I was more or less brand new to the game, and under a different username. I did the noob thing and made my own alliance. We were actually going OK considering, and around New Years '07 we were talking with the NAAC Ambassador about a possible protectorate. Then war came, and never having visited the Big Boards or an IRC channel I had no idea what was going on. LUE's Ambassador asked for like, 100k (lol), and I gave it to him (lol). I then got jumped by two GOONS and a Nordreich. Being the whimsical noob I was I decided to disband the alliance after the war, and decided to join the NADC (mainly because the NADC Ambassador had a cool sig). There I actually learnt a few things about the game, and the rest is history.