Originally by: Shin Ra

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summary?

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Originally by: James 315

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...Not everything is about BoB, after all

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Originally by: James 315

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but I am unbiased because rather than speaking from a "perspective," I simply tell it like it is.

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Originally by: Professor Leech

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Well if that's the case why do you write like a 14 year old? You really should go back to sniffing glue on the street corner.

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Originally by: Dray

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3. The complete and utter belief you're completely unbiased and objective with your subject matter.

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Originally by: Uuve Savisaalo

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does everyone reading these forums suffer some form of attention-deficit disorder?

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Originally by: Habraka

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Originally by: Uuve Savisaalo

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does everyone reading these forums suffer some form of attention-deficit disorder?

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Almost everyone, yes. Most people probably didn't read the OP, so they try and look 'leet' posting tl;dr.

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Originally by: Habraka

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Almost everyone, yes. Most people probably didn't read the OP, so they try and look 'leet' posting tl;dr.

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Originally by: KIATolon

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Originally by: Habraka

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Almost everyone, yes. Most people probably didn't read the OP, so they try and look 'leet' posting tl;dr.

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Actually most people probably read it, then posted tl;dr in an attemp to look clever.

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Originally by: EnacheV1

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Originally by: James 315

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Given the level of esteem in which I am held by the Eve community

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Clown

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Originally by: James 315

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But the MC took no joy in its impending victory. Instead, all it was capable of experiencing was fear. They knew that their previous loyalty to BoB had earned them many enemies among the Coalition. Goons openly spoke of how they would destroy the MC once BoB was gone. And everyone knew Evil Thug thirsted for MC blood. With each Coalition success, the MC grew more concerned about what would happen after BoB died.

At once, the MC realized how foolish the "Tortugan" plan to secure Period Basis was. The YACAODI1MAC plan would have them go up north and secure space of their own, while Seleene's plan was to remain in service to BoB forever. Tortuga was a compromise plan with all of the perils of staying in the south and none of the advantages of going north. No matter what happened in the GWoPRAtEToBoB, the MC would be surrounded by its enemies. Now BoB, which had once ruled over the MC, became a necessary buffer between the Coalition and the MC.

The MC became consumed by cowardice once more. It did the unthinkable. It switched sides. Again.

The MC informed leaders of the Coalition that it would not take part in the multiple-front attack against Delve, only minutes before it was scheduled to take place. The MC crawled back to BoB on its belly and attacked the Coalition, hoping to prove that it could be loyal to BoB once again. To the MC's utter amazement, SirMolle informed them that they had doomed themselves to destruction with their first betrayal. It was the only logical response: Period Basis had always been one of BoB's core regions.

Once losing the capacity to launch multiple-front invasions of Delve, the Coalition could not prevent BoB from packing target systems with titans, recreating Titan Online and preventing the front from advancing. Once again, the MC was gripped by terror: what if BoB pushed southward? The MC, after betraying both the Coalition and BoB, did what was now thinkable (only for them): they switched sides yet again. But deep down, the MC knew they had placed themselves in an impossible position, and they lacked the heart to continue fighting BoB. Besides, they could not realistically count on the trust of the Coalition after so much side-hopping.

The Mercenary Coalition had no true friends, and it had enemies on every side. In the irony of ironies, the Mercenary Coalition had truly become what it had always pretended to be: neutral. The MC no doubt could have continued, but this would have required a sliver of courage and independence.

The Mercenary Coalition became a neutral coalition of mercenaries. Finding such a state bizarre and intolerable, Seleene had the alliance commit ritual suicide and close its doors.

While I criticized Seleene's eulogy of the MC, it was oddly appropriate. By making a vain attempt to prostrate himself before BoB, Seleene ensured that the MC would die as it had lived: in abject cowardice.

As for the north? As YACAODI1MAC prophesied, the destinies of the MC and Triumvirate were intertwined. By making the wrong decision and moving south, the MC deprived Triumvirate of the powerful ally it needed to survive and conquer the north. Just days after the MC closed its doors, Triumvirate, heralded by so many as the next great power, closed its own.

And what of the "Mynas factor," the remnant of the "greed" and independent spirit that smoldered in the MC, suppressed beneath the cowardly leadership of the alliance? Will they find themselves wandering into the northern reaches of space, looking for the homeland that Seleene denied them so long ago? Will they act as the seeds of a great new northern empire that existed only in an alternate path of history?

Perhaps. But that is a story, my dear CAOD reader, that must wait to be told another day.

- 315

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