

When I look at the current state of the coalition, however, I see entities resetting each other from blue status. And make no mistake: they are still dangerous enough to defeat most of us, if we do not stand together. When on this day we look at a Northwest, freed from Goon influence, we must not forget that our enemy is still dangerous, and only waiting to fight and conquer back. In fact, less than 6 months before, they still had been a powerhouse in the southwest, ruling over all of Querious and Delve, and were only felled by corporate treachery. When the Goons descended onto Deklein, they were by no means an unknown entity. The next day, Goonswarm’s conquest of Deklein began (incidentally, with TEST as allies, if I remember correctly… tempora mutantur!), and thus began the Goon reign in the north. The last day Nullsec was as beefree as today was the 25th of July in 2010. Goons haven’t been sovless for almost 6 years. These days, he sounds like a certain information minister more often than not… and that’s by comparison to others, in a game where over-the-top propaganda is a given, and my side wouldn’t exactly win a Pulitzer prize for independent journalism either.

It wouldn’t be less ridiculous than some of his other recent lines. Maybe the Mittani can spin that as a “told you so from the beginning, my name was the best” thing. The “War of sovless aggression” has turned some of the most annoying aggressors in the game into a sovless group, so to speak. But I’m happy (and a little smug) that, for once, I was able to (help) achieve a goal in EVE. OK, I might be exaggerating a bit… They are still the largest alliance in the game, and even if they continued to lose pilots at the rate they are now, they could survive into next year. Within the almost 2 months that I have been in Pandemic Horde, Goonswarm Federation has been reduced from a big yellow blob to a run-of-the-mill lowsec alliance. MBC has won the war… at least it has according to my personal definition.
