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The Goons were the last to withdraw and their leadership swore that it was only technical limitations of the game-rules that stopped them that they'd be back to take BoB's home some day. The other members of the coalition eventually grew bored of making great effort for little headway and stopped showing up for fleet actions. The war lasted for several weeks, and while BoB did pull back into more defensible areas, they proved too hard to evict from that ground. The second conflict was sometime last year when GoonSwarm lead a broad coalition of other Alliances in a deliberate attempt to seize BoB's entire territory (wiping them out as a player in larger politics). The Goons actually expanded their territory and BoB returned across the map to their own holdings. BoB could blow Goons up all day, but the Goons focused on territorial goals rather than tonnage-of-ships lost and the neighboring enemy eventually backed off.
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The first time the Goons held up against a coalition of BoB and another Alliance that neighbored on Goon-territory, by simply being impossible to wipe out. This will actually be the third time BoB and GoonSwarm have clashed. To the best of my knowledge, corporations have CEO’s, Directors, and regular people as their different ranks. Note: Eve is organized into corporations, which can join alliances. They are characterized by their detractors as a bunch of vicious, adolescent griefers. The leadership of GoonSwarm by contrast is highly organized and very bright (typified by the most feared espionage organization in the game). Having fewer resources and less discipline than other alliances, they take cheap but functional ships and hurl themselves at their opponents like a barbarian horde safe in the knowledge that they can replace their losses more easily than what they inflict on the enemy ( One of their propoganda posters shows this fairly well). They style themselves "the worst PVPers in EVE", yet have ultimately been quite successful against larger opponents that were deliberately trying to wipe them out. The GoonSwarm has been in EVE since early in 2006 and made their presence known the whole time (Note: the Goonswarm is SomethingAwful’s presence in eve). They are characterized by their detractors as arrogant and condescending elitists. They were the group involved in the "T20" scandal where a game Dev that belonged to BoB was secretly giving them ultra-rare items that granted an edge for the alliance. They've been the dominating PVP force in the player-run, non-NPC areas of space for most of the game and hold the richest territory. The Band of Brothers Alliance (BoB for short) has been in EVE basically since the beginning. If anyone knows a different story from what I have below or can add anything, please fill in the missing pieces. So, I bring it here for your interest and entertainment. I've tried to bring disparate pieces together into an image of how things are going, but any of it might be off. It's not easy to figure out who's where, doing what, why, and to whom.
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There's nowhere you can go and look for yourself to simply see what's happened. However, it is obscured in a very real "fog of war" with both sides trying to spin defeats into non-events (or even victories) and victories into conquests.
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Okay, I've been trying to follow this conflict since the thread started. (sourced from here, and written by Human_Being) I encourage you to read all of this, because it’s really quite interesting. I will periodically insert my own clarifactions and/or content into his recorded posts in red. I would have asked his permission, but it seems that you need to be registered with the MMO City of Heroes to register for their forums, and it isn’t free. The following is pasted from different sources, the vast majority of it copy-pasted from user Human_Being of the City of Heroes forums (apparently a different MMO). Recently, I found a link to a guy in a forum who is doing an excellent job of describing the action, and generally being a war correspondent for a game that he doesn't play. Intrigued, I read on, and found quite an interesting story. Probably a week ago at this point, I saw a story on reddit, about how one of the most powerful alliances in eve was disbanded by a doublecrosser. #1 As most of us are gamers, I think that we’re generally interested in other games, even if not quite as much as our beloved starcraft.
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