Kingsman
Gallente
The Flying Tigers
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Posted - 2006.10.24 13:24:00 -
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My first post on this subject was in private on the KOS boards. My only response was I was banned from those forums.
We, The Flying Tigers have been part of KOS for some time now and proud to be as well. We fought long and hard in N7, and were some of the last to pull out. We have kept two Large Pos up and fueled in WC since we were redeployed, to aid in holding WC, and assumed others were as well.
At last weekends senate meeting we were presented with several options and told we could choose. One of those options included NAPing RAGOON to allow for the withdrawal of forces. We publicly declared this a bad idea. Voted against it. We told any one that would listen, inside the alliance, this was not going to sit well with our current allies.
Once the vote was cast we posted on the forums we would not be leaving WC but would find some way to stay, most likely in curse, and continue the fight. We wished, and still do wish, safe flying to the many honorable pilots we have flown with over the previous months.
But then something odd happened. WeÆve seen in this thread that it was KOS leadership plan to immediately inform the coalition of what was going to take place. That is what we were told also. We started making plans for a guerilla war. After all we had brought up ships, mods, ammo, towers etc for the defense of KOS. We might as well go out in a blaze of glory. Our private forums are filled with posts rallying the troops to defend F-E. We were going to fight to the last pod. Then all of sudden weÆre not KOS anymore. We are being called traitors, and told that all KOS will kill us.
We canÆt dock at the stations we fought to defend to get the ships we brought to defend them with. But I look in my transaction history now and I see RAGOON members buying the ammo and mods I had built and put on the market at a loss for Alliance members to fight RAGOON with.
Apparently our treachery is that we would not change sides in the middle of the battle and we believed the KOS leadership when they told us they were going to keep the coalition informed. I laugh at some of these posts. ItÆs LVs fault that we did not fuel our towers. We had to NAP RA to withdraw from the field. We donÆt know why they got mad at us for changing sides. Anyone with a clue knew that an LV war dec was going to follow a KOS nap like day follows night.
When the sun came up this morning I wasnÆt surprised, and I didnÆt blame the moon for telling it was day time. Yet KOS blames us, the Tigers for LV being offended at them changing sides then trying to hide it to that last minute.
Let me make our actions as a corp perfectly clear.
1.We will never change sides during battle know matter the cost.
2.We looked for a way to continue the fight and that included trying to arrange docking rights at certain coalition stations
3.We assumed the KOS leadership was telling the truth, (and the chat logs are in this thread) when they said the coalition was to be informed of the NAP immediately and even then it was only mentioned to certain high level individuals as the reason for our need for corp standings not in a look at what KOS is doing fashion
4.We vowed to defend KOS during their withdrawal and leave our POSs up as long as possible
5.We never told anyone that KOS was going to set any member of the coalition to neg standing and we honestly hoped that would not happen, (but honestly who was surprised by Chows post once you knew what happened?)
When the sun came up this morning I wasnÆt surprised, and I didnÆt blame the moon for telling the sun it was morning. Yet KOS blames us, the Tigers for LV being offended at them changing sides then trying to hide it to that last minute. KOS leadership continues to cry foul and treachery, they should know. After what they did to us, they obviously understand what it means to stab some one in the back.
"Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool."
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