SHARD #20 - Central Java - Ingress Indonesia Resistance

Ron Raido (zaons)

2015-05-18 02:47:20+0700

SHARD #20 – Central Java

Semarang Resistance’s Story

On May 7th 2015 Ingress announced the Lightman Shard. Soon it alerted Semarang Resistance since one of the Shards was spotted in presumably Central Java. We directly speculated Borobudur Temple as the location due to the ancient civilization clue. Shortly after that the Fast Response Team was quickly assembled; consisted of other regional’s agents in Indonesia too. Our guess was that the shard would be on Candi Borobudur portal.

Day 1 – Shard #20 Spawn
The next day, at 7 am UTC+7 local time, the guess was a jackpot; Shard #20 – Dirman (Sudirman), spawn on the Candi Borobudur portal! Yogyakarta Resistance quickly set a team to guard the shard until its first jump. Meanwhile, team Semarang helped to clean cross links and create block links around Ambarawa and Ungaran. Agent @Shamankingss and @BangsawanCicak went directly to Ambarawa, cleared green portals and links along their way and in the same time agent @FumaKillas was on standby in Ungaran. They worked quickly in order to clear the path and move the shard to a portal in Ungaran.
Getting closer to 6 pm, team was on standby, a link was made from Candi Borobudur to Ungaran and the war for #20 – Dirman began. We are sure that we secure the shard jump as Borobudur gate closed an hour before jump. No visitors were alowed after the gate closed and and we leave the link intact inside. Agents were quickly joined the shard crew at target portal at Ungaran. Team was ready to stay overnight guarding the target portal. Food & clothes prepared and agents were on their way to the meeting point when the jump time got closer. Unfortunately, few minutes before the jump time, the origin portal in Borobudur was Jarvised by @pabusacilad from ENL. At 1st jump, ENL were able to divert the shard to their safehouse in Taruna Nusantara Senior High School, Magelang.

Day 2 – Shard Escape to Tegal
#20 – Dirman was not jump in 2nd jump time, and still resting in restricted are. Having no option to pick up the shard in time, we decide to go with defense strategy and force random jump. Team Semarang 1 was created in order to build blockers, keeping the shard from moving further away. Team led by agent @Batlador, folowed by his disciples @Ucil26, @Cumisaurus, and @Inside0, went to Parakan around 4 am to create block links fort which separated Tegal from Magelang.
Main blockers were done before the noon, with links from Parakan to Ungaran, Ambarawa, and Kebumen. More blockers were setup afterwards. Meanwhile Team Semarang 2 (@Palagan @Qiyamullail @Shamankingss @BangsawanCicak) was created as backup team, ready at any given time if the shard jump out from Magelang. And what we expected is happened. Our blockers get taken down one by one by ENL. Several green tunnel links were up from Parakan to Tegal. #20 – Dirman moved by ENL from Magelang to Tegal at 3rd jump, a city where there is no active RES agents.

Day 3 – The Battle of Tegal & Pekalongan
With great regret we push our spirit to take back Dirman into RES possession. Around 9 pm 5/8, when agent @Palagan was ready to go to bed, Intel team ordered Team Semarang 2 to depart to Tegal that same night!@Palagan was in panic mode since he needed to gather the team and find transportation ASAP. He then straightly contact @BangsawanCicak to find rent car in less than an hour.@BangsawanCicak with all his royal luck (a pun intended for his IGN) found a car and 7 agents were collected. And boom! Team #KetjehBadai was formed and at midnight gone @Palagan @BangsawanCicak @Qiyamullail @Shamankingss @Ucil26 @Cumisaurus and @Inside0 to the battlefield.
On their way to Tegal, they stopped for awhile in Pekalongan to get the care package provided by @Ilcharama. The team arrived around dawn 5/9, and started the day with the Morning Prayer. Although team was tired and so sleepy from long night trip, they stay awake and start briefing for a plan to kidnap Dirman. Their most important plan was to stay hidden and quiet, yet agent @Shamankingss accidentally (or maybe deliberately?) pressed fire!! The others were hit by panic attack since ENL agents @Listrik and @justkidz moved quickly around Tegal after the alert. Agents @Palagan decided to divide the team.@Palagan, @BangsawanCicak and @Inside0 were ready around the shard portal while the rest did the cleaning and tunneling.
ENL was able to give a fight by making block links to buy the time but our team was super ready for combat. One by one, their blocker was taken down by the cleaning team. Just minutes before the jump, the shard portal was linked to Pekalongan by @Palagan and the rest of the team gathered to the site to defense the portal. The green team was still fighting us but our P7 stood strongly against them and voila! RES moved the shard to Pekalongan in 4th jump.
Pekalongan is not only the city of Batik but also the city of @Ilcharama! The agent offered his home for the team to rest; bless the Ilyas family! Team #KetjehBadai finally regained their energy and planned their strategy then directly head to the shard portal after lunch.
The shard portal was located in a tourism site on the beach and the team intentionally came early to strengthen the tactics. It was few hour before the jump but no ENL on sight. We were a bit curious about their strategy. But we didn’t let our guard down.
Right after the Afternoon prayer, agent @Palagan was super lucky to find ENL agents hiding and spying, “So, here is where you’ve hide!” he shocked the green team. It appeared that ENL wanted to give surprise attack, yet they were the one who got surprised. ENL ambush attack was denied.
Knowing that their plan was no longer a plan, they got off of their no longer secret ‘vehicle’ and moved closer to the portal. Both team had small chitchat before the battle.
30 minutes before the jump, all eyes were fixed on Pekalongan since the battle had begun. We stick with the plan to deliver Dirman to Pramuka Island, where another team is ready to receive the shard. In the beginning, we controlled the portal and even link to Pramuka Island were established. But the 8 agents of Team ENL were able to take over the portal from RES. Link destroyed, portal neutralized, ENL captured the portal and bang!! link to Karimun Jawa were up. 6 minutes left before 7 pm, RES was able to get the portal back and defended it with all our might.@Cumisaurus tried to make a link to Pramuka but ENL was able to make block link beforehand. In the time of crisis, captain @Palagan came to a decision. He decide to evacuate #20 – Dirman to a safehouse portal in Semarang. The link established and the team keep defending the portal until eventually Dirman jump to Semarang at 5th jump!
Another victory for Team #KetjehBadai and RES Indonesia!!

Day 4 – Shard #20 extracted from Semarang
The next morning, RES was still in discussion about the plan when we got the alert. In less than 30 minutes before the jump time, ENL were able to infiltrate and jarvis our safehouse portal and created a link to a portal in uptown Semarang. We spent the whole weekend just for the shard and SURELY didn’t want it to stay long in Central Java. So, in a rush @Cumisaurus went to the target portal and Jarvis it. Link destroyed just in time, very close to jump time. At 6th jump time, #20 – Dirman stay where he were.
The safehouse portal was proven not safe anymore. Thus we decide to deliver Dirman as soon as possible out from Semarang. In the afternoon, 3 agents @Ilcharama, @Shamankingss and @Ucil26 were sent to guard the portal, waiting to take control of the shard. As precautions if something happen, agents @Zulfie, @ZulZel and @Adipanpan(now @Hemigaleus) were contacted to stand by around Semarang, ready to dispatch.@BangsawanCicak, @FumaKillas&@Palagan each dispatched to Kudus, Pati, and Demak, clearing blockers that set up by ENL, while also set up our own blockers to deny shard movement. All prepared for the worse.
That night, minutes before the deciding time, guide link were established from Marina Beach to Pramuka Island. The shard portal were ADAed, link was established to Pramuka Island and Dirman jumped out of Central Java at 7th jump!! Hooray!!

Semarang Resistance had worked extra hard for 4 days. Agents traveled to remote areas, cleaned green links, created block links, and went to battles to make sure that Resistance can deliver the shard to its goal portal. A small celebration wasn’t a sin. Some agents gathered to share stories and even @Ilcharama got special entertainment by the infamous Tamara; the local street singer.

Our biggest gratitude goes to all Indonesia Resistance Agents, who we can not mention one by one. We may win the battle, but have not win the war. So lets keep united until very end under Indonesia Resistance flags!

Special mention:@Grounde @DrawRanger @Blukutuk @Saudagar @8vU

Compiled by:@vincyrae

nb: Shortly after, Team Pramuka 2 were able to deliver Shard #20 out from Indonesia to Vietnam. Team Medan stole another Lightman shard (#13 – Ucok) to Pramuka and again delivered out from Indonesia by Team Pramuka 3.

Parakan Team Video : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+FaddyansyahIqbal/posts/PJXpVLPKFbi

cc: +Carlie Chiu +Masashi Kawashima +Joe Philley +Anne Beuttenmüller +Matilde Tusberti +Brian Rose +Brandon Badger +John Hanke