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In AD 23236, all the major Factions had met each other and established a fragile balance of power. That year, at the Yoiul Conference, the factions' various calendars were abandoned in favour of EVE Standard Time, which is suspiciously similar to our real-life Gregorian calendar. Thus began year YC 0 (Yoiul Conference).
Fictional Turmoil continued until YC 105, when the Capsule and the clone were successfully merged, and players joined the universe. That was 2003 by our Earthly Gregorian calendar,which makes YC 115 the current year.
My own EVE experience being very limited in time, and there being no official information on the events of the past 10 years, I resorted to outsourcing. Below, you will find a personal outlook on the history of Eve throughout the years, courtesy of reddit-person l33teci. Only slightly edited for spelling and grammar.
Many thanks to him!
There were no faction wars in 2003, Eve was a different place. A more elegant era when battleships were looked upon as Titans are today. Resources were scarce and income was low, no one was burdened by blobs and many were unaware of the riches that lay in null sec. There were no capital ships, no alpha maelstroms, no logistic supported fleets.
We flew active-tanked ships for some time, meeting someone in space was uncommon unlike today. You could have gone past entire high sec and only meet few people.
One of the first to emerge as a superpower of those days was the PA ( Phoenix Alliance ) taking the North for them selves and establishing them selves as a dominant null sec alliance. But their reign would not be long-lived for others soon rose to power. One alliance would soon rise above the others with ambitions to claim all sov there was:
The first to emerge was a power greedy alliance know to many as Band of Brothers and the lasting peace would soon end. In May 2004 the hammer was struck and it had begun The Great Northern War that would soon engulf everyone.
PA resisted BoB but their will will soon have been broken as the friends who PA has long neglected leave their side as the evermore growing BoB sliced a deeper wound. The war had lasted for almost a year and in December 2004 the final battle closed the chapter and rule of Phoenix Alliance.
However, as one chapter closes another, one opens and the drums of war will soon beat again. While BoB was busy fighting in the north, Removing PA and its allies from their sov, new power started to rize in the shadows of empire. One that all ridiculed but many soon learned to fear.
After the purge of the North, the eye of the newly found BoB alliance looked upon the regions of Fountain Delve and Querious. BoB started to move towards the south, purging everything in their path, from Deklin to Querious. Finally reaching their desired home: the Fortress Delve where in BKG they established their rule and raised their first station.
Enter the age of capitals, the behemoths that will soon dominate everyone in sov space. The first to seek this new power was BoB, with determination to eradicate anyone who would have tried to stop them or produce capitals on their own.
We knew super capitals existed but no-one talked about them they were rare and not looked upon everyday. The mere mention that an alliance was building a super capital would erupt in a mass conflict. However no one could stop what had begun, and no one at that time predicted what was to come.
And soon the first Titan was born to Ascendant Frontier (ASCN) who would not see a long life. Null sec was once again engulfed in a war that would be the prequel to the First Great War.
From the shadows rose one alliance who BoB hated more than anything else, give birth to Goonswarm and soon the two were fighting each-other Goonswarm relied on their numbers and inexpensive ships while BoB relied on the power of T2 ship who at that time had no match. Goonswarm was eventually defeated and fell back to NPC space. But they were not to stay there forever.
The era gave birth to other major alliances the RSF, Red Alliance, KIA and TCF... Yet all of these would not be enough to bring BoB to its knees. War after war, battle after battle, BoB continued to beat the southern alliances back until that faithful day when a foolishly cloaked Titan piloted by the infamous SirMolle fell prey. With this one stroke, the southern alliances had ended BoB's campaign and forced them to retreat in the fortress Delve where they maybe should have remained.
Hidden in their fortress Delve, BoB begun to resupply and prepare for war that will determine the future of us all. Hidden in their keep the Greater BoB Community ( GBC ) will face the might of the Red Swarm Federation and their new nemesis the Northern Coalition.
So it begun the First Great War of our time. We were no longer poor and careful as we were back when it all begun. The industry has kicked in and mass supply had begun, those who once could not fly battleship were now fielding dreadnoughts and carriers.
GBC soon found themselves surrounded from all sides and hostile to everyone in the universe. They stood alone against the overwhelming force that has risen to end their reign.
The war lasted for a year, and many fell in battle. Feeling the pressure from both South and North GBC could no longer endure they have managed to push the enemy back but unable to hold what they have taken. The GBC War machine pushed the Northern alliances all the way back to Venal. With North defeated, GBC refocused their effort on the South. They will reach all the way to Detroid and for the moment establish the biggest sov empire that ever was or will be. Their dominion spanned from Venal to Fountain to Paragon Soul to Detroid.
But RSF and AAA will not have given up so easily. Striking at displaced GBC elements whenever they could, taking system by system, basing out of Catch and Querious. With GBC now fully occupied in the south, RAZOR took the chance and regained their home in Tenal.
With their forces scattered in the south and NC pushing from the north with a combined forces of RSF, AAA and Red Alliance GBC had no choice but to retreat back to Delve to reconsolidate their forces.
With GBC fortified in Delve and the rest of universe eager to rid the universe of this Goliath peace after the First Great War had not lasted long. Old alliances would soon be broken and the Second Great War would begin.
The war saw defeat of GBC which was followed by many other wars between GBC remnants and Goonswarm and NC. Soon BoB was disbanded and reformed in to KenZoku which will not endure for long but will reform in to IT.
There will be many smaller wars between the two sides PL will be evicted, NC will be defeated and the remnants of old BoB will once again become the dominant force in EVE.
There are many great wars and events that transpired in this time the eviction of PL, Max Damage 1 and 2 campaigns etc. IT will establish itself as dominant alliance by the sheer number of super capitals and titans they were able to field but this will not last.
The last great war we witnessed was war between IT / NC / DRF. In the end all 3 will fall and from their ashes will rise a new coalition one more powerful than any before the CFC.
Today, we have two greater coalitions: CFC and HBC. Soon history was to repeat itself.
As First Great War has passed we have seen complete remap of the universe those who ruled for so long have now been defeated and the North and South divided by the victors. Those with numbers took to the north while those who were too late to voice their opinion headed south.
Peace did not last long, but everyone took their time to rebuild and reship. Those in the north will have soon learned that their keep, has become the backbone of the industry. With north now fully populated and empire becoming more and more alive with people who now could afford to fly better ships and with new doctrines being born the era of T2 hulls has been set in motion. The era of Tech has begun, the industry was in motion and the wast wealth of tech soon fell in to the eye's of the enemy.
First Great War left many scars on a lot of people many have fallen but few have risen and the sift of power has happened once again. From the quiet darkness of Catch a sole corporation will soon rise and shake the very foundation of the universe.
Those who were once enemies now formed what will be the most fierce force in EVE. Goonswarm was first to enlist help of their ranks and with their strength and experience they smashed the BoB warmachine in the very heart of their fortress. This ragged band of skilled pilots took to the north grabbing system by system until finally claiming the Fountain. They prospered and grew and soon forgot their Goonswarm friends and start anew, with great ambitions in mind.
BoB remnants now on the brink of destruction prepare for the onslaught. But the mind of a sociopath is not easily tamed. In an effort to evade being sieged in Delve and certain defeat, GBC rallies for a counter attack to secure their former empire.
With a force never seen before, a capital fleet unmatched by it's size by any other, supported by a supercapital fleet they took to the north. Battle after battle the sound of doomsdays spread death and destruction in the north, no station to siege, no system to take, no moon to grab only utter destruction and chaos of infrastructure and ships.
The campaign had ended by a bright death of a titan in VFK. Northren Coalition at this time fell back to Tribute which from where they will launch a counter offensive and drive the madness from the north back to Delve.
In the south a betrayal echoes as AAA a previous ally of Goonswarm takes up arms against them and siding with GBC to take the south for them selves. With bitter defeat in the north what was left of GBC deployed to south to aid AAA against their oldest foes.
But there was no victory in the south only sorrow as once great alliance is brought on their knees. Disbanded by the madman they will reform in to a shortlived alliance KenZoku and so ended the firs MAX campaign.
But the betrayal will not have been easily forgotten, and bitterness of defeat had the universe poised on the brink of war once again.
After 5 years of conflict and war, one side finally managed to gain the upper hand: The Coalition. Assembled at full strength the alliances of north and south rallied against KenZoku, AAA, Atlas and the remnants of GBC to root out the menace from it's home and existence.
This time those that have been ridiculed since their creation will lead the spearhead of the offensive. With Goonswarm leading the attack in to the heart of Delve and Northren Coalition from the north and TFC from Querious the Goliath has finally been surrounded in its home.
Was was not as easy as everyone expected. The defense was fierce but in Fountian an alliance had taken shape that will emerge as Pandemic Legion. In hellish fortress of Delve a capital fight first of it's kind is about to erupt with massive losses to both sides yet The Coalition managed to outlast their enemy.
Now surrounded in 49-U a battle never witnessed before is about to take place. The last stronghold of GBC fell and with it fell Delve in a battle of near 2000 pilots The Coalition managed to finally defeate the GBC.
So ends the Second Great War, PL held Fountain Goonswarm captured home of their enemy and the Northern Coalition returned to it's home in the north for their time had now come to rule over the galaxy.
KenZoku now defeated and their allies scattered it was time for them to look back on their many mistakes but the Goliath many believed was dead will soon rise again under new flag and new name and their wrath will follow them where they for vengeance is undying in our universe.
From the chaos of defeat had risen a new alliance, the IT Alliance. The thirst of vengeance is never fulfilled and soon their former home will be set ablaze by the fire of their titans. The second MAX campaign had begun with their eyes set upon Fountain.
The space will not have been easily regained as a new alliance has risen to power. It began in late 2009 with a full on invasion of Fountain by IT Alliance against Pandemic Legion. Goonswarm rallied to support Pandemic Legion but the fury of the IT warmachine could no longer be held back. With a short strike they evicted Pandemic Legion from their space, recapturing system by system, cutting off Goonswarm from the help of the north and their eyes set upon Y-2 a border system in to their old home.
They stroke with all their fury and strength in Y-2, the final standing ground for Goonswarm and Pandemic Legion. The battle lasted for some time and when the smoke cleared IT Alliance stood as clear victor they were back and in strength. On that day they managed to inflict heavy losses on PL and Goonswarm with PL titans dead and many other capital ships lay ruined the gates to Delve have been opened.
Fearing certain defeat and humiliation, Goonswarm refused to pay their Sov bill and thus lost Delve and by extent the war. Soon a Goonswarm leader will do on to them what, one has done to BoB.
IT Regained their former stronghold of Delve and this time they will not give it up easy. They surrounded them selves with blue alliances in Fountain and Period Basis and fortified Delve but they will soon make the same mistake as past always repeats itself.
And so the galaxy lay in quiet for the moment as everyone has been defeated by the war that had been going on since the fall of Phoenix Alliance. Goonswarm soon after their defeat reformed back in the north with their old friends the Northern Coalition. Wars erupted and wars ended but there was no shift in power as the massive supercapital build up had begun with all sides in race to build as many as they could.
The ego in the north grew and echos of the war drums were heard once again. Eager to stand on top combined forces of IT and Atlas will launch a maximum damage campaign against NC smashing as they move through north. This time the north will lead the advance, unable to match their super capitals one to one they relied on their subcapitals where odds were two to one. Soon after GSF will join the cause and assault on Delve will begin once again.
The invasion resulted in stalemate and IT had no options but to fall back yet again the balance of power has finally come true. But pilots of the north will not have, stayed in the north their assault soon followed IT to their door steps.
Yet IT had not yet felt the pressure of the events that had taken place, unaware that soon their neglect of their friends will cost them their keep. One by one the alliances in buffer zones of Fountain and Period Basis fell and the war front sifting north and south and echo of betrayal was heard once again.
Slowly, the buffer alliances began to collapse and to pathway to Delve was once again clear. Knowing full well that there is no change to stand against NC them selves IT Alliance finally acted but it was too late the enemy had reached Delve. PL will accompany the northern alliances in their conquest of Delve to exact their revenge on those who evicted them from Fountain.
IT Alliance had collapsed yet again and their home forever turned in to a wasteland. But the heart of the beast kept beating on as their goal was still there and as long as Goonswarm was alive they will never have won.
The mighty IT Alliance had finally been defeated...or so it seemed.
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