Originally by: Dr Cball

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First and foremost, as BoB renters (pets), Bob has always been supportive and professional in all dealings with us. They gave us an opportunity to live in one of the richest constellations in EVE. Unfortunately, we were almost strictly mining/ratting based (carebears), and when 11 hostile alliances came around we could not sustain POS warfare. Control has been relinquished back to BoB as a joint decision by both alliances. BoB did not kick us out, in other words. We were given the option. We are in complete understanding that BoB has their hands full (case people havenÆt noticed).

About R97 - It has been perceived by others that SOCO gave up and pulled out of R97. This is true to an extent. SOCO had the system lead with 8 large to the enemies 5 large, till of course they killed one and put 3 in reinforced all in one sitting. Knowing that BoBÆs focus was elsewhere we discussed trimming some POS fuel ôfatö by unanchoring 3 large to ease the strain of POS warfare on our corp pocket. One of our members thought that meant ôdo it immediatelyö and ran right over and unanchored 3 large with hostiles watching. (IÆll let the hostiles brag about what happened next). However, this was not an attempt to just pull out of the area completely. It was an effort to save what little resources we had left, being as though we couldnÆt counter what hostiles were doing in R97.

About OOY - OOY was in good shape until tensions got high in our alliance. We were all set POS wise with 5 well-defended large and an operational cyno-jammer in a system with 7 moons (.....yes we know 200 hostiles can blow up deathstars without capitals, but thatÆs what it would have taken). Anyways, some misinformation was passed into an alliance mail about BoB ôkicking us outö, so naturally people to pack things up. Two of the three corps in our alliance left. One corp in our alliance was asked to leave thier POS up, but it was packed up as well. That made it 4-3 SOCO winning sov at that point. Then the straw that broke our backs occured (aside from 12,000 hostiles closing in). Someone in our corp, GRD, took all of the oxygen out of our cyno-jammer pos, thus offlining it for 4 hrs. till the rest of us got off work.This killed our soveriegnty advantage of having the cyno-jammer. It is still unknown as to who did it, so it is difficult to assign blame. This is when BoB was consulted and the decision was made to transfer system control to BoB.

Bottom line for us, we understand the load that BoB is under atm, and we have absolutely no hard feelings towards our landlords. Rent was reasonable ( 3 miners could make it in 3 days per month), rent was waived when overwhelming hostile forces invaded, and protection was present anytime BoB had the chance and was well-informed. We can only hope that when BoB plants a flag in the RA capital system, they might consider us as future tenants.

We had some good times down there, and none of us have any regrets. And to all those reds, congrats on absolutely crushing our 6 man corp in POS warfare.
Nah seriously, well played, seems you can park a 180 man fleet anywhere at anytime.

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