The great war really started with RA & LV's long-going war. Things were going good for LV, they got cocky, pissed off some allies that were helping them, and the Goons came along and sided with RA. IAC and TCF also jump on board as a now alone LV starts losing ground to this "Southern Coalition".
During this time, tensions between the northern napfest and BoB, MC, & FIX were rising. IRON & friends (us) had been raiding Querious for a month straight until MC & FIX wardecced most of the North. DICE corp from BoB also came up to visit and there was all sorts of fears of a full-scale invasion that never came.
Soon, RAGoon wears LV down until they get to their capital POS system, where a baby Titan is cooking. BoB vows to help them and save LV. The Northern Coalition (D2, IRON, RZR, MM, Pure, us & others) jumps into the fray and begins to invade Fountain & Querious, drawing BoB away from LV's defense. Meanwhile, AAA tells MC to simply "Die", and attacks Period Basis.
LV's baby Titan dies & they lose the system, which then quickly causes LV to snowball and retreat to NPC space while RA/Goon/IAC/TCF assimilate their largely undefended stations. AAA makes a bit of progress on MC space, and also kills a Capital POS containing a baby Mothership before mostly bowing out. The Northern Coalition makes some progress, contesting sovereignty in various systems, but no serious threats to BoB space.
Other smaller Southern alliances get involved, teaming with BoB McFIX, better known as "The Alliance". BoB's pets do their best to fight off invaders and gatecamps, supported by BoB when a POS needed to be saved or taken out. This goes on for a few weeks until the turning point of the war, the attack on BoB's capital POS in F-T.
Believed to be attacking a POS containing another baby Titan, the largest capital and support blobs to date were ammassed in and around the neighboring systems. The one true combined effort of both the North and South against the Alliance, dreads numbered in the hundreds. The attackers put all of their efforts on the POS, while BoB repaired and picked off the attacking ships. The POS died, what was really in it is still a heated topic, though most concede that it was empty, and nearly 50 coalition capitals were downed.
YouWhat decides they want to settle an old score with D2. MC and YouWhat begin attacking stations in Fade, D2 falls back, removing pressure from Fountain, which allows the pets to come and support MC/YW. D2 fights them where they can, but continue to lose ground. Three of the D2 corps leave to form ev0ke, worsening their position. Fade falls, FLA space follows not far behind, then IRON space goes in less than 48 hours as they left only 1 tower defending each station. D2 gives Sparta the two northern stations in Deklien, followed not far behind by Sparta pulling out of the war to keep said stations.
The rest of D2 space falls fairly quietly as D2 is busy moving stuff to empire before calling it quits for good. On the southern front, BoB is free to go on the attack as well, and begins reclaiming their old ASCN territories from the Southern Coalition. Remedial steps down due to RL issues, Mittani takes over. The "Open Letter to CCP" is released, along with the "Threadnaught" of Goons spamming EVE-O to get CCP to listen. Mittani steps down following the Arkanon dev blog directly targetting Goons as a plague on EVE-O.\
That pretty much covers it up until now.
YouWhat is holding Fade
FATAL is in Branch
Aftermath has IRON's stations
Somebody else has FLA's
Sparta is holding their stations for now
The Alliance is still pushing forward across the North from West to East, while BoB gobbles up the former LV territories
Most of the expelled residents of the North have either moved to the drone regions or joined the fight near RA space