Originally by: Metacannibal

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- youwhat will, due to d2 commitment and various merc contracts, go downhill fast, relocate to safe space and restrict themselves to raiding the soft rear of the d2 frontline
- smash/rk will claim victory over ra by putting 2 towers somewhere into reinforced when ra wasnt home
- bob/mc will stop using capitalships alone and will be forced to focus deployment again, due to their "slap in the face" experiences (bob in c3, mc: waagaa in the north where his aeon got shot to 52% armor, also the 2 carrierlosses, all just because of they were used*****y)
- the "white flag" corps and alliances that feyth/esoteria/paragon will try to save their jewels and work out new deals. i conclude this since large scale liquidation of low value assets has already begun, including combat assets (dictors for under 5m, what a bargain, thank you for funding your agressors!)
this behaviour can largely be attributed to their inherent character, being space renters and not space takers, if they had any ability to take or hold space, they would not go rent it.
- as the combat approaches bob homespace, bob pilots are having less exhausting traveling to do, also, fuel jumping costs for the bob capitalfleets is going down alot, outweighting the loss of rental from slaves by far
- various corps and alliances will bail from the war, especially those who thought fighting bob would work without having losses and sacrifice on your part
- d2 in the north will destroy xelas since bob will be busy down south trying to get capitalshipkills versus RA/AAA/OHGOD, since that certainly ranks highest on the "who can force us to get insurance payouts" list.
-mc, being deployed versus d2 in fountain will lose 1-2 motherships due to*****y behaviour on euro tz, forums go "told ya"

then, scenario a:
every anti-bob alliance/corp has planned well, they should be able to deploy around bobspace for 1 year. once bob is forced to fight from npc stations AND lose more than 50 capitals per month for a prolonged time, first light at the tunnel can be seen.

scenario b:
highly naive corpdirectors and fleetcommaders assumed it would be an easy ride, not saving up for months of war, the war is over after some genius made some big mistake in a capital ship deployment, bob spy puts dictor bubble over coalition fleet, bob kill 60 dreads/capitals, laugh, win, collect rent from "new" lv

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