The largest awox in the history of EVE

Awoxing is the act in EVE where a member of a team turns on his trusting teammates, destroying their ships, alone or in cooperation with other players, who are usually hostile to the original group. There are other forms of hostile actions against teammates, like dropping Sov or stealing from hangars, but they aren't called awox, that's reserved for shooting friendly ships.

What was the largest awox in the history of EVE? You probably say "the Revenant gank", when a dozen Pandemic Legion supercarriers, including a 300B rare ship, the Revenant were destroyed by Black Legion. The commander of the PL fleet was the awoxer. He

1. formed a fleet under the guise of authority and loyalty
2. made sure that the fleet composition is completely unable to fight against hostile players. Unsupported supers.
3. made their fleet believe that they are just on their way for some "easy kills" without real danger, hence the above isn't a problem
4. made sure that reds have all means to organize the death trap by giving them every intel and giving them time to form up
5. dropped fleet and removed standard means of fleet leadership when the trap was activated. The famous quote "more than one [expletive] had a mouth", referred to the fact that someone could step up and lead, but no one could, despite they were members of probably the best PvP alliance.

While the above is a perfect example of an awox, it's not the largest in the history of EVE. Maybe the most expensive, but only because a moron used an overpriced toy. The largest awox happened recently, hence the extra Saturday post. Everything happened the same way as above, but this time not a dozen people were lured to a trap but thousands and not by a player, but by CCP employees. They

1. formed a fleet under the guise of authority and loyalty
2. made sure that the fleet composition is completely unable to fight against hostile players. Totally random mixture of ships of different size, range, speed, tank type.
3. made their fleet believe that they are just on their way for some "fun event" without real danger, hence the above isn't a problem
4. made sure that reds have all means to organize the death trap by giving them every intel (target system announced in twitter) and giving them time to form up (20 jumps in high TiDi)
5. dropped fleet and/or refused to give fleet orders after ordering to jump into the trap. Even if someone was more competent than the PL pilots in the first example (unlikely), they couldn't speak up due to lack of comms.

Now what? Last time a player used the guise of CCP authority to hurt others (by changing the official wiki to list himself as reliable trader, despite he was a scammer), he was permabanned because his actions were making the impression that CCP is helping some players against other players. This time official employees pulled the largest awox of the history of EVE. The result can only be the same: permaban, which means firing for an employee. I'm not sure if they did it because they had alts in the nullsec groups that farmed the kills or just to have a good laugh on the griefed players, but either way, they used their CCP authority to pull the awox. If random Joe would announce a "large Empire fleet", no one would have joined it. Their official tag allowed them to lure the lambs to the slaughter.

Without firing the awoxers and reimbursing the victims (the victims of the fake-ISD-supercap trader got their supers back), there will be no way to remove the "CCP devs are working for nullsec groups" stigma.

Desclaimer: I had no ships in either fleets, my whole involvement was crossing the fleet's way in highsec for two jumps. In 10% TiDi. In a freighter. I have exhumer killmails to prove that I was busy elsewhere and I’m not a butthurt carebear whining over his own loss. Those are on the forums en masse. I'm just worried that CCP employees might steal, gank or otherwise damage me or other players using their dev powers if I'm hostile to the groups where their alts are.