The war revolves around resentment and animosity toward the largest of the game’s many organized alliances, the Clusterfuck Coalition ( CFC), which recently dubbed itself the Imperium and began, in the style of a classic empire, demanding its neighboring territories swear fealty and pay taxes. This week, what is potentially the largest war in Eve history kicked off with what might be its biggest battle ever. As you check your email and surf Twitter and Facebook in your corner of the web, people around the world are gearing up for battle in another. Not real space - in the space of Eve Online, a massively multiplayer online game (or MMO) whose enormous, intricate battles gather thousands of players and cost real-world money.
A shady consortium of casino bankers is funding a rebel coalition’s desperate fight against an arrogant would-be empire. There’s an enormous war going on as we speak.
