Here's the short version of the story just if you want to hear it.
You know IwantISK? Like the gambling website bubu got all his ISK from, well main leadership dude in
SMA pissed them off by scamming one of their dudes out of 300B. So IwantISK turned around and ended up paying TISHU an insane amount of ISK to just blops the living shit out of Fade for like 2 months.
We were getting paid 15B/day, plus we came up with this "money scalps" meme, like from Inglorious Bastards. We made the thread about that joke public as well as the actual deployment post, so you can read those. They were just as funny as they sounded. Demesien from DIX made an amazing video about him making like 10B gate camping in a sabre with the scalps bonus. We also got a few really good fights with scrappy little doctrines, mainly this hilarious AB Confessor fit I came up with that ended up being the alliances favourite doctrine for like a month. Good video of the best fight we got with those.
So as we were getting bored and deciding to call it a day and go do something else
, Pandemic Horde decides to get in on this and picks up right where we left off.I'm talking like they deployed to low sec nearby, and just went industrial grade cloaky camping, and completely shut down the region. It was beautiful. Zero ratting going on anywhere for like 3 weeks. During this period, SMA went from over 5k members down to about 3.3k. They were the second biggest alliance in the game and got reduced to absolute trash who were mad they couldn't rat, couldn't successfully bait blops, got rorquals awoxed constantly by spy alts, and put like 30 dudes in a fleet. We finally decide to call it a day and go back to Syndicate. That brings us up to like first week of March.
MEANWHILE IN LOW SEC, this whole time and slightly before it, the CFC announced this big low sec invasion. Bassically like "hurr durr we've won Null sec, now we're going to show everyone we can low sec too!". It started as TISHU + Snuff fighting them in October just before we did that blops campaign, but right as left to go do that Fade contract, they started fleeting up with other low sec nerds to form what is now unironically called "Low sec Voltron". So what ended up happening was the CFC in its entire strength, were making zero ground because they couldn't seem to do anything against these crazy 250 man X-type + Slaves Mach fleets. Their ranting about how Machs were OP was amazing. In the end up, they ended up introducing their own Machariel doctrine (yes the CFC flew Machariels as a mainline doctrine for 3 months) and proceeded to just get owned by those same 250 man low sec fleets reshipping into Proteuses.
So at this point, bigger players are starting to sit up and sniff the blood in the water. CFC losing towers to low sec nerds? Interesting. After much convincing, PL decided to deploy in full force to The Forge and start hitting Vale of the Silent. They made it look like it was just gudfites at first by hitting some russian stuff in Geminate too, but Vale was always the goal. TISHU blued up with PL at this point and moved in with them supers and all because they were just a bit short on numbers by themselves.
BASTN/LAWN who live in Vale just rolled over. Like they fought, but man, they got absolutely dunked. PL dropped titans on them in their own systems and just started reffing all their CSAAs. It was beautiful.
After 3 weeks, The Bastion had an alliance meeting where they announced they were abandoning Vale. Like dude, holy shit. They were completely abandoning Vale. They've owned this region for 6 years. We had a PL/TISHU rattlesnake fleet, an NC. Proteus fleet, and Supers/titans pre-staged in jump range camping their undock hoping to ruin their move op. You could hear the tone change the second this happened. All the important PL nerds went to another channel and were just like "yo, we can actually kill the CFC here, this is totally possibly, holy shit lets do it". So Vale falls, a few days later we redeploy to Hakonen and start attacking M-O where CO2 live, like the entrance system to Tribute from Lonetrek. The biggest fight of the war happens here. It's actually the second biggest fight that ever happened in EVE according to CCP, and goons just get actually megadunked. We're also forming this as-yet unnamed coalition at this point and it's really coming together. The one that's now called Money badgers Coalition. Bassically it's like: TISHU+PL+NC.+TEST+Lumpy together, then you got all the cloud ring/Fountain nerds coming like the culture and such, then you've got Low sec voltron, then you've got OSS + Out of Sight doing their in Venal. They're getting hit on like 4 fronts.
Then immediately after that fight something huge Happens: Circle of Two switch sides. I've been hearing about this for like months and thought it was total vaporware, but nope. After they lost that side, they told the CFC they were joining our coalition and flipping with 30 minutes notice. Crazy stuff.
So at this point, the CFC have now lost Vale and Tribute, have lost Tenal to some literal nobodies from the Drone Regions called "The Drone Walkers" who formed their own coalition to come help and want to live in Tenal after the war so INIT/RZR are now totally homeless too, and FCON are losing Branch to Drone Walkers + the Venal nerds.
So we close in the gap. PL+TISHU deploy in full strength, supercaps and all to X-7 in Pure Blind and NC meet up a few days later. CFC won't even undock a single real fleet, they're doing this dumb "Sword fleet" inty thing to try and kill our entosis ships on timers without fighting, so TEST who're now hugely active again just from their own 200 man interceptor fleet with a better fit/FCs and just dunk those. VFK went freeport yesterday, YA0 this morning, and both system will be taken by the weekend. Meanwhile CFC are getting farmed on their own undock and its open season on doomsdaying anything in Deklein.
At this point we're just doing chill fleets grinding towers with titans and supers, pretty much over, RIP CFC. SMA have left and will probably be dead within 3 months (they're down to 1.5k members from over 5k in December), FCON have left, CO2 flipped, RZR are dead, INIT are feeding in Syndicate, and there's been some amazing leaks on /r/eve that I'm guessing you've seen showing what a total piece of shit Mittani is.