Eve Online alliance leader banned after threatening to cut off betrayer's hands
I was there; AMA.<p>I&#x27;m in Test Alliance Please Ignore.  I was sitting on coms when this all went down - The Judge stole everything not nailed down, flipped the citadel to Goonswarm, and everything went to hell.<p>Some background: TEST and Co2 have been best friends for about a year and a half, until recently, when (there&#x27;s some one-sided propaganda in this statement) the Co2 leadership (really just GigX) decided that having friends wasn&#x27;t as good as shooting everyone.  So, Co2 and TEST reset standings to neutral or hostile, and commenced fighting.<p>Goonswarm and TEST have been, at various times over the past 10 years, best friends, bitter enemies, and - where we are now - sort of &quot;frenemies&quot;, where we are not friendly, and we shoot each other, but we also don&#x27;t invade each other&#x27;s space, and we&#x27;re more likely to fight together against common enemies in big fights.<p>So... back to last night...<p>TEST quickly organized a fleet of space-haulers to bring them Test Cultures (an in-game item that we jokingly have claimed as our own - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;games.chruker.dk&#x2F;eve_online&#x2F;item.php?type_id=2319" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;games.chruker.dk&#x2F;eve_online&#x2F;item.php?type_id=2319</a> ), and tell them that, while we didn&#x27;t like GigX, we had no problem with most of the Co2 line members and they were welcome to evacuate their assets safely with our help.<p>(times in pacific)<p><pre><code>  (8:44:29 PM) pleaseignore.com: 
  Situation developing:
  
  The Judge stabbed GigX in the back. The 68FT Keepstar now belongs to Goonswarm. Many fortizars across Impass 
  belong to Test. This is a huge blow to Circle-of-Two and we hope their line members can see the writing 
  on the wall for this war now. 
  
  For now, we are running an aid flotilla, in part for the memes, but in part to sincerely extend the 
  olive branch to the line members of Co2 who remember when we were good friends. Feel free to join the 
  flotilla and bring a hauler with Test cultures to 68FT. We want to offer them our support, for the shit 
  they don&#x27;t want to asset safety, because we aren&#x27;t total shitheads. (I&#x27;m speaking for other people 
  because I&#x27;m totally a shithead)
  
  The war isn&#x27;t over, but we just got a huge boost. Be ready to burn GigX&#x27;s sov. Be ready to fleet up and 
   finish off our front, so we can help the allies who have been showing up for us. 
  
  #### SENT BY Farmstink to All online test @ 2017-09-12 03:44:29 EVE Time ####
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Goonswarm, though, hates Co2, and wanted to come and screw with them, now that they owned the big space citadel where all of Co2&#x27;s assets are.  Well, TEST thought that would be funny, too, so I and another titan pilot created a chain of warp-bridges to help Goonswarm get to the Co2 main system as quickly as possible, so that they could play with their food.<p><pre><code>  (8:53:30 PM) pleaseignore.com: 
  Also, this is kind of a fantasy moment for goons right now. We will be bluing them temporarily and 
  allowing them safe passage through our space while they play with their new food for the next 
  week or so. 
  
  #### SENT BY Dran Arcana to All online test&#x2F;allies @ 2017-09-12 03:53:30 EVE Time ####
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At one point, we thought that GigX had managed to disband the alliance entirely - which would have dropped all of Co2&#x27;s sovereignty and left their space wide-open for the taking... which would have been a long night of work for us.<p><pre><code>  (10:31:48 PM) pleaseignore.com: 
  GIGX DISBANDED CO2
  
  WOT
  
  #### SENT BY Lomgrim to All online test&#x2F;allies @ 2017-09-12 05:31:48 EVE Time ####
  (10:32:17 PM) pleaseignore.com: 
  Time to toast boys. Get in fleet 1 mumble, now. Impass is free for the taking and we&#x27;re fucking taking it.  
  
  #### SENT BY Xiaodown to All online test @ 2017-09-12 05:32:17 EVE Time ####
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But that was a rumor - info was coming fast and loose for a while there.  What ended up happening was just that The Judge was twitch streaming Co2 Alliance Chat, and when GigX got on, he made real-life threats against The Judge.  Which, I mean, the rule is leave it all in-game; shooty-shooty-lasers at people in game, but have a beer at fanfest.  Anyway, his twitch stream is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;174199105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;174199105</a> but it&#x27;s long and boring if you don&#x27;t play eve.  I don&#x27;t know what timestamp the GigX threat is made, but here are some screenshots:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2vhedbl.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2vhedbl.png</a> (Baekkel is an alt of GigX), and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;g966goh.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;g966goh.png</a><p>Once everything calmed down, the &quot;Talking in Stations&quot; podcast had all the involved people online and did a long podcast about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;174164252" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;videos&#x2F;174164252</a> - and WHILE GigX, The Judge, and a bunch of notables in Eve were online, GigX announced that he had been permabanned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clips.twitch.tv&#x2F;AdorableAmorphousHedgehogCopyThis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clips.twitch.tv&#x2F;AdorableAmorphousHedgehogCopyThis</a><p>So, that&#x27;s how it went down.  Just sayin.  Sorry for all the Eve Jargon.