Empires of EVE: Volume 1 by Andrew Groen

Author:Andrew Groen [Groen, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 29419701
Publisher: Lightburn Industries
Published: 2016-03-30T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN:

FALLEN FRONTIER

Feythabolis. Esoteria. Paragon Soul. Period Basis. Querious. Delve. Fountain. The entirety of the west and south now belonged to Band of Brothers. It was twice as much territory as any organization in EVE had ever conquered. The Brothers and their close allies now ruled 561 star systems.

Band of Brothers was able to keep control of this massive amount of territory—despite having only between two and three thousand members—by instituting one of EVE’s first rental systems. It installed vassal alliances in its territory which then paid taxes back to Band of Brothers in exchange for the protection of BoB’s skilled fleets. Band of Brothers stayed in its home region of Delve. But the “Greater Band of Brothers Community” consisted of a half-dozen other alliances which were in lockstep with the mother alliance.

When Band of Brothers took over Ascendant Frontier’s territory, it essentially left things to run as it always had. There was a regime change, but for most players, it was business as usual. Many of the old corporations that populated Ascendant Frontier territory were allowed to stay and join the alliance as taxpayers with protection from Band of Brothers. Others were banished, usually because they had personally offended Band of Brothers’ leadership.

Even some of Ascendant Frontier’s military had been given an offer to join the elite combat brigade of Band of Brothers. The spoils of war for Band of Brothers in its conquest of the south was a larger tax base and a swath of highly-trained personnel.

IN THE NORTH

During the war against Ascendant Frontier a coalition had risen to power in the northern territories that was now at odds with Band of Brothers.

For the last two years following the Great Northern War, the north had been splintered and divided between half a dozen minor powers, but that was beginning to change. When Band of Brothers and Ascendant Frontier assaulted the north in mid-2006 with the great blockade of EC-P8R (detailed in “The Capital Age”), the leaders of the northern powers began to take notice.

Each individual northern state was completely powerless against the might of superpowers like Band of Brothers or Ascendant Frontier, and fighting a coalition of the two was laughable. But if the northern states came together as one coalition, they would be a credible threat to even the mightiest alliances and coalitions. And so they joined together to form Dusk and Dawn, a new state that sought to fill the gaping power vacuum in the north and unite the tribes.

Dusk and Dawn served as the military backbone on which the other powers of the region could rely for support. The industrial groups from other alliances now had allies that could defend the entire north.

The northerners had huge numbers, but numbers are useless unless they have proper direction. Four alliances of thousands of unskilled pilots might as well be made of paper if they can’t cooperate in the face of a proper military force.

But that changed when they became one coalition of 6,000 players acting in the common good under competent military leadership.

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