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Bürgerkrieg bei (EX)Goonswarm, aber lest selbst
Originally posted by EricP:
Long story short(er)
Goons have had a division called black ops for a long time. They are the ones who were responsible for the majority of the alliance's pre-Delve2 success. AFK cloaking, gank gangs in hostile space, basically they're really good at living behind enemy lines and making isk generation very difficult for targets. Blops would soften up targets for a month or two before the main fleet was deployed there, by the time the blob rolled through the targets were failure cascading and morale was low enough that there weren't many fights.
After goonswarm was disbanded, a small group (~30) of these guys stayed behind in Delve under Elitist Ops, a corp not under the alliance umbrella. They wanted out from the alliance so they could run their own wardecs and because it was easier for them to go about their ganking as neutrals instead of being under the alliance standings. They have been exceptionally effective, using AAA-C and other IT pets lax recruitment policies to get agents into those alliances and then use those agents to get warpins/tackles on high-value targets. I'm not one to get all k:d but the isk value of what they've destroyed in the last 2 months is immense, deadspace-fitted marauders, freighters, jump freighters, faction bs, it's pretty impressive.
DJ decided a few days ago that he wanted to bring them back under the alliance banner and use them for strategic objectives (most likely to fuck with ROL/Atlas in the south). EO said "nah we're enjoying doing what we're doing and it's more convenient to be in our own corp".
Being the supremely tactful alliance leader he is, DJ gave them 24 hours to rejoin the alliance or have their characters in GW kicked. Predictably, the majority of EO told him to fuck off. As a troll, EO's leader talked to karttoon and got EO admitted under the Band of Brothers alliance ticker. DJ flipped the fuck out and started banning EO members, EO wardecced GW and last I checked is actively hunting GW members in Cloud Ring.
It's not going to go well for GW, that's for sure.