Shard #6, (Omniscient), Încredere. Global sitrep.
To all the Italian agents who did an awesome job working towards the scoring of this shard, no matter the target. ❤️ 🇮🇹
Shard #6, Omniscient, spawned in the capital city of Romania, Bucharest, in the night of the 17th of September. It was soon very obvious she (cause #6 is a she) was a special needs shard, loved by many and displaying a bit of a temper. Taking #6 to a target was going to be a hard job for a lot of people, and we named her Încredere, which is Romanian for trust.
It didn’t take long until the first threats about stealing and burying Încredere reached our ears. Even the most shard loving agents had to give a second thought to an event that’d prove hard not only because of the transport of the fragment, but also cause of the cross and in-faction crises it was sparking all over the world.
It was clear we were running out of time but, as much as we all wanted Încredere scored safely in Milan, every path researched was risky or crossed areas refusing to deal with a xf event. The Romanian agents put #6 behind many links, and fielded over it to protect it from stealing attempts while we could find a way out.
Danish take on the event :D
Patience is a virtue, but so is decisiveness, and we had an objective. We were dealing with no common shard, so… why trying to make it a normal one? Încredere had been born to shine (and drive us all crazy ;) ), so we helped her shine.
Some crazy agent stepped outside the box and proposed #6 to be sent to Africa, and the whole team quickly jumped in with the idea of sending Încredere to warmer places.
Some crazy agent with equally crazy friends (note the lack of pineapple in that pizza*)
It only takes one step to start a journey, but, of course, that’s usually the hardest one. To reach Otranto, the first stop of Încredere outside Romania, and first in Italy, the agents from the Serbian Resistance needed to do quite a lot of cleaning of the area, having to leave some hard to reach portals in the hands of decay. In an awesome job of coordination, they managed to set a date for the path to be open. We were all in their hands, and they turned out to be extremely trustworthy ones.
Awesome Serbian cleaning team being awesome 😍
While waiting for decay and fighting a couple of new blockers, the agents in Accra (Ghana), worked to make the landing portal for Încredere a safe place; keys from Milan were moved to France just to be ready, and some of the agents in the Mediterranean were warned about the chances of an event happening soon in their waters, since it was going to be the next step to reach the target. (Right?)
Agents in charge of deporting Încredere to Italy 😅
The beautiful Ligurian Sea made us change our minds again: clearing a path for the shard to reach Milan wasn’t an easy task, and Încredere clearly wanted to see the world and go on with her holidays. Apulia became the first and last stop of #6 in Italy, and we decided to send her island hopping through the Atlantic Ocean and make her reach the target in Oklahoma, knowing the agents in there would welcome her with open arms.
Faro di Punta Palascìa ♥️ I'd have stayed :D
The first stop from Accra was the Canary Islands, where a group of really enthusiastic agents joined the plan to make it a great success; they organized themselves in record time for 2 different paths, always ready to adapt to what was needed to make the shard reach a target. The plans for the jumps between the Canary Islands and Azores had to be changed due to accidental blockings in different island groups (Madeira, Azores). The stop in the Canaries was a celebration, the agents slept with Încredere during that night, and I’m sure they told her all about Saint Brendan's Island.
Part of the team in the Canaries. It doesn't get more beautiful than this. 😍
As the sun was rising, Încredere left for the Azores, where the agents in São Miguel were ready to arrange things for the next jump to Corvo, last before the arrival to Florida. But their scanners had a different plan, and they had to wait for an hour to be able to link the 2 portals. Several jumps after (including one backwards inside Azores and a stealing attempt) and with more awesome agents joining the Atlantic adventure of Încredere, the shard was ready to be pulled from the USA.
Hard working shard herders in Açores. 🐳
Încredere was pulled to America to go on with her trip. An impressive 6599km long link from the USA to Spain welcomed her while she was jumping from Azores, because, why not? The North American agents did, again, an astonishing job allowing the shard in behind their defensive links, and carried #6 to the target in Oklahoma, where she (and then we all) could rest, at last.
Crazy Americans, licking #6 😨
Musical support:
Elisa ❄️ :D
Modena City Ramblers - Bella Ciao
Fanfare Ciocărlia- Born to be wild
Name suggestions:
Încredere was a life changing shard; while trying to get it out of Bucharest, the team came out with several ideas to name her. Love and hate and love :D
- The pineapple (the target portal in Milan being the pizza, it’d never score there)
- he who must not be moved
- The brat
- Bucharexit
- Godot (Godot never arrived... please, don't scare me -DugongHugger-)
- Lazy boy
- Fievel
- Dracula shard (He drinks our time like blood)
- Vlad
- Dragoste
- Speranţă
- Încredere
- I just wanna call it gone (-Lynoocs-) :D
- we should have called it heartbreaker, whatever happens it's going to break some 😅😂
*This is wrong
Încredere broke some records:
- It took her a while to start her journey: Încredere remained in Bucharest for 32/48 jumps
- Traveled kilometers: 18337.82 KM
- Continents visited: Europe, Africa, The Americas (it was the only shard to set foot in Africa).
- Countries visited:
Romania
Italy
Ghana
Spain
Portugal
USA
- Countries crossed:
Romania
Bulgaria
Serbia
Kosovo
Albania
Italy
Libya
Niger
Benin
Togo
Ghana
Côte d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso
Mali
Mauritania
Western Sahara
Spain
Portugal
USA
Our favourite meme (thank you for the attention!)
Trivia and some quotes:
- The path looks a bit like the glyph difficult.
- The police kept the agents company while they were sending the shard from Horezu.
- basszuskulcs is an actual word.
- Romanian agent Robertton’s birthday was during the trip of the shard
- Agent Hhhipppo: Încredere is female. And it's not her fault she's special, she's been through a lot 😃
- It was the only shard to touch Africa.
- A member of the team was threatened with divorce 👀
- Agent Zverko decided cleaning with 35% battery was a good idea. Our cardiologist thought otherwise.
- Punta Palascìa, where the shard entered Italy, it’s the easternmost point of the Italian peninsula
- Azores, from where Încredere was taken to America, is the westernmost region of Portugal.
- [Some other chat, after the jump to Accra:]
〰️What's the nearest target?
➖All of them.
- It's our dragon and we love it! 😁
- I think everyone thinks we went completely mad 😂 (ChiisaiKuma)
Shard herders
Path seekers, cleaners, linkers, map checkers, against the clock flippers, babysitters, connectors and voluntaries on call, always ready to help. (I've been told there are some extorters, too 😂). Oh, and squirrels. 🐿️ We could add more. 🙂
Austria:
axi92
Gese
Czech Republic:
Nearh
Croatia:
Jasssme
PingluPanglu
Denmark:
Hhhipppo
France:
Oxilium
Germany:
Gefijon
Yemus
zweidel
Ghana
Careyuki
Hungary:
DugongHugger
qns
Italy:
00Puccio
Alastorh
Capodileuca
carlobolla
dedo1911
DoppioM
Gingerfeel
IlMorgi
LordGreenMonkey
Se7en76
Tortoprof
Vharcan
Lebanon:
YRAR
The Netherlands:
ChiisaiKuma
Portugal:
Amadeup
Dikas10
Esquilim
Falballa
Flavio7corvo
Jon26
Rojanix
Romania:
Horicas
Lynoocs
namskill
RoberTTon
Sanshine
Serbia:
Banedukie
bubasara
DragonReturns
Jena24
Ljiljana82
RADA2
robotech4
Veljev
Zverko
South Africa:
Azhreia
Spain:
Caboguataca
CruzadoMagico
Edyak
Gofio
HRSantiago
KevinBG95
LordBloodRaven
Nightwish93
NitoNation
Papaveris
Pynguyn
RobertoHernadez
Sidalta
Tabainet
TePrensolaKK
weshale
USA:
CrossedStreams
DanielSilver
ibotpeaches
Ki11edbyDeath
❤️
;)
Comments
An awesome tale, and made so much better by the (perhaps unintended) wait! It made following her subsequent travels all the more pleasing!
My heart literally melted reading this. I thank all of you guys for the incredible work you put in the scoring of the Shard and hope one day to meet you in this little big world!
Thank you all for this amazing experience!
Te Iubesc! ♥️
Great adventure, great puzzle, and great sitrep @Papaveris !
Awesome sitrep! It was really great watching everyone work together to score this.
Pineapple on pizza is awesome.
Change my mind.
Congratulations to all agents involved.
Încredere 😎😊
OMNISCIENT Agents take the Shard across the Globe.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3AzBIMgI2J/?igshid=1tavq7uxcukfl
Ps: with more pineapple next time! 😁
THIS is a good way to write a sitrep and hope you didn't miss any! Congratulations to all agents, and may our Ingress lore stay interesting and perhaps anomaly can be "10 dollars"...PLEASE?
haha.
"Patience is a virtue, but so is decisiveness"
Hear hear! XD
I'm not saying a word without my lawyer present 🙄😂
GG
A fantastic and epic tale, and a real good job. 😁
This was an amazing read!! Great work agents!! 💙❤️💚
Ai, cansei de ler.
We were so happy to escort your lady to the Oklahoma target! Thank you for the beautiful sitrep 💚
If you don't work as a writer.... you've got another career choice open, this was a fantastic read!! We were so happy when she finally scored 💙💚💜
Awesome operation. Awesome sitrep.
I only like to add a little theory about the real reason Încredere stayed for such a long time in the Romanian capital:
I think that we can all agree that this is a damn good reason for staying in Bucharest as long as they last. I felt very bad that I had to give this awesome portal candidate an 1* OPR rating. But after all I'm a German agent and the letter H in German stands for humor when doing OPR reviews according to Niantic's crisp and clear rules: no free cookies anymore. 13 $ for each (loot) box.
Sounds like a good reason to me 😂🍪