Again, unstoppable

You'd think that, by now, the Resistance should have learned how to block us.
Well... no.

 

Completed right on time for the checkpoint of 9 PM; I'm not bothering you with details and statistics again, after all it's the exact replica of what we did last week.

I'm one big step closer to the Black Illuminator medal, now.

Huge thanks to @ToscJones and @MATRIXIO76 for dealing with respectively the left anchor and the top anchor. :)

Over and over

Do you know those times when there is a song you like so much that you can listen to it over and over without ever getting bored of it?

The same is for us with the "Labronic triangle" op: regardless of the many times we have already done it, we keep on doing it and fruitfully stack a good number of MU for the cycle.

After Summer break naturally slowed everybody's activity down around here, we decided to reopen the Autumn-Winter period with a flying start; also, my Platinum Illuminator medal was idling and itching, so yesterday we decided to proceed with our renowned operation: our guys from Livorno and Pisa paved the way by clearing a number of blocking links (of both colors) and throwing half of the links needed while I, from the bottom anchors, threw the closing links.

• Locations: Vicarello, Calafuria, Rosignano Marittimo
• Checkpoint: 00:00 AM
• Right side: 22.81 Km (14.17 mi)
• Top side: 18.76 Km (11.66 mi)
• Bottom side: 13.34 Km (8.29 mi)
• Layers: 8
• M.U.: ~560,000

   

Never miss the opportunity for a good #IngressActualGameplayFootage shot:

Thanks to my fellows Enlightened agents of AF10-SIERRA-10, it's a honour and a pleasure to work with you!

R.I.P. Joe Philley

There are no easy ways to communicate certain things so: Joe Philley has passed.
Here is the announcement by his son-in-law and here is the announcement by Ingress.

Very sad news to begin the day with.

R.I.P. Joe, condolences, you will be missed.

Link to this picture on Joe Philley's Google+ profile.

Ingress storyline so far in 10 minutes

As we all know, Ingress is far from a simple "whack-a-mole" game with portals.

All we do when we attack, capture, create links and fields, move shards or artifacts, compete in anomalies, etc. affects and is affected by an intricate and fashinating storyline involving a number of characters, locations and events.

Delving into that story line is very interesting but, for newcomers, it can be pretty hard: Andrew Krug from Behind The Scanner has made a uber-good job creating a clean, nifty and linear video that summarizes the whole Ingress plot in less than 10 minutes!

You can find it on YouTube and on my Videos page.

It comes with subtitles in a number of language, and it was a honour and a pleasure for me to contribute with Italian!

Way over one million... twice!

The deep & solid green colour is charming;

1,600,000+ MU in a single operation are really charming;

doing it twice (00:00AM and 05:00AM) is even more charming;

winning the cycle with it is rewarding;

seeing smurfs jump like frogs out from pubs to try and prevent us from succeeding... priceless!

  

Locations: Viareggio, Pontedera, Livorno

Top side: 36.46 Km (22.65 mi)
Bottom side: 30.15 Km (18.73mi)
Left side: 32.75 Km (20.75 mi)
Layers: 16

My part this time was negligible: I was just patrolling the area south of the operation scene in case some last-minute cleaning was needed, and I was delighted to follow it all unfolding in front of my eyes!

Then @MATRIXIO76 ​​ asked me for screenshots and a quick report, so here it is. :)

Congratulations, guys! :)

"Abaddon" anomaly series announced

Click here for the original announcement on Google+.

• October 10^th: Flash Shards Special Event
• Boston, MA, USA 
• Toronto, CANADA
• October 24^th: Flash Shards Special Event
• Zurich, SWITZERLAND
• London, UNITED KINGDOM
• November 14^th: XM Anomalies
• Hamburg, GERMANY
  - Seville, Spain
  - Edinburgh, UK
  - Zagreb, Croatia
• New Orleans, LA, USA
  - Charlotte, NC, USA
  - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  - Guatemala City, Guatemala 
• Taipei, TAIWAN
  - Sydney, Australia
  - Bangkok, Thailand
  - Manila, Philippines  
• December 12^th: XM Anomalies
• San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
  - Phoenix, AZ, USA
  - Fort Worth, TX, USA
  - Lima, Peru
• Okinawa, JAPAN
  - Seoul, South Korea
  - Wellington, New Zealand
  - Singapore, Singapore
• Milan, ITALY 
  - Sofia, Bulgaria
  - Porto, Portugal
  - Gdansk, Poland

[EDIT on September 9^th, 2015]: secondary sites added.

Platinum Sojourner

Time runs, it must be feeling me breathing down its neck.

Medal achieved punctually. :)
Now, on my way to the Black one, on February 2016.
I will try my best!