Countermeasures

## Event Overview

   Bishop, the previously unseen head of VEGA Security, admonishes the rebels for their association with the "treacherous" Larus.

## Event Quotes

I got a good laugh out of that official VSec message. Listen, now that the Valhalla Carrier is finally complete we should go on the offensive. I've got a new idea for a ship, something small and agile this time, and another batch of combat data would be just the thing to get it over the finish line.

VEGA Security offered you a fair deal, and it was rejected out of hand. Disappointing, but not unexpected. Larus made his way through the VEGA Security ranks through lies and treachery. It's only natural that he would manipulate your movement to serve his own agenda.

## Description

Countermeasures is the 9th event to occur in VEGA Conflict. The prizes were first hinted at in a Battle Vortex video. In a post by The Real LXC (aka Lex), it was confirmed that the Facebook event invite was automatically and unintentionally sent out for the 6/11/15 date. However, the event was not ready, and KIXEYE had to reschedule the event for 6/18/15. As an apology, KIXEYE reran the Espionage event again instead.

## Event Information

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## Event fleet layout

For more information about the event fleet layouts, please refer here: Main Event Targets/VEGA Security

## Trivia

* The VSec Officer in the photo calls himself Bishop, marking his first ever appearance.
* This event was pushed a week back because of problems that Kixeye encountered when fielding the event. To make up for the inconvenience to the players, Kixeye ran the Espionage Event instead and the Countermeasures event a week after that.
* This event was one of the Hardest events ever, because of the large amount of range and damage possessed by the Vector Torpedo eagles, however, players found a simple exploit and that was to kill the 2 Corinthian Cruisers with ECHO Ray and then run for the remainder of the battle. When this fleet was reused for Warfront, that exploit had been removed by the points curves and the change to the AI, which made the event extremely difficult.
* The top prize in the event, the Osprey Frigate, was always thought to never return again, but it has been rerun as a legacy price in one of the Special Events.

## Video

**Contests**

Bounty Weekend • Search and Destroy • Ultimate VEGA Threat

**Deprecated Recurring Events**

Alien Mobilization • Alien Decimation • Special Event • Smash & Grab • Planet Strike • Sector Strike • Crafting Event • Altairian Rising • Umbra Rising • Pharmakon Rising

**Active Recurring Events**

Riot • Alien Strike • Void Strike • Altairian Strike • Umbra Strike • Pharmakon Strike • Civil War • Alliance War • Retrograde • Mobilization • Decimation

**2014 Feature Events**

Uprising • Retribution • Deception • Crackdown

**2015 Feature Events**

Espionage • Jailbreak • Martial Law • Arms Race • **Countermeasures** • Face Off • Reclamation • Emergence • Revenge • Evacuation • Warfront

**2016 Feature Events**

Backlash • Shadow Strike • Conspiracy • Blood Trials • Iron Blood • Zero Hour • Crossfire • Scorched Earth • Incursion • Search and Destroy • Maelstrom • Nemesis • Redemption

**2017 Feature Events**

Devastation • Vengeance • Resurrection • Vendetta • Outbreak • Eradication • AXIS • Conquest • Ascension • Dynasty • Betrayal • Alien Armageddon • Reckoning

**2018 Feature Events**

Defiance • Contact • Deadlock • Invasion • Blindside • Doomsday (Nightmare) • Anarchy • Ashes • Altairian/Umbra Sector Leaderboard Event • Vector • Pestilence • Redux • Chrysalis • Catalyst

**2019 Feature Events**

Cipher • Duplicity • Synthesis • Vestige • Collusion • Demise • Justice • Altair • Defection • Synchrony • Collateral • Awakening • Singularity

**2020 Feature Events**

Extradition • Pursuit • Hijack • Infiltration • Retaliation • Penultimate • Zenith • Independence • Liberation • Suppression • Upsurge • Haunted • Monarch • Virago • Solstice

**2021 Feature Events**

Breakdown • Inquest • Chase Down • Showdown • Transversal • Barricade • Precision Strike