Attak
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Posted - 2008.04.09 05:07:00 -
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Here follows a history of FREGE vs SMASH:
The first time I encountered SMASH was when they were helping kick out NORAD in OR, being the hired dread force for goons afaik. After they were done there, they were given a contract by GAIA alliance who just happened to be fighting FREGE 1.0. At that point having 6 active dreads was a pretty big deal, and FREGE couldn't counter it with the few carriers we had. After having fought GAIA for over a month straight in north Placid and Pure Blind the destruction of our 0.0 towers was a fatal blow to us and soon afterwards our leadership broke down and the alliance went into hibernation.
After that SMASH went on as hired cap pilots to help out goons a couple more times I believe, before they began to eye TDE which was held by Ratel Alliance. Ratel put up a very good fight but after weeks of fighting SMASH POS spammed the system and settled down, with RK following suit shortly thereafter. Many of SMASH's old timers departed around that time, and soon they found themselves bloated with noobs and facing pressure from various holders of BWF including ESA and ER, however as BWF changed hands and eventually fell to the crubling ISS RK came in and took it for good, thus solidifying the RK/SMASH control of the region.
Sometime after that they became part of the Coalition and sent some fleets down to help out Goons on the condition that once LV was destroyed they would have full access to one of the 10/10 complexes there. One of SMASH's newer members then proceeded to scam RA on a mothership deal, and RA began to send PVPers to Geminate and drop a few towers. The deal was off, and SMASH pulled back to kick out the RA task force before beginning to look for other targets. At that point FREGE 2.0 had established itself in NGM and was busy becoming stuffed with noobs and carebears, so we were a pretty tempting target and began to get visits from SMASH/RK every day or so.
FREGE leadership was friends with the leadership of Imperial Order who were our residents, however they set up an outpost nearby in MJ and became members of the MAD Pact. There were a few scuffles in the drone regions after that (including FREGE dismantling Ratel) which SMASH was involved with sometimes, but mostly they liked to raid FREGE and IRC who had moved in south of us.
IO unfortunately was a pretty small alliance and their system holding towers were less than desirable, so with the simple aim of getting some good fights (as far as we could tell), SMASH invaded them and the MJ debacle began. MAD Pact was summoned on behalf of IO, and we got varying levels of commitment to help fight off SMASH. We were pleasently surprised with Invictus resetting them, and for the first few days combined IRC/IVC/FREGE/OXIDE fleets made some good progress in retaking the system. But the MAD leadership was fractured, and about then Bodycollector who was the charismatic leader of the whole thing went AWOL. IVC was convinced that we would lose against them if we didn't get more numbers, and as soon as SMASHKILL seiged a couple of their towers, and they lost a few caps, they pulled out. This left MAD with a serious FC deficit and we lost control of the system as other MAD members pulled out to leave FREGE and a few close friends licking their wounds, wondering why all the alliances of MAD couldn't seem to run a fleet.
RK took MJ and FREGE began to look for a way to take it back. At the same time several offers were put on the table mediated by Goons, who wanted both parties back in the fight against BoB. Both sides rejected the offer for one reason or another, and then FREGE launched a counter attack against MJ with xxdeathxx, which went fairly well, but was not sustainable due to our terrible logistics.
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