Specops
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2007.01.31 07:33:00 -
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First off, ASCN was a fantastic alliance and I will miss being part of it.
I have to say throughout all of this hardly anyone seems to give CYVOK the credit he deserves. ASCN became what it became soley because of him. Sure there were thousands of people in the alliance who helped mine for the minerals and helped defend, but it was CYVOK who organized all of it. CYVOK planned for all of it.
Two and a half years ago, when XETIC was falling apart, CYVOK was already planning and discussing in the CLS board forum what he wanted to do with Feythabolis. I think the alliance met all of his expectations. We set many firsts in our time with the outposts and the Titan. I don't want to name any other alliances, but the reality is that it is because of CYVOK and only CYVOK that ASCN didn't wind up like most other alliances that are reasonably succesful but nothing special. Assuming of course an alliance could have been founded at all in Feythabolis in the aftermath of XETIC without CYVOK .
Unfortunately I have been out of game longer than I have been in game in these last two years. I missed a lot of the wars in ASCN's history. I do recall, however, we have always had enemies and IMHO I don't think weve ever give anyone real reason to start shooting us.
When ASCN was first born, Euphoria Released and friends immedietatly declared how we were traitors to XETIC and what not and thus by attacking us we had our first enemies. Since that time we have endured all sorts of enemies. Most of these wars have been started because we have been perceieved as an easy picking (Ex. What did we ever do to IRON/G?).
My point is if you ever had a problem with ASCN and you came to us about it, and you were serious about solving it, we would resolve it diplomatically. Other alliances may jump at the chance to start a war, but us being the pacifist carebears that we were, would never start a war. I believe in ASCN's history we were the ones to start the shooting first only once and that was because (It was Tribal Souls) kept repeatedly BSing us. So contrary to popular belief, no, ASCN was not a giant bully that prayed on the weak every chance it got.
To BoB and specfically Sir Molle: I don't know what your true reasons were for attacking us. If what you said publically is true, and you were just looking for the best fight you could get, than I suggest you sack whoever gave you that intel because ASCN never was or had been a PvP powerhouse. I hope gaining Feythabolis was worth it to you as in the process you lost one of the few allies you have that is not in your immediate sphere of influence. I don't know what the official standings toward BoB were in the 2 year history of ASCN, but I do know that unofficially, up until the start of the war, ASCN had always counted BoB as a friend.
As far as CLS is concerned this is not the last Eve has seen of us. Sure, what happened to ASCN is a setback, but it is by no means a killing blow. This day was anticipated even before we formally broke off from XETIC. In the same way CLS rose up from the remains of XETIC to create a better and stronger alliance, we will once again do the same again. It is only a matter of time before XETIC 3.0 is awing you all with our sheer indutrial might and equally stupefying everyone with our faulty PvP skills.
~Specops~ |