I was asked to make a post about what happened the last few weeks and why it ended the way it did.
A few weeks ago we had a ceo meeting where the question was raised do we stay and fight or do we sell and leave Deklein.
Everybody said fuck the stations it will be hard to sell anyways lets fight and bleed them. Well as you all know there wasnt any bleeding but NC decided to massivly outblob us. In the mean time they played a perfect machiavellian game of divide and conquer with Tri.
Tri was promised 80 bill and Atlas 15 bill to remove themselfs from Vale of the Silent. Later it was reveiled that NC tricked Tri/Atlas in leaving and they didnt pay 1 isk. With Tri attacking us after the ifuse fiasco in ya0 (ifuse dropped towers 1 day before mowe towers started claiming sov on the standard 6 days timer) many of us felt as being in a huge shit storm with drama's going on ON and OFF stage constantly.
During this and later it was clear NC wont give us a fight but just a blob with 100 carebears in cap ships.
Then TCF entered the stage aswell and it was no longer possible to get any kind of fun from this. ...at all.
TCF itself did fight us without the cap umbrella and as i stated a few times i respect them.
So we had Ifuse then DASS (who left after making sure we kept sov in vfk handing the station to me because they feared being locked out) and in the end Pelenor swarm (pln) who had LordMuppet shitting up alliance and offlining the jammer just to get a carrier in. Well that idiot got kicked and acted like a raving alcoholic that he most likely is imo. PLN got kicked for reseting allies‚ setting 500 mill docking fee's, shitting up alliance chat and offlining i30 cyno jammer.
I called a retreat from the Deklein area because i did not like the state our corp was in and the alliance after i came back being absent for a week due to work. We have a very good director group but sometimes it happens that people dont feel the right sense of urgency or importance. I think we had such a situation when i was away and as the ceo i am offcourse first to blame for that. When i came back i assesed the situation and said start evacing right now because this is going to failure cascade.
I worked my ass off to prevent a failure cascade and on some fronts i think i succeded and offcourse in some i failed.
Directors woke up and many of them did a great job getting corp assets safe and unanchoring posses. We did many many many carrier, jump freighter and supercap moves to get it all out. Оffcoursе you allways have the odd guy logging in after its all done during that 6 day period but so far even that guy is out now.
When our numbers dropped in Deklein and NC wouldnt engage even at 300 vs. 110 we called it a quits.
I want to thank all of you not engaging in the smack fest on coad and local. I know its one of the corp rules but everybody seems to care enough not to even attempt it. Closest to that was Djuma but he has so much wit about him that i can only laugh hard at his coad remarks.
Endeva himself said on many occasions smack and troll the enemy on coad and provoke them into a rage ingame so they will make mistakes. Well he now says that it maybe was not the right way .....so i dont think we will see a repeat of that coad drivel there.
Emo's will be emo's but its best done in private :
I said before and will repeat it again that i am not planning on any more space sandcastles. I am not setting up another 25 posses as a corp and the whole pos bullshit can rot in hell as far as i care. Its time for fun in normal fleets again. First focus Pandemic legion.