Phrase got here out this morning that Norus, the chief of Fraternity, had introduced a redeployment to a brand new staging system, reposted to Reddit as follows:
Howdy all, right here is Alliance updata for October eleventh:
FRT is relocating its main rally level from 4-HW to the B-9C24 Keepstar. The transfer begins tomorrow. There’ll solely be two transfer ops tomorrow at 15:00 and 20:00 EVE time.
**Required composition at B-9C24:**
– Rokh (departing from 4-HW)
– Zealot (departing from 4-HW)
– Muninn (departing from 4-HW)
– Vulture/Navy Ferox (departing from 4-HW)
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– Navy Apocalypse (to be bought regionally on the new rally level)
– T1 Ferox (changing the Navy Ferox; to be bought regionally on the new rally level)
– All capital ships: Dreadnoughts, Fax, hyperlinks Carriers
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Supercarriers, Titans, and Fax for decisive operation, They’ll transfer subsequent week.
FRT didn’t develop up to now by begging. Our ways and technique are top-tier, and our scale and territory are proof of that. We’ve fought numerous defensive battles however hardly ever taken the offensive—as a result of happening the offensive means setting down our farming instruments, producing killmails, and sometimes pulling all-nighters.
That’s why EVE doesn’t but know: although we’re normally as versatile as water and excel at protection, we are able to additionally remodel into an unstoppable metal tide when wanted. Protection is just too boring, too monotonous. I need you to assault relentlessly, to maintain hammering on the enemy’s timezone protect, to make them hear—even within the European TZ, deep in Fountain—that FRT is coming.
No quantity of sovereign programs misplaced, construction destroyed, or supercapital Titans sacrificed will cease us.
————————————Noraus
Fraternity and The Initiative share a boarder within the northwest of null sec, with Triumverate sitting in a part of Cloud ring as a little bit of a buffer zone.
The Initiative and Fraternity and the entrance line in Cloud Ring
Fraternity brings 43K capsuleers to the warfare in accordance with the present rating of sov holding alliances over at DOTLAN. As well as, TEST, ever within the furthest nook of area from the Imperium, provides one other 4,500 capsuleers to the whole.
The Initiative, which has been bulking up because it left the Imperium, rings in at about 29K characters.
High 10 Sov Holding Alliances by Member Depend – Oct 11, 2025
The member depend is a slippery quantity nevertheless. I do know that in Goonswarm Federation, which tops the checklist on the 61K mark, has a ratio of characters within the alliance to precise individuals of about 7.5 to 1. I personally have 4 characters in GSF, together with one by itself account setup for our alpha clone residence protection doctrine. This being EVE On-line, there are some individuals within the alliance with 50 characters and there are individuals with one or two.
So Fraternity doesn’t essentially have a large benefit over The Initiative. That is exacerbated by how every group is represented geographically in the actual world. Fraternity is a largely Chinese language group so operates totally on an East Asia centered cycle whereas The Initiative is most lively in European time.
Each alliances have teams that function outdoors of their main time zone, however the bulk of every alliance has a most well-liked time during which to function. EVE On-line is a 23.75 hour a day world-wide sport that places us all in the identical play area.
The timezone distinction favors the defender. Norus refers to “the enemy’s timezone protect” in his submit. That is turns into the holder of sovereignty can set their vulnerability timers to fall in a the time of day when they’re most lively.
On this case it signifies that to kill buildings or to take sovereignty Fraternity doesn’t simply have to have extra gamers, however has to kind up their gamers outdoors of their normally play time to assault when The Initiative ought to be capable of focus the utmost variety of their pilots.
That is doable. We did it to Fraternity in 2023 over a Keepstar in X47L-Q the place we not solely barely out-formed them within the chosen time zone, however gained the target regardless that we needed to struggle by way of downtime, the place everyone bought kicked out of the sport for server restarts then needed to relog to renew the struggle, throughout which the timer on the Keepstar stored working.
Good instances.
How it will end up, if it turns into a slugfest or if it seems to be simply a lot bluster as the 2 sides bark at one another throughout Cloud Ring, stays to be seen. You purchase into all the things you learn on Reddit at your peril.
Asher, in commenting on the potential warfare, made it clear that we’ve got no plans to get entangled. For the reason that nice un-bluing initially of the 12 months, the place The Initiative reset their standings with us and Fraternity and PanFam reset their standings with one another, there was little rush or stress to reform into the 2 mega-blocs that emerged after the collapse of the B2 Coalition and the swamping of open area by PanFam when the Southeastern Settlement ended.
We’re actually extra prone to work out offers with The Initiative than with PanFam and Fraternity. Once we moved out of Delve and Querious we traded some buildings for canopy whereas we did the large scoop to scrub up what we may through the operation. However that doesn’t imply we’re going to leap into fleets and head to Fountain or Cloud Ring. Now we have our personal low depth battle going alongside the boarder with PanFam. If one in all us strikes to assist a former ally, the opposite will reap the benefits of that.
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