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--- culture:history [2021/12/16 17:58]
Cobraman [World War Bee 2] 40+ Keepstars, removed reference to Legacy Allies in OP
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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 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, 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.
 ===== HERO Coalition =====
 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
+ 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.
+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.
 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.
+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.
 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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 ===== 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: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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 On June 21st 2020, vily [[https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/107923-the-die-is-cast/|announced to the world]] that the Great NIP Slip of 2020 had begun. Legacy was giving The Imperium its two week notice that the Non Invasion Pact between The Imperium and Legacy was coming to an end. The mittani went into a rage and hosted multiple cringefilled tirades on his multidollar streaming channel about how TEST was next and how they would punish this "betrayal". As war seemed inevitable, basically everyone else in the known universe united in their loathing of goons and a new megacoalition, PAPI, was formed in order to kill goons once again and remove the cancer from EVE that is the goon menace. [[culture:history:battles:world_war_bee_2|World War Bee 2]] was a fact.
-Goons were pushed back from basically all their space, seeing the vast majority of their infrastructure burn, including 40+ Keepstars, and they clung on to a single constellation, the 1DQ constellation, in Delve. There a stalemate was formed which would last for months and months. The Siege of 1DQ.
+Goons were pushed back from basically all their space, seeing the vast majority of their infrastructure burn (including 40+ Keepstars), and they clung on to a single constellation, the 1DQ constellation, in Delve. There a stalemate was formed which would last for months and months. The Siege of 1DQ.
 Eventually, a massive push to finally pry the goons out of their stronghold was announced on the 24th of July, 2021. This never materialized as one week later, PAPI declared a full retreat and evac from the South.
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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.
+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.
+In late August 2021, it was announced TEST would be putting roots down in Outer Passage. The D-P keepstar was renachored in the new staging system T0DT-T. Once the evacuation was offical over, many of the former Legacy alliance members began to disband. Only TEST, Army of Mangos, Already Replaced, and BRAVE survived the culling.
+On September 9th, [[https://forum.pleaseignore.com/topic/110228-a-passing-of-the-torch/ | Vily announced ]] he was offically stepping down from TEST High Command after 5+ years of service. Succeding him were Sandrin Stone, and Karmen Jell
+In Novemeber of 2021, BRAVE sold their former staging Keepstars to Imperium. One of which (GE-8JV) was used as a staging point to kill the U-QVWD and 0-SHT keepstars. Later that Month, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k3YFGBq2rU |TEST took vengenace ]] [[ https://br.evetools.org/related/30001970/202111060100 | and killed over 100bil in BRAVE capitals. ]]
+A week after Christmas, TEST Deployed with FIRE against Red Menace Coallition to Impass and Feythabolis.
+(someone pls fill in time gaps)
+===== The Return to Faction Warfare =====
+November of 2022 Test joined Caldari Faction Warfare - CCP released a decent expansion for once, and revamped the FW system. CCP also sent everyone 7 free days of omega to check everything out, and ran a number of deals to encourage subs. This seems to have worked at least in some part, as numbers are up and the faction warfare areas are very busy.  Before joining, the alliance had fallen on incredibly hard times, very low fleet numbers (30 on a **really** good day) and poor morale or motivation to log in. Hoping to repeat the success and rebuilding of joining FW from the last time in 2013, time will tell where Test goes next.
+===== 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]].
+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/)
+December 2023, Test retook the Testagram, Keep anchored in 3T7 and Dino's finally found a new(old) home.

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