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The Northern Coalition was one of the oldest political entities in EVE. The NC as we knew it emerged during the First Great War, when the old Band of Brothers “hired” the Mercenary Coalition to basically wipe out the old northern collection of powers. Basically the MC came up and kicked almost everyone out of their space, installed a bunch of BoB-friendly vassal alliances known as the “New North” and postured and preened on CAOD until BoB ordered them into the South where they were getting shithammered by the RedSwarm Federation.
However, much like an action film villain, the MC didn't actually stick around long enough to make sure they had really finished the job. While the old northern giant D2 was dead, little Morsus Mihi had retained its hold on Tribute. RAZOR, who did lose their space, did not lose their alliance cohesion and had been taken in by MM. Imperial Republic of the North wasn't quite dead either. As soon as the MC left, the 'old North' tacitly teamed up Triumvirate to kick the “New North” right the fuck out since as usual the BoB vassals were useless. Afterwards the NC participated in the first Delve invasion, came to the same conclusion as everyone else regarding multiple defending titans shitting out AoE doomsdays under cynojammers, and went home.
From what I heard, the loss of RAZOR's space and MM's offer to take them in had created this unshakable bond between the two alliances, and RZR and MM basically are the NC.
Later, SirMolle came up with this mega-invasion idea of his which he called “MAXIMUM DAMAGE” and invaded the North with every warm body he could get his hands on, which was BoB and a whole goddamn passel of GBC vassal alliances with Triumvirate “secretly” allied with BoB. BoB managed to crush Imperial Republic of the North and Pure., both generally considered to be worthless while Triumvirate took out Hydra Alliance, which to this day is considered to be the worst alliance anyone had ever seen. Then BoB went to work on Morsus Mihi's “Fortress Tribute”, killing a shitload of NC capitals in a server clusterfuck. Molle made a premature victory post on CAOD, then in typical fashion personally lost two titans and a couple of capital fleets to the NC immediately afterwards. The NC capital losses, incidentally, had been reimbursed by CCP because they were using that node as an server experiment when it failed spectacularly and soon afterwards they 'fixed lag' at which point BoB basically stopped winning fleet fights completely. Meanwhile, though the goons themselves were fighting a couple wars of their own the Tau Ceti Federation portion of the RSF deployed en masse to the North to help out MM & Razor, leading eventually to TCF's inclusion in the NC.
After a couple of weeks of wolfpacks, Molle pulled out of the North and ran down to help Against All Authorities against GoonSwarm, and after the NC took out the trash they came south and helped the goons, culminating in the BoB disbanding and the taking of Delve.
Apparently later the NC got rocked by Atlas and SOLAR in Geminate and Triumvirate mk. IV in Pure Blind or something but I don't know much about that because I was up to my asshole with the 'Southern Coalition' in 49-. Apparently they got their shit together since then because they beat SirMolle's MAX 2 super-invasion SC crew like it owed them money.
After the DRF/PL invasion in early 2011, the NC crumbled and broke up as every NC hating entity ran north to grab a piece of the pie. Terrible alliances like Majesta Empire, R.A.G.E and UFA died due to severe internal rot and general fallout from losing their space to the “metagaming blob.” Most of the north is now held by White Noise, Raiden. and NCdot. Test Alliance was the first major alliance that had been allied to the NC to [http://soundcloud.com/gcolrenzulu/test-alliance-announcement-5 announce the reset] and it is widely considered the only good thing that rob3r did in his short reign of terror.
The remains of the NC members regrouped in Delve (MM, RZR, Brick + BORG) as the 'Refugee Coalition“ claiming to be looking for “good fights” and “no sov” all the while spamming SBUs and taking Sov. BricK sQuAD took the majority of eastern NC corporations and is now a amalgamation of the old Brick Squad and Majesta Empire.
Imperian joined PL.
Sev3rance moved into the Providence bloc and are starting to fight their old allies. RAZOR after a short period of being neutral moved back north with blue standings to The Clusterfuck Coalition.
The NC is dead.
You can see a map of the major power blocks (c. May 2010) here.
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