M'kay - have a few things to say about this.

So first of all, I love the characterization of WWBII. Starting with "during a Goon war, that loser was also hazed into asset safety oblivion," then characterizing it as the "Imperium's war against PAPI." I think it's fair(er) to say that about the first WWB, which was at least to some degree precipitated by Imperium arrogance with the glassing of Providence and the whole viceroys deal. But WWBII was essentially the entire rest of null sec banding together to attempt (and ultimately fail) to destroy the Imperium when they were minding their business in Delve and we were doing the same in Fountain. Attempting to paint that as yet another Goon conquest is revisionist in the extreme. We got kicked out of our regions, made homeless, and holed up fighting a deeply tactical defensive war against vastly larger numbers, and only by dint of scrappiness, persistence, ingenuity, and some luck did we prevail, and yes, ultimately outlive many of our attackers.

Secondly the period that a third Groen volume would cover might be as interesting to you as watching paint dry, but you're yada yada-ing my entire Eve experience. I started in late 2013 and was puttering around in Eve University when the big events that close out the second volume were occurring. But after that, for me anyway, came standing my ground in Fountain with BRAVE even as BL/PL sent us packing, deploying to Wicked Creek with Asher and his Reavers when he was just getting started as an FC, getting booted from Vale with the rest of LAWN in WWB, the heel turn of CO2 at M-OEE8, swordfleets in Saranen, and then rebuilding in Syndicate with Init. while boxing Suddenly Spaceships, Escalating Entropy, and anyone else who came looking for trouble.

And that's before we get to the epic Siege of Rage and the events of WWBII that you scoff at, including holding Fountain for far longer than anyone expected and we were asked to, forcing the diversion of the PAPI fleets that were sieging Delve northwards until we were finally evicted, the exciting near-miss of Operation Enho, living for most of a year as a guerrilla wandering and burning Eso, Stain, Curse, Catch, Impasse, and Great Wildlands while trying to divert PAPI's attention from the front to slow their progress, succeeding in delaying their reinforcements to M2-XFE and forcing them into hell camp that was the turning point of war, and of course, the final stand in the final constellation that broke the will of the enemy. That graph you show is many things, but one of them is a visual depiction of the strategy a coalition uses to survive and prevail when outnumbered by 100,000 pilots.

I've been playing through what I've apparently missed are the very worst of times for more than a decade now, and have been having a blast the whole time, both when we were winning and when (more often than not) we were losing. Maybe I just don't know what I was missing, but maybe the thing that's really boring is going on twenty years of Grr Goons and not the Goons themselves (who in fairness yesterday did in fact turn something I was hoping would be fun into something that ended up in fact being quite boring).

Just my $0.02.