I don't remember when it was specifically, but it was shortly after the Rikti War Zone revamp, as dropship raids had been a recent addition to the game.
Our supergroup leader was a pretty well-liked figure in our group and our coalition, but wanted to step down and retire the character. We'd concocted a huge group event involving a Rikti attack on our base, complete with a near-complete base teardown while we filled it with piles of rubble. As far as our RP circle was concerned, the boss had died in the attack, getting everyone to safety via the teleporters before blowing up the base to take down as many troops with him as he could.
I'm not sure if it was us or a coalition mate that set the space up, but we converted a room to a funeral parlor. Plenty of people - myself included - gave speeches to pay their respects. Afterwards, we rallied together the biggest group we could muster to take to the skies and drop as many dropships as we possibly could - complete with many of us temporarily switching our costumes around to bear the boss' iconic eyepatch.
That moment was one of the big defining events for my at-the-time RP main, spurred a number of other characters to their own stories, and here, years later, is the inspiration for the first character I ended up making on Everlasting.
I'd say Blinding Strike was a legend, but... after that? I guess he still is.
Thanks for the memories, kiddo.