Originally by: Kespii

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Originally by: Irrilian

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BoB are a large pvp force made up from cherry picking experienced pilots from other corps. They apparently demand a great deal in discipline from their members, the pay off being the self respect from what they can achieve together, combat and industry, the two sides of the same coin when it comes to being a successful alliance.

BoBÆs greatest risk is not from any other entity in the game, but from collapsing under their own mass. That is the need to keep their members busy and focused upon their collective goal or risk splintering. BoB and ASCN are two big super powers in the game, they have more to loose from others taking advantage of their distraction while they lock horns.

Whatever your personal views, BoB members consider themselves as the best in the game. Yet itÆs not them whom are first to achieve one of the most significant landmarks in the game, significantly one that has the potential to change the nature of alliance warfare.

So ASCN build their Titan and are not suitably demure in their achievement and perhaps the BoB rank and file whom are a bit restless from the lack of any real action recently are left wondering how they were trumped by the Hobbits.

Whether their presence was innocent or not, ASCN takes offence at BoBÆs proxies building up in ASCNÆs sphere of influence and the resulting war kicks off.

The forums are as much a battlefield as the game, divide and conquer, isolate your enemies from their allies, manipulate former enemies into willing serfs and so forth. But BoBÆs forum warriors are notable for their particular vociferousness and in their eagerness to attack their foes, their lack of finesse in this occasion, but why? It goes back to the sense of self worth that keeps BoBÆs rank and file focused, the message BoBÆs forum warriors spout is as much for BoBÆs consumption as the general public. That is, if the general attitude of the forums isnt suitably in awe of BoB, BoBÆs forum warriors will do their best to pat BoB on the back themselves while denigrating their foes, reassuring the membership that its ok, they are still the best.

So in summary why this war and why now? Well to put in Freudian terms, SirMolle has male member envy (after all what is that Titan but one big schlong and note how BoBÆs forum warriors delighted in pointing out that on its first date, it was impotent), while the rank and file members have a Castration Complex.

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If you think that ascn is the only alliance with a titan then...you need to look a little further into the announcement by ov. If you were a developer, would you give intel to everyone (secretly owning a titan), or only state that the first publically announced titan is the first one built? It wouldn't be smart to **** off the alliances that own titans but are reluctant to state that they do, for security reasons.

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