Band of Brothers Disbands!

In a shocking turn of events, it was revealed sometime yesterday that the giant powerbloc known as Band of Brothers or “BoB” was mysteriously rendered helpless during a single critical act. 

Details are still not clear, and rumors are flying every which way, but the most credible variant of the story is that in which a very high ranking member of the executor Corporation Evolution betrayed his (now) former alliance mates and pushed the “Disband” button.  The power to disband an entire alliance, an alliance that has been working steadily at its goals for 5 years now, is held by extremely few people.  In the total membership (somewhere around 3000), only a handful have access to such powerful options.  

Our own DruzidelCastro explains in detail what this entails;

 Player made alliances hold sovereignty over whatever space they have control towers in. If their claim on sovereignty isn’t contested for a certain amount of time, they get higher levels of control. The higher it is, the more/better stuff they’re allowed to put on their control towers. Jump bridges allow regular ships to travel from one system to another that also has a jump bridge linked to the first one. This allows you to skip making 10-20 jumps (what would take half an hour in a battleship suddenly takes thirty seconds). They’re also handy for logistics, bringing in fuel for the towers and everything becomes a lot less hefty. Capital ships cannot move between systems using the stargates that subcapitals use. They need to lock onto something called a Cynosural field. There are two kinds of mods you can toss onto a tower but only one is really game breaking in this case: The cynosural field jammer. If a system is “cynojammed”, you cannot create a cyno field for capitals to jump to. This means that any offensive mounted on the towers in that system has to be done with sub capitals. Combine that with a jump bridge and you’re dealing with a hefty motherfucking fortress (jump bridges allow friendly capital ships to bridge into the system). Without sovereignty, none of that works. Without an alliance, you have no sovereignty. Not only are all of the super capitals that BoB were building now paused (super caps take weeks to build), but they’re wide open for anyone to attack… This should make for some interesting times, that’s for damn sure.

The galaxy has been sharply divided in opinion, some condemning this act as the lowest form of treachery, whilst others hail it as a righteous act to bring down a evil giant.  It is not yet certain what will happen in the coming months, but I for one, cannot wait to watch it unfold.