The Screaming Silence

I’m on my second week of patrolling Sylph controlled space in my vagabond. Activity in all sectors is at an all time low. I see more Ushra’Khan, AAA and Red Overlord gangs than I see Sylph. The constant war has taken it toll and internal turmoil has left Sylph alliance a shadow of its former self. Wrecks, bended steel and frozen corpses are shattered around at the different gates.

My last entry marked a downfall for Sylph which I am curious to see if they can recover from. The POS in high sec which we led the assault on belonged to RennTech. A long term member to Sylph as well as one of those corps every alliance have that form some sort of backbone. The alliance did not come to RennTech’s aid as RennTech had come to theirs and as a result RennTech left Sylph Alliance taking some 100 active pilots with them.

Latest Center For High Times who struggled on alone against overwhelming odds and had put up a stubborn defense of their empire trade routes had to fold the flag as well. They performed very well but in the end had to resort to using neutral unmarked ships to deploy remote repair modules and set up traps where their ships laid powered down and waited for a well tanked ship to be attacked. A sad end that enemies have to resort to such desperate measures.

Last but not the least is Mr. Bill’s Consortium, who joined Sylph only to find the promised gold at the end of the rainbow filled with big sharp teeth and wearing the bloody hand of Matar. The aftermath of that is still in the making as a CEO or director apparently felt that Sylph had been less than truthful and he emptied the corp hangar and left to make his fortune elsewhere. I find it interesting that Sylph is not forward and open about what new corps joining walk into.

In all Sylph has gone from a 1000+ member strong alliance to a 400 man ghost alliance where you seldom see them in actual space and when they do undock it is only to travel along the Jumpbridges for fear of what waits at the stargates.

In the mean time Ushra’Khan has grown by almost 200 pilots and crossed the 1000 member mark a week ago or so. Ushra’Khan has taken space in Catch, set up jump bridges of their own and in general settled in. This was shortly disrupted by the alliance H4X0R who thought it wise to prove their worth to the Providence block by invading Immensea. About the same time as we took down the POS in the Tash-Murkon area H4X0R made their move. Swiftly came the response from AAA and Atlas. Ushra’Khan mobilized to reinforce and  take down several towers as well as declare war and mobilize our empire war forces. The campaign was executed with ruthless efficiency and as you read this the realities of war is looking H4X0R straight in the eye. Half the population of the alliance has left and the rest is being hunted mercilessly all over New Eden. Daily patrols roam the high traffic space lanes as well as the bounty Offices of the major empire corporations. Latest intelligence updates indicate that H4X0R is holding on to their last outpost in FYI-49 while the rest of their systems was removed over a 2 day period, CJNF-J 2009-10-05, GXK-7F 2009-10-04, EA-HSA 2009-10-03, WYF8-8 2009-10-03.
I’m not sure what is holding the fleet back from taking the last system, nor do I care much as my main occupation is Sylph controlled space in Catch.
Ushra’Khan has multiple focuses at the moment but with H4X0R out of the way and the new space occupied and infrastructure in place we can get back to having a single objective.
CONCORD and most of the major alliances have proclaimed changes in the treaties that govern the ownership of systems. This will be instated in 6 weeks. Till then we are awaiting orders from the council and if I have any say those 6 weeks should be used to put additional pressure on Sylph and move into their systems in numbers which they have never seen before.

They shall die alone, hunted and within sight of their Stations, Jump bridges and Star gates, screaming in vain as no one comes to their defense.