Late last night Pandemic Legion [-10.0] formed up their normal SOV grinding fleet of a couple of dozen Archon carriers and around 20 supers-capitals to put the GE-8JV station into it’s second reinforcement timer.
GE-8JV is significant because this is the main staging point for the Brave Collective [BRAVE] alliance, who have been residents in Catch since May 2014.
Brave Collective and their HERO allies formed up in a 445 pilot fleet, with around half of those in T1 frigates and the rest in a mixture of Heavy Assault Cruisers, T1 Cruisers and a 50 man wing of bombers.
Unfortunately for HERO even though they tried to put up a fight for their home system, they were not able to take down a single member of the Pandemic Legion fleet but lost 599 ships throughout the evening which totaled around 12 billion ISK, this means that on average each ship lost cost around 20 million ISK. The full battle report can be found here.
The reinforcement of their staging station has caused a number of their members to start to evacuate assets from the station to the safety of low-sec. Not all the evacuation moves were successful, as can be seen from this 9 billion ISK loss of skill books in an Eagle Heavy Assault Cruiser.
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Brave Collective have now officially announced that their members should be evacuating the GE-8JV station and are apparently making HEG-GP their new staging system for the remaining defense of Catch. This is an official statement by Lquid Drisseg, Head Diplomat and Director of [BRAVE];
Fellow members of BRAVE,
As you are all aware, Pandemic Legion has decided to attack our home system of GE-8JV in an attempt to panic and headshot us.
First of all do not panic. If you panic, you will be exploited. BRAVE is offering jump freighter services to all it’s members from GE-8JV to HED-GP at no cost. Read this post on our subreddit for how to do that without being scammed.
In addition the provocateurs and their corporation Apathy LLC, who were responsible for stirring up the latest drama, have been ejected from our Alliance.
We have irrefutable proof that they were leaving for PL and that they were going to awox as much as they could on their way out if we did not bow to their demands. Once we confirmed their plans we consulted other alliances in HERO. We decided to pull the trigger on their removal before they could harm the alliance or the coalition any further.
BRAVE remains committed to providing more fun per hour then the rest of EVE. Even if it upsets our frenemies.
As you can read above, it is not only the GE-8JV station which is causing issues within the HERO alliance. Apathy LLC., which included senior FC’s Cyberking11 and Travis Keikira, were kicked from the [BRAVE] alliance early this morning for apparently looking to betray the HERO alliance, cause havoc within the coalition leadership and then leave to join Pandemic Legion. Another corporation, Dirty Ishtar Drone Users Inc. was also kicked at the same time.
Apathy LLC. not only housed two of the alliances primary FC’s, it also accounted for a number of the coalitions available super-capital assets.
Travis Keikira, who was one of the main FC’s for [BRAVE] and an influential part of the [BRAVE] leadership team, posted a statement on his in game biography about what has happened;
You can hear the argument which is referenced in the above statement between [BRAVE] management and Travis Keikira, the former [BRAVE] FC below.
Cyberking11, also a member of Apathy LLC. and a leading member of the [BRAVE] FC team was purged along with his corp and he also made a statement;
I shall leave this position with regret at not completing my goals, but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your FC for the past few months. These months have been a momentous time in the history of our alliance and the New Eden. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the FCs, the Leadership(kek), and the line members.
But the challenges ahead are equally great, and they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Leadership and the line members working in cooperation with Brave Newbies
I’ll miss you all, fly bravely
-Cyberking11
That is just an excerpt from the statement that Cyperking11 posted, if you wish to read it in it’s entirety then you can here.
There does seem to be some truth to the fact that both these member were looking to join Pandemic Legion though. Whether they were going to try and do anything detrimental to the HERO alliance or [BRAVE] in particular on their way out we may never know.
The GE-8JV station timer is set to end at around 01.45 am on the 20th March 2015. Will Pandemic Legion form up in the no fun fleet again? Or will they actually try and fight HERO on equal terms? We will have to wait and see.
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