Both sides this last weekend were fighting for a system they cared about.
Neither side could give up their claim to Lave.
"When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force."
And the fighting was good.
The BGS ticks were closely contested. Never more than a few percent. Some days down to the wire. Lave is a 25 Billion population, so pretty hard to move. Both sides smashed it out absolutely as hard as they could. LRN are a popular mob, and the Alliance mobilised to defend.
I don't know the crew on the LRN side, but I saw CMDRs from all over the Alliance. AID ARC AMF AEDC New Dawn and AOS. Lots of Mahon pledges that I didn't recognise at all.
And PvP?
Oh yeah - truly nothing beats hollow red squares.
Not gank squads or highly engineered griefers, but genuine CMDRs sticking to their guns and refusing to back down.
It looks like the Alliance have held Lave. For now.
But LRN have committed months of effort, and they are not going anywhere.