Goonfleet vs. Band of Brothers - The End is Nigh

Last night Minor Threat demonstrated that they are indeed just in Delve for the mayhem and are not taking a side in the conflict...by jumping a KenZoku Cruiser group near Period Basis. Other than a few smaller squads acting independantly in light ships, KenZoku is still inactive, still camped into PR-8CA, and still losing ground every hour.

To keep themselves from going stir crazy and boost morale, GoonSwarm members have begun to read slash fan-fiction over the Coalition teamspeak during Dreadnought seiges. Said homoerotic stories apparently involve player-characters from the game and power tools. The Northern members of the Coalition are reconsidering their political relations and reviewing their communications options.

Even though things are going their way, GoonSwarm and company are not being triumphalist or losing focus. A meme they keep quoting in their posts is "2/21". They know that if KenZoku tries anything at all, it needs to be on Saturday. They are racing to accomplish as much as possible while they are still relatively assured of a free hand.

Quoth The Mittani:...

tldr version:

j-l hellpurge will flip it tomorrow

y5c, 5-6 and 7utb are all safely in pl hands though y5c will need a hellpurge soon with 23 finfleet towers to 35 PL

BNC const is under assault, PS-94 fell today, 1 hostile tower on 10 moons left, 39P was sieged and it and 8RQ both have been spammed

EVOL's const is entirely secure with 5BTK and MO-G hellpurged, TCf has superiority in 8WA and will flip it, Y-O has 21H to 15 F RZR towers but all 21 are in RF and will die tomorrow

RKK's constellation W-4 is all done, though many hostile towers under the 51% mark remain for cleanup, thanks for the six stations kakashi-sempai~~~

DICE is busy taking down towers and evaccing their const in Period Basis. You're next.

NOL is hellpurged, C6Y and C3N are ours, and T-M is being spammed by ZAF and had hostile towers RF'd today.

and that's your delve weather update

kenny capfleet status: still trapped in PR- rololol~

The above information can be quoted because...the regular Goon Fleet forums have crashed and GoonSwarm brazenly moved their "war room" communications and operations-updates to the official EVE forums. Even if they've got the information minute to minute on where and what the Goons are up to, there's nothing KenZoku can do about it. It seems the other residents can do nothing about hundreds of Goons suddenly posting in multiple threads either; no one else is even trying to break into the spam.

This is a truncated update-post (not that there's much more to talk about) but I'm afraid it is likely to be the last regular update for some time. As of today I have another committment for my time and writing abilities (such as they are). I'll likely peek in on the situation tomorrow to see if KenZoku tries anything, but won't be able to follow it closely.

I've done the majority of the reportage up to this point, but that doesn't at all mean the thread has to stop. It's an open forum and anyone can speak up with what they know. In fact I'd be pleased if they would. If you want to follow it along on your own: The official EVE forums contain the psychological attacks and reactions to events from the participants. Scrapheap Challenge has better information about what actually took place in the various battles. The Goon Fleet, Band of Brothers, Pandemic Legion, and other killboards will let you see who downed what and how battles turned out for each side (PL's is the easiest to read). And of course, there's the daily-updated Influence Map.

Thank you to everyone who gave compliments to my posts in this thread.