Nine Years of Reavers

Once again we have landed in the middle of October and another Reavers anniversary has come and gone.  October 15th 2014 was the founding date of the Reavers SIG, which seems like a long time ago now.  It was certainly a different world.

Reavers forum bee

And once again I do not have much to report.  I clicked on the Reavers tag on the blog and the last post so marked was the Eighth anniversary.

Lacking anything specific to look back on, I suppose I can always fall back on the null sec influence maps to show what has changed over the last nine years.

Oct 2014 vs Oct 2023

On the right is null sec after the collapse of the Russian alliances in the Halloween war after the victory at B-R5RB, which saw 70 titans destroyed, an unprecedented amount of destruction in its day, only surpassed by the two battles at M2-XFE in 2020/2021.

Largest Battles by ISK Destroyed

By October 2014 the east had been consolidated into a vast rental area.  Rental empires were the thing, and even the Imperium had some rental space.  Null sec is divided into two spheres of influence, running in a line from about 1 o’clock in the north to 7 o’clock in the south.

In 2023 things have shifted.  There are a lot more entities on the map.  The Imperium is in the southwest rather than the north, and a lot of new entities are popping up in the southeast, which was declared open by an agreement between the major powers in order to allow new alliances to come to null sec.

Now we’re in a more quiet era.  A small war is still brewing in the north.  But it is something of a stalemate.

But it is enough to keep Asher busy, along with everything else going on.

As I said last year, it was hard enough for Asher to find time for us as a SIG when he was just the Sky Marshall of the Imperium, directing the military might of the coalition.  But since he has take over as the leader of the Imperium, well now he has to sit in meetings about finance and gets reminded that he needs to talk about PI production at the weekly fireside.

He still keeps an eye on our channel in Mumble though.  My sole contribution to the SIG now is to remind people in our channel that another anniversary has hit.

Live from Reavers Mumble

Maybe we’re not doing much as a group any more… though we do get invited to the Black Ops SIG and their deployments still, which is not nothing.  But for now Reavers is more memories of good times and fun deployments than going out and doing anything these days.

There is a lot of history there and quite a few systems that I know associate with Reavers events.  And I can always flip through my past anniversary posts to see what was happening.

• A Year of Reavers
• Two Years of Reavers
• Three Years of Reavers
• Four Years of Reavers
• Five Years of Reavers
• Six Years of Reavers
• Seven Years of Reavers
• Eight Years of Reavers

Next year it will be a decade.