So much necro. This thread accomplished it's goal, by the way.

Made it because I was on comms listening to Zatara crying(Legit In Real Life Tears) when he realized that we had accepted a contract with AE.

At that point, I realized that if nothing changed,GTA was going to get steamrolled in 2 days(It almost happened exactly like that). Nyain San would simply absorb all their districts, and we would have constantly stacked timers with no allies to help.

The only way for us to survive at that point (Kane kinda backed us into a corner a bit), was for the war to last long enough for us to get rid of some of the bad blood with AE/RA.

In order to accomplish that goal, I made this thread to goad FA(The only competent member of GTA at the time, Not sure if they qualify for that title still)'s leader Zatara into fighting back. The only thing Zat really cares about is his e-pride, so I took a shot dead center at the little guy. Secondarily, it helped to have a common enemy with the RA guys, but that was more minor in my thinking.

The war dragged on for enough time for ERA/RA to realize that our eve support couldn't consistently compete with the TSO group.
Zat consistently brags about his team's performance during that week, but while it is certainly possible to win matches against open to close orbitals, it *might* have had some effect on the matches...

Kane and Obby were in talks with DNS black before and during that time. The one obstacle to NF joining DNS was that we were in opposition to RA(which contained a close friend and was the former alliance of a then-member of DNS. With that out of the way, we were able to join DNS and get some much needed batphone power.

All of NF leadership realized that an alliance with AE would eventually collapse. The merger into DNS simply prolonged that, but that was part of the goal of the merger. To prolong the collapse long enough to gather enough districts to buffer a war with them. After AE unilaterally set alliance policy by attacking PFC, I went to work attacking every single district on the map that wasn't in the alliance.

Yeah, we didn't win. Nyain San launched a sneak attack(Who would have thought?). But we were able to keep our players interested for another month or two and we printed billions of monopoly dollars. None of it was possible if Zatara didn't take the ego bait. The districts would have fallen in 3 days and there would have been no point towards joining DNS. Our destruction was sealed by our lack of allies.

Some decent meta if I do say so myself. They didn't keep me around for my in-game skillz