategies and tactics put into action. I love that the battles are both more and less complex than what you typically see in sci-fi. Less cinematic and more practical.

Love the Rimworld music at the start there

This was the first of your video KZfaq gifted my recommended with. All your content seems golden, so I have my work cut out catching up. You should keep making these recap/summary videos to bring in more attention. You're small because the algorithm doesn't understand your content is good (yet). this video, though, is something it knew people would like. I'd guess it was the 'for 1 year' part (like the 100 days videos) or the 'against a server' part (reminds me of popular rust video titles). It might even be worth going back and making a summary for your other series with a similar title. I look forward to telling people how I found you before you got popular!

30 minutes of this new channel and I'm already invested in the outcome of eternity

wow. I love the play by play of both the battles, and the the alliance maneuverings as part of the story. though i cant help but notice the sheer amount of people online and the amount of ships participating, and must conclude that W/e you guys are doing server side is definately working.

What a great story from an amazing community. Sounds like an awesome way to spend your Fridays

First vid, 3 mins in and you have a new sub just because of how awesome the idea is. I love TTRPGs and I absolutely adore the idea of using video games as a medium for outcomes. This is just the coolest thing.

I really like how organically the doctrines of the war evolved very organically

This showed up in my recommended and now I'm hooked. Thank you so much!

I am kinda liking this ... explaining with pictures of the tactics...

I am now going on binge watching space engineers videos. Like where has this game been all my life

nice to see the Pillar of autum back in action

I subbed about 2/3rds of the way through the Outlands series and have been waiting for this. Thank you!

Serious "The Lost Fleet" vibes. This is awesome

Some of this reminds me of that Eckhartsladder Battle of the Dreadnoughts. I can just imagine while in the middle of a war, in a Capital ship and just see this, Dreadnought floating closer. “Good lord… it’s enormous!” Is probably when I’d try get the battle over with as quickly as possible, as like in real life unless you have a purpose built ship to take out a Dreadnought there is no real way to defeat it

Just got the game not too long ago & fell in love. How can I join this server to get involved in its "lore"?

I played SE on a large server for a few years and the politics and wars were one of my favorite things. I love the fact that modders and players can just come up with content to fill the game.

Really have enjoyed the series so far and it's given me the push to try and start my own story with SE. Keep them coming guys, love the work

Love from the Hammer to Eternity

I was thinking of the Königsberg and Emden most of the video, Maximilian von Spee would sympathize heavily with the Eternity's situation, after Coronel Spee refused to really celebrate victory (including the chad moment of telling a woman giving him flowers to "save them for my grave") because It had become clear to him, even with their crushing victory, they would run out of ammo and coal eventually even if an enemy shell never damaged them, which they would.

what i love is that all the players a playing their game and the eternity is just a valuablue in all of this what makes this so extremely interesting

I didn't no this channel existed and I'm loving it! Also the jump in views over your videos is insane! Keep it up I'm looking forward to more content

Those back line tactics they used are very similar to the German battleships strategy in ww2 as larger German battleships like the Bismarck tried to break into the Atlantic to raid supply lines

Idk why this was recommended to me but it was very fun to watch, good work sir

Did not expect for the fire of an old game to burn in me again from something I was listening to when playing stelarius!

The RimWorld music at the start was a nice touch.

This is absolutely wonderful. I'm enraptured.

I've never heard of this channel or this game. This is freaking amazing!

I'm only 10mins so far but I had to comment already and say Holy Moly! I had no idea space engineers game had this much depth and how you've used it. This is freaking awesome!

This looks awesome, love to go back and see from the start.

"Circle Battle" reminds me of BattleStar Galactica vs. The Resurrection Ship.

Darn... I really think I want to try this... I binged both season so far, even watched the last 2 streams and it was something :D

This is awesome, was in recommended. I'm hooked looking forward to starting from the beginning!!

Interesting to see this. I and a friend made a very small ship (destroyer or smaller) that was extremely easy to keep alive and had very good shields. Our whole battle stratagy was basically the circle battle and during it our small ship was able to outfight a battleship. The ships would be wrecked after combat but even without sheilds was almost impossible to fully kill. We would only engage in battle with dampeners off and rely on pilot skill to keep us alive. We made all the systems redundant and engage at ridiculously high speed so if we have to bug out we can not be caught. This culminated in a ship that would get massicured just to show back up in a battle 5 minutes later with 80% of systems back functional. We viewed nothing as essential, all propulsion was externally mounted along with weapon systems. What was deemed as important were the citadel of the ship. This box could be used to build an entirely new ship around, so as long as that was there we were never killed.

"Dreadnought" as a ship classification is actually pretty accurate here: "Dreadnought" isn't so much a category of ship as it is a status for a single ship to hold: the term-origin is the HMS(Her Majesty's Ship) Dreadnought and it was, quite simply, the biggest baddest _and fastest_ ship in existence bar-none when it was built allowing it to pretty much just invalidate a massively disproportionate number of opposing ships. "Dreadnought" as it is used in sci-fi and occasionally fantasy is honestly still pretty much exactly accurate which makes people quibbling over it so much kinda weird...though the fact that they are usually slow in-setting due to story tropes would mean that almost none of them could truly function as a dreadnought, there's a _big_ difference between a semi-mobile fortress and a hypermobile point of superiority. depending on how you interpret it "dreadnought" either refers to any individual ship that is _far_ above any competition, or refers to any ship that is keeping pace with the forefront of development, funnily enough in both cases the actual class of the ship doesn't matter, a literal rowboat could be a dreadnought as long as it's the best rowboat around and there is an actual niche for rowboats to fill that can't be filled better by something else. The HMS Dreadnought was intended as a capstone show of power by the british empire and it was also, funnily enough, the first step in their downfall as a maritime superpower: y'see since the HMS Dreadnought largely invalidated anything that wasn't the HMS Dreadnought that meant that how many ships you had of what quality that _weren't_ the HMS Dreadnought was suddenly a whole lot less important. this means that the existence of that one ship meant that everyone who isn't britain can't hold their own against britain. unfortunately it also means that about 5 minutes after hearing about that ship a bunch of people all figured out that this _also_ means that if your side can produce more dreadnought-equivalent ships than Britain then your side is now a serious contender for that number 1 slot barring almost any other factors and all they needed to do to break britain's monopoly was keep up for a short time, a couple months of politics later and that's just what happened...which you'd think would have been something britain thought of but to be fair at the time they were producing something like 50% of the large ships on the planet, let alone just euroupe. ^keep in mind this is when sending a letter took a couple weeks, so a couple months for political maneuvering pretty much consists of sending out a mass recruitment letter with the plan, waiting for a list of confirmations, and sending out a go signal with a bundle of revised information and logistics. "dreadnought" was originally a (slang?) term for a person who fears nothing in the...google says early 1700ds but I' not gonna try to track the accuracy of that down.

I like how they're all clearly influenced by the designs in Halo :D

I really enjoyed seeing this video and the narration! Made for a really entertaining ride! Thanks for making and sharing this!

Dude i love how you guys did this it is awesome man

What`s up with all of the dream space games that just turn out to exist

I like how you use Legend Of The Galactic Hero style Battle Graphics for the tactics. also subbed.

This is awesome, I'm gonna have to check out the series. I hope it's good, this seems really, really neat.

I've had Space Engineers for a really long time and I always hoped the devs would ass the infrastructure to make stuff like this happen naturally at a large scale. First time finding your videos. You guys doing it yourself is pretty cool and kinda makes me want to play again.

Okay I'm intrigued. Never for the life of me did I think space engineers would lead to something like this. I would love to know how this was formulated and organized. From how the groups came together, and how the story and factions were developed. I checked your channel, but I was unsure of which playlist to start with. I assume its Space Engineers: Outlands Season 1.

I'd love to participate in an event like this. Really cool idea for this entire event, and you earned a sub from me! Very cool gameplay concept, Space Engineers really missed out on a great story mode opportunity.

Damn this is cool, and that ringed planet is stunning.

Praise the algorithm! Dud that server idea sounds like so much fun

I had no clue this game had so much depth.. I really thought it was just a ship building game and was extremely linear. I was so wrong and totally want to play this game now!

Brocked... Your voice simply sounds like your turning into a frog... Great video like always! ♥️

Very interesting and creative series. I'll definitely be checking it out. Also the Rimworld music *chefs kiss*

incredible space adventure, thanks for shaeing, must have been sick!!!

"Lufbery circle" is the name you are looking for.

This is amazing

Love the rimworld music in the background

34:04 that salvo was AMAZING

i would like to see something really like the UNSC Spirit of Fire which in canon is a colony ship retrofitted with arms to fight in war

Wow I am early, really love your content mate keep up the good work

No wonder why I keep hearing booming at night, THANK YOU CDF FOR KEEPING ME UP

A great story, very entertaining. Thank you