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What awaited the coalition was a territory absolutely littered with pets, renters who had paid BoB for the right to mine and rat in stations they had not conquered for themselves. BoB had farmed out control of Feythabolis and Esoteria to such illustrious forces as Gods of Night and Day (GONAD - no, really, they actually chose that alliance abbreviation of their own volition), Confederation of the Red Moon (CoRM), Southern Connection (SoCo), Anzac Alliance (ANZAC), Digital Renegades (DFC), Executive Outcomes (EXE), Interstellar Starbase Syndicate (ISS), and - the largest of the lot - R i s e (RISE).

Of these renters, RISE had the best constellation in the region, but was only allowed to rat and mine within those seven systems; to do otherwise would violate their contract with BoB. RISE also had the advantage of holding three stations, where the other pets only were able to rent one or two per pet; this meant that RISE would benefit from constellation sovereignty, rendering their 'RIT Triangle' much more defensible from hostile invasion than the other pet systems.  The invading coalition opted to leave RISE for last, the final pet targeted for destruction in Feythabolis, after snapping up the low-hanging fruit elsewhere.

But that timetable did not sit well with RoyofCA. Roy was a member of Goonswarm's Black Ops group, famous for using cloaking recon ships to lock down hostile systems. Goonswarm deployed Black Ops to erode RISE's morale and soften them up while the coalition focused on other pets. Untraceable due to their cloaks, and willing to go afk yet remain logged into the game for days at a time, the enemy could never be certain if a Black Ops fleet was active or not. Bottled up in a single constellation with only one exit, RISE quickly found itself unable to mine or rat, and their alliance income plummeted. As one RISE member put it, after the war:

Cloaking gangs "...prevent[ed] RISE members from being able to easily make isk to replace ship losses with. Also brought a halt to most ratting/mining in the area severely hampering RISE's ability to generate positive cashflow. This caused an elimination of the 'ship reimbursement' program that had previously allowed RISE to quickly replace lost ships for it's pilots. While this didn't really affect the more hard-core pvp pilots in the alliance it did put an almost immediate stop to the more care-bear oriented pilots dotting up, thus severely depleting fleet sizes when called."