Mm okay, so reason for war is NOT REAL ganking activity in Colonia region. I have previously been somewhat positive towards SPEAR as I detest gankers, but this puts whole new light to situation.
OK - my main account is in Colonia - and is a member of Loren's Reapers (the group who SPEAR came 22KLy to brand as gankers) - I play PvE, plenty for me to do here and some of the best surroundings an explorer could ask for.Though I really must ask is there real ganker problem in Colonia, I haven't seen anything like such. So is the SPEAR's motivation some kind of powertrip or do they have REAL justification for their effort? As far as I have seen SPEAR guys have not given definite answer.
I usually potter around doing missions in fragile ships (unless they are BH related, then my ships have teeth and resilience) and in the year or so I've been in Colonia have had a single gank attempt (unsuccesful) by a known ganker (not Phisto, LoL!) over that time - Colonia is that unsafe
Now, surprisingly, I have had an unarmed and unshielded (clean) ship blown up in my base system recently... Yet the attackers were not Colonia 'residents'...
If you'd like to be 'shown around' I'll also volunteer, although being associated with me, or any of my squadron could be 'interesting' in these times