Ascendant Frontier (Player alliance)
Alliance Description
"We are the Ascendancy, we play the game, we don't play games. We don't care about your space. We are not intimidated by your kill boards. Your forum abilities will not scare us. Play nice and so will we, play poorly and we will return the favor. Respect, Honor, Team-Work, Strength & Unity. Please Read CYVOK's Bio before EvE mailing me about anything."
History
Ascendant Frontier (ASCN) was founded on May 2nd, 2005 by Celestial Horizon Corp. and Dirty Deeds Corp. after the siege and disbandment of the XETIC Alliance. ASCN quickly grew to become one of the big 4 alliances of the time, housing over 4,800 players at one point.
"The Great War"
In September 2006, Band of Brothers (BoB) declared war on ASCN. Because of the shear size of the two alliances, the conflict soon became known as The Great War, involving over 1,000 players in the EVE universe. The area of conflict was three southern regions: Period Basis, Paragon Soul, and Feythabolis.
"The reasons for selecting ASCN as the target were stated and restated, and will be once more. ASCN were the biggest and most likely to offer the best challenge, while keeping us occupied the longest. In theory, the unstoppable force versus the unmovable object. D2 almost had it, but morphed itself into a defensive alliance. The choice came down to fighting ASCN or mini-ASCN. All opposing claims were either misinformed, or fictional." --Sir Molle, Evolution Corp
Even though initial reports were calling for an 8-12 month long war, neither side was willing to drag this conflict out for longer than needed. Both sides poured billions of ISK into the war in the hopes of completely wiping out the opposing side. In the end, it took BoB less then 12 weeks to achieve victory in all three regions. ASCN suffered heavy losses, including the first player owned Titan loss. The estimated cost of the war is over 1.7 trillion ISK between the two alliances. The defeat suffered by ASCN eventually led to it's dismemberment. In 2007, ASCN officially broke up and has not reformed since.
"In conclusion, it took four weeks to break ASCN's will to fight, three weeks to conquer Paragon Soul, and four weeks to conquer Feythabolis. War quickly degraded to POS bashing and ganks as BoB went head to head with Strontium Clathrates, but a few memorable battles were had." --Sir Molle, Evolution Corp