Nailed it right on the head...i joined Sonata the last 3 days of that Alliance war....with the thought of playing there next age aswel....only knowing on the 3rd day that i was there to abandon my prov since most had deleted theirs...Since they saw it was a sinking ship and there allies where left in the cold.
They indeed never surrenderd...and i doubt ABS either cared if it was half of the old Sonata or 1/3 with different leaders....still it was a lame move by Sonata even Realest admitted somewhere in a other post awhile ago...and therefore the failed GB.