Cloud Ring

From EVE History

The Cloud Ring is a region located in the north west of Eve, located north east of Outer Ring, south west of Pure Blind and south of Fade.

Cloud Ring contains nodes to several other regions in EVE including Syndicate, Fountain and Placid. Several important pipes cross at f7c and b-db.

The deadend system XZH contains the best mineral asteroids, in particular, Megacyte. As such, whoever controls XZH, controls Cloud Ring. G Alliance controlled Cloud Ring and excluded all but their alliance from XZH until the alliance was replaced by D2, which operated with the same people and policies.

Due to disagreement on the future of the region, two Corps (SteelVipers, which had lived in the area for ages), and Federation of Synthetic Persons left D2 peacefully to form a new alliance, called YouWhat. Unfortunately, due to a mix up, the sovereignty was lost. People say a GoonSwarm raiding group took notice of the missing sovereignty and the very same night more and more Goonies moved from Syndicate/Outer Ring (where they were fighting with NORAD) to Cloud Ring. A harsh and dirty war erupted between GoonSwarm and their allies (most notably SMASH, which were most likely hired mercenaries for the capital support) and D2 (which decided to fight for Cloud Ring anyway), YouWhat and more friends from the north (most notably RAZOR and IRON) ended after about a month when the final assault of the GoonSwarm went wrong and Band of Brothers invaded the home system of GoonSwarm in S-U to eradicate them. At this point the fightings in Cloud Ring were over and Goonies withdrew.

In deciding which alliance would be given access to Cloud Ring, D2 surprised many outsiders by handing it over to RISE. Rise, realizing the depth of their situation, were the first alliance to allow outside access to the Cloud Ring resident corporations to XZH. Unfortunately, the old alliance between RISE and YouWhat broke down and war broke out between the two. YouWhat allied to Outbreak, notorious PvPers, and, over the course of a month, took back control of Cloud Ring from RISE. Due to limited resources, Cloud Ring residents lost access to XZH again.

In March 2007, YouWhat decided to side with BoB in the New Eden War. They moved out of Cloud Ring into a better position and Freelancer Alliance took control over 9-4RP2 and G8AD-C (two of the three station systems in Cloud Ring) but never gained control over XZH. After some weeks of skirmishing between FLA and YW, FLA moved out of Cloud Ring, so it was back in the hands of it's previous owner.