Oct 24th 2010, 20:59:04
LaF had every intention of netgaining this reset, and in the spirit of that we made multiple attempts to pact SOL (the most recent attempt being a few days ago) but to no avail.
But still, we hoped that we could netgain, figuring that SOL would have no reason to come after us again after last reset. However, as the reset carried on, more and more evidence began to mount that they WOULD in fact hit us.
I will not try to claim that we knew 100% that SOL was going to hit us. But they were attempting to isolate us from our allies, and pacted pretty much the entire server outside us and 1 other viable target.
That other viable target appeared to become less and less viable as the reset went on, and signs that we were in fact the target continued to collect.
They were spreading a lot of pretty hateful... lets call them untruths... about LaF to other alliances around the server throughout the course of this reset. Untruths such as: we had made no attempts to pact them, that we were acting arrogant towards them, and that we spat in their face last reset when offered a ceasefire.
Unfortunately this placed LaF in a position where we felt that the chances of getting struck were significant, and that we needed to heavily war prep. We couldn't' allow ourselves to be caught with our pants down like we did last reset, not twice in a row....
Once you go into that degree of war prepping, there is no going back. Netting was ruined, and even if it wasn't, sitting around waiting for the other shoe to drop with SOL wasn't something we were willing to do.
So we decided to make this fight happen on our terms.
Good Luck to SOL.