Goberth Ludwig
Caldari
North Eastern Swat
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.02.18 23:58:00 -
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Much has been said of this war.
Much has been said of what PL is, what PL does, what PL doesn't. The sins attributed to PL, they say, are beyond all doubt.
The best strategies are often the simplest. When Pandemic Legion announced it was going to war without stating details, there was much speculation and assumption made on all sides; often at the neglect of logic. In a great effort to make well on their motto, KenZoku leadership employed the tools of hate and fear - crying of every foul in the book. And in the process of demonizing us they've also supplied two fundamental parameters to our mighty war machine: Who? Why?
In attacking KenZoku, we fully expected to pay a dear price. An irresistible force versus an immovable object, perhaps. It is with great distaste that we found the first reaction of KenZoku to our assault was immediate and unseemly panic.
If there is anything apparent in this war so far, it is that KenZoku is feeling the cold, chilling tendrils of fear creep into the hearts of their alliance. Upon the reptilian wings of this fear fly the spectres that are so vivid, that there often is no recourse but to deny reality and cling to illusions.
It is the slow march of madness that follows next.
A madness that strikes out at phantoms in all directions, mistaking them for manifestations of the fear in their minds. Yet the very source of the darkness lies clearly in front of them. They are just unwilling to face it.
Fear is the mind killer.
NOL and J-L are ours now. They are the price you pay for believing that dividing a disorganized force and carrying out attacks with no purpose is a superior strategy to dealing with the inadequacies of your fleet. The division of your forces has only served to our benefit, as your various groups will then enjoy a mix of inconsequential victories and horrendous losses. Being goverened by the fear of taking responsibility for a focused effort, your High Command has chosen instead to cleave deep gashes in your ranks. Who is to blame now for the loss of NOL and QY6? Who shall take responsibility?
You have lost Delve. The name itself symbolic in that PL is now as a paragon of the soul of war, fighting a leviathan that has no spirit. PL does not trifle with unfocused attacks, we go straight for the throat. On the other hand KenZoku has only made enemies of alliances that were not even part of this conflict.
The month long fray which saw the destruction of one thousand battleships, more than a dozen capitals, and over one hundred billion ISK worth of enemy assets is a drop in the ocean. Its greatest casualty was our expectation. Under threat of invasion, KenZoku would sooner chase phantom threats than face it head on. Marked by degrading fleet performance, would rather hire mercenaries than properly equip its own. Unable to unite on home turf, would choose sentenced death on the enemy's to save face. Unable to admit defeat, would continue to write fiction for excusing it.
The great sorrow in this war is that there are numerous members in KenZoku that have shown the spirit to fight, yet are left hanging without support. The losses are not out of a lack of valor on the part of those in the front lines, but the lack of sensibility in those that give directions. Yet those alone are not harmful. What is harmful is that those deficiencies are coupled with a fear of accepting the need for improvement, fear for accepting the bewilderment of strategy, fear for being found wanting. Your warriors are ill served, and they fall vainly on the field of battle.
Stop pretending to hit us, and hit us.
For if you do not, then may the gods of EVE help you, because we have not yet begun to fight. We shall give you better reasons to see us as demons.
(am I doin tis rite?)
- Gob
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