Talk:Operation Eyes of Blight/@comment-197.160.80.72-20150103012501/@comment-74.215.242.96-20150104234059

Lost the war? I wouldn't call going back to pre-relay status quo as having "lost" when Vay Hek "winning" would be purely phyryhic in significance as all the Relays even DID was serve as terminals for Void Trader business (who has only shown up twice since implementation so he hasn't even done THAT much business) and as places to exchange syndicate pick-ups for more standing points (which effectively just does the same thing as netting extra standing from a mission anyway). All that's happened, really, is Vay Hek throwing Fomorians to destroy Tenno Space Shopping Malls. Assuming Pluto's Relay is protected at the end, it will have cost Vay Hek at least 15 Fomorians out of 19 (assuming the Fomorians that did blow up Relays were not reused and later blown up while trying to nuke another Relay), a near 80% loss rate, to destroy 4 out of 7 Tenno Relays, only 60% success rate.

Running the numbers, it cost Hek almost four Fomorians (3.75 to be precise) per Relay destroyed. Compared to how only 13 regular Fomorians were lost back in Arid Fear and that Balor Fomorians are implied to be significantly stronger, losing more Balor Fomorians than normal Fomorians with only the destruction of barely more than half of stationary, defenseless orbital social areas used by the Tenno...it's possibly the Grineer's biggest blunder in the game's history thus far.