
Unwilling to give up the objective, PAPI called in its own reinforcements and in the 12 hours that followed both sides took turns obliterating thousands of player ships, including a record-setting 257 Titans-over three times as many that died in B-R5RB. It didn't just call in the cavalry, but a whole army of Titan supercapital ships. But then a newbie Imperium pilot managed to damage PAPI's warp jammer, creating a window for the Imperium to call in reinforcements. A coalition of alliances called PAPI had The Imperium up against a wall and were ready to risk everything to capture a star system right in the heart of Imperium space.Īt first, the battle wasn't particularly exciting or notable-just another routine skirmish.

But after two huge wars, the tables were turning. In the years since B-R5RB, CFC turned into The Imperium and had much of the virtual galaxy of EVE in a chokehold. Even though it happened by chance, players from all over the world dropped everything they were doing to login and fight for their side.įor a long time it seemed like no battle could ever eclipse the Bloodbath of B-R5RB, but in the early morning hours of Decemanother battle created shockwaves that are still being felt in the game to this day. Both armadas crashed into one another in B-R5RB, but hundreds of smaller battles broke out in the surrounding star systems. In response, Pandemic Legion phoned in every favor it had and amassed a colossal defense fleet to retain control of the system.

Seeing the opportunity to establish a permanent foothold right in PL's backyard, CFC and its Russian allies rallied every single player they could to swarm the system and quickly take it for their own. Players from all over the world dropped everything they were doing to login and fight for their side.

With the bill unpaid, Pandemic Legion suddenly lost control of B-R5RB, which was bad news since the system was also a key staging point in a months-long war between Pandemic Legion (PL) and its allies and the Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC). Everything happened on Januwhen a player living in a lawless region of territory owned by an alliance called Pandemic Legion forgot to set up automatic withdrawal on the in-game tax players have to pay in order to maintain sovereignty over a star system.
