Nai Ling
Diligent Souls
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Posted - 2007.02.05 17:11:00 -
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I can sort of fill in the blanks as far as the South East goes, from the point of LV's conception to almost current. There will be holes in it, as there are things I cannot remember clearly, and most of the early on stuff is from "History Lessons" from LV members.
There was a time, as you can see on the animated gif, that RA controlled a vast amount of the Regions in the SE. LV was formed and took Omist, and then Tenerfis. Somewhere in there -V- (Veritas Immortalis) and CHIMP (Chimaera Pact) were formed and took Great Wildlands and Detorid respectively. LV moved in and took part of Detorid to help in it's defense vs RA. The 3 allied together to formally create what is called as "The Coalition" against Red Alliance.
For the first couple months, the Coalition was largely successful against Red Alliance. Beating them back to Insmother + Cache, The Coalition started bringing in friendly alliances to help in the war effort. Knights of the SouthernCross and ERA were two of them that I remember.
At this point, CHIMP controlled Detorid, Immensea, and Insmother, while -V- held Great Wildlands and Scalding Pass, while LV controlled Omist, Tenerfis, and part of Detorid. When two of the largest PVP corporations in CHIMP left to join LV, CHIMP gave the whole of Insmother and Detorid to LV and moved into Immensea to better defend their region. The Coalition continued to be largely successful in their campaign against Red Alliance until the retake of the station in C-J by RA. It was a massive assault over many days that the Coalition held for a long time, but eventually RA got the win in that battle out of pure devotion.
ERA was the first to fall, after taking over Cache, they were beaten out shortly after losing 11 dreadnaughts in a single battle to Red Alliance. (For a long time, the largest captial ship loss in a single battle. Beating out LV's 9 Dreadnaught kills against Red Alliance.)
The long victory for the Coalition started to come to yet another stalemate when Red Alliance took back the station in C-J. This was the start of a long stalemate between the two forces. There was a lot of station ping-pong, regions would be "won" and lost the next week.
Eventually Knights of the Southerncross and Chimaera Pact would start to buckle. One of the main Industrial powerhouses would leave CHIMP, and Cereal Killerz would take over as executor. Knights of the Southerncross would be decemated by Red Alliance after LV and -V- would abandon them and kick them out of the Coalition for failures to support the war effort.
I don't know exactly what happened, but CHIMP fell apart and Maelstrom and Myriad Alliance took over Immensea on the side of the Coalition. Red Alliance brought in more allies to it's cause in the form of Goonswarm (somethingawful.com alliance), Tau Ceti Federation (French Alliance), and United Legion. IAC (Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate) NAP'd Red Alliance. Fuzzy Nut Attack Squirrels joined the fight against Red Alliance. Meanwhile, Insmother was retaken by Red Alliance.
Veritas Immortalis, under pressure from both the RedSwarm (name adopted by the community for the Red Alliance Coalition) and various Great Wildlands alliances and corporations in the area, collapsed. Red Alliance was quick to claim Scalding Pass; while Great Wildlands was contested between the Imperium Alliance, Tactical Narcotics Team and the Foundation, and the remnants of Veritas Immortalis and INFOD. (At least that's what the map says. I believe it's just INFOD contesting against the others.)
That's the recount of the Southern Coalition War from my point of view, up to today. If there is anyone else that can ammend my recount, or add more, please feel free.
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