Providence 2010 and -A- is shit.

None of us had been to nullsec before. What were we in for??    After dicking about in kheram for a bit we started going on the ops during the invasion proper. For someone who had only seen under 10 man gangs fighting, mostly around 5, sov warfare was a whole new ballgame.

As part of the subcap fleet roaming and patrolling looking for evaccing CVA, we passed by many a Atlas and -A- capfleet station flipping. Seeing huge ships and huge swarms of brackets (lol overview - I was still a noob remember, 3 months into the game) I was like "wow this is epic" Even though the game lagged with loads of brackets and it was still ugly as sin back then, It still looked ace. Chaos Theory was given our own pocket right next to the fucking entrance to providence, next to CVA's staging system. The weakest alliance in the coalition at the mercy of CVA and Hydra reloaded. In fairness, CVA didnt really bother us and we had some decent small gang fights. It was during this time, Clockwork Oranges took in some ex- IT alliance bittervets Reidid and Ishika. I still talk to these guys some 2 years later and are integral later in this epic saga.

My first major sov battle took place on a Paxton pos. Paxton and CVA brought some 600 dudes in mixed battleship and hodgepodge logistics and ewar and we had roughly the same. No doctrines, no logi anchors or logi channels, No broadcasts. Just 2 kitchen sink battleship fleets duking it out.

Paxton and CVA lost the first engagement and reshipped and did the exact same thing again. This was fucking awesome. We had two massive brawls in the space of two hours. I reshipped my blackbirds after dying about 6 times - even resorting to my ratting drakes and railgun fit feroxes!

As it turned out, this was their last ditch attempt to make a claim on the region before giving up. We roamed but couldnt get anything and quickly got bored with carebearing all day. This didnt matter too much as -A- decided well, lets just reset all the weaker alliances now the objectives are complete and farm them for kills. If the stronger corps disagree with this we'll threaten them with a reset. My first introduction to the world of ~Elite PvP~   What a set of total faggots. Since none of Chaos Theory had the balls to ever fight -A- blobbing us all the time and Clockwork were the only dudes fighting. FUCK THIS we thought and got out of dodge.