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| == Information ==
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| Round 6 saw the introduction of [[race]]s.
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| ==Round Summary==
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| '''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]], [[Creation of Titans Announcement|split off]] 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 [[ally|allied]] with [[ND]] and [[hirr]], but with many strong links still in place with Legion, especially among [[Joy of Villainy]], the Titans group [[Round 6 Titans Pre-Round Announcement|re-allied Legion]], leaving Deus, before the round started. This led to [[Agamemnon]] [[Agamemnon Leaves Titans|leaving Titans]] in order to join Deus, where he became the lynchpin of their war machine for the round to come.
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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, due 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. After initial debates within FLTV over whether to target Xanadu or Deus the block, under pressure from Legion to do so, went after Xanadu. Nonetheless the majority of FLTV galaxies steadily lost ground leading to their top gals becoming isolated. FoS/Xeta then switched their targeting towards the big FLTV gals who found themselves lacking 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.
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| 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 went to war with Xeta, with alliances such as Guild [[Guild_declares_war_on_XeTa|declaring so on AD]], 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.
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| With the pressure off FLTV they grew rapidly in the last weeks of the round, tagging up their galaxies as [NOTDEAD], their [[Round 6 FLTV Attack on Storebo|destruction]] of [[Storebo]] of [[Elysium]], then #1 planet, being a particularly noteworthy event. Deus came under heavy fire and Xeta, especially, lost many of their top ranking galaxies. Silver disbanded under the intense pressure they came under and [[Round 6 Elysium Announcement|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]] [[Round 6 5:24|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 History by [[lokken]]===
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| ====Prologue====
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| Round 5 was a largely one sided affair. Fury, Wolfpack, BlueTuba, Elysium and Legion had blocked relentlessly and won the round with weeks to spare. However, victory came at a price for this strong block. BlueTuba disbanded mid-round under the weight of losing members to larger alliances in the group; Elysium and Wolfpack became politically marginalised as the strength of the relationship between Sid of Fury and Biggdogg of Legion became apparent, cannibalising their allies; members of Legion's own ranks walked to form Titans in disgust at the alliance's renewed corralling with Fury. It was this very discontentment, coupled with Xanadu's desire to gain revenge after a bitter defeat that shaped the very nature of round 6. What followed was arguably one of the most explosive and relentless rounds in Planetarion history.
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| ====The Protagonists====
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| =====Xeta – Xanadu, Elysium, The Frying Dutchmen (TFD), Silver (Ag)=====
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| Xeta was Xanadu's chosen vehicle for reclaiming the Planetarion throne. Despite defeat in round 5, Xanadu were still a mighty alliance, particularly with their LDK and [[BULL]] battle groups. This allowed them to retain their capacity and expertise to stage the formidable wave attacks that won them round 4 so spectacularly. They were joined by a sister alliance, Silver and with a strong Dutch contingent, they were able to persuade TFD to join them Elysium, cast out from the Fury and Legion fold, found new strength and influence with their new partners. But most importantly, this allowed them to have a shot at revenge after being cannibalised by Fury and Legion during round 5's extended stagnation period.
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| ====FoS switch sides====
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| As the war turned decisively in Xeta/FoS' favour, the Deus HC were agonising over their next move. Opinion was massively split over what to do after FLTV were defeated. Often the HC would believe they could win one day only to conclude they were politically doomed the next. One point of view was that relieving any pressure on Fury would ultimately lead to them coming back to win and that given round 5, any Fury success should be prevented at all costs. Ultimately, the opinion to gun for Xanadu and their Xeta block prevailed, viewing a war with Xeta as only a matter of time. Co-ordinating the war with Xanadu had been highly contentious, with regular disagreements over targets, strategy and NAP breaches between the FoS and Xeta blocks. Conscious of their weak position, Deus propaganda targeting Fury waned in this period and began (some might say surprisingly given their reputation) to take a slightly more objective tack.
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| Politics in Planetarion were about to shift dramatically, as the Deus command viewed close working relations with Fury as their only path to defeating Xanadu, and ultimate victory. Deus' warming relations to Fury did not go unnoticed in Xeta and FoS. Many within FoS voiced discontentment that Deus might become closer to Fury than the rest of the block, while Xeta sensed an act of treachery was in the offing.
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| With Deus on the verge of persuading its block to side with FLVT, Xeta took the initiative and publicly served a 72 hour notice to terminate their NAP with Deus. This was an attempt to isolate Deus from the rest of FoS and it partially worked, with NoS, Wolfpack and CELL holding back from declaring war on Xanadu, making a conscious decision to let Deus take some damage before taking sides. ND and hirr immediately declared war on Xanadu on principle, despite Leto and Barrow harbouring their own doubts about Deus' plan for success.
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| Patrician, disgusted that his HC alliance colleagues would choose to work with Fury, left Deus in protest. His parting shot to Fury (and in particular their Executive, Cryptic) was to release information from the BlueTuba archive suggesting that Fury had manipulated the sign up procedure in round 3 and shared accounts to give them a favourable cluster position. This resulted in a bitter debate on Alliance Discussions as to Fury's credibility whenever they accused Xanadu (and in particular, LDK) of cheating.
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| However, this schism went beyond mere alliance politics; whole galaxies were affected in their alliance makeup. The 72 hour period involved many in Xeta and FoS galaxies shifting alliances to back the block they thought that was going to win and ensure political unity in their galaxies. Ultimately, Xanadu was probably the biggest benefactor of this process. With exchanges between Deus and Xanadu already occurring in violation of the 72 hour cooling off period, the second war of round 6 was ready to begin.
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| ====Consequences of round 6====
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| At the end of the round, Deus chose to disband. This was largely because the HC felt that their aims had been achieved and simply that after a period of extended activity, they were simply not up to taking on such levels of responsibility. The majority of Deus HC ended up in Legion and Fury, indicating their preferences based on who they had worked with in the previous round. This also had the consequence of many Deus players joining them in these alliances, tipping round 7 heavily in Fury and Legion's favour before the round had even started.
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| === Round 6 history of the Ðragonlands (5:24) From [[Jurgen]] ===
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| Before round start Jurgen and lizardking decided to make a galaxy of their own under the flag of Wolfpack with a Ðragons oriented theme. This galaxy was gathered from a number of different places and there were no players with high-profile histories in it. The players brought in were placed into alliances, first in Wolfpack (mainly), GLX and NoS and then later also in Xanadu in order to fight for a high rank. The GC of the galaxy, Jurgen, decided and organized a high percentage of the galaxy attacks in order to prevent any mistakes or failed raids and friendly fire. Planets ingal were only allowed to attack with attacks set by a galaxy-member.
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| During the initial days of the round 5:24 began to campaign to create a strong cluster alliance [5upreme]. With everyone except FLTV gals being friendly it was quite easy to map resistance in cluster. Cluster 5 turned out to be one of the toughest clusters, containing 2 FLTV stronghold galaxies and 1 support galaxy, and with few other organised non-FLTV galaxies. As protection came to a close Ðragonlands was ranked #7, the Legion stronghold galaxy, 5:16, containing military officers such as Xavi and Rids was #9 and Arfa's stronghold Fury galaxy 5:12 #11. When FoS and Xeta started their 'clear your cluster' campaign Ðragonlands went to war. The main target was 5:16, and they remained so for 7 consecutive days. Although they attempted to fight back, with assistance from 5:12, they proved unable to triumph. After those 7 days 5:16 was quite dead and targeting was switched to 5:12. The war ended after 2 weeks of constant fighting, when everyone was down. 5:16 took the heaviest beating ending up rank 230 and dying away. 5:12 was rank 184 and Ðragonlands dropping to an all time low of #168. After that Ðragonlands ran attacks twice a day, a real galaxy attack every morning at 6:55 CET and day raids for fleets left home and/or pulled during the day time.
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| When the dust settled on the first few weeks of the round the galaxy went out roiding intensively and in the ensuing days not a single real attack targeted 5:24. The cluster alliance, 5upreme, became the strongest cluster alliance, and the galaxy itself became the fattest gal by far and later also rose to #1 in the score rankings. At one point many of the players in 5:24 had twice the roids that the galaxy in second place had. After it was announced that the round would end in 2 weeks the galaxy decided to keep fleets home at night-time, defend when needed and cease attacking. Later they realized that there was only 1 galaxy (Silvercity) in the top 10 that wasn't present in the Ðragons BG channel #dragonlands. Jurgen personally decided not to participate in the competition for #1 planet. At the time it was common and accepted to farm roids from friends. Jurgen decided that he didn't want to waste his time farming his friends in order to get personal glory and turned down at least three dozen offers of free roids.
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| Behind the scenes FLTV had asked for retals or permission to launch on 5:24 a number of times. LDK also wanted to attack the galaxy at this point but overall relations to Xanadu were strong due to the presence of a couple of very good friends to Ðragonlands in the Xanadu high command, who held LDK in check. FLTV talked about and threatened to launch on 5:24 frequently and most of Wolfpack thought that they would launch a heavy assault during the very last days, but the galaxy was simply too big to attack by this stage and they had massive numbers of decent fleets on standby. Only a few fleets were launched in the end and those few attacks were defended by 137 fleets of 1337 ships as a show of strength.
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| Before the end of round the ingal NoS members in fact left their alliance due to arguments they had with Dingo, leaving the only alliance tag in the galaxy name as [Wolfpack].
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| === Round 6 history From [[Marduk]] ===
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 !
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| ''--[ToT][[Marduk]]''
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| ==Final Rankings==
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| *[[Top 100 planets for Round 6]]
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| *[[Top 100 galaxies for Round 6]]
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[:Category:Alliances:Round 6|Alliances]]
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| *[[Round 6:Ship Stats|Ship Stats]]
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