Nulli Secunda
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| Name | Nulli Secunda |
| Ticker | S2N |
| Type | 0.0 |
| Founded | August 2010 |
| Status | Active |
| Contact details | |
| Alliance CEO | General Ordogg |
| Diplomat(s) | Darekish, Melina Octurian |
| Public Channel | |
| Website | http://nullisecunda.com |
| Corporations | |
| Executor | - |
| Members | Grim Determination BALKAN EXPRESS Phantom Squad 101st Space Marine Force Crimson Empire. Black Templar Germany 0.0 Massive Dynamic Sturmgrenadier Inc Valor Inc. Aura of Darkness GREY COUNCIL Genbuku. Nulli Secunda Holding Jian Products Engineering Group Intergalactic Syndicate Ordo Drakonis EXTERMINATUS. |
Contents
Formation - We R Who We R!
Nulli Secunda [S2N] was formed in August of 2010 by a collection of former Gentleman's Club and Cult of War corporations after the failure of those alliances. Formed by Progodlegend and the 101st Space Marine Force, S2N was granted the LI-BA0 constellation in the Querious region by IT Alliance and entry into their coalition.
The alliance was small at first, consisting of just over four hundred members and an unhealthy obsession with Ke$ha. The early S2N operations consisted of small 20 man roams to the Providence/Catch region which fueled their initial PvP culture.
S2N was formed as a PvP alliance, based around pilot skill, excellent FCing, and strict fleet compositions. Despite being small, these values allowed S2N to have success through its early days as the alliance slowly grew. The collapse of Atlas provided S2N with several new member corps, swelling their ranks with old allies and new faces alike.
A little over two months into the alliance, S2N deployed to Providence which at the time was a hotbed of conflict as CVA struggled to regain control from the coalition of alliances that Against All Authorities had installed in the region after their conquest earlier that year. Providence was also home to the reformed Mercenary Coalition, and Pandemic Legion forces in nearby lowsec.
The three week deployment was an excellent early test of the alliance, and despite relatively small numbers, CVA bloc and S2N managed to win many fights against the "squatters", as they were known, as well as as few victories against MC and PL. However, S2N later went home as pilot wallets dried up and events elsewhere dictated a return home.
Querious and The Forever War
While S2N had several setbacks, such as cornerstone corp MMMS leaving, the alliance had continued to grow at a steady rate, proving its detractors wrong. The stability and growth of the alliance had not gone unnoticed by IT, which rewarded S2N with more systems and several moons.
Events in the cluster would soon dictate a long period of warfare away from S2N's cornerstone roaming. In the east, the -A- block, lead by Makalu Zayra and Tek Enethru, were pushing hard into fethaybolis for their reconquesta. INIT allies, Dead Terrorists and Circle of Two, were being hit hard by the resurgent south. INIT, tired of grinding structures and without PL, sat in Catch consolidating and resting.
In the west, a resurgent and tech-wealthy GSF with new Reddit allies Test Alliance Please Ignore were done napping on the Dekelin couch and had begun laying siege to IT allies based in Fountain.
With the IT bloc under serious pressure on two fronts, S2N was ordered to deploy to 68FT in Impass. Dead Terrorists had cascaded under -A- block pressure, and INIT had finally deployed to help prop up Circle of Two in Impass. S2N arrived and began to join INIT fleets. The fleets were well organized and well lead, but suffered loss after loss to the drake blob of -A- block. The crippling lag of the servers, combined with the turret bugs of the time and a poor fleet concept, ahac's, lead INIT and allies to suffer defeat after defeat despite their best efforts.
Eventually -A- bloc laid siege to 68FT itself. Despite the valiant effort of INIT and friends, the system fell to the drake blob of -A- and allies. After the fall of 68FT, INIT withdrew to Catch and S2N returned home to Querious. After a short break home in Querious, S2N deployed to Period Basis with IT ally SYS-K in order to put pressure on ROL by attacking Paragon Soul.
The deployment with SYS-K was largely uneventful. Both alliances at the time lacked the strategic talent and coordination needed to run campaign of that scale. Despite this, several victories were had including the destruction of a ROL Nyx and the conquest of several moons.
Meanwhile, IT had deployed their entire capital and supercapital force to GE- in order to help INIT which had already lost some systems in Catch to -A- bloc. -A- wisely pulled back the reigns on their offensive, knowing they could not compete with the supercapital supremacy of a combined INIT and IT force. As the -A- offensive slowed to a halt, GSF and allies had continued to drive hard into Fountain, successfully attacking and taking PNQ, the home system of IT allies in Fountain. As IT allies faltered, IT made the strategic blunder to pull their supercapital fleet back to Fountain to reinforce the defense. This decision essentially meant that IT had chosen to defend alliances like Blast, Blade, and Talos instead of INIT.
With this decision, S2N deployed to Hophib, a low sec system a few jumps out of Fountain to aid in the defense of Fountain. Heavy fighting continued for weeks as a stalemate/seasaw battle raged in the region. S2N pilots fought well, but eventually grew tired and poor. In light of the stalemate, S2N made the decision to return home to Querious to rest and regroup. In nearby IT Querious systems, the newly formed Khanid Coalition was pushing into IT space.
While resting and grinding ISK, S2N defended the IT station system of A2 several times against the Khanid coalition, resulting in some of the most lopsided victories of S2N's existence. A2 was saved several times and the enemy fleets destroyed again and again. But while S2N was having success, -A- bloc was pushing hard into Catch and GSF were slowly making progress in Fountain.
S2N returned to Hophib a second time, just days before the famous hellcamp of 6VDT, IT's new staging system. The strategic choice to base in a lowsec station instead of a conquerable nullsec station saved S2N the bulk of the eventual asset losses.
Days after returning to Hophib, the GSF and their allies began the 23/7 hellcamp of 6VDT. Hundreds of northern pilots sat in POS and bubbles and local was filled with the greatest amount of spam. IT's internal and viral structural problems had already made themselves evident with the departure of two supercapital-heavy powerhouse IT corps, X13 and Finfleet. IT command seemed unable to organize any sort of serious breakout attempt. IT coalition pilots waited day after day in station and on IRC waiting for a op that never came, reminiscent of PR- in Delve War II. GSF got one of their only fights of the hellcamp when 70 S2N LR HAC's jumped into the hellstorm, taking on 600 enemy pilots as S2N dodged and sniped. That little action, when IT refused to fight, got S2N much of its early respect in the wider eve community.
Eventually, 6VDT fell not with a bang, but a whimper. While S2N had been deployed to Hophib, its home in Querious had fallen victim to a siege by -A- allies, the newly reformed Atlas. alliance. S2N had chosen to stay with IT and let its home systems fall. After the fall of 6VDT, S2N returned home and evacuated all assets, unable to defend against superior enemy forces. In Catch, INIT was fighting a loosing battle against -A- bloc and would soon loose their space against the same enemy they had originally evicted, setting the stage for what is widely considered to be one of the greatest comebacks in eve history.
Not long after, IT began to failcascade and S2N issued a standings reset. A new chapter ad begun.
Period Basis and -A- Bloc
During the Forever War conflict, S2N leadership had been approached several times by -A- leadership, offering S2N the option of switching sides. S2N refused out of loyalty, but with IT dying and reset, S2N agreed to join the coalition.
S2N moved to Period Basis and began taking two constellations from the already dying SYS-K alliance. After two weeks the new space was secured and S2N set up shop, began making ISK and growing.
The first few weeks in Period Basis was a time of relative calm, and allowed S2N to accept new member corporations, focus on its internal leadership and fleet concepts, and recover from the previous several months of coalition level warfare.
During this time the war in the north was heating up. The NC's hubris in attacking the drone regions had lead the previously unaligned Drone Russians to blue up and create a new coalition, the Drone Region (Russian) Forces or DRF. The DRF defended against the north with great vigor, eventually stopping the offensive completely and launched their own into Geminate.
Pandemic Legion, having finally been (temporarily) blobbed out of the north, went on "vacation" to Delve, generally to cause havoc and secure valuable neodymium moons. -A- block had been trying to secure Delve for themselves, and the arrival of PL in KEE started off a new conflict.
PL had already developed a counter to -A-'s famed drake blob, and with the gun bug fixed, they created the now famous abbadon hellcat. With 70km scorch range, active hardeners, and backed by archon triage, 100 or so PL consistently took on 300-400 -A- bloc. Every other day, S2N would form in drakes, bridge down to Delve and join the fleets against PL. Time after time, the powerful scorch and excellent cohesion of PL fleets downed the drake blob.
Eventually, with alpha being fully integrated into the game, -A- started to bring ~60 alpha tempests to the fray. S2N FC's were often leading this wing, and proper use of the wing combined with overwhelming drakes started to defeat PL. However, every time PL would start loosing, tracking titans would be dropped. FC's would be doomsdayed, and drakes and battleships would be blapped.
Only a few victories were gained against PL, and for the two months PL was in delve, neodymium moons were milked by PL. Finally, PL left Delve to go north and join the raging war against the Northern Coalition. For S2N's help against PL, -A- granted S2N a delve constellation.
It was White Noise and Uaxdeath that had originally encouraged INIT to turn on post-Evil Thug -A- and had provided the funds to hire Pandemic Legion against them. This did not go unnoticed by -A- leadership, and in April their own offensive was launched against the southern holdings of the DRF as they fought in the northern front.
S2N did not participate in this campaign, instead focusing on Delve. Several fights were had against TEST and friends, which were taking the western portion of Delve. These fights were excellent for S2N, as it often fought outnumbered but through superior tactics and fleet concepts managed to win against the newly formed CFC which was becoming increasingly seen as independent from the Northern Coalition. Eventually, the CFC secured their delve holdings as there was never any serious contest by -A- bloc to prevent CFC from taking western Delve. Eventually, Gentleman's Agreement, TEST, and Convicted would all hold space in Delve, creating the now infamous thunderdome.
The End of an Era, S2N goes mainstream
A late S2N deployment to the north to attack tech moons in hopes of helping the Northern Coalition failed as its rotten bloat finally was cleavered by the DRF and its allies. The Northern Coalition, once considered invincible by many, had finally fallen, its remnants scattered to the wind or incorporated into the CFC lead by The Mittani and the GSF.
As the DRF and its allies consolidated their new holdings, the eve community watched with great interest at where the NC refugees who weren't absorbed into the CFC would go. S2N had already taken the responsibility of Delve watchdog within the southern bloc, aided by Vera Cruz, a Brazilian alliance in Period Basis, and Hun Reloaded, the famous PvP Hungarian alliance of old.
It wasn't long before Morsus Mihi declared that they would be headed to Delve, in order to find the elusive "good fights" and reform their alliance as a pvp powerhouse. Joining them was Brick Squad., which tripled in size with northern refugees. The newly dubbed "Refugee Coalition" declared that sov was not a goal, but S2N watched with wary eyes at the unwelcome interlopers.
It wasn't long before MM and Brick TCU's began popping up in systems. With MM's reputation proceeding them, S2N and its allies launched a campaign against MM to deny them sovereignty. S2N had grown large by then, and with its allies the fight raged in both the EU and US TZ's. Early on, MM used abbadons to try and fight, but they were defeated on the field multiple times. Soon MM and company switched to their bomber and LR BC concept and fighting raged for weeks.
The fighting in Delve was small and largely a sideshow compared to other conflicts, but it was a conflict devoid of supercapital drops as both sides had equal numbers of supers and neither wished risking them in a fight they could not win. The war continued for two months. Most fights went to the S2N side, but MM/Brick. gained victories and systems too. S2N was unable to remove all sovereignty, but MM/Brick were unable to gain any new sovereignty as the war neared its conclusion.
The CFC soon withdrew from Delve and BORG collapsed, and MM/Brick gained some of the vacated space. A ten hour operation by S2N secured former convicted space and put many MM/Brick starbases and systems into reinforced. Events would dictate that the conclusion of this operation would never be known. A deal was struck between MM and -A- that created a NAP and freed S2N/Cascade and its allies to deploy to assist -A- against the upcoming DRF invasion.
After resting for a period of time, the DRF took T-R in providence and built a outpost there. Uaxdeath and the DRF were ready to exact their revenge on -A- bloc, and another war was in the making.
The war against the Refugee Coalition solidified S2N's reputation as a major power in the eve community and the first time S2N's name was commonly mentioned on eve forums and discussions. A new alliance had stonewalled former NC fat with tech ISK that had heavily outnumbered them. Soon S2N would face a larger challenge.
Catch War, Stain Lethargy and Resurgence
S2N soon arrived in GE- and the entire coalition adopted a S2N fleet concept. It wasn't long before DRF launched their attack on HED-GP and the war was on. Fighting in HED lasted about two weeks. In the RU timezone, the DRF had dominance and would continually take down the cyno jammer in HED. With overwhelming supercapital numbers, the jammer would need to stay online to give the -A- bloc any sort of chance. -A- would set their timers for deep USTZ and the US crew would re-online the jammer, rep sov structures, and kill SBU's. For the first little while, the DRF could only manage 100 man fleets in the USTZ which were quickly destroyed by coalition forces. It was only a matter of time until the DRF alarm clocked, and with supers already logged in system from the jammer-less RU TZ, the DRF successfully alarm clocked twice and won both times. This resulted in the loss of HED and -A-'s first ever titan loss, which was probed and destroyed in a safespot immediately after log-in, a NC. pilot having probed down the safe the previous night when the MVN pilot had logged. During the war Stain Empire and Coven had also reset -A-, which was a hit to the coalition and morale.
GE- was lost in much of the same manner. Without jammers, the coalition had no hope of competing with the massive supercapital blob of the DRF, especially after Raiden. had joined the campaign. With the loss of GE-, the coalition withdrew to Stain, and -A- prepared for another long grind to retake space, having already accomplished it once before. The defense of Catch had largely been half-hearted to begin with, and it was rumored that SE and several -A- Russians had wanted -A- space to fall to recapture the magic of the previous reconquest. Whether or not those rumors were true, -A- pulled back to LGK and dug in.
S2N followed -A- back to Stain and alliance activity levels plummeted. With the normal summer inactivity at its height- and the majority of senior S2N FC's AFK, very few S2N ops were run and most pilots returned to Period Basis on their own. Tired of dying to supers, the pilots either went AFK themselves or returned home. Eventually S2N FC's began to return from AFK and a return home was ordered.
A incursion in the home S2N constellation provided a nice catalyst for a return to activity and a way to replenish depleted wallets. S2N went back to basics, and in the east, the DRF ran out of steam before they even finished taking the rest of Catch, Impass, or Feyth from -A- and friends.
With the winter patch, -A- and S2N have focused again on Red Alliance and the DRF. Today S2N has over 1500 members, plus another 500 in its trial alliance, Nulli Tertius [T2N], and is considered to be one of the core members of the southern coalition.
Alliance Contacts
Alliance Leadership: Racksforus, Progodlegend, Gorga, Ravcharas, Guderian3
For diplomatic relations speak to: Nicholai Sanse (EU) Melina Octurian (NA)
For Rental Agreements: Gorga, Wattwatt
Under no circumstance should you speak to: JoJo (not like anyone gonna find the right char anyway)
Forum: http://forum.nullisecunda.com/
Killboard: http://killboard.nullisecunda.com/
Politics
Coalition: Southern Coalition
Allies: Cascade Imminent, HUN Reloaded, Vera Cruz Alliance, RED.Overlord, Against ALL Authorities, ROMANIAN-LEGION, Various smaller Alliances.
Current Controlled Regions:Delve, Querious, Period Basis and Omist.
Current Active Regions: Delve, Querious, Period Basis and Omist.
Piracy: Member corporation policy