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After this Deus, ND and hirr looked for allies elsewhere. They found these in [[NoS]], [[Wolfpack]] and [[CELL]], joining together to form [[FoS]], Fusion of Six, which later became Fusion of Seven with the addition of [[Guild]]. [[FoS]] aligned themselves with [[Xeta]], consisting of [[Xanadu]], [[Elysium]], [[TFD]] and [[Silver]], and prepared to take on Fury, Legion, Titans, [[ViruS]] and [[ToT]], [[FLTTV]]. Although FLTV was highly organised they quickly discovered they were vastly outnumbered in a universe where whole [[cluster]]s were dominated by FoS/Xeta. However, thanks to FLTV's organisation, they had set up large [[roid]] farms in order to boost their growth rates and their gals rose to the top of the rankings quickly. FoS and Xeta, instead of going after these top gals focused on pounding on the mid ranking galaxies. As these galaxies steadily lost ground the top FLTV gals became isolated and when FoS/Xeta switched their targeting the big FLTV gals found they lacked sufficient support to hold them off. FLTV galaxies were methodically stripped of their roids and fell down the rankings as FoS and Xeta rose past them. | After this Deus, ND and hirr looked for allies elsewhere. They found these in [[NoS]], [[Wolfpack]] and [[CELL]], joining together to form [[FoS]], Fusion of Six, which later became Fusion of Seven with the addition of [[Guild]]. [[FoS]] aligned themselves with [[Xeta]], consisting of [[Xanadu]], [[Elysium]], [[TFD]] and [[Silver]], and prepared to take on Fury, Legion, Titans, [[ViruS]] and [[ToT]], [[FLTTV]]. Although FLTV was highly organised they quickly discovered they were vastly outnumbered in a universe where whole [[cluster]]s were dominated by FoS/Xeta. However, thanks to FLTV's organisation, they had set up large [[roid]] farms in order to boost their growth rates and their gals rose to the top of the rankings quickly. FoS and Xeta, instead of going after these top gals focused on pounding on the mid ranking galaxies. As these galaxies steadily lost ground the top FLTV gals became isolated and when FoS/Xeta switched their targeting the big FLTV gals found they lacked sufficient support to hold them off. FLTV galaxies were methodically stripped of their roids and fell down the rankings as FoS and Xeta rose past them. | ||
At this time both FoS and Xeta began eyeing each other, neither wishing to see the other block victorious and with Deus having their declared goal of avoiding stagnation. Hostilities between FLTV and FoS began to wind down at this time leading to Xeta pre-empting FoS and announcing the cessation of all agreements with Deus, hoping to isolate them from the rest of their block. The FoS block in return declared war on Xeta, and contacts organised between FLTV and FoS led to both groups targeting Xeta. A notable exception here was the NoS/WP/CELL section of FoS which despite declaring war against Xeta sat back, partly due to large numbers of shared galaxies, and avoided out and out hostilities. Control of galaxies at this time was a key element in the progress of the war, with many galaxies split down the middle in terms of memberbase. | At this time both FoS and Xeta began eyeing each other, neither wishing to see the other block victorious and with Deus having their declared goal of avoiding stagnation. Hostilities between FLTV and FoS began to wind down at this time leading to Xeta pre-empting FoS and [[Round 6 Xeta Announcement|announcing the cessation of all agreements with Deus]], hoping to isolate them from the rest of their block. The FoS block in return declared war on Xeta, and contacts organised between FLTV and FoS led to both groups targeting Xeta. A notable exception here was the NoS/WP/CELL section of FoS which despite declaring war against Xeta sat back, partly due to large numbers of shared galaxies, and avoided out and out hostilities. Control of galaxies at this time was a key element in the progress of the war, with many galaxies split down the middle in terms of memberbase. | ||
With the pressure off FLTV they grew rapidly in the last weeks of the round as Deus came under heavy pressure and Xeta, especially, lost many of their top ranking galaxies. Silver disbanded under the intense pressure they came under and merged into Elysium. As the round came to a close the top galaxy rankings were controlled by NoS and Wolfpack primarily, and FoS more generally. The round was not a decisive victory for any particular alliance though. While the NoS/WP [[Dragons]] galaxy finished #1, Xanadu, more specifically, [[LDK]] had the #1 planet, [[sliekas]]. They had sacrificed their other planets in order to ensure that sliekas finished as #1 and accomplished this in style with a memorable rearguard action. Given Deus' control of political events during the round and the re-emergence of FLTV at a time when FoS and Xeta were becoming exhausted it would be difficult to predict with accuracy what might have happened if the round continued. All in all, Round 6 went down as one of the more interesting rounds in Planetarion history. | With the pressure off FLTV they grew rapidly in the last weeks of the round as Deus came under heavy pressure and Xeta, especially, lost many of their top ranking galaxies. Silver disbanded under the intense pressure they came under and merged into Elysium. As the round came to a close the top galaxy rankings were controlled by NoS and Wolfpack primarily, and FoS more generally. The round was not a decisive victory for any particular alliance though. While the NoS/WP [[Dragons]] galaxy finished #1, Xanadu, more specifically, [[LDK]] had the #1 planet, [[sliekas]]. They had sacrificed their other planets in order to ensure that sliekas finished as #1 and accomplished this in style with a memorable rearguard action. Given Deus' control of political events during the round and the re-emergence of FLTV at a time when FoS and Xeta were becoming exhausted it would be difficult to predict with accuracy what might have happened if the round continued. All in all, Round 6 went down as one of the more interesting rounds in Planetarion history. | ||
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Round 6 saw the introduction of races.
Round Summary
Round 6 began with the widespread feeling through the universe that Furgion should be prevented at all costs from being allowed to stagnate the game as they had done in three out of the four previous rounds. A new alliance, Deus Ex Machina, emerged with the goal of ensuring that nobody was able to stagnate the game again as had been done. Deus took its members from many different groups, but a large number were ex-BlueTuba. Another new alliance, Titans, split out from Legion. This occurred primarily due to dissatisfaction on behalf of many of the members, who had remained behind in Legion after the Wolfpack split, with how the return of Wolfpack members to the fold was handled, as well as issues over the choice of Fury ahead of Elysium in the latter stages of Round 5. Initially Titans were set to join Deus, who had allied with ND and hirr, but with many strong links still in place with Legion, especially among Joy of Villainy, the Titans group re-allied Legion, leaving Deus, before the round started.
After this Deus, ND and hirr looked for allies elsewhere. They found these in NoS, Wolfpack and CELL, joining together to form FoS, Fusion of Six, which later became Fusion of Seven with the addition of Guild. FoS aligned themselves with Xeta, consisting of Xanadu, Elysium, TFD and Silver, and prepared to take on Fury, Legion, Titans, ViruS and ToT, FLTTV. Although FLTV was highly organised they quickly discovered they were vastly outnumbered in a universe where whole clusters were dominated by FoS/Xeta. However, thanks to FLTV's organisation, they had set up large roid farms in order to boost their growth rates and their gals rose to the top of the rankings quickly. FoS and Xeta, instead of going after these top gals focused on pounding on the mid ranking galaxies. As these galaxies steadily lost ground the top FLTV gals became isolated and when FoS/Xeta switched their targeting the big FLTV gals found they lacked sufficient support to hold them off. FLTV galaxies were methodically stripped of their roids and fell down the rankings as FoS and Xeta rose past them.
At this time both FoS and Xeta began eyeing each other, neither wishing to see the other block victorious and with Deus having their declared goal of avoiding stagnation. Hostilities between FLTV and FoS began to wind down at this time leading to Xeta pre-empting FoS and announcing the cessation of all agreements with Deus, hoping to isolate them from the rest of their block. The FoS block in return declared war on Xeta, and contacts organised between FLTV and FoS led to both groups targeting Xeta. A notable exception here was the NoS/WP/CELL section of FoS which despite declaring war against Xeta sat back, partly due to large numbers of shared galaxies, and avoided out and out hostilities. Control of galaxies at this time was a key element in the progress of the war, with many galaxies split down the middle in terms of memberbase.
With the pressure off FLTV they grew rapidly in the last weeks of the round as Deus came under heavy pressure and Xeta, especially, lost many of their top ranking galaxies. Silver disbanded under the intense pressure they came under and merged into Elysium. As the round came to a close the top galaxy rankings were controlled by NoS and Wolfpack primarily, and FoS more generally. The round was not a decisive victory for any particular alliance though. While the NoS/WP Dragons galaxy finished #1, Xanadu, more specifically, LDK had the #1 planet, sliekas. They had sacrificed their other planets in order to ensure that sliekas finished as #1 and accomplished this in style with a memorable rearguard action. Given Deus' control of political events during the round and the re-emergence of FLTV at a time when FoS and Xeta were becoming exhausted it would be difficult to predict with accuracy what might have happened if the round continued. All in all, Round 6 went down as one of the more interesting rounds in Planetarion history.
Round 6 history From Marduk
Between the rounds FLTTV further known as Furgion set up their gals well. Five members of each ally (as a maximum) were placed in a gal to prevent that a single gal absorbing all defence from an ally. Signup and the start of the round was running as we prepared for. But after 2 weeks of building up and preparing for the first strikes almost all Furgion gals received heavy incoming and lost most of their roids. What happened was that fighting against 11 allies was proven nearly impossible. We were left with the chance of working hard to get at least some of our galaxies into ranking.
Suddenly, some weeks before end of round 6 XeTa and FoS declared war on each other. This was a diplomatic disaster for XeTa which declared war on FoS first. At this time FLTV was back in the game. With FoS as our new 'partner' we took down nearly all XeTa gals before havoc. The high amount of XeTa gals dropping down the ranks gave free slots for our own gals. ToT managed to get at least 2 gals into t20 ranking which was a great success.FLTV learned that we needed to communicate better and concentrate on r7. One of the highlights in preparing for the new round, ViruS and ToT linked their irc-servers and set up joined command channels for the new round. We are well prepared for r7 ! --[ToT]Marduk
