X-R3NM - Curatores Veritatis Alliance has released a press statement announcing the alliance's intention to withdraw its support from the 24th Imperial Crusade as a result of repeated acts of piracy carried out by several pilots in the militia. Despite diplomatic efforts including no-fly zones and compensations for neutral pilots killed by rogue militants, the ongoing pirate activity has forced CVA to follow through on its decision to cease assistance to the Imperial Crusade as a whole. CVA may still [...]
Metropolis - 22 nd February 111. The Interstellar Racing Championship (ISRC) kicked off Season 7 with an exhibition event teaming veteran racers with rookies. As an exhibition event, racers did not race with their regular teams and were restricted to tech 1 frigate class vessels. The organiser for this race Catherine 'Quintrala' Delorois , had the final decision on whether a racer was considered a rookie or veteran. Once the teams had been sorted, the race began at the Aliastra Retail Center Station [...]
PR-8CA, Delve - The last two weeks have seen the region of Delve plunged into all-out warfare. Sovereignty-holders KenZoku are currently losing sovereignty in several systems, while those systems where their claim has held have now secured Protectorate sovereignty. The War so Far The war began when the CONCORD-registered Band of Brothers alliance was disbanded by a director, Arkannen, who defected to the alliance's enemy, GoonSwarm. The member corporations of Band of Brothers reformed in KenZoku, [...]
Venal - The well known alliance known as Triumvirate (TRI) has announced that it will reform for a third time. Sith Bandon , the head of the newest instance of TRI, outlined the reasons for the resurection of the alliance, saying that after taking a break for seven months his corporation, Viper Squad "went to pieces". Following this, "I came back 2 months ago ... restarted the corporation ... got it to were it is [now]". Importantly, Sith kept in contact with Coracao Ardente and "called them back [...]
Heydieles, Essense - A Gallente Militia fleet numbering more than 30 fell victim to what has been called a "low security Doomsday" when they responded to reports of a Caldari militia attack. The supposed attack was in fact a trap laid by Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United [PERVS]. Gallente fleet member Simone denAdel explains, "...we got intel that the [PERVS], had a battleship heavy fleet in the area, and a counter fleet was assembled pretty quickly. Scans in the system showed battleships at an [...]
After a week of sleepless nights and far too many CPU cycles, the full EVE TV coverage of Alliance Tournament VI is now available on CCP's YouTube channel. Watch every explosion from the elimination rounds in glorious HD quality, complete with pre and post match review by CCP Soundwave, StevieSG and our team of experts in the studio. Day 5 (round of 32) Playlist Day 6 (Finals) Playlist If you missed them live, it is a must watch! If you saw them live, well, it is still a must watch!
Amarr, Domain - It has been several weeks since the historic announcement by the Amarr throne that has emancipated countless numbers of slaves across the Empire, and it has already attracted some controversy inside the Empire itself, as well as among the Capsuleer community. In addition to the interviews of capsuleers previously reported, Caldari and Gallente capsuleers have also weighed in with their opinions. The Caldari State has had it's own interests in the recent slave emancipation by Empress [...]
8WA-Z6, Delve - The battle for Delve blossomed to epic proportions over the course of 12.02.111. Many of the control towers necessary for holding sovereignty claims fell, supercapitals were slain both in space and in construction and system sovereignties changed hands. Territory-grade sovereignty in most of Delve is currently held by KenZoku. Under its previous registration as Band of Brothers, the corporations currently comprising KenZoku held Province and, in some systems, Constellation Capital [...]
J-LPX7, Delve - Corporations formerly registered under the umbrella of the Band of Brothers identity have reformed inside KenZoku, a previously unknown alliance that existed to house certain Reikoku industrial assets. The KenZuko alliance currently houses 19 corporations, including several previously registered under the Band of Brothers identity: Evolution, Reikoku, Black Nova Corp, FinFleet, Tin Foil and Destructive Influence. Knuck, a Reikoku Director, explained to the Interstellar Correspondents [...]
The Final: R.U.R. Vs Pandemic Legion R.U.R.: 9 Caracal Navy Issue | Abaddon Pandemic Legion: 7 Vexor Navy Issue | Sleipnir | Claymore | Hyena The Alliance Tournament ended with a thrilling finale that saw a closely fought contest between the two sides end in a battle between only a handful of ships. But, despite a valient effort, R.U.R. were unable to hold off their opponent, leaving Pandemic Legion the winners of the Sixth Alliance Tournament. For the full match review please visit the match reports [...]
Semi Finals are complete and R.U.R. will face Pandemic Legion in the Finals to be held at 21:30. Semi Finalists made a good showing with R.U.R. claiming a victory in a hard fought match against G00DFELLAS. Both teams starting the match on the beacon cost G00DFELLAS one of their Nighthawks as it was quickly primaried and destroyed. A boundary violation by another Nighthawk may have tipped the balance towards R.U.R. In the Ev0ke vs. Pandemic Legion match, Ev0ke's decision to take out the Pandemic Legion [...]
The first 16 elimination rounds of the 6th Alliance Tournament are complete. Every match was action filled and ran the gamut from complete domination down to at least one match called for time and winner decided by points. Today's matches highlighted the creativity and sheer guesswork that goes into some fleet decisions, as well as the pitfalls of over anticipating your opponent. Probable Cause's odd fielding of seven Osprey Navy Issues highlighted this as team contact badass2k6 explained: "our set up [...]
U-SOH2 - A week ago, on 30.01.111, U-SOH2 system was locked in battle as an approximately 120-strong Force of Evil and Cult of War fleet engaged with fleets from Arcane Alliance (estimated at 130 ships) and Sons of Tangra (estimated at roughly 100 ships) and roughly 100 ships from the coalition commonly known as the Greater BoB Community who were fighting Arcane Alliance and Sons of Tangra as well as Force of Evil. The conflict arose when members of Arcane Alliance received advance intelligence that [...]
J-LPX7 - At approximately 01:30 on 05.02.111, Band of Brothers alliance, also known as BoB, ceased to exist as a CONCORD-recognised entity. Early reports claimed that Arkannen, a director of Band of Brothers' executor corporation Tin Foil, had defected to enemy alliance Goonswarm along with Black Nova Corp director, Haargoth Agamar. Goonswarm Intelligence Agency Chief, The Mittani, released an audio recording yesterday which gave details of the scheme. Defector Haargoth Agamar, however, does not speak [...]
NOL-M9 - A few hours after midnight on 05.02.111, Band of Brothers alliance was disbanded. The loss of formal alliance status forcibly relinquished all Band of Brothers held sovereignty, and thus is expected to render all their outposts vulnerable, pause the construction of all motherships and titans currently being built in their capital assembly arrays and interfere with the proper fuctioning of cynojammers and jump bridge waystations at their control towers. This effect has never been seen before [...]
Second Round Qualifying is now complete and the match schedule for the Finals will be posted within the next few days. The use of faction ships was prevalent throughout the entire weekend. The most notable example of differing results was the very similar fleet composition of the ATLAS match and the The Church match. ATLAS' loss of 7 Phantasms and a Nightmare in their match was quickly overshadowed by The Church's success which included 8 Phantasms and a Nightmare (losing only 3 of the Phantasms). [...]
The first half of the last day of Qualifying has been completed and the second half has just gotten underway. Teams continue to vary their fleet compositions looking for the ideal setup. A surprising number of teams have been using Sansha Phantasm cruisers and Nightmare battleships in their fleets, with some rather poor results as demonstrated in the ATLAS ALLIANCE vs Molotov Coalition match. Using a fleet including 7 Phantasms and a Nightmare, ATLAS was not able to make their expensive venture [...]