Demigoddess with a Conscience

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Sure, I’ve been caught by customs on occasion for smuggling the Blue Pills I use to boost shield management while in combat. They’re not legal, they’re rather dangerous but still…it’s our life right? Nerve sticks on the other hand…Oh well, this guy will probably never try again, that’s for sure…

Maybe I’m getting old. Or just a carebear. Or maybe it’s just lack of practice. It’s clearly something wrong, because I haven’t made this many mistakes in a row in a long time. First off, I was roaming around 50 jumps in the so called “Faction Warfare” areas of Black Rise and Essence. In an effort to “hang with the tough guys”, I’d chosen the Javelin, a Hurricane class battlecruiser. I saw several smaller gangs and a few “blobs”, but nothing really up for a battlecruiser to chew on. Especially not since I obviously had no idea on how this thing maneuvered.

I was clearly not feeling at all at home in this Minmatar vessel, and much less had any idea on what tactic to use in the inevitable battle to come. It came sooner than expected, as a Cyclone decloaked on a gate right beside me. I locked him up, sent my drones and opened up. And was swiftly reminded about why you don’t engage on gates in low sec. Read the rest of this entry →

As Sansha’s Nation continues its renewed offensive against the citizens of New Eden, many have called for the four empires to band together, as in centuries past, and destroy the threat as one. These calls, however, appear to have so far fallen on deaf ears.

“Sansha’s Nation was a threat over a century ago,” said Professor Fontine Mereux of the University of Caille, a leading expert on the history of CONCORD. “But in the cluster’s darkest hour, all of the empires banded together to smash them. Sansha’s Nation is now resurgent. For too long they’ve been allowed to fester in Stain. It’s time that the four empires band together once more to wipe it out.”

Thousands of others have raised similar calls to arms, believing that the only way to counter the Nation’s threat is through cooperation between the four empires, but years of mistrust and fighting between the empires has made that path appear unlikely.

“If it wasn’t Sansha’s Nation doing it, it’d be the Amarr,” stated Jorel Yat, a high-ranking Vherokior tribesman. “I say the Republic should focus on stopping the Nation from attacking us and let the others worry about their own citizens. Make us a less appealing target and we’ll be left alone.”

Gugiere Ladux, a Gallente politician, said, “I heard the Caldari Navy managed to hack an invading force and turn the Nation’s agents against each other. If they really wanted to help, why haven’t they turned this technique over to the rest of the cluster? If we sent our Navy into Stain, what’s to stop the Caldari from hacking the Sansha to kill us first?”

The effort has not been aided by CONCORD, who continue to insist publicly that the Nation is not a threat. “At the present time, CONCORD does not require additional empire-provided manpower to deal with pirate incursions,” a short statement from the CONCORD Assembly read.

- The Scope

While the Caldari strive to combat this new threat, politicians are squabbling and tossing blame here and there. This is a common view apparently, shared by the love-couple of Minmatar-Gallente. In their strive for “freedom” and “community” they end up being paranoid and scared shitless.

The empires banded together and defeated the Sansha’s Nation (wether that was right or wrong, I’ll leave for another time) not long ago, and now that the Nation rears its ugly head again, what happens? Caldari develops new technology to combat the threat, as always. The Amarr…I dunno, they probably pray or something. The Minmatar? They blame the Amarr, or simply state “Fuck them, we care only for ourselves”. Gallenteans get paranoid. It wouldn’t surprise me if that bloody “freedom” speech gets spouted soon as some poor excuse to close their borders. Why in all that is holy would the Caldari hack a Sansha fleet to kill gallenteans? That’s probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

This post will be pretty much short and sweet.  I’ll even be nice and give you the the tl;dr version:

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I was tired, that much was clear. The PINs on my planetary interface were starting to dance in front of my eyes as I stared at the screen for the tenth time. I’d been at this for hours now, realizing my planets weren’t exactly optimal for what I was trying to do so I rebuilt them all from Command Center and up. It was a lot more streamlined, but time would tell if it really made much of a difference.

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I felt I needed to make a flowchart for my planetary interaction business. I drew it by hand, like they taught us in school. It turned out pretty awful, don’t you think?

Well, in the limited time I’ve spent connected in these last weeks, I’ve taken up exploitation of planetary resources. It’s amusing that this is probably the first real industry-related business I’ve taken up in all my career, unless you count the hours spent mining. I think my teachers back at SAK would cry rivers of blood if they knew what their star student is doing these days. I spend my days blowing crap up instead of building and producing. Not sure I went to the right school actually. Sometimes I think I should’ve listened to Catrina and applied for a more combat related education, but I was intruiged by the industry side and went with School of Applied Knowledge. Read the rest of this entry →

Thought I’d throw out an update.  Just because I felt like it really.

So what’s going on with Isaac and his shenanigans with Ancy Denaries.  Well, I’ll be honest.  I had every intention of getting involved in our last war.  (I mean, I made a big deal about it in my last post to a point).  However, real life has been over my head here lately and the war wasn’t as interesting as we had hoped.  The corp we wardecked is basically dead.  With an egotistical CEO that thinks it is actually functioning.  Delusional people…best kind in some situations, but not always.  So I’m currently split between my assets in Amarr and in Caldari space, with no real goal in sight.  This has really been the theme for me for the last 6+ months.  I have no goal in Eve so I play occasionally, but its pretty random.  No goals do that to a Capsuleer.  That is currently my goal right now.  To find a goal.  Ironic if you ask me.

Otherwise I have Real Life duties that I have to finish up.  Hopefully the next few weeks will take care of that and I’ll be back posting more shenanigans that Ancy and I will no doubt get involved with.  Until then, I’ll just be stalking around.

It would appear that “zombiepimp” wanted to go out with a bang and figured autopiloting through high sec during war would be a splendid idea. All the more amusing is the tale that follows. I was moving ships back to our home and had just moved my battleships and battlecruisers back. I was working on frigates and entered Niarja. Just as I left the gate into warp, a red/orange thing on my overview jerked my senses a bit. I was sure I saw a blinking orange target, indicating a wartarget. I quickly scanned local and found zombiepimp, blinking. He was in the system a long time, so I though he had docked but I hurried back to the gate and saw him just as he left.

I jumped right after back into Ashab and saw him decloak 30 km off. Damnit! No way I’m gonna catch him in an AB Punisher with a warp scram. 9 km isn’t enough and roughly 900 m/s won’t cover that space in the time needed. He warped off towards the Amarr gate, and I instantly willed my ship back into warp towards the Amarr gate. Hopefully I’d have better luck in Amarr and he’d be closer in tackle range. To my most pleasant surprise, he was 15 km off the gate when I landed. He was autopiloting during war. There’s a death sentence on such a failure. There are standards and procedures to consider during war, and he just violated a whole bunch.

I sped towards him, locked him up and opened up with my 150mm autocannons. Surprisingly enough, I was met with beam laser fire and a nosferatu. He was autopiloting, but still conscious, which just made his violation all the more epic. He shortly exploded and his pod left the smoldering wreckage and bobbed unsecured in space. I locked it up and ripped it apart with the autocannons. I would not let someone live for such an epic failure.

Way to go out with a bang, pimp…

The war between Frontier Venture and Zenith Laboratories is coming to an end. Frontier Venture has retracted the war against Zenith Laboratories. The war will be declared as being over after approximately 24 hours.

List of [ZLAB] members: Out of 71 members, 3 are signed on to GalNet. Average online pilots are roughly 4. Of the three online, 100% are inside dock and have not seen the space in four days. 2 pilots have been outside station in this time. One in a covert ops frigate, other in a multistabbed Moa.

I’m not interested in targets that will just lie down and take it like a street-corner whore. I’m interested in targets that have an interest in defending their members and good names. Not acting like a bullied kid hiding in the closet.

*tosses [ZLAB] in the same box as [SHOK]*