EVE Corporation - Page 266

On January 09 2011 11:00 tHornstein wrote:
so whats up

On January 09 2011 11:00 tHornstein wrote:
so whats up

The Band of Brothers Alliance (BoB for short) has been in EVE basically since the beginning. 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. 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 are characterized by their detractors as arrogant and condescending elitists.

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 style themselves "the worst PVPers in EVE", yet have ultimately been quite successful against larger opponents that were deliberately trying to wipe them out. 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). The leadership of GoonSwarm by contrast is highly organized and very bright (typified by the most feared espionage organization in the game). They are characterized by their detractors as a bunch of vicious, adolescent griefers.

A BoB Alliance Director from the Black Nova Corporation was playing on an Alt when a member of one of the GoonSwarm corporations attempted to recruit him. The Director ("Haargoth Agamar") decided this was an excellent opportunity to get a "spy" into GoonSwarm. He accepted, pretending to be a newbie mining character. A couple of days later, the recruiter turned up evidence that the Alt character had been associated with a previous enemy corporation of theirs during a background check (yes I said background check). The recruiter went back to him and told him he'd have to be kicked out. But Agamar revealed his identity and told him that he really didn't want to go because in the last two days he'd found that he really really liked playing and associating with the Goons. (The Goon head of intelligence, "The Mittani" aka "Mittens", later characterized this as a Cultural Victory.) Agamar was immediately handed off to Goon Intelligence and rather than using him as a long term operative and chancing his discovery, they started figuring out what they could steal through him. They scoured the BoB leadership forums for information, prepared to have Agamar rob Black Nova Corporation of every asset they had (amounting to hundreds of ships, including fifteen Dreadnaughts which are the second largest class in the game and take over two weeks of Real Time to construct), and prepared to alter the friend/foe alignment of all Black Nova assets which they couldn’t' outright steal. During these discussions, it was discovered that in addition to being a Corporate Director of one of the BoB members, he had long ago been erroneously granted Directorship in the Holding Company that served to keep BoB officially together in game-law. The holding company owned no assets itself, but with the way the rules were set up any Director could evict any member of the Alliance at will and have it take effect instantly. Apparently this had never come up as an issue in the game before.

When all the BoB officers who could have done anything about it were asleep (most of them are European), the Goon intelligence agency pulled the trigger and the entire BoB Alliance and all that depended on that status vanished. In the space of a few hours all the BoB Jump Gates, Cyno-Jammers, and Capital Ship Assembly Arrays ceased to function. All the local production facilities dropped down to their base efficiency level. Every BoB member who had logged off at a Black Nova facility was identified as "hostile" when they exited "their" stations and instantly fired on by the automated defenses. Every non-BoB-member who operated in the territory started to panic. And GoonSwarm now permanently owned the rights to the corporate name "BoB".

On January 09 2011 11:12 motbob wrote:
So anyway, 15 months after that whole event went down, someone registered on TL and made this post. Of course, no one believed him. But he turned out to be legit and gave TL corp a shitload of stuff in 0.0 (if you want details just read the thread after his post). And that's the story.

On January 09 2011 11:15 Firebolt145 wrote:

HAHA oh wow didn't realise it was the actual backstabber itself wow

On January 09 2011 11:42 pahndah wrote:
JP: Always behind the times.

On January 09 2011 18:03 oooo27 wrote:
I just made an account, name is FearTheWaaaagh

look me up

On January 10 2011 06:22 WiljushkA wrote:
are there any people that actually FOLLOW the proper hatchery application procedure first time around?
cause the amount of them flailing about is hilarious

On January 10 2011 06:59 Azerbaijan wrote:


Well we had one guy do it right the other day; Kwark and Nou were fighting over who would mentor him because he was unusually competent.

On January 10 2011 06:59 Azerbaijan wrote:


Well we had one guy do it right the other day; Kwark and Nou were fighting over who would mentor him because he was unusually competent.