Happy New Year! In this last Declarations of War for 2012, Fly Reckless’ Connall Tara joins us to ensure we don’t stay on script for more than a few minutes at a time. Enjoy!

-Connall details the nuances of small-ship combat and living in Red vs. Blue

-Contract Wrap Up: Noir. Returns to Providence

-This Week In Mercs: Bounties baby!

-Retribution released, the good and the bad. And the CSM (thanks Connall)

-Dec Shield: Success or Failure

-Three Titans Dead, Thirty More Take their Place

-Wars in the South: We talk HBC, Stainwagon, -A-, N3, SOLAR, Black Legion.

-CSM Pre-Summit Townhall recap

-Freaky Four Way: Ripard Teg vs. Mynnna/TheMittani.com vs. CSM vs. most other quality bloggers

-Fresh from the trenches, Alek gives his impressions of the first two days of the Winter CSM Summit.