Even if its incredibly minor... like Mercenaries descend on a specific planet in Blackrise to take control of the New Caldari Orbital Artillery out platform developed in secret by the Kaalakiota megacorporation. Except some how the Gurista's found out about it and want to make off with its specifications, meanwhile Mordu seeing the danger of these outposts attempts to destroy/ or capture the specifications to distribute cluster wide.

Anything that gives our efforts context and meaning. And if our efforts could directly impact how a specific new piece of Dust Tech or socket enters the Universe around us....then that would honestly be amazing!

The main point of contention people have is that the event was advertised as something players could influence, but ultimately they couldn't. The odds were firmly stacked in the Gallente's favour, destroyed titan graphics had already been prepared, and large coordinated fleets were unable to get into the system to intervene. During the livestream, the announcers also revealed that the main players in the event were NPC factions and selected EVE alliances who had been pre-arranged to attend. There's definitely a valid argument for saying this event was staged.