We hate to disappoint everyone that was so happy about our recent announcement, but the news below was a total hoax. We're not returning to Shadowbane. We're still in EVE, and doing quite well.
We do feel bad that more people than expected got their hopes up that we were returning, but there were some funny results:
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The final days:
Our last contract was against a new corporation called Virikar. It was during this time that we really realised that the intensity of our life was beginning to show in our performance. Our results against VK are not especially impressive, but like many other groups they rightly only engage when they have superiority. We did however manage to shut them down in that they dropped their wardec and were getting no kills except against us. Today they announced the closing of their Eve branch, with some mebers switching out to Virakorp. With the conditions of our contract met it was time for us to hang up our merc gloves."
...whoops. I also liked this and this.
I don't think in the almost six years we've been operating we've ever declared defeat as a news update, the only time we might have would be over four years ago (which would be the only time you could arguably say we were defeated). Sorry to disappoint MCrew (and client), but we're still alive and well. We're actually in the Red v Blue alliance war now.
This is the thread on the Shadowbane boards if you missed that side of our prank.