Originally by: CiderKing

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Originally by: Pouncer

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Eventually it was decided we would keep UK blue, set CVA neutral, ignore any demands the latter might make, and remove ourselves from the conflict. Some time after that, BOS was in for a shock - our primary nemesis, ENH, had been invited to UK's shared anti-piracy intel channel. The introduction was something I, and many other BOS pilots, will never forget:

Sapphrine > channel changed for ENH in channel
Green Halo > oh dear
TRGr > huh?there haev been ENH in channel? or you're letting them in?
Mistress Suffering > I believe I am the first to have been in this channel now.
Mistress Suffering > Has not been any prior.
Avious Tylepthine > hey its enh in unite-now 3 days ago I would have killed someone over this
Green Halo > lol
Mistress Suffering > Don't worry, we're still the same cheerful friendly types we were before.
Green Halo > Good to hear :P
Alois Hammer > lol
TRGr > lol
Avious Tylepthine > I guess this means your not killing BoS anymore right?
Mistress Suffering > No, BoS is being removed.
Avious Tylepthine > what do you mean?
Sapphrine > u'k, any questions, ask your councilors

UK then stood idly by as ENH put several BOS towers into reinforced mode. A call went out to IAC and CVA for help. IAC, who we hadn't really interacted with for months due to their war with UK, immediately offered us sanctuary in their space. CVA, our long-standing enemy, who had every reason to believe this was some sort of elaborate UK-BOS ruse to ambush their capital ships, immediately sent several carriers to rep our shields, and put a fleet on standby in case we needed it for additional support.

With the addition of a somewhat mealy-mouthed response from Maggot about what was going on between UK and ENH, the BOS senate voted with uncharacteristic speed to set UK red. That sort of morphed into orange, as many BOS pilots were still conflicted in their feelings toward UK (e.g., I let several UK ships that appeared to be evacuating from Unity station pass unmolested through a gatecamp in Y-MPWL).

Nevertheless, BOS' long-standing friendship with UK is at an end, and the alliance has decided to leave Providence. And those UK pilots we've flown with this past year who wonder why BOS pilots interject cries of "Amarr Victor!" in threads like this now know the rest of the story.

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Ah, I miss your write-ups Pouncer! (BOS lost 3 towers to ENH after the NAP with U'K btw)

BOS has indeed left that section of space, too much drama, not enough good ore/rats :)

Special thanks to IAC for letting us live in Catch. Special thanks to ENH, you guys are very good at what you do, and I'd like to think some of us learned from you. (Playing with FIX has shown I did atleast. )

-Cider

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