Demigodess with a Conscience

Well. I guess that’s it then.

Corporate information

Good day.

I’ll unfortunately be coming with bad news this time around. Those of you who have been around a good while already know this corp has been through hell over and over again. This join with SMA was the last attempt att getting the corporation to live again.

Unfortunately, it appears the alliance is very inactive and people are reluctant to help fighting in MT.

Our own activity have been dropping steadily due to this inactivity. People haven’t been able to fight, rat or run anomalies or make any kind of meaningful ISK lately.

So, in short, this venture didn’t really work out, so IN ONE WEEK I’M KICKING EVERYONE OUT OF THE CORP AND TAKING DOWN THE POS. I’m not yelling, I’m just making sure you don’t miss that.

You have one week to get your stuff either out of MT into high sec, or relocate to any other corp in the alliance. I won’t tell you what to do. If you wanna stay in MT, I suggest you look up any of the other active corps and join them, if not, move your stuff out before I take the POS down.

I wish you the best of luck in the future, and it’s been a blast flying with you, albeit a bit of bumpy roads.

As for the question of relocation.

Well, I know you probably ask this, but the truth is, this corp has been dying ever since Lalani stepped down as CEO and we lost focus. We had a brief brightness during our wormhole ops until RK kicked us out of Weld. Ever since then, people have been losing hope, we’ve been losing members and there have been a steady decline of members.

I will not keep kicking the dead horse anymore. It would frankly be cruel to you, it’s members, to try to instill any kind of hope in you.

I urge you to stay in CNF public and keep in touch, no matter what you decide to do in the future.

Best regards, Ancy Denaries

If you have been following these logs, you know already that my corporation has been through a lot and that it’s more or less a miracle that it is still going. We’ve recently added four new members to the corporation and things are looking better, but I’m still not sure that it’s going to make it.

It all comes down to our new alliance. We’ve managed to secure sovereignty in one system in Pure Blind, but our gateway system out of the constellation is held by enemies, and they have sov in that system. They regularly camp the pipe gates and do frequent raids into our territory. This is to be expected of course, but what irks me is the lack of response from our alliance. CNF has yet to establish a proper presense in our new system, and all we’ve managed to do so far is set up a small POS for hangar and ship maintenance purposes and moved a couple of ships down for fighting the local pirates. These ships are specifically designed for combatting crewed ships, not pod-enhanced ones.

The problem mounts since transporting ships back and forth requires going through the pipe, which is camped almost every hour, making it difficult to move anything that is not cloaked. To add to the problem, our only carrier pilot (we do have several capable, but only one in privat ownership) have been really ill lately and have not been able to do any jumps. We’ve just recently recruited another, which should make things easier when it comes to logistics.

Seeing as we are more or less set up now, it comes down to the activities of our alliance. Will this inaction continue? Will we keep getting kicked at without response? I heard the other night that a stealth bomber fleet assaulted an enemy POS in the neighboring system in order to incapacitate the guns of the spacestation for a coming siege. This is really good news, and I wish I’d been there, but I was currently in a sleep-cycle by then. If we are indeed assaulting our enemies, we might get into trouble however, since they far outnumber us.

Only time will tell if we will survive this.

Was a long time I bothered to write anything here. It’s not because I didn’t want to, or didn’t care. I’ve just been far too busy to get anything down. There’s been a literal crapload of things going on lately with our corporation leaving our old alliance and joining a new one. There’s a really long story behind all that, so I’ll just give you a tl;dr up ahead.

The Confederate Navy was displeased with the current situation and lack of action and decided it was time to leave the alliance to stand on its own. A brilliant offer surfaced and CNF joined an alliance to move into Pure Blind.

There, with that out of the way I guess it’s time to take the not so short version. We joined Forever Unbound, which at the time really wasn’t much more than a shell for three corporations; CNF, Solaris and Golden Cross Enterprises, in order to start building a member base while maintaining some security from war declarations and corporation theft. CNF was supposed to be “main corporation” where the bulk of the members were to be housed, taught and tried. Solaris was to be the executor corp with a single member in it, just for security reasons. Golden Cross Enterprises were tasked with being the industrial backbone, providing ships and modules for CNF in it’s doings. In return, CNF would lend manpower for protecting GCEN assets and for occasional mining ops, alternatively giving minerals from own mining ops to GCEN. GCEN were also to start recruiting to build up the needed member base. What happened was that CNF restructured to better fit its PvP focus, and GCEN did pretty much nothing, or so it looked like from our end. As I understood it, GCEN got issues with logistics and recruiting, while not properly setting up their hangars and rights, which led to a bit of chaos, never really getting the industry off the ground.

Combine all the above with us being in alliance of one 30 man corporation, and one 2 man corp, in addition to one 1 man corp…We ain’t looking good. We’re looking stupid. So CNF decides to bail on this since it’s not working out. We decide we intend to stand on our own for a while we rebuild our member base and find a new focus. Only days after the split, we received a very interesting offer from the Spacemonkey’s Alliance. An offer involving NBSI policy, potent low sec access and 0.0 sovereignty in Pure Blind. Long story short, we joined up and relocated to Pure Blind. We’ve yet to settle in completely, but we’ve already had a lot of action. Which is nice, since quite a few of our members were getting a tad bored.

Oh, and I got a kill today too.

Buried under a mountain of administrative datapads, messages and general bills, I was all but happy at the moment. In the past few months, there had been a growing feeling of stagnation within the corporation. In fact, ever since we all left Amarr Sisterhood of Galactic Sirens [ASGS] (which, by the way, is the most awesome corporation name ever, thank you) and merged with Solaris Operations [SOLAR], we’d been in a steady decline regarding member numbers and activity.

We’ve been through several CEOs, models of production and whatnot, but none have really managed to get a hold of the corp and bring it together. I’ll get to the reasons later. I’m not the one to blame any one person for things, unless it’s blatant misconduct, so I won’t be pointing fingers. Especially since this whole thing isn’t one individual’s fault. It’s a compound of things and a certain lack of doing something about it.

When we all joined Solaris Operations and left ASGS, we had a tight nit community of primarily industry based pilots. Most of us were hardened miners or producers and a few dabbled in invention. With Solaris being a combat based corporation, with only Soren Oboro himself doing some major industry, we got into some useless arguments with the combat pilots. We were the newcomers, but since we were, like Soren, industrials, our voices were heard more than the combat pilots. This resulted in a cleft between us and the combattants, and caused several of them to leave to form an own corporation, with which we’ve had a kind of “cold war” ever since then.

Here’s were the trouble began. With our most hardened industrials staying in ASGS and our combat pilots leaving us “carebears” behind, we were left with low numbers and low activity. Things were slowly going down the drain and we had more and more members being bored and finally leaving to find greener grass. Mind you, I’m not blaming them, for times were grim back then.

In an effort to spice things up, Bluedagger shouldered the CEO role and we moved out into Minmatar low security space. Mostly because we lost another 5-6 members to an empty promise of 0.0 space that were never fulfilled because our then diplomat majorly screwed up diplomatic relations. Well out in Weld, Molden Heath, we did quite a job in getting together and made decent ISK both mining and primarily running wormhole-ops. Our tech 3 production was on an upswing and things were looking good. We still lacked numbers and recruitment was non-existant, but at least we were producing.

Cue Rote Kapelle, a pirate alliance of mischievous pilots. For no apparent reason, [STUGH] (I have no idea how “Rote Kapelle” becomes “STUGH” but whatever) decided to move into Weld. They erected a large deathstar POS in system, jumped in several capitals and kept a minimum pilot amount of 10-15 in system every hour of the day. Our wormhole ops were busted, mining was a no go, they did frequent roams which led to several lost ships for us. The killing blow was when they managed to catch our two carriers and a jumpfreighter at our POS, outside the shield, and killed all three of them. With only 5-6 active pilots, it was clear we weren’t going to be able to put up much of a fight.

With this devastating blow to our economy and the grim reality staring us dead in the face, many more members either became inactive or simply chose to leave the corporation. A desicion was made to move back to our roots. A place where we were at least functioning properly and were growing.  In order to get rid of the stain of “outsiders” left on us by joining Solaris, we created a new corporation and incorporated both Solaris and The Confederate Navy (as the new corp was called) into an alliance of pilots, called Forever Unbound.

With King Klown taking the reins as CEO of [C.N.F] we moved back to Domain low security space, to once again live under the watchful eye of Curatores Veritatis Alliance [CVA]. In Domain, we started licking our wounds and looking to find a purpose. Our original purpose industry and mining long left behind us, with new goals popping up all the time, we needed a new one. This purpose became primarily combat, with industrials left in Solaris to fend for themselves. But with no pilots mining, our mineral flow was close to zero, and industrials had nothing to build with except for what they bought with their own ISK.

Our wormhole ops steadily declined as well and many of our pilots chose to stay in high security for research and/or mission running. Scattered, divided and wounded we soon realized that this was going nowhere. After months of low activity and people dropping out  we faced facts that we needed to do something serious to survive.

Our corp needed a premier purpose. Something to work together for. It was suggested that I’d takeover as CEO, seeing as I was one of the most experienced pilots we had but I said I had no wish to lead. Instantly getting faceslapped with “the best leaders are the ones not seeking power, but they who have it thrust upon them”, I reluctantly agreed and starting thinking through what really went wrong.

I came to the conclusion that the original fault was joining with Solaris. It started a separation and division amongst our pilots that have been going on ever since then. This is no fault of Solaris per se, mind you. It was simply a fact of people wanting to do different things, and joining Solaris didn’t really cater to that.

I realized that in order to get through this and survive we needed to get back together. A corporation cannot survive when 90% of its members spend all time in high security space while a few fanatics stick around our home station. So, as I was officially appointed CEO just this morning, I now have a lot of work ahead of me.