[An Introduction and Brief History]

DraGOONS was briefly revived before the admin there pulled the plug. However AD lead it, so what little success it had in the beginning didn't last very long. Maiknel and some others refused to just remove AD from power out of laziness, so no surprise the faction was a failure. AE GOONS are still alive and kicking in the new server, though. We're still establishing ourselves at the moment.

Mind covering how you ended up scoring a protectorate with both Orders, and why (after the UJW) you would approach them for it?

Absolutely, I can make that my next post if there is enough interest.

[An Introduction and Brief History]

Goons dominated that moon game for a long time. It certainly was a nice show. I'm looking forward to a seeing the GOONS here.

How cow! Nice seeing you again, long time no see.

[An Introduction and Brief History]

Didn't the Goonswarm take over EVE practically overnight? I have a friend who used to play EVE, and if I remember what he told me correctly, they took advantage of an opening that let them hold the majority of space in the game over the span of a few hours.

That's a very large exaggeration, this is the current map of political EVE: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Verite/influence.png . Goonswarm owned Delve and Querious in the bottom left most recently. Hardly the majority of space, but the best space. They did take advantage of a top level defection of a director of the alliance who owned it though, he disbanded the alliance and allowed goonswarm to move in and claim all the space.

Ironically, goonswarm didn't even need a defection to lose all their space in that manner, they just had to forget to have somebody pay the bills.

After that though somebody did freak out and defect, but I haven't heard what came of it.

[An Introduction and Brief History]

Very interesting and insightful read.

I hear there's also a pretty large EVE Online group from the SA forums. Any truth to this?

Absolutely, Goonswarm is, or possibly, was, the largest Goon-run gaming group. At its peak it reached over 6 thousand members. They owned the best space in the game. Recently however, they lost all of their space due to a bill paying misshap. I myself am not in Goonswarm, but I have been playing eve for almost 6 years now. Goonswarm's exploits are well documented, and they have even has articles about them in the NYT. This is a time of crisis for them, having lost all their space they could totally explode like the old CNGOONS did or reform and try to take space elsewhere.