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Honestly I like xttz's story far more than The Mittani's. It really puts an emphasis on the whole butterfly effect thing EVE has going for it rather than some meta-gaming stuff.

mittani's story is weaker than it should be because to fit into the short word requirement, most of the detail has to be cut out

I hope not.

indeed like how i fail jumped into l4x and started the war between frege and roadkill/smash allaince.

losers write self-pitying apologies and excuses for their failures, not history

It was written specifically in the Truestories Eula. Available from day one for reading.

Would you prefer Goons AND their alts to vote as well? I'm sure it wouldn't be so skewed then right?

Competing perspectives are always nice... And remember bob was holding its own till that player clicked a button. You guys killed kenny not bob. Just like solodrakeban led to you loosing delve and buying tcf space.

I didn't post this in time, but for those interested, here is the lesser known story I would have submitted:


EXORCISING GHOSTS

Introduction
The Ghosts of Retribution (GHOST) alliance were not the biggest player in Eve's complex nullsec meta in 2005/2006, nor were they the best equipped or most highly skilled, but in the knife-edge foreverwar between the English speaking players of the Lotka Volterra alliance and the Russian speaking Red Alliance, an additional thousand player meat shield with US timezone coverage joining the RA side had the potential to fundementally alter the outcome of one of New Eden's most persistant conflicts.

History

Lotka Volterra was made up of corporations who had a long history together, many of which having been part of the earlier -5- and Curse Alliances, which between them had held the largest chunk the south east of nullsec fairly continuously since 2003. Red Alliance, similarly, had evolved from Eve's first and foremost Russian corporation, RUS, who had themselves run Curse Alliance's Russian wing. Old friends make the best enemies.

-5-, and following its demise, LV, had been at war with RA for each entities' entire existance. The war and ownership of the rich south-east nullsec regions had swung back and forth several times but at that time in late 2005, hung precariously in the balance, with RA slowly ceding stations but making LV bleed every step of the way.

I see a GHOST

In November 2005, LV leadership heard a rumour that a new alliance, the aforementioned GHOST, was to join the fray on the Russian side. In the POS-linked sovereignty world, the timezone benefits their 1000 strong US contingent would convey against the largely European LV were alarming - missing a single set of coordinated timers could lose a system and ultimately a region or even a war.

I ran LV's intelligence wing, a small group of dedicated players who ran deep cover spies long before they became a mainstay of inter-alliance warfare. Kugutsumen and Mittani were yet to emerge into the meta and forum infiltration was rarely if ever experienced and even more rarely publicised. Our team was, therefore, something of an anomaly. It was decided to focus 100% of our team's time and resources on cracking GHOST before their presence could change the outcome of the war.

One of our deep cover operatives, who had previously been loitering in lowsec PvP corps to establish a credible corp history, quickly managed to secure a position within the corporation of the Alliance dictator, Lord Wimbishi. From there, we initiated a two pronged attack designed to hamstring GHOST before it could even set up in RA's space.

GHOST had limited freighter pilots (in common with many alliances in those early days of the game), and no carriers (which were introduced a couple of months later). In those days, the only way to move large quantities of ships and material was huge, alliance wide freighter ops where dozens of freighters were escorted by a large fleet through 20+ jump routes into nullsec over the course of several hours. We knew GHOST would need one or more of these operations to set up shop in RA's only remaining uncontested region, Cache. Our mission became clear. With the forum access granted by our deep-cover operative we noted that Lord Wimbishi had announced to the forums the time, start system and date of GHOST's Alliance Freighter Op, given the name of his freighter alt but "for security", would not disclose the route they would take. GHOST expected to have an escort of a reasonable (for 2005/2006) 100 battleships and 50 support together with 15 freighters full of mainly expensive tech 2 equipment.

The Hammer

The first "prong" of our plan involved sabotage.

I created a new Eve character named very similarly to Lord Wimbishi's alt, one of GHOST's few freighter pilots. From there I spent the day before the operation waiting for a large number of different GHOST member corporation CEOs and directors to be online, but Lord Wimbishi (and alt) to be offline. Then I struck.

Convoing every director and CEO character simultaneously, I imitated Lord Wimbishi's verbose and archaic style of speech to persuade them that all corporation and personal assets to be shipped to Cache should be traded to me for distribution among the freighters. Linking to Lord Wimbishi's own forum post to lend credibility, I very quickly had the full corp hangars of three different corporations traded to my day old noob corporation alt before anyone thought to show info and raise the alarm.


(part 2 follows)

True. I prefer the story about dedication and effort spiced with tactics and victory in the end.

A story about a bittervet that decides to screw his former e-buddies with a little effort is hardly touching. Though, the story about how one got into the position where he could do what he did, would be interesting.