Originally by: Sir Molle

Vacate your stuff.

As it is, we are playing the sacrificial lamb the whole time, we’re not doing that anymore.

Pull your stuff out from 49- and Delve. Thats the standing orders. Place it safely somewhere. and we’ll work from there.

Expect no ops posted for a week.

End of an era.  GF indeed.

Source: EVE Forum Thread

Darwin of course is best known for his theories of evolution and natural selection.  Shrike is best known for running KenZoku (The Alliance Formerly Known as Band of Brothers),  and for losing titans (this is his fourth).

As always, my standard statement which I put out there whenever he loses a titan: at least he takes it out and uses it.  Gotta give kudos for that.

Source: Goonswarm Killboard

It also looks like someone wasted no time in dropping the cash to start a new alliance with the same name, which means there’s no way the original BoB folks will get that alliance name back.

It’s still too early to tell for sure what’s transpired, but one post on the forum is chilling for those in BoB:

Vily wrote:

director level spy closed the alliance

goodbye

-> sov 1/2/3/4
-> large amount of BNC assets
-> jump bridges
-> jammers
-> standings

One thing’s for sure, there’s probably an insane rush for BoB space underway right now.

Source: Scrapheap Thread

Update 1 – Feb 4 2009

Looks like ISD has wasted no time in writing up a news article about what happened.

A few hours after midnight on 05.02.111, Band of Brothers alliance was disbanded. The loss of formal alliance status forcibly relinquished all Band of Brothers held sovereignty, and thus is expected to render all their outposts vulnerable, pause the construction of all motherships and titans currently being built in their capital assembly arrays and interfere with the proper fuctioning of cynojammers and jump bridge waystations at their control towers. This effect has never been seen before on such a huge scale, so there is much uncertainty about the precise effects.

And the understatement of the year goes to…

There’s some handy forum (CAOD) links for more information at the bottom of that article, but all signs are pointing to Goonswarm as the culprit for the takedown.  It’s also looking like the public might get a peek at the BoB director forums in the near future, as the infiltrator has saved his/herself a copy.

Personally I don’t shed a tear for any group entity that falls prey to it since there’s a high probability they were doing something similar to others.  I do have to sympathize with the pilots who had nothing to do with anything other than logging into the game for their fun, and today will do so with their world turned upside down.

Then again, the threat of corporate espionage scenarios like this is one of those things that makes EVE uniquely EVE.

Source: ISD News Article

Update 3: Feb 4 2009

Welp.