Operation Sling-Stone

The Operation Sling-Stone is an event in the Warframe universe Forum Post. The event was held the weekend of July 26th-28th, 2013. The event started around 9:30PM GMT and ended with the destruction of the last ship on Sunday night.
==Intel==
Our top code hackers have already deciphered the encryption.	Lotus Intel
HONORABLE BOARD
THE DOGS ARE BARKING AGAIN. THEY
SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WE HAVE
BEEN STOCKPILING. THIS UPSETS THEM
GIVEN HOW WE HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING
THE LEASH ON THEIR CONTRACTS. THE
SISTERS ARE DEMANDING WE LOWER
OUR MATERIAL PRICES OR SUFFER
RETRIBUTION BY SOME NEW
SUPERSHIP THEY HAVE. OBVIOUSLY,
THEY DO NOT TEACH ECONOMICS AT
OBEDIENCE TRAINING.
MY RECOMMENDATION RAISE THE
PRICES: CALL THE DOGS BLUFF...
AND LAUGH WHEN THE IMAGINARY
FOMORIAN SHIPS DO NOT SHOW UP
AND DO NOT DISRUPT OUR
STOCKPILES.
ALAD V,
GRINEER RELATIONS	
HONORABLE BOARD
THE DOGS ARE BARKING AGAIN. THEY
SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WE HAVE
BEEN STOCKPILING. THIS UPSETS THEM
GIVEN HOW WE HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING
THE LEASH ON THEIR CONTRACTS. THE
SISTERS ARE DEMANDING WE LOWER
OUR MATERIAL PRICES OR SUFFER
RETRIBUTION BY SOME NEW
SUPERSHIP THEY HAVE. OBVIOUSLY,
THEY DO NOT TEACH ECONOMICS AT
OBEDIENCE TRAINING.
MY RECOMMENDATION RAISE THE
PRICES: CALL THE DOGS BLUFF...
AND LAUGH WHEN THE IMAGINARY
FOMORIAN SHIPS DO NOT SHOW UP
AND DO NOT DISRUPT OUR
STOCKPILES.
ALAD V,
GRINEER RELATIONS	400 px
HONORABLE BOARD
THE DOGS ARE BARKING AGAIN. THEY
SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WE HAVE
BEEN STOCKPILING. THIS UPSETS THEM
GIVEN HOW WE HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING
THE LEASH ON THEIR CONTRACTS. THE
SISTERS ARE DEMANDING WE LOWER
OUR MATERIAL PRICES OR SUFFER
RETRIBUTION BY SOME NEW
SUPERSHIP THEY HAVE. OBVIOUSLY,
THEY DO NOT TEACH ECONOMICS AT
OBEDIENCE TRAINING.
MY RECOMMENDATION RAISE THE
PRICES: CALL THE DOGS BLUFF...
AND LAUGH WHEN THE IMAGINARY
FOMORIAN SHIPS DO NOT SHOW UP
AND DO NOT DISRUPT OUR
STOCKPILES.
ALAD V,
GRINEER RELATIONS	Fomorian Ship Intel
HONORABLE BOARD
THE DOGS ARE BARKING AGAIN. THEY
SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WE HAVE
BEEN STOCKPILING. THIS UPSETS THEM
GIVEN HOW WE HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING
THE LEASH ON THEIR CONTRACTS. THE
SISTERS ARE DEMANDING WE LOWER
OUR MATERIAL PRICES OR SUFFER
RETRIBUTION BY SOME NEW
SUPERSHIP THEY HAVE. OBVIOUSLY,
THEY DO NOT TEACH ECONOMICS AT
OBEDIENCE TRAINING.
MY RECOMMENDATION RAISE THE
PRICES: CALL THE DOGS BLUFF...
AND LAUGH WHEN THE IMAGINARY
FOMORIAN SHIPS DO NOT SHOW UP
AND DO NOT DISRUPT OUR
STOCKPILES.
ALAD V,
GRINEER RELATIONS	400 px
HONORABLE BOARD
THE DOGS ARE BARKING AGAIN. THEY
SOMEHOW FIGURED OUT WE HAVE
BEEN STOCKPILING. THIS UPSETS THEM
GIVEN HOW WE HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING
THE LEASH ON THEIR CONTRACTS. THE
SISTERS ARE DEMANDING WE LOWER
OUR MATERIAL PRICES OR SUFFER
RETRIBUTION BY SOME NEW
SUPERSHIP THEY HAVE. OBVIOUSLY,
THEY DO NOT TEACH ECONOMICS AT
OBEDIENCE TRAINING.
MY RECOMMENDATION RAISE THE
PRICES: CALL THE DOGS BLUFF...
AND LAUGH WHEN THE IMAGINARY
FOMORIAN SHIPS DO NOT SHOW UP
AND DO NOT DISRUPT OUR
STOCKPILES.
ALAD V,
GRINEER RELATIONS	400 px
The Grineer Empire is preparing a major offensive against the Corpus. Band together in special sabotage missions to destroy the Fomorian ships deployed by the Grineer which will appear in the Corpus region this weekend! Succeed, and be graciously rewarded; fail, and suffer from the Grineer's invasion.
You will need to find a new special substance to destroy these Fomorian Reactors. This substance comes in 3 forms and is earned by killing Infested.
*Stable Corrupter: This will do normal damage when used to sabotage the ships core.
*Alpha Corrupter: Useless by itself, but when used in tandem with a player sabotaging using the Beta Corrupter – it does QUAD damage to the reactor.
*Beta Corrupter: Useless by itself, but when used in tandem with a player sabotaging using the Alpha Corrupter – it does QUAD damage to the reactor.
Follow the community progress bar in-game throughout the weekend. After the event, the Corpus will (grudgingly) reward the Tenno with new 'Ammo Conversion' Mod technology. Players will gain points for contributing to destroying ships (see below for rewards).
IF we are unsuccessful in our mission:
*Any regions with surviving Fomorians at the end of the event will see their resource drops cut in half for several weeks.
Be vigilant, Tenno! You have until July 29 to complete your mission. Rewards will be given after the event ends on July 29
If you are in a clan of 1 to 1000 people, your clan will fit into one of the following tiers based on its size:
*Ghost Clan: 1-10 members
*Shadow Clan: 11 - 30 members
*Storm Clan: 31-100 members
*Mountain Clan: 101-300 members
*Moon Clan: 301 - 1000 members
*Clans with greater than 1000 members will be evaluated by amount of points accumulated by the clan divided by the clans membership. Best ratio earns the statue.
==Event mission details==
The Fomorian ships will appear as new missions in an area. The mission is timed defense with a ~3 minute timer. Only one player needs to bring a Stable Corruptor; the other players should bring other two Corruptors, the Alpha corruptor, and the Beta Corruptor. Corruptors are gained by killing Infested and are consumable. winning a mission against the Fomorian ships will gain the player points:
*Stable (3 minutes timed defense) = 3 points
*Alpha or Beta without the other (3 minutes timed defense) = 2 points
*Stable + Alpha or Beta (2 minutes timed defense) = 5 points
*Alpha + Beta (2 minutes timed defense) = 7 points
*All 3 Corruptors (1 minute timed defense) = 10 points
==Rewards==
::Leaderboards
*250 points: All 5 Ammo Mutation mods
*150 points: 4 Ammo Mutation mods
*100 points : 3 Ammo Mutation mods
*All contributing players receive 2 Ammo Mutation mods
*Additionally: The top clan in each bracket will receive a FOMORIAN STATUE for their dojo.
*Sling Stone Emblem: "An insignia awarded to the Tenno Elite who proved themselves during Operation Sling-Stone." A holographic badge given to all players who participated in the event.
==Fomorian Ships Destroyed==
Corb (Pluto) 	Ethniu (Uranus) 	Elatha (Mars) 	Balor (Mercury)
Neit (Europa) 	Tethra(Venus) 	Bres (Jupiter)	Chichol (Earth)
Birog (Saturn)	Buarainech (Eris)	Conand (Ceres)	Nemed (Sedna)
Lugh (Neptune)	 	 	
==Notes==
*There seems to be a bug where you are unable to equip another piece of equipment after using a "Stable Corruptor". Message – "Cannot equip Stable Corruptor while Stable Corruptor is still equipped" (Even after being used.)
**You are able to play a Fomorian Sabotage mission within the event if you are in a party when there is no "Stable Corruptor" equipped.
*It appears to be a bug that can reward the mission with 15 points and zero defense time. What needs to be done to do so is that there is 2 Tenno with the same corruptor one being the host, the other being a regular Tenno. they both need to insert the corruptors with about 0,5-1 second apart. the first needs to be the regular Tenno while the second insertion is the host.
**To successfully do this it is recommended that the 2 Tenno have a direct link of communication or that a third Tenno initiates a countdown.
*There seems to be a bug when you join a Fomorian mission it says "Starting Terminus" instead of the name of the Fomorian ship.
*The developers mentioned in Livestream 11 that Operation Sling-Stone was "designed for the community to fail". The merit in having the community fail an event was supposedly to prove that it was possible to fail at all, thus instilling further events with the kind of urgency and importance that was originally intended. Many players were claiming that DE would never let the community fail an event.Warframe | Devstream 11 - Warframe's Audio Creation and Q&A - 1:11:01
==Trivia==
*The name "Fomorian" is taken from Irish mythology, an Anglicized version of "Fomoire", referencing a semi-divine race. From Wikipedia;
[...] The etymology of the name Fomoire (plural) has been cause for some debate. Medieval Irish scholars thought the name contained the element muire "sea", owing to their reputation as sea pirates. [...]
*The Hidden message within the Reinforcements video directly quotes the Lotus Intel 2
*In regards to Corruptors, the Stable Corruptors appear to drop from normal infested, and the Alpha and Beta Corruptors drops from Ancients. (Conformation needed, currently speculation).
*For every Corruptor inserted, the time required to defend the Fomorian Injector is reduced by one minute. Starting with 3 minutes, adding all three Corruptors will reduce defend time to one minute.
*The "Sling-shot" may be a reference to the one used by Lugh to kill Balor, the Fomorian king with a shot through his eye. In mythology, the weapon might also have been a spear.
*The event was designed to be partially failable with consequences. If players failed to destroy a Fomorian, resource drops for that region/planet will be halved.
==Event Leaderboards==
:Source for leaderboards.
Clans
{| class=wikitable style="width:300px; float: left;"	 	
Rank	Points	Clan Name
1. 	14247 	Hands of a Killer
2. 	14014 	You're Extra Special
3. 	10379 	All Warframes Bulletin
4. 	9596 	Coup de Grace
5. 	8549 	Classy Ninjas
6. 	5447 	RedText
7. 	5409 	Sektion 39
8. 	5016 	TheChosen
9. 	4865 	Ninjas of the Night
10 	4675 	CrownDefenders
Top 100 Players
Points	Alias
6970 	Salzza
6380 	unpr3dlctabl3
6155 	Tellrunya
6013 	Sithgar
5902 	-HHH
5858 	ULTRAn1ce
5753 	iCr4zZy
5130 	minuscmd
5112 	GKone
5015 	Myliah
5015 	Blacksidde
4458 	Veselchuna
4441 	Epicst4rs
4330 	Kulkikoa
4312 	Cholly266
4225 	tyr0wl
4211 	ZodiacShinryu
4121 	malkiavian
4105 	Butyllithium
3958 	Petch
3952 	achiral
3920 	Skirata1
3915 	Odjit
3906 	mathieuv30
3849 	Fayded
3842 	Pepitow51
3767 	Canas
3760 	Sneakus
3746 	RealEnex
3732 	yuikami
3663 	DecoyCode
3603 	Abelarde
3577 	Ophan
3430 	Hydeout
3340 	ElNazca
3310 	Rrestart
3309 	Armouredhunter
3305 	itisempty
3290 	TGPhoenix
3279 	AngelOmega
3278 	reesim
3192 	Zineh
3172 	h3d0n1St1k
3168 	2Renji
3159 	Deluxe87
3135 	SolPhoenix
3110 	Deadspore
3095 	Delthiel
3056 	Sangracine
3045 	AtLasVegas
3043 	Kyght
3012 	Patemaani
3000 	Truie
2980 	Dragonrise
2979 	M4DD0X
2960 	PirateTrade
2911 	Rush990
2898 	Strunkie
2887 	Shmidley
2861 	Kitaiikan
2847 	Deadl0ck
2820 	Fa1nTuk
2813 	Bboy500
2812 	Dousiq
2797 	Cotein
2785 	GBTW
2779 	Infekt1on
2778 	XenTownsend
2760 	cucumis
2758 	-BELLUM-
2752 	Vhung
2749 	DODONGA
2737 	Agent_of_Change
2722 	D3athRope
2715 	Wratharos
2695 	tsubasakuroi
2682 	AreusOmniae
2682 	Daisho
2680 	Darkscars
2680 	collstro
2678 	OrangeCRAZY
2654 	Asimo
2648 	OmniLight
2627 	OaKLeYz
2614 	thewarrior96
2601 	AceViper
2600 	Tirtul
2578 	Metalarcher
2575 	Wordtalker
2555 	SanguineXIII
2545 	Eisvogel
2540 	TrevV
2504 	Neitsabes
2479 	Ernski
2478 	Excitonex
2460 	Killsaw
2450 	Kastan
2443 	acdK
2428 	AmoBro
2426 	Istial
==Media==
2013-07-27 00007.jpg|Mission screen for Fomorian Sabotages
2013-07-27 00011.jpg|Fomorian ships as seen in-game
2013-07-27 00024.jpg|A corrupted reactor core
2013-07-27 00041.jpg|The Injector Panel, showing all 3 injected corruptors
==References==
es:Operación: Honda
Category:Event
Category:Lore
Category:Grineer
Category:Infested
Category:Update 9