I’m especially very bad at believing, let alone accepting accusations - especially conspiracies - without any supporting evidence that is more than the result of vivid imagination or a mindset.
Why would it ? Both INIT. and the Imperium stepped out of that particular power structure. Of course these will have to fend for their existence, just like any other major or minor group, that’s part of the game.
Oh, the almost entirely blue donut of 2014-ish had staged fights, because nothing else was going on. In light of the TTC agreements, the conflicts indeed have that foul sheen of being staged too, until WWB2 at least - where the mastermind behind the TTC now was of a mind that “goons needed to be pushed out the game”. Yes, they still received from the TTT, all parties did. Yes, that is not a sustainable or believable position towards the membership unless that isk somehow flows back to them (structures, srp, whatever) so they don’t care enough about ethics. Money is a powerful counter to ethics, true, even ingame ethics.
That WWB2 made the position of the mastermind(s) behind the TTC no longer acceptable, it was indeed a war of extermination - which failed, thankfully. I would assume his position was no longer acceptable at least. The extra hisec wardecs via BF I referred to earlier, against a few of the TTC members, and funded by TTC taxes, nailed the coffin, I would imagine.
I’m not privy to that level of ingame politics, but it does interest me. I also do not speak in any leadership capacity for any TTC member current or former. These are my fairly neutral impressions of why and how the ■■■■ really hit the fan this time. One member group clearly overplayed its hand, and in all but name, ceased to exist after WWB2, although they still receive proceeds from the TTT until today, yes.
Easily explained, that was always part of the TTC agreement, from what I read on reddit. So yes, it was always possible that you could have panfam, imperium, test, on the same side of the grid.
Yes, they could do a number of things if they deem any player created situation outside the boundaries of normal gameplay (and normal in EvE is a broad concept, thankfully).
However, I also wrote in a post a few months ago that I’m of the opinion that players, especially the content creators leading groups of that size and number, have a responsibility to keep it playable too. I sincerely hope that the steps taken by current and former Imperium members against things like the TTC are rooted in that sense of responsibility, and that others will follow suit.