Pandemic Horde: Cascading Failure

 So in my very first post on my blog about my new beginnings and fresh start I mentioned that I had gotten the itch for EVE Online again.

Before I started up my character and blog, I was lurking on the EVE subreddit for some time to see what things were going on in New Eden these days.

It was until one day recently, as a former Pandemic Horde member, that absolutely blew my mind. I guess some crazy stuff went down and it triggered a cascading failure, "failscade" in EVE term, of the entire alliance.

I don't really know exactly what went down to cause such a failscade to be triggered, but from what I have read Pandemic Horde leadership had planned a move and essentially started evacuating their stuff before making it public and basically told the rest of the alliance to evacuate and retreat.

Within a short time of public ping, the evacuation proceeded to get absolutely hell camped by Goons and the Horde leadership (having already left and gotten their assets out) basically abandoned the rest of the alliance to get themselves out.

I was reading and watching streams about this and it was an absolute cluster fuck. Lot of alliance people were mad they were just rolling over and not even bothering to attempt a defense. So much stuff was lost to both fighting as they were trying to get their stuff out and so much stuff was just being asset safetied away to the nearest lowsec system (which is most likely also going to be hell camped when the asset safety timer is up).

I was mostly watching from Zigam's stream (MrUnluckie).

Eventually a mass exodus started as the failscade continued and corportions and people started leaving the alliance. As of this post and time, Pandemic Horde has lost nearly 11,000 pilots and over a dozen corporations (expected to be even higher as corps get their people to safety before making decisions on staying or leaving).

The corporation Zigam was in planned to leave and join The Initiative, however Zigam was blacklisted by them and so he eventually left and made his own corporation (which I have joined as of today).

Seeing all this go down is quite saddening, because Horde has a lot of good people and they got screwed over by some bad apples.

I don't know what is in store for Horde in the future, but I do hope they manage to survive and rebuild themselves.