Crackdown

***NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS ENDED AS OF OCTOBER 20TH. VEGA PEACEKEEPERS ARE NO LONGER LAUNCHED AND DETAINEES CAN NO LONGER BE FREED.***

## Event Overview

   Bertram is facing termination, so he launches a last-ditch effort to stop the rebellion with the help of VEGA Security.

## Description

Crack Down is the 4th event of VEGA Conflict.

This event is the first to feature VEGA fleets attacking you if you are close enough. VEGA Peacekeeper fleets have been sent to destroy the rebels now that they have begun to form into alliances. Bertram Rumbelow is now trying to do what his colleagues see as a "ditch effort" to maintain his position.

## Event Prizes

 Rapture Cruiser | 12,500 Detainees

**Detainees Per Fleet**

 30
 33
 35
 37
 40
 45
 50
 53
 55

## Fleet Layout

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

## Gallery

* Peacekeeper Fleets move in convoys form portel to portel in groups of 2 or 3
* Completed Event Store

## Trivia

* This is the first event to feature VEGA Fleets that spawn from the wormholes and will aggressively attack any +- 5 level fleets nearby.
* Before the introduction of Carrier hulls, Many players requested to have this event rerun so they can get a chance at the Rapture Cruiser, considering it was one of the strongest ships in the game at its time.
* This Event was also the last to feature VEGA Ships in the event fleets before their reintroduction a year and a half later in the event Blood Trials.

**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