No Fixed Abode joined LEGIO
ASTARTES ARCANUM in April 2011, after we’d been in nullsec for about six
months. Early 2011, we got kicked out of Querious with the rest of the
‘coalition’ that centered around IT Alliance,
and we were very happy to have found another home in LEGIO. A few
months later, the DRF wave crashed over Catch, and for a moment we had
the idea we were going to see the very same thing happening again: a
failcascase of an entire coalition. But pretty soon
it became clear that Against All Authorities was no IT alliance, and
LEGIO wasn’t going down either. We lost some
corps, for sure, but it was certainly no failcascade. We did the ‘retreat back to
LGK-VP with -A_’
thing, and after a while reconquered Catch. Victory! And -A- remembered
LEGIO stood with them when many left: we were given an extra system in
Catch as a token of appreciation.
Loss of sov
On October 31 this year, one year and ten days after we reconquered our main staging system
HY-RWO, we lost it again. This time to the HBC alliance
The Initiative,
who have some historical claims to Catch themselves. Given the number
of pilots the HBC can summon for any fight, the loss didn’t come
unexpectedly. Already we had been given the
order to retreat to LGK once again, and all our assets had been
evacuated before we lost access.
Loss of trust
But we lost something else. Over
the months leading up to the loss of our sov, we also lost our trust in
-A-, as well as our willingness to fly alongside them. It wasn’t one
big thing, really, but a gradual loss of fun
and sense of affiliation. Pilots would complain about the way they were
treated by -A- FC’s, -A- pilots behaving like arrogant dicks in the
area where we lived, lack of fleets to join in EU TZ, lack of mutual
respect.. every few days something else would happen,
causing someone to say ‘you know, screw -A-, I’m not doing this
anymore’.
At the same time it became clear
that LEGIO too wasn’t the alliance it was a year ago. It’s very hard to
pinpoint, but somewhere in 2012 we lost something. Perhaps the sad fact
that the human behind
Commander Donta
succumbed to cancer in the summer of 2012..? Some leadership being
less active than before..? There may have been other factors too, but
whatever the cause: LEGIO wasn’t able to fight like
it was in 2011. Several corps, disillusioned or unable to follow LEGIO
leadership’s course anymore, began to drop out.
Moses
So NOFAD pilots too began to
talk about leaving, greener pastures here or there, following this guy
or that corp to a new place. After a period of growing unease, we
finally decided to leave LEGIO ASTARTES ARCANUM, even
before we had an idea on where we’d end up. We left LEGIO some time ago, and for a while I felt like Moses leading his people into the wilderness!