Intergalactic Summit

Here, I, Luminaire General X Gallentius, will outline the Federation Militia's efforts for defeating the former 0.0 Alliance known as Test Alliance Please Ignore, or simply TEST.

The Gallente Strategy for defeating any entity, whether the entire Caldari Militia, Ev0ke, Khanblob, TEST, is and has always been the same. First, as a capsuleer you must actually undock your ship and participate in this universe. Second, you must attack an opponent's center of gravity, and the difficult thing with TEST in this long difficult struggle was figuring out what their center of gravity was.

"Center On, not around!"

Our intel sources at first identified three potential 'centers of gravity' for TEST - 1) 'We don't care, we will lose massive numbers of ships for our cause!', 2) 'We achieve everything through Talwar blob', and 3) 'We fight only for the LP donated by the Caldari Authorities'." The trick was trying to figure out which one of these potential centers was in fact their real center of gravity. Their losses, in fact, were great. They did achieve lots of goals through their infamous Talwar blob, and they made lots of LP securing sites and missions non-stop for months.

However, as we engaged TEST in fights over the last couple of months, we found that none of these potential centers of gravity were, in fact, their real center of gravity. They did care - as evidenced by massive amounts of chest thumping and posting of propoganda throughout the universe. We even heard some of their chief donators say "We can't financially afford to keep losing this many ships!" from time to time. Their Talwar blobs were neutralized with our various tactics including Sniper Corms, Monitor Coraxes, heavily tanked Cruiser gangs. And finally, even after they achieved massive levels of LP, they were still in the warzone.

"The turtle, err, dinosaur has no clothes"

Finally, we figured it out. Their center of gravity was the art they posted in the universal local communications network. We tried to counter it, but being combat pilots we were no match for their nonstop drivel blotting out local. We lost many good pilots to their spam and it was not looking good for our side. Finally, however, we noticed what everybody else in the universe was afraid to say - their crown jewel, the are depicting a corporate dinosaur, is really an angry turtle. Once this truth out, there was no denying it. Not even the most loyal TEST member could hide from this fact.

Once they saw this, our intel says that they started questioning every other foundation of their alliance. Losing ships doesn't matter, but improving your pvp skills over time does matter. The cold, hard, fact was that TEST's pilots and FC's really hadn't improved over the two months in being in FW. Blobbing is not the best way to win in Faction Warfare. And, finally their members realized that they could make more isk/hour running L5 missions in Tamo than they could participating in FW.

So, here we are - with Fortress Eha still under Federation control - staring down a paper tiger with 10 times our number sitting docked up playing scrabble, or watching their news monitors in Innia. I suspect we will be here long after TEST leaves, but you never know. This is FW and many strange things have happened before and will happen in the future. Good day.

Those who don't undock and participate in this universe criticize others on this forum who do.

Still waiting for this 'strategy' to be revealed............

/me Goes back to rereading the statement thinking he might have missed it somewhere in the debate of turtle versus dinosaur.

So-- TEST has fallen apart because of your brilliant strategy of attacking them? Galnet sources indicate that their membership hasn't been reduced by any significant levels. Or did they, like many mercenaries before them, cash out after a successful campaign in the warzone, and decide to move on to different experiences?

Perhaps I can't read past the massive, fatuous ego here, but I feel as if I'm missing something.

It has been a hard lesson for TEST. There can be no "Cultural Victory" in a war against the cluster's foremost artistic critics.

Outstanding demonstration of how GalMil Intelligence operatives study their opponents and find weak points to exploit.

My faith in the never-ending and always-demanding job all Capsuleers who signed to fight on behalf of the Federation, is now higher than ever, great work to all, and specially to XG for giving a incredibly entertaining report on their war strategy.

The question now remains, will the turtle be slain, or will just suffocate in the starlight of Black Rise?