Groups to know: teach us about one of EVE's alliances!

The Wormlife alliance, mainly consisting of the Wormlife Freeport Operations corporation, is an alliance that operates dozens of Upwell Citadels throughout the wormhole network that are "freeports," meaning all players* have docking rights and can store as much as they want there!

This is incredibly invaluable to newbies who want to get started with fully living in a wormhole system - they can stay in hole and never leave, without worrying about the dangers of safelogging or the sheer financial burden of fueling their own Starbase.

Wormlife also:

• maintains a militia to defend any freeport structures that come under attack

• keeps Planetary Interaction taxes low in freeport systems, allowing freeport-goers to turn much more profit out of the already-lucrative J-space planets

• provides in-game chat channels for long-time residents of a specific system to communicate and share intel with each other

• sets guidelines for freeport-goers to set up their own structures or starbases in freeport systems

• sets rules on PvP in freeport systems to ensure that freeport-goers don't have to worry about other freeport-goers attacking them during their J-space activities while being able to dock up at a sign of resistance.

and RE that last bullet point, we have the explanation for the asterisk.
*not all players actually have docking rights. The specific people who don't: Any players or corporations/alliances who attack Wormlife Freeports, or attack players while in freeport systems, are removed from the docking permisisons list and become unable to dock or tether at Wormlife freeports. Engaging in PvP further down the wormhole chain is fine - but not in the freeport system itself.

TLDR: Wormlife sets up freeports in wormhole space that everyone can dock in and provides a safe haven for new-to-wormhole-life players to get used to the mechanics and activities of Anoikis.

I've never been a chronically online player, so I've never really focused on alliances, even though I know how important they are. With that in mind, I have to talk about the giant Pandemic Horde, a newbie-friendly alliance and a PvP giant, being located in the null sec.

It was founded in 2015, in a context where brave was attracting all the new players with its fun and attractive look, by Pandemic Legion. It maintains an idea of “open doors” for new players, guaranteeing a good entry to null sec for those who are interested, their newbie channel helped me A LOT, especially since they have language channels for French, Korean, Russian, German, Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese.

Leadership: It's led by Gobbins, a generally charismatic figure, despite some controversial reports on reddit.

Specializations in the sector and in gameplay: As I said before, in PVP it maintains a specialty, with huge fleets. Still focusing on new players, they have the “Newbean Carepackage” program with free ships, skill books and training.

Alliance Influence Map

Pandemic Horde | Alliance | zKillboard

Today, I want to tell you about quite unique alliance in EVE Online: Ivy League.

Founded in 2005, Ivy League is quite different from typical alliances made up of various independent corporations. Instead, it functions more like a group of service divisions under a single umbrella, all tied to the EVE University corporation.

Each member corp within Ivy League serves a specific purpose. Some focus on logistics, others run buyback programs or manage training campuses like the E-UNI Wormhole Campus. The alliance structure allows these sister corps to share infrastructure, benefit from unified diplomatic standings, and operate under a coordinated mission.

That mission is clear and shared across the alliance: to bring the light of knowledge to all capsuleers. Ivy League is highly respected and broadly accepted across New Eden, even by powerful nullsec entities. This is partly because everyone recognizes the critical role EVE University plays in on-boarding and educating new players.

And it goes deeper! thousands of alumni have passed through EVE University, many of whom are now CEOs or officers of major corps and alliances. Yet despite moving on, they often maintain warm ties to their alma mater, helping to protect its neutrality and mission long after they’ve graduated.

Whenever a new player asks me: "Which alliance should I join?", my answer is always the same: EVE University or one of its divisions. There’s no better starting point.

I don''t know if old videos count, but I've got this history edit of the Kybernauts Clades/Pro Trig alliances who helped form Pochven then have lived there since, narrative video =)

Today, I want to shine a light on my old alliance - Curse Alliance.

Formed in August 2003 and disbanded by January 2005, it had a relatively short lifespan, but its impact on the history of EVE Online was profound. Many of the structures, politics, and traditions we see in today’s New Eden can trace their roots back to CA. In fact, if you open the current political map, you’ll still spot echoes of corporations that originated from Curse Alliance.

The name wasn’t exactly original - it came from the Curse region, which we considered our home base. This was a time before alliance tools or sovereignty mechanics even existed. We were essentially a coalition of corporations controlling vast swaths of nullsec through presence and force. Beyond Curse, our influence extended into Great Wildlands, Scalding Pass, Cache, Insmother, Wicked Creek, and Detorid. My own corp was tasked with defending two outposts in the latter.

At its peak, CA had over 2,300 capsuleers, almost exclusively focused on PvP. At some point we were engaged with five large wars simultaneously, effectively turning the conflict into CA vs the world.

Despite having infamous pirate corps like m0o among our ranks, we enforced a strict no-piracy policy. Other notable member corps included Shinra, M.Corp, Vengeance of the Fallen, RUS, Black Omega Security, Arcane Technologies.

Our main rivals were Stain Alliance, Fountain Alliance (also not winning any name originality contests) and Xetics.

After CA’s fall, the void left behind gave rise to powerful new forces: Veritas Immortalis, Lotka Volterra, Ascendant Frontier, The Five, Chimera Pact, Red Alliance, Against All Authorities (AAA), RedSwarm Federation, Band of Brothers (BoB), and others.

The collapse of CA sparked a long period of chaos - 18 months of war between ex-CA members and rising outsider alliances. This culminated in a dramatic final chapter: the Dreadnought massacre and last stand at C-J6MT... but that’s a story for another time.