Pandemic Legion (Player alliance)
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| Name | Pandemic Legion |
| Ticker | -10.0 |
| Type | 0.0 |
| Founded | January 17th, 2007 |
| Status | Active |
| Contact details | |
| Alliance CEO | Shamis Orzoz |
| Diplomat(s) | |
| Public Channel | |
| Website | www.pandemic-legion.com |
| Corporations | |
| Executor | Pandemic Execs |
| Members | Sniggerdly Pandemic Execs North Eastern Swat Black Omega Security Blood Covenant Zor Industries ElitistOps TunDraGon S.A.S GK Inc. Habitual Euthanasia NibbleTek Body Count Inc. and various other alt corporations |
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 History
- 2.1 Formation
- 2.2 Campaigns against BoB
- 2.3 Conquest of Fountain
- 2.4 Delve War II
- 2.5 Post War
- 2.6 Fountain Invasion
- 2.7 Nomads
- 2.8 Mercenaries
- 2.9 Supercap Legion
- 2.10 Insmother
- 2.11 Atlas Contract
- 2.12 Providence/Against All Authorities
- 2.13 Feythabolis Contract
- 2.14 R&R
- 2.15 Deklein Coalition Contract
- 2.16 Moon ISK
- 2.17 DRF Contract
Introduction
Pandemic Legion is a PVP Alliance that relies on refined tactics, discipline and high skill point pilots. Its signature tactic for the last couple of years has been the destruction of much larger forces using long range HAC fleets. In more recent times it has made a habit of Doomsdaying hostiles and friendlies on occasions or engaging with its extensive capital fleets. It has perfected the use of Armour HACs and the Fist of Rape formation. The most recent innovations include the Abaddon Hellcat fleet already copied widely and the more specialised and expensive Thundercats T3 fleet.
Pandemic Legion currently holds no sovereignty having held Fountain; acquired in 2008 during a campaign against BRUCE. It was lost after a brief campaign to IT and pets, thus allowing all of the Alliance to return to its nomadic roots.
Run as a dictatorship, PL does not suffer the inertia of more democratic Alliances, which allows for rapid decision making by its executor. Having most recently served as a leading Alliance in Delve War II, which culminated in the defeat of BoB/KenZoku, it is now returning to its roots by engaging the whole of EVE having reset standings with about 99% of it!
Pandemic Legion has fielded a team in five Alliance Tournaments, reaching the finals in IV and the semi finals in V, before going on to become champions of VI; a title which they successfully defended in VII and won again, for the third consecutive time in 2010 at AT8.
History
Formation
- Sniggerdly first operated in the Curse area helping to kill KOS alliance.
- BoB went to kill GoonSwarm in Scalding Pass. SNIGG decided to help, joined forces with ex-KOS members NESW to fight against BoB with GoonSwarm leading to the founding of Pandemic Legion.
Campaigns against BoB
- BoB were pushed back to Feythabolis and the fledgling PL went to Delve to terrorize locals. BOS joined PL officially during the Delve compaign.
- Moving to Stain, BoB allies RISE are defeated and operations are conducted with Goons. Mr Rive gets griefed to within inches of quitting by SE pilots.
- PL deploys AFK PoS 'geddons and multi-day cloak camping while destroying RISE, which are later adopted by all and sundry. Shortly after they move to Fountain assist Morsus Mihi in evicting various BoB pets.
- The MC heavily defeats northern alliances, so PL moves to Venal helping RAZOR/MM to survive the onslaught. During this time PL & RAZOR kill a mothership and become allies. After the completion of this successful campaign, PL move back to Delve for an assault on BoB. BLABS joins PL and creates its industrial backbone.
Conquest of Fountain
- Following a period of internal disruption, the ever restless Alliance moves to Fountain during a period of relative peace in EVE. During the Fountain campaign a combination of GoonSwarm, BoB, BURN EDEN and most effectively PL, result in the demise of BRUCE. Another Alliance helping at the time are SoT who go on to be close Allies. Using the riches of the region PL acquire funding for and the ability to build Titans, several of them. Later, OSHIT, SAS and OMNOR join the Alliance. Fountain is later invaded by Daisho Syndicate who fail to survive the engagement.
- PL moves to the North-East for 2-3 weeks, resets standings with Goons and pretty much everyone else, amasses a huge number of kills and essentially upsets anyone and everyone. Fountain is invaded by another alliance, The Requiem, who meet the same fate as the previous invaders and are comprehensively destroyed. PL consolidates its powerbase by conquering all the high end moons in Cloud Ring, Syndicate and Outer Ring with a few minor exceptions.
- Following a second failure by the Northern Coalition to BoBs MAX campaign, PL heads North to assist. In a matter of weeks the NC pushes BoB back, leading them to abandon their war in the North. Returning to Fountain, PL cull the weak pets from the region whilst enjoying their tears. This proves so successful that a campaign of griefing and over-expansion is carried out in order to bait new attackers.
Delve War II
- In January 2009, internal disagreements see the Alliance split between Fountain and Curse, where BoB have commenced a fresh campaign against GoonSwarm in the south. This causes internal dissent, particularly by pilots left in Fountain when the players in Curse successfully bait and kill a Band of Brothers titan on a joint operation with GoonFleet.
- With the dramatic closure of BoB, PL moved to Delve along with SoT, TCF, GS, RAZOR and MM and thereby sparking the second Delve War which resulted in the destruction of KenZoku, the Alliance formed from BoB's ashes. With the victory celebrations including 27 Titans destroying intentionally destroying a friendly capital ship a new era has begun.
Post War
- The first activity in this time was a move to Curse to support XIX and engage CoW, IRC, ED, Aggression., Sc0rched Earth and Atlas. CoW lost a Titan to PL in the first week.
- In September 2009, long term Tau Ceti Federation corporation Section XIII joined PL following disagreements within their alliance. They left after several months citing internal issues following the loss of Fountain.
Fountain Invasion
- In November 2009, IT Alliance attacked Fountain which Pandemic Legion was sharing with Sons of Tangra. Despite strong numbers early in the campaign, morale begane to wane and Pandemic Legion numbers dropped. The onslaught was only slowed with the assistance of Goonswarm. By early 2010, IT Alliance had captured all Sons of Tangra stations and stood ready to take the Pandemic Legion stations. In the Battle of Y-2ANO, IT alliance and allies dealt a massive blow to Pandemic Legion killing four of its Titans. A considerable number of capitals were lost and almost exclusively to a black screen having never entered system, or having been logged off in excess of the required cool down period.
Nomads
- Having been freed from industry and sovereignty mechanics PL moved to Geminate and proceeded to have fun again. During this period the Fist of PL was honed and despite fighting outnumbered, PL destoyed enemies with armour HACs. Internal dissent saw The Illuminati & FCUK leave PL at this time.
Mercenaries
- In April 2010 a new phase began with the Alliance being hired to damage IT infrastructure, specifically CSAAs, capital ships and ratters. The figures speak for themselves:
| Ship Type | Killed | Lost |
| Titans | 2 | 0 |
| Super-Carriers | 7 | 0 |
| Carrier | 93 | 8 |
| Dreadnought | 24 | 12 |
| Battleship | 843 | 214 |
| Battlecruiser | 551 | 84 |
| Heavy Assault | 283 | 118 |
| Strategic Cruiser | 29 | 8 |
| Scrubships | 3118 | 1136 |
| Motherships in Build | 2 | 0 |
In 50 days the PL-led invasion of the South resulted in the takeover of 28 enemy POS and 2 CSAAS.
April 2010 saw two corporations join PL; ElitistOps, former Goonswarm Black Ops corps and TunDraGon, veteran pirates. PL moved to Curse in June 2010 and S.A.S re-joined PL at this time.
Supercap Legion
Utilising the impressive fire-power offered by motherships to great effect, June saw the rise of Supercap Legion's activity. Totals for June 10 -July 14, essentially the first months full activity:
| Ship Type | Supercap Kills | Fleet Kills | Grand Total |
| Jump Freighters | 26 (1) | 0 | 26 |
| Rorquals | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| Orcas | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Carrier | 22 | 22 | 44 |
| Dreadnought | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Motherships | 1 (2) | 3 (3) | 4 |
Insmother
Atlas renters Honourable Templum of Alcedonia became the focus of attention in July 2010. They brought endless entertainment for a week or so with scrub-fleets and died in droves. Despite requests for assistance from Atlas/AAA etc which initially amounted to capital blobs reinforcing the PL POS in TTP-2B they promptly imploded and gave further kills with their shambolic evacuation attempts. The final offensive push from their landlord occured on 10 Jul 10 when the station was due to flip. PL's Fist was applied to the massed forces (approx 500) and some superb bombing by Goons which resulted in spectacular losses to Atlas/AA sub-capital fleet in system, the lack of capital support is attributed to their super capital & capital losses a few days earlier. Stations were also gained in 1V-LI2 & 4-CM8I for entertainment value.
The first two weeks proved fruitful with some 4,500+ kills. HTA joined the list of Alliances destroyed by PL on 18 July 2010.
Atlas Contract
PL were then hired by Red Alliance/WN/XIX to clear Insmother of Atlas and renters. BOSS, an Alliance that lived out of POS in GDHN-K were eliminated in short order after upsetting Narctoic XIII. This was followed by The Reckoning who boasted about how they would fight & then did not. During this phase the contract was expanded to the destruction of Atlas regardless of location.
A number of station systems were also captured including EUU-4N, 3AE-CP, MOCW-2 and a considerable amount of effort was expended rape-caging 0-W778 in an effort to gain some good fights. Once this fell Atlas retreated back to 77S8-E and were surprised to find their jammer dropped by a Grath Telkin suicide gang on day one. This left the system wide open and a few hours later Atlas lost another Titan and Super-Carrier in system. They then issued orders to re-group to OMIST where AXDX-F received the same treatment. At this point they began negotiating a surrender.
Surrender Agreement
- Collateral: Atlas to pay 65b and XIX to pay 115b to Chribba
- Tribute: 2 titans and 3 motherships to be transferred through Chribba to RA/WN/XIX
- PL to stand down and their contract should finish when the deal is complete
- Atlas will drop Atlas Alliance name - ensuring they join the list of Alliances Destroyed by PL
Victory Day 29th of August 2010 over Atlas empire.
| Ship Type | Killed | Lost |
|---|---|---|
| Titans | 2 | 0 |
| Super-Carriers | 4 | 0 |
| Carrier | 45 | 2 |
| Dreadnought | 19 | 0 |
| Battleship | 466 | 45 |
| Battlecruiser | 496 | 98 |
| Heavy Assault | 179 | 122 |
| Strategic Cruiser | 33 | 9 |
| Scrubships | 3288 | 840 |
GK inc. joined PL on 27 Aug 10, this had no connection with the fall of Atlas.
Providence/Against All Authorities
September saw PL moving to Assah to begin a short assault on KBP7-G and a counter contract to protect the surviving CSAA in the system. The mercinaries Noir. were contracted to attack PL in Providence but were of no significance.
-A- (Against ALL Authorities) were the next targets on contract, the affected regions were Catch and Impass and a loose NAP controlling them of AAA/ROL/SE/COVEN/UK. These actions were carried out working alongside Initiative Mercenaries (IM). -A- initially refused to engage so the CSAA heavy MY-W1V was assaulted and no less than 17 titans/supercaps were aborted (or none if you were the defenders) in order to obtain some good fights. The only defence offered was on two POS which were missed in the initial assault. In order to elicit a response, their capital GE-8JV was sieged and this resulted in combat operations 14 September onwards when -A- and allies actually turned up in numbers.
Sadly for -A-, IT Alliance began attacking HED-GP at the same time as they started logging in to fight PL and Init.
On 16 Sep 10 the remaining active player base of Habitual Euthanasia joined PL on a trial basis following the closure of Cry Havoc. (C H)
Feythabolis Contract
A new contract required a move south to capture sovereignty for Red Alliance/Legion of xXDEATHXx/White Noise. This contract took considerably longer than expected and though successful, which saw the Titan/supercapital kill tally climb as well as the ownership of them increase as they were the fee.
R&R
Late October 2010 saw PL move to Venal for good fights and a small contract to distract NC from the drone regions which was achieved by capturing Technethium moons. This brought NC fleets of 500 to re-enforce the new towers who were promptly blue-balled. More super-captials were killed.
NibbleTek joined PL on 7 November 2010.
Deklein Coalition Contract
Late January 2011 saw PL move to Deklein on contract to IT. This appears to have been IT's last gasp before imploding and bringing the contract to a close. Genos Occidere join PL on 25 Jan 2011 their time with the legion was short-lived and the returned to Hydra Reloaded in late March.
Moon ISK
Following IT's implosion many Alliances began a land grab in Delve & Querious, the Legion took the opportunity to acquire income through moon mining and the chance to kill many thousands of Drakes of Atlas, -A- , Red Overlord, FAIL and another alliances, usually in the order of 20. For reasons unknown this loose coalition simply brought an army of drakes every day and died in their hundreds everyday. This saw the Abaddon heavy Hellcat fleets in constant use, and were soon copied for use elsewhere. The killboard and the Alliance wallet looked very healthy.
DRF Contract
The beginning of April 2011 saw the legion moving North under contract to DRF in Geminate providing US timezone coverage in operations against the NC. During this campaign PL's Thundercat fleet was revealed, making Pandemic Legion the first Alliance fielding a dedicated T3 fleet. With the DPS coming from Tengus, and a dedicated mix of other ship types they proved to be devastatingly effective repeatedly inflicting massively one-sided defeats on their opponents. By the end of April most Vale of the Silent had been captured, several baby titans aborted, R.A.G.E. fail-scading and the NC in disarray. At this time in the campaign Body Count Inc. joined PL - 29 Apr 11.
By the end of May NC collapsed and MM & Razor were evacuating the North, other Alliances in the area haemorrhaged pilots from the mortal wounds they had suffered.