Göring went lowsec

During the Summer of 1940 Hitler started air force attack on Britain, with the goal that for the first time in history win a war with only air force, making Britain surrender or weaken them to the point where they cannot repel an amphibious landing. To everyone's surprise, the British air force emerged victorious. This feat was immortalized by Churchill saying "Never was so much owed by so many to so few", referring to the whole free world and the handful of British pilots.

This wasn't true at all. The power of Luftwaffe was grossly overestimated by both sides. On the Axis side, the bombastic "media personality" Göring bragged about his unbeatable armada to everyone, making Hitler overestimate them again. On the British side there was a huge pre-war hysteria about bombers. In reality, the British aircraft production and crew training was always above German. Combined with the fact that Germans had to use much of their fuel to cross the Channel and downed pilots were captured, while downed British landed at home territory, it was a war of attrition that Germans couldn't possibly win.

On November 2015, an EVE personality who makes Göring look modest declared "As part of this, we will be going into lowsec to fuck the people who thought that we will never follow them there. The era of "we cannot do lowsec" is over". In retrospect, this was a fatal failure, not just because the huge asset and morale loss among the Imperium fleet, but also by gaining new grudge enemies who would never consider taking part in nullsec politics. Today the "lowsec scum" is providing big part of the fighting force pounding on Imperium Sov, showing how dumb Mittani, Sion, Aryth and Laz were.

The 1940 history was remembered for a reason. Like then, the lowsec defeat of the Imperium was anything but a miracle performed by a few extraordinary men. Let's look at the 2015 killboard analysis (all kills, not just the campaign): It's impossible to count for all lowsec entities and I don't have complete data, so I just compare top 4 with top 4. You can see that they are roughly equal. If you add that there are much more lowsec entities than Imperium and the Imperium is much more front-loaded (Goonswarm is alone bigger than #2-#4 while Project.Mayhem is half as big as #2-#4) we can conclude that lowsec was always a bigger fighting power than the Imperium. Let's add that they were fighting on home turf, so pilots could mission between battles while Goons had to travel regions to rat, we see that "we can do lowsec" was a pointless attack on a more powerful enemy, a war that Goons lost in the minute they started it. Boosted by their media ego, they looked down on the enemy and jumped head-first into inevitable disaster.

Trust the numbers, not the bragging!

PS: Deklein is safe, Mittani promised us!
There was a 6-hours long battle for R-LW2I between the Imperium and Paisti/MoA/Suddenly/PH with a a crushing defeat for Goonies. The IHUB is destroyed (see ADM), the JB system connecting the farms of Deklein to Empire is severed. Here is a report from a MoA pilot: "Damn gewnies bridged new caracal fleet on us 3 times during the fight. Paisti helped us to the first one, the second one was stomped by Spectre Fleet, and Pandemic Horde feroxed the third one. It was indeed us (MOA) who did the nodes, stayed up to all 3 fleets of gewnies, and reshipped 3 times to match the changing situation on the field."

Finally, CO2 left a huge poop at the yard of Goons. While having little military value, this is surely a slap in the face for Goonies: "Little" is more than nothing. Who would bet that a huge Goon fleet will guard it to avoid shame while MoA will run unopposed evicting TNT from PB?