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 TEST has experienced dizzying highs and wearying lows, outstanding victories and humbling defeats. The political landscape of EVE is unfriendly and unforgiving, and through thick & thin TEST has withstood the test of time and lived to tell its tale. An incomplete list of battles TEST has fought is available at [[:culture:history:battles|]].
+You can see some of our most most notable players here: https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/culture:players:start
 ===== The Beginning =====
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 ===== Honeybadger Coalition =====
-Shadoo grew bored. So we pushed into Catch and evicted .-A-. and all their associated entities. At this point Montolio started building the Honeybadger Coalition. Loosely a group designed as a counterweight to the CFC. Raiden. and Initiative joined us. Groups such as Unclaimed. formed from English speaking parts of the Southern Coalition. A few small groups were recruited. They were pretty garbage. Phreeze had his [[:culture:insidious_empire|]] pet project in Impass. This was roughly when Wrik Hoover got involved in some major drama in PL, and left the alliance. Joining TEST alliance with his corporation of himself, Hoover Inc. He was quite a popular FC, and formed Cloak Squad, hanging out with his old PL friends and making new TEST ones. They most famously deployed to X-7 in Pureblind and blopsed and fought SMA while popularizing Talwars as a TEST doctrine. The HBC grew and the CFC grew in response. War was brewing. Eventually though Shadoo backed out as he didn't want to be left stuck leading a time consuming campaign against the most difficult opponent in the game after leading so many campaigns. Shadoo suggested a Wargames initiative to remove HBC vs CFC tension. He believed that whoever attacked first would lose.The CFC pushed a solid propaganda campaign vs Montolio who stood down. Shadoo eventually moved to Australia. Internal drama in TEST was growing, a certain amount of leadership crisis existed and the torch was passed a few times.
+Shadoo grew bored. So we pushed into Catch and evicted .-A-. and all their associated entities. At this point Montolio started building the Honeybadger Coalition. Loosely a group designed as a counterweight to the CFC. Raiden. and Initiative joined us. Groups such as Unclaimed. formed from English speaking parts of the Southern Coalition. A few small groups were recruited. They were pretty garbage. Phreeze had his [[culture:alliances:insidious_empire]] pet project in Impass. This was roughly when Wrik Hoover got involved in some major drama in PL, and left the alliance. Joining TEST alliance with his corporation of himself, Hoover Inc. He was quite a popular FC, and formed Cloak Squad, hanging out with his old PL friends and making new TEST ones. They most famously deployed to X-7 in Pureblind and blopsed and fought SMA while popularizing Talwars as a TEST doctrine. The HBC grew and the CFC grew in response. War was brewing. Eventually though Shadoo backed out as he didn't want to be left stuck leading a time consuming campaign against the most difficult opponent in the game after leading so many campaigns. Shadoo suggested a Wargames initiative to remove HBC vs CFC tension. He believed that whoever attacked first would lose.The CFC pushed a solid propaganda campaign vs Montolio who stood down. Shadoo eventually moved to Australia. Internal drama in TEST was growing, a certain amount of leadership crisis existed and the torch was passed a few times.
 The HBC was redundant at this point. TEST was bored and incredibly bloated. Many of the members had gotten bored and unsubbed, or stopped PVPing, or recruiting nerds who weren't interested in PVP. TEST had spent the last few months fulfilling promises to alliances, helping them in wars against the Rus in the south in exchange for their help in a war that would never happen. When Fras Siabi became in charge, he decided to split the role of HBC leader from that of TEST alliance leader, appointing [[:culture:players:sort_dragon|]] as HBC leader and Boodabooda eventually replacing him. Zulu squad schism'd off in a certain style. Mittens declared this a great success as Zulu was apparently our cultural centre. Zulu had essentially folded into Nork. under Richter Enderas. When they left the alliance they opted to join Pandemic Legion, by merging their corporation into Sniggerdly. One of their first actions was to roam through Fountain, killing ratters while blue. Sort Dragon as head of the HBC, reset PL to never be blue again. His corp left PL, formed it's own alliance and attempted to lead the HBC. This went okay until he attempted to strongarm the new TEST CEO, the infamous Boodabooda. Tired of drama in the South. TEST ended up resetting everything east of Querious.
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 This is when we started to lose corporations. I attempted to rebuild, a new MD team involving some friends in NOS, LDK, they tried their best and if they read this, I thank them for giving me the time. Some because the people running them were burnt out or alienated, like B0RThole. Some because they were literally renter pubbies, like Corporate Scum. A few wanted to stay behind. To fight for Fountain from Fountain core. Some simply became inactive. Unfortunately for us, a certain Emperor Salazar was best friends with Phreeze, who was running Insidious Empire. They saw an opportunity. Those corps who had active leadership, they reached out to, offering positions and power. They grew EMP with solid TEST corps. A couple of corps opted to join Goons. ENL-I was poached by Endie, who had an active spy in their corporation. Lovelocke survived roughly a week before being deposed and his industry director taking over. WEON went to Goons on the back of DingoGS. Hoover had left PL in drama, and took his corp to Black Legion, which was currently growing and doing exciting things. It was an easy choice because he was going to be inactive from the game and he knew the road that TEST was on. TRIBE tried a daring strategy to buy Catch from the Initiative. Triget asked me if I thought it could work. I told him it might if he had a deal with the Russians. He did not. He asked me for help and I told him I did not think the alliance was really in a position to move to Catch. He neglected to mention the Russians were in the process of headshotting their capital system. It was not until the final timer that we realised this. We formed up our biggest fleet since Fountain to try and save it.~200 AHACs with a wing of bombers. The plan was simple. We'd catch the Russians. Force them to MJD and our bombers would force them to warp off the field while we mop up what was left. Triget had invited PL to look menacingly at the Russians and stop them from dropping caps. They were very menacing in Talwars. Unfortunately Silentmajority was the bomber FC and there is nothing he likes more than bombing PL. He didn't follow the plan and went for the Talwars. The Talwars warped out. The Rokhs killed the many of the TRIBE ships and they had stopped bringing in replacements due to the potential imminent loss of their system. We did kill many Rokhs with AHACs. They unfortunately got into new Rokhs and bridged in. RIP Tribe.
-So we went to Curse. I had spent the last couple of weeks in Curse and enjoyed myself. I wasn't ready to lead again but I tried. We had some good times. We tried to take moons from the locals. Which we did. Unfortunately all the moons suddenly became N3 moons as they returned to the region. We had just been friends with N3 and there was no chance we could fight them so we didn't. This is where we lost our final few corps. A few went to Nulli, they were a neutral entity who had been competent enough and were considered favourably. TSK pretty much took all of NOS to EMP and L-D-K returned to Fountain. I was pretty broken. Booda was pretty done with the game and simply hadn't found a replacement for himself. The moment Skier volunteered. It was his. We deployed to Faction Warfare. A change of pace. New FCs were able to dip their feet into the water. We found Grega, Naliao, Ken Morton. We had drama in of itself but that was ok. We picked up a few corps, which was unfortunate. I personally made a lot of isk. I even still have FW LP and maintain that at tier 4/5 it is one of the best independent money makers in the game. While this was happening the Halloween war was ongoing. In an attempt to create a second front in the Halloween war, Phreeze invited TEST to join TEST… I mean EMP in the Vale of the Silent. This was taken very seriously when we actually took a system. Mr. Vee was deployed North with the CFC EUtz to defend. So naturally we deployed to Delve. To blops on CFC renters while Husker led Predditors and to generally be a nuisance. Massive fights happened in the Halloween war, leading to B-R and the hellcamp of Nulli systems. Naturally while the CFC was distracted, we killed a few FA CSAAs (caps led by Kenshin Woo, Subs by Naliao. Subs, caracals lol, managed to keep entire hostile domi fleet from doing literally anything while Caps killed 1 titan and 1 super in the cooker) and smugged while the CFC tried to defend both in Fountain and hold that station. We joined forces with BRAVE to head over to try to do a breakout fleet one day because PGL asked us to in his nicest voice.
+So we went to Curse. I had spent the last couple of weeks in Curse and enjoyed myself. I wasn't ready to lead again but I tried. We had some good times. We tried to take moons from the locals. Which we did. Unfortunately all the moons suddenly became N3 moons as they returned to the region. We had just been friends with N3 and there was no chance we could fight them so we didn't. This is where we lost our final few corps. A few went to Nulli, they were a neutral entity who had been competent enough and were considered favourably. TSK pretty much took all of NOS to EMP and L-D-K returned to Fountain. I was pretty broken. Booda was pretty done with the game and simply hadn't found a replacement for himself. The moment Skier volunteered. It was his. We deployed to Faction Warfare. A change of pace. New FCs were able to dip their feet into the water. We found Grega, [[https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/culture:players:naliao_vee|Naliao]], Ken Morton. We had drama in of itself but that was ok. We picked up a few corps, which was unfortunate. I personally made a lot of isk. I even still have FW LP and maintain that at tier 4/5 it is one of the best independent money makers in the game. While this was happening the Halloween war was ongoing. In an attempt to create a second front in the Halloween war, Phreeze invited TEST to join TEST… I mean EMP in the Vale of the Silent. This was taken very seriously when we actually took a system. Mr. Vee was deployed North with the CFC EUtz to defend. So naturally we deployed to Delve. To blops on CFC renters while Husker led Predditors and to generally be a nuisance. Massive fights happened in the Halloween war, leading to B-R and the hellcamp of Nulli systems. Naturally while the CFC was distracted, we killed a few FA CSAAs (caps led by Kenshin Woo, Subs by Naliao. Subs, caracals lol, managed to keep entire hostile domi fleet from doing literally anything while Caps killed 1 titan and 1 super in the cooker) and smugged while the CFC tried to defend both in Fountain and hold that station. We joined forces with BRAVE to head over to try to do a breakout fleet one day because PGL asked us to in his nicest voice.  -- old test fleet in FW led by naliao: https://youtu.be/hVvELXb_kHs (may have offensive langauge, shitposting, and general idiocracy)
 ===== HERO Coalition =====
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 Unfortunately EMP was only actually functional while winning, they collapsed. Much to Mr. Warr's chagrin, many of these corps decided to leave together to end up in Black Legion. Curiously enough, Mr CapriSun Kraftfoods is now functionally the leader of Black Legion. TEST went on from here to try something new. BRAVE had been paid to attack the RUS and to take Catch if they could. To create a second front and retake the sov N3 had lost against the CFC. This was unfortunately a wild success. With some of the most creative misunderstandings and the most roundabout co-ordination HERO apparently was a success.
-Hero was considered mildly successful in the first few months of the campaign, letting a number of FCs really grow their wings (Sajuuk, Naliao, Trafalgar) and step up to Strat FC roles. During this early period, a number of fights went well for Test and allies. While HERO didn't have the best coordination, it still worked relatively well. Such as this fight in WD-VTV, where INK thought they could plant TCUs and wipe the lower skilled HERO forces off grid. Instead they lost a Napoc fleet. This was also one of the first times Test was able to start flying decent ships again such as zealots. Allied POV, Test fleet led by Naliao using Zealots: https://youtu.be/Zi8YaYm_4gk
+HERO (Hopefully Effective Rookie Organization ala H.E.R.O.) was composed of a number of newer or lower skilled alliances, with Test being the wise old man. These included Brave, Spaceship Samurai, NOFUX, Nexus Alliance, Test, Of Sound Mind, Almost Awesome (NOFUX) and a few others.
- Due to vastly differing cultures and opinions on how things should be ran, HERO eventually started to failcascade. A catalyst for this beginning is when an allied titan refused to bridge a Test subcap fleet into system where a Test cap fleet was betrayed and tackled by providence, who batphoned Black Legion(?) to come kill them, denying the subcaps a chance at saving some of the capitals. More drama and differing cultures clashed, as well as Brave not believing in doing any HR work whatsoever (thus letting spies, awoxers etc in) didnt help either. Eve culture at the time was much more toxic, so most everyone hated SOUND who was a very PC friendly alliance.
+Hero was considered reasonably successful in the first few months of the campaign, letting a number of FCs really grow their wings (Sajuuk, [[https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/culture:players:naliao_vee|Naliao]], Trafalgar) and step up to Strat FC roles. During this early period, a number of fights went well for Test and allies. While HERO didn't have the best coordination, it still worked relatively well. Such as this fight in WD-VTV, where INK thought they could plant TCUs and wipe the lower skilled HERO forces off grid. Instead they lost a Napoc fleet. This was also one of the first times Test was able to start flying decent ships again such as zealots. Allied POV, Test fleet led by Naliao using Zealots: https://youtu.be/Zi8YaYm_4gk
-Popular Doctrines at the time were Hurricanes, Ishtars, and then Zealots for heavy work. Brave mostly flew moas/eagles (and died quite often) resulting in many members from both Test and Brave getting bored, burning out, and generally not coming to fleets. Cynabals were also imported and flown without SRP as a fun skirmish doctrine, and later phantasms as well after Naliao managed to convince enough people theyd be fun.
+Test had finally recruited and grown again, along with players increasing their skillpoint average - this meant better and tougher doctrines were now on the table instead of bumming around in t1 cruisers such as caracals. This is where we found Zealots to be the premier doctrine - they hit hard, could tank for days, and could be run effectively with our comparably lower numbers. Naliao took out the very first Zealot fleet, and it was met with great success. While there was no major slaughter, the Test fleet was able to tank and hold the grid against an opposing fleet 3 times its size. This opening up of better doctrines greatly improved morale as well.
+ Due to vastly differing cultures and opinions on how things should be ran, HERO eventually started to failcascade. A catalyst for this beginning was when an allied titan refused to bridge a Test subcap fleet into system where a Test cap fleet was betrayed and tackled by providence, who batphoned Black Legion(?) to come kill them, denying the subcaps a chance at saving some of the capitals, or at the very least an honorable death by last stand. More drama and differing cultures clashed, as well as Brave not believing in doing any HR work whatsoever (thus letting spies, awoxers, shitters, toxic players etc in) didn't help either. Brave FCs were not very skilled, their FCs such as Blue Ice tended to be a bit toxic and unfun to fly with, refusing to change or improve their skill / strategy. This led to many Test members refusing to go on fleets led by Brave FCs. In the reverse, Test recruited a solid number of brave members after they went on Test fleets and saw how much better the Test FCs were. Eve culture at the time was much more toxic, so most everyone hated SOUND who was a very PC friendly alliance, and they were considered incredibly obnoxious since they never shut up about it, and constantly played victim cards instead of actually playing the game well.
+Popular Doctrines at the time were Hurricanes, Ishtars, and then Zealots for heavy work. Brave mostly flew moas/eagles (and died in huge numbers very often) resulting in many members from both Test and Brave getting bored, burning out, and generally not coming to fleets. Brave basically refused to innovate or change, and their fleet tactics stuck to throwing as many nerds as possible at problems. The problem with this is that the foe will adapt over time, and Brave did not. Test had fewer numbers, but a much higher skillpoint and experience average - Brave refused to listen to any advice from long term eve vets from Test. Thusly, Test nerds avoided going on Brave fleets, due to them being akin to just suicidal banzai charges. Cynabals were also imported and flown without SRP as a fun skirmish doctrine, and later phantasms as well after Naliao managed to convince enough people theyd both be fun.
 During this time, Sperg squad had undergone something of a resurrection. We were playing L4D2 almost daily. We were filling games. It was fun. We even started doing Eve things. I had brought Agustus and Husker into TEST and we were having fun. Booda returned to the game and wanted to try something new. He managed to harness this energy and formed his own corp. The concept was pretty simple. A small scale corp without the limitations of a massive alliance. With a pretty solid SP baseline and where we wouldn't have to worry about the lowest common denominator. I personally was pretty hyped for exploring some of the more exciting doctrines. Unfortunately at some point this went wrong. Booda wasn't really leading the corp, he was simply in charge. Drama with BRAVE had left a pretty divisive sentiment in TEST and something needed to be done. Faced with corp members leaving and being absent himself, he came to the only conclusion that would involve the corp staying together. Leaving TEST. The obvious destination was Black Legion. Nos and Sperg have always been life partners.
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 TEST then left HERO Coalition and decided to strike the earth in Wicked Creek. Everything was nice for the first few hours, but then Red Alliance (RED) put Almost Awesome. (N0FUX) up to attempt to headshot our new staging. They succeeded when AUTZ Fleet Commander [[:cul|Sajuukthanatoskhar]] did what he does best and lost an entire Ishtar fleet, the station and then everyone's clones (we ended up in highsec), at least for 12 hours or so. We called in a favor from Pandemic Legion to retake the station. Hurt by this betrayal, TEST declared a no-holds-barred jihad on N0FUX. Within a few months, N0FUX was effectively dead. With our allies Rebel Alliance of New Eden (RANE), Sock Puppet Federation (SOCKS), and Solyaris Chtonium (SLYCE), we eventually secured the rest of Wicked Creek.
-During this time, [[https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/80528-updated-windrunner-compendium-wr-hurricane-and-hfi-discussion/?tab=comments#comment-1133598|Windrunner Tornadoes]] were fully invented and TEST became renowned (in AUTZ/Late USTZ) to use these for devious maneuvers. This time was generally regarded as a fun era to be in Test. Naliao Vee also brought Phantasms, Cynabals, and a weird BYOB(attleship) doctrine called dropsquad to the mix - at least until ccp killed combat refitting.
+During this time, [[https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/80528-updated-windrunner-compendium-wr-hurricane-and-hfi-discussion/?tab=comments#comment-1133598|Windrunner Tornadoes]] were fully invented and TEST became renowned (in AUTZ/Late USTZ) to use these for devious maneuvers. This time was generally regarded as a fun era to be in Test. [[https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/culture:players:naliao_vee|Naliao Vee]] also brought Phantasms, Cynabals, and a weird armor BYOB(attleship) doctrine w cap logi called dropsquad to the mix - at least until ccp killed combat refitting.
 After this, there was sporadic fighting with RED and their allies over moons in the superregion. Eventually, Triumvirate. and friends forced RED and co. out of Insmother. Meanwhile, Gentlemen's.Club (GCLUB), our allies in Immensea, failcascaded, leaving Immensea in the hands of Stain Wagon. Shortly after this, TEST decided to forward stage in Detorid to fight with DARKNESS. and friends and to take moons after Pandemic Legion took moons in Wicked Creek for the lulz. After about two months, we retreated back to our main staging. Leadership had determined that content was drying up in Wicked Creek, and so, on March 19th, 2016, TEST left, with no return on the horizon.
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 ===== Legacy Coalition =====
-TEST's first staging systems were Podion and Sendaya while everything was being worked out. A few weeks later, we moved to a LUMPY citadel in MB-NKE in Catch, and then to V-3YG7 a few jumps out. The goal here was to burn Stainwagon's sov to the ground, due to TEST needing a new home to rebuild, and also because Stainwagon helped the Imperium in World War Bee. Due to the pressure from TEST and allies, Stainwagon's presence in the south was effectively over. Shortly after, TEST moved down to Esoteria, first to DTX8-M, and then, after being captured by TEST AUTZ Forces (led by [[:culture:players:sajuukthanatoskhar|Sajuukthanatoskhar]] at the time) in a frenzied battle to D-PNP9, which is now the current staging. The other members of [[:culture:legacy|Legacy]] settled down in the other former regions of Stainwagon such as Impass, Feythabolis and Catch.
+TEST's first staging systems were Podion and Sendaya while everything was being worked out. A few weeks later, we moved to a LUMPY citadel in MB-NKE in Catch, and then to V-3YG7 a few jumps out. The goal here was to burn Stainwagon's sov to the ground, due to TEST needing a new home to rebuild, and also because Stainwagon helped the Imperium in World War Bee. Due to the pressure from TEST and allies, Stainwagon's presence in the south was effectively over. Shortly after, TEST moved down to Esoteria, first to DTX8-M, and then, after being captured by TEST AUTZ Forces (led by [[:culture:players:sajuukthanatoskhar|Sajuukthanatoskhar]] at the time) in a frenzied battle to D-PNP9, which is now the current staging. The other members of [[culture:coalitions:legacy|Legacy]] settled down in the other former regions of Stainwagon such as Impass, Feythabolis and Catch.
 Like someone who enjoys taking a steaming shit on little kids' heads, Pandemic Legion decided to partially deploy south to farm Brave (for the //third// time), who are our allies again(ew!~).
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 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/73dt17/fraternity_fqq_brawl_aar/|https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/73dt17/fraternity_fqq_brawl_aar/]]
-This conflict with FRT ended eventually with FRT surrendering and paying TEST a considerable amount in war damages. The day of surrender were proclaimed as [[:culture:victory_east_day|]]
+This conflict with FRT ended eventually with FRT surrendering and paying TEST a considerable amount in war damages. The day of surrender were proclaimed as [[culture:wars:2019:victory_east_day]]
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 ===== War with the North-Eastern Bloc =====
-Coming off from the Providence faction fortizar heist deployment, Legacy found themselves under attack by the hostile entities of Skill Urself, Triumvirate, Fraternity, v0lta, Hard Knocks, Pandemic Legion and Northern Coalition. This temporary coalition had no real official name so it was called the North-Eastern Bloc by some of the EVE gaming media. Vily and progodlegend did a [[:culture:state_of_the_coalition_2018_06_18|State of the Coalition]] address to the gathered forces of Legacy prior to the war kicking off in ernest. The North-Eastern Bloc invaded Immensea and in response Legacy anchored the B0rtstar One Keepstar in DY- to form a effective defence. The war went so so with a inherited FCON Keepstar (now Legacy property) being destroyed and a massive battle to prevent the forces of the North-Eastern Bloc from established a beachhead in Feythabolis. The battle was a isk loss for Legacy but succeeded in pushing the front back to Immensea. Legacy found the supercapital fleet of the North-Eastern Bloc difficult to contend with, a matter which was made much worse when Pandemic Legion decided to bring down their supercapital fleet as well. The war soon culminated in [[:culture:history:battles:ualx-3|The Battle of UALX-3]] were Legacy and North-Eastern Bloc supercapital fleets clashed in full over the anchoring of a Legacy Keepstar. The battle ended as a massive victory for Legacy with North-Eastern supercapital forces hellcamped for a week and effectively the end of the war.
+Coming off from the Providence faction fortizar heist deployment, Legacy found themselves under attack by the hostile entities of Skill Urself, Triumvirate, Fraternity, v0lta, Hard Knocks, Pandemic Legion and Northern Coalition. This temporary coalition had no real official name so it was called the North-Eastern Bloc by some of the EVE gaming media. Vily and progodlegend did a [[culture:sota:state_of_the_coalition_2018_06_18|State of the Coalition]] address to the gathered forces of Legacy prior to the war kicking off in ernest. The North-Eastern Bloc invaded Immensea and in response Legacy anchored the B0rtstar One Keepstar in DY- to form a effective defence. The war went so so with a inherited FCON Keepstar (now Legacy property) being destroyed and a massive battle to prevent the forces of the North-Eastern Bloc from established a beachhead in Feythabolis. The battle was a isk loss for Legacy but succeeded in pushing the front back to Immensea. Legacy found the supercapital fleet of the North-Eastern Bloc difficult to contend with, a matter which was made much worse when Pandemic Legion decided to bring down their supercapital fleet as well. The war soon culminated in [[:culture:history:battles:ualx-3|The Battle of UALX-3]] were Legacy and North-Eastern Bloc supercapital fleets clashed in full over the anchoring of a Legacy Keepstar. The battle ended as a massive victory for Legacy with North-Eastern supercapital forces hellcamped for a week and effectively the end of the war.
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 ===== Hey Ho, Hey Ho, off to the Drones we go =====
-In the beginning of August 2021, TEST began moving to their new home in the Dronelands following the defeat in World War Bee 2. During this evac, it was announced that the coalition TEST was the leader of, [[culture:legacy|Legacy]], was officially disbanding after 5 years of owning the South.
+In the beginning of August 2021, TEST began moving to their new home in the Dronelands following the defeat in World War Bee 2. During this evac, it was announced that the coalition TEST was the leader of, [[culture:coalitions:legacy|Legacy]], was officially disbanding after 5 years of owning the South.
 During this time, TEST lived for about 3 weeks in the SUAD Keepstar in U-QVWD fending off multiple Imperium attempts to anchor siege fortizars while the supercapital fleet caught up from Delve. During this time, Army of Mangos and Evictus began to occupy Esoteria. The D-P keepstar and 15 others throughout the former chain in Esoteria were scooped.
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 ===== Joining WinterCo =====
-In March 2023, TEST opted to join the coalition [[https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/winterco:start|WinterCo]], a coalition founded and led by the alliance [[culture:history:Fraternity]].
+In March 2023, TEST opted to join the coalition [[https://wiki.pleaseignore.com/winterco:start|WinterCo]], a coalition founded and led by the alliance Fraternity.
 Test, alongside WinterCo, fought and forced B2/Goons/Brave into retreat.
-November 2023, Test Began attempting to retake the fabled Testagram (https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/111114-the-great-reclamation-the-testagram/)
+November 2023, Test Began attempting to retake the fabled Testagram (https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/111114-the-great-reclamation-the-testagram/) We decided that taking the gram' would be an internal matter, and refused help from allies. The reclamation was our job, and ours alone. This was a point of pride for Test. It was much easier than initially expected, so we took the space pretty fast.
+December 2023, Test retook the Testagram, Keep anchored in 3T7 and Dino's finally found a new(old) home. Our wonderful logistics team quickly set up JF routes, Ansiblex (jump bridges) and got the markets stocked quickly.
+Most of 2024 was relatively peaceful. Winterco and the CFC (Imperium) both deployed to a few different areas a few times. A few large fights happened, but no major wars took place. Both sides seemed to focus inward in the latter half of the year. Test remains in Deklein, also focusing inward on recruitment and building numbers up. Late in the year has been pretty quiet, doing some home defense here and there, and a few ops on occasion, but nothing serious. Everyone was busy fattening their wallets!
+===== 2025 =====
+The start of 2025 felt much the same as the tail end of 2024. Mostly quiet, with some minor activity and micro deployments, but nothing game changing. But beneath the surface, momentum was building.
+Test truly began to grow again, Naliao's corp, [[corps:naliao_inc|Naliao Inc]] was revived, with a fair number of OG homies rejoining. Our esteemed executor's corp was also brought back to life again around the same time- [[corps:unholy_knights_of_cthulhu|UKOC]]. Test was finally starting to put half decent numbers into fleets again! We even had a few instances of nostalgic good old fashioned ratting drama.
+Then came the turning point:
+Late June, early July, Test started a campaign against Absolute Order (AO for short). AO was/is a large alliance, that takes anyone and everyone and patrols newbro systems to scoop easy recruits to grind them for ISK. Their leadership is well known for RMTing, and, perhaps more infamously, for tending to "roleplay" as Nazis. This obviously didn't sit well with anyone, and Zapp Benders of DRONV started to whip up a campaign against them. With the blessing of Panda Pelling (Mildir at the time) Test started a deployment to Providence, where AO lived. It has been incredibly successful, with Predditors Black Ops dropping anything that so much as blinked on a gate. TEST fleets roamed AO systems freely, applying nonstop pressure. Hellcamps became routine.
+And from the shadows, spies fed us a steady stream of leaks: screenshots of salt, collapsed morale, and internal meltdown after meltdown - all gleefully reposted in TEST discord(s) for maximum enjoyment.
-December 2023, Test retook the Testagram, Keep anchored in 3T7 and Dino's finally found a new(old) home.
+Meanwhile, the Ministry of Truth (MoT) spun into overdrive.
+Led by longtime head Athina Alarei, the MoT flooded Reddit and Discord with a relentless stream of propaganda — videos, memes, posters — designed to crush AO morale and ignite the playerbase at large. It worked.
+Hundreds of players from across EVE came to join the dogpile, gleefully dunking on AO from every corner of Eve.
-Most of 2024 was relatively peaceful. Winterco and the CFC (Imperium) both deployed to a few different areas a few times. A few large fights happened, but no major wars took place. Both sides seemed to focus inward in the latter half of the year. Test remains in Deklein, also focusing inward on recruitment and building numbers up. Late in the year has been pretty quiet, doing some home defense here and there, and a few ops on occasion, but nothing serious. Everyone is fattening their wallets!

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