@Barnard17 for me personally only one thing counts any more related to your community.
end of communication!
i am personally curious if you will show up in the battle fields this time or just write your statements in social media...
Why should they show up? It 's not their battle to fight, same thing as with you lot.
What did SPEAR archive in the week they were up in Colonia.
1. Halt to all targeted upgrades of the engineers, most likely forever. THEY KILLED YIANNIV!!!!
2. Got a faction into big trouble in their own home system. Not much love left for that faction as they are a willing partner. Now they are in trouble in another of their controlled systems too, again done by one of their own.
3. Got another faction on the brink of loosing their home system by helping the local dictatorship. This dictatorship is hated by all free Colonia citizens for their bullying tactics and my-way-or-the-highway approach to Colonia politics.
4. Actively working against a faction trying to regain control of their home system. Not us, we still in control of ours and our forces are growing daily. Plus we have no issue with them retaking the system.
5. Shooting clean CMDRs and being wanted criminals all over the nebula. The locals are getting tired of you lot. Look a couple posts up from yours.
6. I think the only bounties SPEAR collected was on their and their allies heads. Some strange high bounty values in CIDE and EN space.
7. Had an easy way to retreat The Nameless from Union and couldn't do the job. 75% inf locked, us in drought, plus having a 6 to 1 ratio of people. 5500 bounties for a value of 400+mil cr later and we are still in the system. Newsflash, we would have beaten the retreat even without the expansion tax. We were at 2.9% before it was applied.

8. People in SPEAR affiliated sqdrns buying Alliance ships in Carcosa and are now actively working to remove them from the nebula. Nice I got mine attitude.
Go mine Tritium to go home before you really loose the last bit of respect the Elite community as a whole has for you. This is not your fight and you CIDEd with the aggressor(bully)