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Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:35:00 - [1] Once Upon a Time in Providence The last few weeks in Providence have been rife with treachery, betrayal, theft and base opportunism, but these things are the stock in trade for nullsec space, and the moreso for an unhappy region that even though liberated from Amarrian slavers has sadly degenerated to a cesspit of perfidy populated by bandits and hucksters intent on stealing the labour of others. This is a tale of villainy and cut-throat avarice; it has a cast of loathsome regressive dogs and an impossible situation that promised only tragedy and sorrow. But that isnÆt quite what happened. Sometimes the ôway of New Edenö doesnÆt suit the aggressors after all. First a Little History The Free Captains of the Star Fraction have played a role in Providence since the earliest days. We were allies of the Matari Freedom fighters of the Ushra'Khan alliance during the establishment of Unity Outpost and we shared their foes in Amarrian Nationalism, committing our ships and energy to opposing the CVA in many campaigns and pitched battles. Sure, we were never the biggest threat to the CVA in space, rarely the most numerous, certainly not the most significant territorially û but I do believe we have been the most consistent long term ally of the Ushra'Khan fighters over the years and from the doomed heroics of the QR-K85 siege to the guerrilla pressure of Judas Goat, Slaughterhouse and Daisycutter campaigns, from the heights of the KBP assault during Terminus Est to the success of Black Lustrum in resource denial in the final days of the CVA in Providence we have been a consistent presence and thorn in the side of the enemies of freedom. With this springÆs victory over the CVA in Providence we became only the second entity in the region to build and establish our own outpost from scratch, rather than move into the vacant possessions the slavers left behind, when we constructed the Freeport of TAZ Norlonto in YWS0-Z and declared our docking ramps open to all neutrals and free commerce in New Eden. Our allies in the Ushra'Khan applauded the deed and our use of free Matari construction specialists and we lit a beacon for the notion of independence in these once benighted stars. But some regions are cursed it seems. Back in the mists of history such a reputation tainted Venal with a succession of traitors, backstabbers and shocking self-serving politicians scrambling over each otherÆs backs to put the knife into their predecessors, and now it seems the ôGrand Councilö of New Providence is seeking such a dubious epithet in the murky glory of double-dealing and lies. Even the Ushra'Khan suffered from the jealous attentions of their once allies in the region with powerplays and intrigues, mercenary hires and backstabbing that robbed them of their faith and reminded them that holding territory is closer than is comfortable to the memory of the territorial holders who once dominated space with their slaving barges and golden cages. For our part in the Fraction we found the immediate descent to NBSI protectionism and gate-blocking banditry amongst our new ôneighboursö to be disappointing and regressive. We played no part in the ôfight clubö lunacy of ship crews murdering each other one day and then resolving standings the next to unite against a different bunch of psychopaths simply because they deployed an un-manned system blockade unit, rather than torching 60,000 crewman to death for ôsport and recreationö at a meaningless stargate. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:36:00 - [2] We kept record of our hostiles, we flew against the Amarrian bloc and when Providence became nothing but incestuous roving gangs pursuing K/D ratio mutual stimulation we decided to refocus our efforts elsewhere to aid our friends in the TLF against the Amarrian bloc capital ship powerhouse ôCore Impulseö while continuing to encourage neutrals and traders to make use of the outpost we constructed to celebrate the end of the slavery in Providence. You ShouldnÆt Have Attacked My Spaceship! It had been a hard summer for the Free Captains of the Star Fraction. The Core Impulse campaign was a frustrating, bad-tempered, sporadic and cynical affair, with friendly militia penetrated by Amarrian agents, psyops and forum-spam campaigns, bitter smacktalk and general cowardice masquerading as combat techniques in the enemy ranks. We kept on our primary target throughout though and eventually established a foothold in their operating system that proved crucial in breaking their influence in the warzone. With the assistance of the Gallente Militia, the Flowing Penguins, 8th Order, CTRL-Q and ROSS we gradually increased pressure and evolved ways of killing even non-aggressed dock-gamers on the Huola station (passive locking 1400 artillery platforms of great justice) which doubtless contributed to the final dissolution of Core Impulse and their departure from the 24th Crusade. But the notorious enemy fleet commander one ôPredator Eliteö had some chilling words to say on his own departure from the warzone. ôYou really shouldnÆt have attacked my Hurricane, thatÆs going to cost your sovereignty!!!ö And we noted with interest that his place of exile beyond the Crusade was within the Important Internet Spaceship League in Providence and quickly saw this manÆs intention to find new allies to replace his failed corpmates from the fragrant cesspool of the New Providence council. He even boasted to his ex girlfriend (and current lover of the race traitor Eran Mintor) Shalee Lianne ôDonÆt worry about the Fraction wardec, they will soon have more things to concern them than farming the Knighthood of the Merciful Crown!ö Rumours were indeed rife, and even the TLF had heard that the Fraction were shortly going to be removed from Providence and their Freeport given over to NBSI dogs. The horror! An Offer You CanÆt Refuse! So I wasnÆt entirely surprised when I was contacted one evening by a diplomat for the Important Internet Spaceship League alliance going by the somewhat improbable name of ôGrandis Fustisö who came to speak with me on behalf of the Grand Providence Council and ex-Northern Coalition renter alliance named ôOn the Rocksö. The long and the short of it was that the Grand Council had met and decided that the Star Fraction were not worthy of holding space in Providence and since theyÆd already successfully backstabbed the Ushra'Khan and hadnÆt got round to cleaning their knife yet they wanted to arrange a two for one deal and stab us up as well. Some airy justifications followed, the Grand Council told us that if we rolled over and begged and gave our outpost away we would be allowed to return to Providence in the future as their next pets and some light haggling followed where it became apparent that the new residents from ôOn the Rocksö would be prepared to offer the Fraction 400m isk (to save them the costs of 3 Sovereignty Blockade Units ôSBUÆsö and ammunition needed) in exchange for the 25b isk outpost weÆd built with our own hands and labour. I told the Internet Spaceships representative that if that was their best offer they best be prepared to fight. He in turn told me I was a terrible diplomat and threatened us with wardecs, harassment, endless wardecs and more harassment and that I was doing a terrible disservice to my alliance by refusing to take the 400m. I laughed and suggested they should simply ôbring it.ö Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:37:00 - [3] Planning the Siege of YWS0-Z So it was time to do a little research on this ôOn the Rocksö alliance that was being brought in by the Internet Spaceship League to ôreplaceö us in YWS0-Z. It seemed they had a history as renters for the Northern Coalition in the Vale. But their rent agreement had been terminated on the allegation that their involvement in fleets was frankly ôlaughableö and their combat capability was a joke. Hmmm, and these were the people the Supreme Providence Command council thought to steal our outpost? It was frankly a little bit insulting. We war-decced ôOn the Rocksö immediately of course, seemed the polite thing to do. Later that same evening a second ultimatum was delivered this time from representatives of ôOn the Rocksö themselves û and their leader informed me that since weÆd refused their generous offer of 400m isk for an outpost they would be working alongside the Providence council and ôthe might of nine alliancesö to remove us from the system. He remarked later that though ôOn the Rocksö might sound like a bunch of clueless ice-miners who had gotten lost on the way to Jita û they were actually accomplished 0.0 and empire combat pilots with a sterling record in a dozen previous campaigns and we should consider leaving now to spare our pilots. And he closed with the comment ôitÆs nothing personal, just the way of eveö while I responded, ôI trust you wonÆt take it personally when we grind your alliance to dust.ö And he laughed, but maybe a little nervously. But something didnÆt quite add up, why would a premier combat corp from the Northern Coalition want to come and play second fiddle to the Important Internet Spaceships in Providence? Sure it was noticeable that ôRocksö had good numbers in their timezone and we expected the Supreme Council of Providence to back them in battle, but could they fight round the clock at reinforcement times of our choosing? Who knew? In any case we opted for a guerrilla defence of the system to make it as painful (and hazardous) as possible for the aggressors. In open council the Free Captains decided that the price we would make ôOn the Rocksö pay for YWS0-Z was to be 25b isk of damages to their shipping and equipment, or the destruction of their alliance (whatever came first). We decided to remove our own faction tower from the system and to evac all heavy hulls against the possibility that the Supreme Council of Providence might manage a 7 day round the clock bubbling of the Station. From the other direction we prepared copious stocks of Fedaykin bombers and ammunition, many Scimitar class logistics ships and a spicing of fast attack craft to ensure space superiority at need. ItÆs fair to say the anarchists of the Fraction were quite peeved at the temerity of this ridiculous mining alliance being foisted on our outpost by the Supreme Providence cesspit and committed ourselves to a long hard, brutal war of revenge and punishment that would take our ships anywhere these ôRocksö opportunists might be found for the foreseeable future. We had no illusions we could defend the Freeport for any length of time against the hundreds of ships New Providence could muster û but we knew we could make these opportunistic thieving ice-miners rue the day they had ever heard of TAZ Nortlonto by hunting them to extinction. We called the campaign Operation ICEBREAKER and cleared the torpedo tubes for firing. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:38:00 - [4] Incoming Waves of Hostiles Comrade! So it began. ôOn the Rocksö with the support of SODA, DAISHO, BDEAL (Internet Spaceships), TEUTONIC GUARD, NUKE and several other entities began to assault YWS0-Z with SBUs and direct assaults on the system infrastructure hub and station. They deployed a single large Amarrian Control tower within a short warp of the Station at TAZ Norlonto to serve as their operating base and stored their ammunition, ships, and replacement modules there. We code-named it "the roach house" for obvious reasons. Their strong timezone was in the early hours of our morning and initially we were able to mount only a sporadic defence of bombers and interdiction picking off their loners and keeping their siege-forces nervous to the ever present threat of bombs and torpedo ambushes. We were doing pretty well at killing them though. Their ship fittings showed clear evidence of amateurish thinking and their movements were often quite random in the warzone. Several times we held battleships off the gate and executed them slowly to tempt their Tower reinforcements to come and save them to no avail û it seemed these ex-NC miners had no great love of their own comrades and preferred to see them die alone than attempt any kind of rescue. Again it was very telling. And things didnÆt go entirely well with their assault. They were continually ambushed by roving hostiles on the IHUB and Station. At one point a DAISHO/SODA gang hotdropped onto their Station reinforcement party to kill a number of ôRocksö battleships only to come back 30mins later to help them. This is the kind of madness we have come to expect from the Providence ôfight clubö however and itÆs incredible to us to think how the tens of thousands of ôrocks deadö killed ôfor lulzö can be remembered by their fellows meekly working alongside their killers less than an hour after. Still, they achieved their first objectives in the deployment of SBU, tower, and reinforcement of the IHUB and Station and they had managed a total fleet size (including allies) of 40-50 in their strong timezone where we could only muster 25 max in ours. We needed to do something dramatic and plans were laid the following day for a dawn attack on one of the two ôRocksö SBUs to disrupt the aggressors assault on the system and interrupt the second stage reinforcement battle on the Station. (Note to those unfamiliar with sovereignty warfare, the SBU deployment is the first stage of assault. These deployed to more than 50% of the stargates in system will render the defender sovereignty structures vulnerable to attack. When the attackers reinforce the sovereignty structures a timer begins to the next stage of the siege during which the SBUs themselves become invulnerable). We had timed TAZ Norlonto to come out of reinforced at midday and knew it would make the ôRocksö SBUs vulnerable for several hours before they could muster a sizeable fleet giving us a window of opportunity to delay their attack by crippling their SBU coverage. Sovereignty Blockade Unit Ninjas û Attack! So we deployed a sizeable fleet of Fedaykin Class stealth bombers to attack one of the pair of ôRocksö SBUs in YWS0-Z. They had deployed only 2 because they were cheapskates hoping to take the system for a song and expecting nothing much in the way of opposition from the Fraction û this was a quite serious strategic error on their part as it meant we could interrupt their attack by removing only one SBU. Hilarity would follow. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:41:00 - [5] Fraction Fedaykin bombers are typically torpedo equipped with afterburners, shield extenders and warp disruptors. We employed our bomber wing around the target SBU and would direct torpedo fire against the siege device while using 1-2 fast attack craft to shield the formation. If a significant enemy group arrived all bombers would cloak and fall back to a close tactical. It was not our job to provide amusement to roving gangs of hostiles û we were focused on the objective and sometimes evading the enemy is the way to achieve this. That said we did manage some impressive kills in that operation with our bombers proving more than a match for the ôRocksö and ôProvidence Councilö bombers that tried to interrupt us and even slaughtered a hostile battle-cruiser group that came too close. Ultimately we were successful and in removing the ôRocksö SBU weÆd reduced their sovereignty challenge to 1/3 gates in the system û no longer enough to render our structures vulnerable and we were then able to repair the shields of TAZ Nortlonto without further interruption. Thanks go out to several pilots of the TLF, CNTR-Q, ROSS and Flowing Penguins who helped us in the fighting. As well as our salute to the Independent fighters of Ad Astra Corporation who repeatedly hotdropped Providence Forces whenever they looked to be organizing seriously. We had stopped the first attack in its tracks and wasted the initial efforts of the hostiles completely. ôRocksö however, had other ideas and scrambling a cloaked transport ship to action at their tower and attempted a lightning deployment of two additional replacement SBUs on the empty stargates! This was an important threat to us and we responded by splitting our Fedaykin forces and firing bombs at the anchoring structures to ensure any cloaked shenanigans would end in tears while preparing to board the blockade units with Fraction infowar commandos to seize control of these siege units ourselves. The operation was a complete success. The ôRocksö transport pilot was neutralized and our commandos gained control over the two new SBU units (onlining them as Star Fraction structures) to ensure that we could decide exactly when they could be activated and deactivated. This was an amusing evening to be sure. (This is a feature of sovereignty battles that is sometimes overlooked: whoever is first to online the SBU, as opposed to anchoring it, becomes the owner and can then choose to offline/online or un-anchor at a time of their choosing. In seizing control of these devices we could hold the ôRocksö assault to literal ransom by flipping them to offline status in the middle of reinforcement attacks on the IHUB or station and the only sensible response from the enemy was to destroy their own SBU units in our hands simply to get back to square one again.) The Supreme Council Strikes Back! That evening the Important Internet Spaceships deployed in force as morale commissars to boost the evidently demoralized ôRocksö and help them destroy their own captured SBUs over a mind-numbing six hours of drudgery at the gates while they were repeatedly hot dropped, ambushed, and generally brutalized by almost every roving gang in providence. Even Pandemic Legion turned up to the party (no great surprise since they were based a few jumps away in Assah) but though the bodycount was high on the New Providence side they did eventually achieve their objective and replace the destroyed SBUs with three new devices to signal their intent to continue their siege. (WeÆd killed/hijacked 3 by this point and they had deployed 3 more û ignoring their many ship losses this already had cost them considerably more than the 400m isk they ôofferedö us for the station.) Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:42:00 - [6] Wardecs and Sabre-Rattling In the two and a half days to the next reinforcement phase we decided to widen our empire wardecs to include another of the ôRocksö allies who had joined them in the assault on our freespace Outpost and we picked the ôTeutonic Guardö alliance (mainly because they had a number of obvious drooling smacktalkers in their fleets) who had drawn our attention during the initial battles. This had the immediately hilarious result of their chief diplomat warning us that ôwe had no idea who their friends were and weÆd regret this decision with 10 years of wardecs and harassmentö, again I responded with neutral ôbring itö and decided to go and investigate Teutonic Guard a little bit deeper to see what kind of a target they might represent should we be successful and end ôRocksö alliance as an entity in its own right. Turns out that Teutonic Guard are some kind of Ice-mining entity that likes to extract industrial raw materials in the notorious race-traitor capital Gamis in the Ammatar mandate. Taking my covert strategic cruiser down to take a look one evening I found members of ôRocksö, ôTeutonic Guardö and ôNUKEö alliance cohabiting the system and taking turns at the ice-mining there in their expensive looking barges. They all sped quite quickly for dock when I was noticed in system but there was definitely food for thought. A fullscale deployment of Fraction warships in this system would wreak havoc on the regressive patsys of Providence. Later on the executor of Teutonic Guard contacted me again and tried to bully me into removing the wardec on the grounds that his alliance was full of ôfamous and deadly empire combat pilotsö and the Star Fraction had no idea what it was ôgetting into.ö Almost seemed redundant at this point but again I replied ôby all means punish us if you are able (and by the way, bring it.)" Focus on the Rocks û Conversations with the Enemy WeÆd been noticing for a couple of days that ôRocksö performance in fleets hadnÆt been stellar. Once they had become aware that they werenÆt actually getting the outpost ôfor freeö they had taken to sullenly hiding at their tower and engaging in disconsolately unenthusiastic smack-talk enquiring after ôwhy we just didnÆt let them have the system.ö We did a little bit of digging and followed up some leads and discovered Eve News 24 had done some investigative reporting on ôRocksö revealing that the ex-NC pet alliance was seriously short of ISK and were begging their membership for 30m ISK each to pay for an alliance jump freighter. There was also a fair bit of internal discontent with the lacklustre management and director team and several of their FCs had already jumped ship. Their own management was painting the Providence move as a "last hope" fo their alliance fortunes and had staked the ranch on its success. Seemed it wouldnÆt take much to topple this whole house of cards if we planned correctly. Empire war-wise it was a slaughter. Corp after corp was jumping ship saying they wanted absolutely nothing to do with fighting the Fraction in hisec while the sov battle was still ongoing. Our eve-mail box had new departures every hour and it seemed difficult to understand how this entity could hope to survive the campaign with such attrition. Kiernance (their chief diplomat and testy smart mouth) remarked ôItÆs no problem they are just bears jumping ship, all the fighters are staying.ö Still since Kiernance himself was a pilot most renowned for lurking within his tower shields and only leaving to be executed by our forces I did wonder at the location of these expert combat pilot legions we were threatened with. Perhaps they were saving it all up for the next big push? Time would tell. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:42:00 - [7] Goodbye IHUB, My Old Friend So it was reinforcement battle time again. The ôRocksö SBUs had remained in place and our IHUB had ultimately succumbed to a dogged Internet Spaceships-led (with 2 ôRocksö bomber support) attack against increasing numbers of red, neutral and blue hotdrops on their position. WeÆd scored some good kills ourselves with squadrons of bombers attacking the hostiles at the IHUB and every now and then Ad Astra descended to kill more of the Providence lackeys. But truthfully the IHUB was always doomed û repping an object in open space 3 jumps away from the Pandemic Legion Super Carrier fleet with PL scouts in system is not only a ôfools gameö itÆs a game invented by the foolÆs mother with hand-drawn illustrations from the local lunatic asylum sold on national foolÆs day on the continent of absolutely clueless! Not something we wanted to get involved in. So the IHUB burned, but the enemy had lost a good billion worth of ships achieving the kill and squandered more of their effort and it was becoming increasingly obvious to all involved that this wasnÆt a war that ôRocksö could win on their own û and more pointedly û it wasnÆt a war they could even fight without extreme and significant hand-holding from Providence Council entities round the clock. Was interesting to learn of some increasing frustration on the part of SODA fc's complaining about "Rocks" coming on their voice communications begging for help to move their bombers every night. As an amusing post-script to the death of the IHUB there was a mix-up in communications between the Providence Council member fleet after the battle that led to a ôRocksö alliance transport ship containing their new territorial claim unit structure (that they hoped to anchor over the wreckage of ours) being gang-warped to the 4B gate with the departing Important Internet Spaceships fleet. We watched this from behind our cloaks with amazement convinced it was some kind of trap. But deciding to seize the moment anyway dived in and destroyed the transport ship, the replacement territorial claim unit, and a couple more unfortunately gang-warped ships with absolutely no attempt from their gang-mates to return and help them. Nice! And deeply symbolic, the "Rocks" TCU burned unlamented and alone. Defensive Victory! û Oh Bugger WeÆve Been Flattened So it was station reinforcement battle time again. WeÆd again set the timer for early afternoon in our chosen timezone and we had good numbers available off the bat and set to reinforcing the station shields up past the 25% mark to ensure a reset to the first stage of the siege. Here we made a bit of a tactical error. We made it easily past the 25% mark to render the station non-reinforced again (At one point we had 12 scimitars and 6 carriers doing the repping) and should at that point have shipped to bombers to begin work on the enemy SBUÆs. Instead we got carried away with the defensive repping and over the next few hours got the station to around 95% shields and were feeling very pleased with ourselves. Then we got stirred up by a Pandemic Legion Rapier. We knew it was an obvious cyno bait. We told each other it was obvious cyno bait. We laid preparations against the obvious cyno bait. But somehow we managed to aggress it with a Dramiel assisted by Scimitar combat drones and guess what? IT WAS OBVIOUS CYNO BAIT! So gods own super cap fleet dropped alongside a titan bridge full of heavy battleships deploying hundreds of Fighters and Fighter Bombers, pulse beams and all manner of destructive energies in the midst of our repping force and managing to make an immediate brutal example of the single ship too slow to evade (for some inexplicable reason they even brought along a pair of Anshar class jump freighters!) Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:43:00 - [8] Objective Roach-House The ôRocksö tower in YWS0-Z was designed defensively and code-named ôthe roach houseö by Fraction planners. It had many ecm modules, quite ineffective armament, and many shield hardeners. We engaged it initially with long range Cruise Missile Ravens to aim at incapping the guns and warp disruptors to clear the way for bomber-based close range attacks on the remaining modules later on that day. Everything started well and counter-action from our enemies was nowhere to be seen. Then mid-operation we received a diplomatic approach from the ôRocksö management team to the effect their alliance was was considering their campaign a failure and looking for terms to retreat from YWS0-Z with no further loss of equipment or shipping. We quickly worked up a proposal we considered fair that involved ôRocksö pulling down the remaining SBUs and simply leaving (while we in turn would end the empire war and turn our attentions to other hostiles who had attacked our Outpost - looking at YOU Teutonic Guard!) and left things to the ôRocksö council to okay this with their membership while we prepared to order a ceasefire in return. We thought it was rude to continue dismantling their staging tower while we had this pause for diplomatic discussion so called off the attack on ôobjective roach-houseö for the evening. Diplomatic Frustrations The next day nobody was home on the ôRocksö command team. People were jumping ship, corporations were imploding. Nobody appeared to know what was happening and individual ôRocksö members were fleeing Providence as fast as their stabbed battleships could carry them. But we couldnÆt confirm whether or not the remaining ôRocksö officials were prepared to meet our terms or not and I have to admit the prevailing mood amongst the Free Captains was not a merciful one. Finally we heard from Kiernance himself ôRocksö chief diplomat that they intended not to honour the terms and would leave the SBUs in place just to be a pain on the off-chance that PL might take our system. Others of ôRocksö tried to claim they actually wanted to kill the SBUs themselves, or that the people with the rights to unanchor or offline them were not available/had already jumped ship or otherwise left the warzone. Finally Kiernance told the real story in Star Fraction Public explaining his intention to offline the SBU's at a convenient moment for Important Internet Spaceship League to immediately online them and continue the siege. Needless to say that was the end of diplomacy and we had learned all we needed to learn about the word of these people. So this left us little alternative than to prepare for the next reinforcement battle knowing that the Rocks SBUs would provide a potential avenue for PL/BDEAL (or indeed anyone else) to reinforce the station and we agreed as Free Captains that whatever happened ôRocksö (and former "Rocks management team") would be due quite a lot of special attention and vengeance once the campaign was over one way or another for this perfidy. Assault on Objective Roach House II We watched the Dotlan data analysis site alliance reports and surrender notifications closely as ôRocksö continued to dissolve over the weekend. At this point there was literally nobody to speak to there since anybody with any kind of seniority had already bailed. Eventually the shields on the Roach House failed through lack of fuel since the owner couldnÆt get an industrial ship through and we were able to incapacitate all guns and disruptors to prevent a quick repair and unanchor retreat in the night. The final stage of the operation saw us obliterate the ôRoach Houseö and liberate a few remaining ôRocksö ships and supplies from the maintenance and secure storage before anchoring a new tower of our own in the same location with many bubbles to catch the unfortunates abandoned by their own leadership. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.26 13:44:00 - [9] End of Operation ICEBREAKER With all hostile SBUs down, a replacement IHUB deployed, and the ôRocksö staging tower obliterated, together with the near complete annihilation of ôOn the Rocksö as a functioning alliance we are ready to declare the operation a complete success. When ôOn the Rocksö began hostilities against the Star Fraction they had 400+ members while as of now they have only 15 pilots. The grand majority of ôOn the Rocksö corporations have jumped ship to avoid the wardec: Red Ochre Mining and Exploration surrenders to The Star Fraction Vendetta cc surrenders to The Star Fraction Smyth Shipyards surrenders to The Star Fraction Lets Get Rocked surrenders to The Star Fraction Silver Star Federation surrenders to The Star Fraction Old Timers Guild surrenders to The Star Fraction Averos Corporation surrenders to The Star Fraction ENSANGUINE PRIME surrenders to The Star Fraction Degenerate Corp surrenders to The Star Fraction During the past two weeks of fighting ôOn the Rocksö have suffered 4.7b worth of direct ship and equipment losses to the Star Fraction (and considerably more besides to 3rd party involvement and hotdrops while they have been attacking our equipment and structures.) We have dealt considerable damage to "Rocks" allies and will continue to do so in retribution for their part in the attack until suitable terms and recompense is offered. The Dotlan data analysis site paints a grim picture on the impact of this conflict on the enemy alliance. On the Rocks status update With the final word going to the On the Rocks alliance description after two weeks fighting with the Star Fraction in YWS0-Z. Quote: ôOn the rocks Currently closed. Contact Luxotor for questionsö Epilogue: Once Upon a Time in Providence So that was the story of the Star Fraction defeating the collective will of ônine alliancesö and annihilating On the Rocks alliance against the efforts of the Supreme Providence Council. Of course we are under absolutely no illusion that we will succeed in the long term to hold YWS0-Z infrastructure and keep the outpost free against the shambling hordes of Neo Providence but I think we have demonstrated that we are fully capable of burning any roaches thinking to steal a cheap victory and Freespace outpost that was built by the Free Captains to celebrate the liberation of Providence from Amarrian Imperialists. We opened TAZ Norlonto to neutral trade and commerce and provided it as honest service to anyone wishing to explore the frontier and experience 0.0 for themselves. We have absolutely no territorial aspirations of our own. We donÆt crave the control, restriction, policing or taxing of space in any way. Anyone is welcome to come and make use of YWS0-Z system and if you avoid aggression against the assets and ships of the Star Fraction you may dock and make use of all facilities. At no point during the siege of TAZ Norlonto did we alter the terms of business and docking of the outpost. They remain today as they were on the day it opened for business. ItÆs said by some that Providence is where alliances go to die. For ôOn the Rocksö it was true. But in striving against closed-minded territorial dogs and petty-minded imperialist bureaucrats trying to taint the memory of Free Captains and Matari fighters united in victory over the slavers of the CVA, we have found renewed energy and purpose and desire to punish any puling lickspittle territorialist lackey thinking to annex a Freeport and close the borders and gates. Through the flames of treachery and venal aspiration we are reborn as Free Fighters opposed to territorial conceit and the midden-house stink of corrupt governance on the frontier. The Star Fraction is killing imperialist alliances again. Long live the fighters! Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 13:40:00 - [10] Originally by: Rodj Blake I am not at all surprised that Providence descended into a "cesspit of perfidy populated by bandits and hucksters intent on stealing the labour of others" under the heathen regime. It was only to be expected. I look forward to the day that the region is restored to its rightful governers (ie Amarrian loyalists) so that law and order once again exists there. Fortunately, SF's apparent actions in destroying one of the squatters in Providence have brought that day a little bit closer. I believe you are labouring under a misconception here Rodj Blake and I will give you the benefit of the doubt and correct it for you. The current composition of the "Supreme Providence Council" is hardly Matari based or led. The Ushra'khan have gone. Star Fraction has no representation or support there. I don't believe any true freedom fighters or Matari guerillas still do. And though I cannot speak for the Ushra'khan formally I do know they will tell you their intention in Providence was to liberate the billions of slaves held planetside and in orbiting facilities during the CVA era. This liberation was completed and the job was done. For our part in the Fraction, we aided our allies in their design and then sought to establish a Free Port to celebrate the victory over tyranny that had been achieved in Providence - no more, no less. As to what has come after. Daisho, Sodalitas, Important Internet Spaceships, Teutonic Guard, and the rest, these are no friends to freedom or the matari liberation movements. In the main they are simply opportunist brigands intent on pursuing a free lunch where such can be obtained. Internet Spaceships in fact have been accused of aiding the Imperialist Amarrian cause in recent days by outspoken commentators in the TLF - and as should of become clear in my account - a former noted Fleet Commander of the 24th Crusade is operating within Important Internet Spaceships as strategist and planner. During our fighting with these dogs we've often seen the Neo Providence holders boasting about their new slaves and attempting to outdo the CVA in brazen cruelty to the remaining populations of these unhappy worlds. A pilot from Teutonic Guard alliance publicly spaced a cargo bay full of women and children he'd acquired through a courier contract to make the point that they embraced slavery and considered baseline human life of null value on the frontier while we harried the enemy fleet with bomb-runs and intediction. My point is Rodj Blake - you are wrong to try to equate the current state of Providence with Matari choices and anarchist principle. We achieved a victory earlier this year and liberated billions from your grasp, our task was successful and by and large our interest in the region ended with that. What exists now in Providence is a society of capsuleer roaches who have ventured out from beneath the rotten carpets of mouldy imperialism to foist the bankrupt stink of NBSI ideology on another unlucky region because their imagination knows nothing else. In fact they are even now trying to ape the CVA in their terminology and councils, in their dreams and aspirations. That is why they boast their new slaves - why they use the terminology of Aralis and flatter themselves "holders" rather than honest pilots in a free trade zone. Obviously they must burn. And so the cycle continues. As I said in my introduction piece, some regions are cursed and I think the long occupation of the CVA has twisted the minds of those coming to live in their abadoned stations and holdings - it didn't take the rabble long to dress up in the gowns and robes of the Amarrian Slavers and start giving themselves airs and graces and start quoting scripture. You will not be fighting "heathens" during your reconquest of Providence Rodj Blake - you will be fighting your own wayward children aspiring to your own way of life. Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 13:53:00 - [11] Originally by: Rodj Blake I said that Providence had been taken over by heathens, not by Minmatars nor by anti-slavery activists, nor even by anarchists. Nevertheless. I thought it worthwhile reminding you that chief amongst those "heathens" is an organization employing the past golden-child of the 24th Crusade "Predator Elite" who is still in the habit of hot-dropping the TLF using his new resources and associations. New Eden politics is a tangled web and its rarely possible to draw such a clear line between "heathen" and "non-heathen" when your objective in Providence is currently run by a 24th Crusade-friendly organization with a former FC of that organization in the driving seat. The Ushra'khan and their genuine allies achieved a great and wonderful thing in Providence this year with the breaking of the holder power and liberation of a billion slaves. Lets not tarnish that memory in the ridiculous belief that the current state of providence has anything to do with freedom. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 14:11:00 - [12] Originally by: Dunn Idaho So stop deluding yourself Jade ... you never had any impact on us when it came to our decision making smiles with a little amusement at this most familiar of imperialist rhetorical wriggles Yes, we never actually blow any enemy spaceships up either. Its odd, all we have to do is come out of a warp and lock on our targeting sensors and they just self-destruct. Nothing to do with us whatsoever. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 17:16:00 - [13] "On the rocks" diplomats told us we had a stark choice. Sell them the Freeport TAZ Norlonto for 400m isk or they would take it and make it their new alliance home. In return we told them we'd grind their alliance into dust. A little over two weeks later their alliance closed with a membership drop of 400 to 15, the surrender of all corps bar two and the complete dissolution of combat operations. In space we crushed them utterly. While I will happily acknowledge that ICE may not have been in the best of health when it staggered to Providence and attempted to steal our Freeport. I think its beyond any credible position to claim we didn't put the gun to this alliance's head and blow its brains out in YWS0-Z. Any spin to the contrary from pre-jumped Ice-rats and the usual galnet subjects is simply laughable. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 20:43:00 - [14] We get used to it Garreck. Some of these special fans of ours loathe the Fraction so furiously(impotently) that if we reported we'd tackled and destroyed a war target ratting battleship in a belt they'd argue passionately that the explosion had nothing to do with anarchist spaceships and it was purely because of a faulty fusion core and malfunctioning guidance thrusters that made the ship crash into a veldspar roid and spontaneously combust. The very notion that the Fraction is out there killing alliances feels these guys with a deep sense of pant-wetting unease. And rightly so Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.27 21:05:00 - [15] Originally by: Eru Velari You're quite a pretentious one you know, but we all allready knew that. :) When you feel ready to post a campaign report here about how you reduced a 400 man alliance to a 15 man shell identity in a slowly spreading field of radiactive debris I will welcome it as a good read! Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.28 01:33:00 - [16] This third page seems to have lots of postings from "surrealist backtofrontland" where everything is topsy-turvey and the losers have turned into winners and having your alliance burned into a smoking wreck is what passes for success. Amazing Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.28 03:20:00 - [17] Originally by: Amaya Kulotsuki Originally by: Concord CONCORD invalidates war declared by The Star Fraction against Important Internet Spaceship League From: CONCORD Sent: 2010.10.28 02:51 CONCORD has declared this war invalid as it breaches one or more articles in the Yulai Convention. The war will be declared as being over after approximately 24 hours. We graciously accept your surrender. Amarr Victor! We rather expected Grandis Fustis to make good on his threats on your behalf for endless wardecs and harrassment against the Fraction. I think its a bit rich to expect us to pay for you to "harrass" us. Only reason you got a bit of a wardec was taking in an "rocks" successor corp as a technicality of the wardec system. Still. You have the option to make good on his boasts ... or not. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.28 15:27:00 - [18] Is it my imagination or is every pilot who was cheering for an "On the Rocks" victory now stuck with chronic reading disability? Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.28 17:21:00 - [19] You internet spaceships people appear to lack thread recognition at level 1. Only tears in this thread from your side. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.28 19:57:00 - [20] Originally by: Swwils Not everyone likes to read the prose of roleplayer in an MMO. I think I can speak for everyone on the summit when I say I have absolutely no idea what you are babbling about. Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.29 15:15:00 - [21] I'm sure the Freeport will eventually fall into the hands of regressive NSBI dogs intent on closing the docking ramps and denying access to neutrals and free commerce. That outcome was never really in doubt. What else is not in doubt is that whoever Internet Spaceships find to import and act as "holders" for the fallen Freeport will die in droves and face the vengeance of radical freespacers for the duration of their occupation. We in the Fraction will punish the enemies of freedom whenever they are found, whether it be "on the rocks" style aggression or hiding from our vengeance in the Ammatar constellations of Gamis and surrounding systems. A price will be paid for bringing the darkness of closed-border xenophobia to taint the liberation of Providence. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.30 13:33:00 - [22] Originally by: DJ Obsidian Star fraction spends some 10 bill to hire mercs with super capitals to defend them. Mercs get bored and leave, Ice and allies take down sbu Well against some stiff competition I think you have earned the most clueless post in the thread award DJ Obsidian. Clearly we hired some mercs to come along and knock our station shields down to 25% from 95% we'd been repping for five hours. What a great play! Also, I don't know who you are talking too - but if your definition of "take down sbu" is "don't dare to show their faces while SF destroys them" then you might be closer to the mark. I suggest you stop listening to ICE apologists and take a look at the combat records and dotlan alliance assessments yourself in the future. As for the eventual fate of TAZ Norlonto Freeport outpost I am sure it will fall to the regressive NBSI hordes of the New Providence "supreme big hat council". But I'm also sure we'll get our 25b isk worth of damage out of whoever else tries to steal it. We managed about 4.7 from ICE before they disbanded, we're at 2.8 from TG (in a week) at this rate it'll only take about 5 dead alliances to pay for our outpost and I guess everyone will be happy. Who knows maybe we'll hit 25b before you guys steal it. Lots of freighters moving around Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.31 04:38:00 - [23] Its punitive damages inflicted against the various entities who involved themselves in the attempted theft of a Freespace Outpost. Current combined total is around 8.7b isk inflicted (towards one objective of 25b). Far more productive than accepting your paltry 400m isk offer I think you will agree. Everybody knows the Fraction is pretty well-off iskwise / this is about punishing your pets and teaching them the hidden costs of Providence politics. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.10.31 15:24:00 - [24] The race-traitor Mintor has clearly not read the true knowledge of the Star Fraction topic that contains the answers for all his questions. While its doubtless to late to save his reputation in any practical form he might at least avoid the appearance of ignorance on this summit by doing a little basic research before opening his deceitful mouth in the future. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.01 00:31:00 - [25] Originally by: Frederick Garrish Good day, Star Fraction. I speak on behalf of The Devil's Eyes, a former member of NUKE. We have dropped our alliance, because we wish to make decisions as a corporation so that it would have no impact on anything NUKE decides. For ourselves, with no disrespect to NUKE, an upcoming great alliance. We were part of the campaign to take TAZ from you guys, recruited by ICE and TG. ICE disbanded shortly after our engagement, so I did not get to know them well, so I will speak nothing of them. Knowing more about your campaign, and ideals, I will submit that your enemies ideals do not coincide with our own. We do not condone slavery, and free trade is always a plus. I have grown a respect for your alliance, and some of your key members, and have enjoyed the impartial diplomatic proceedings. You have been very fair. However, to end this war, you would like us to apologize for our part in the attack. I do not feel it is necessary to pat you guys on the back. The results of your campaign should be enough. You are an alliance with a name for itself, and have a reputation throughout the entire galaxy. That is what we want for our corp as well. You say apologizing is sensible, but it is always a sign of weakness. We were offered to be part of a glorious campaign. It however has not been glorious, and I feel as if key information was not provided. Knowing what we know now, would we go back and be a part of it again? No I think not. But we will not apologize for attempting to make a name for ourselves, to be part of something glorious. We will surrender, and wish you luck in your endevours. And admit, we were in the wrong. I know this is not what you want, I just hope it will be enough to gain your respect and come to a mutual understanding. We have lost, and we bow our heads in respect. That, my friends is the best I can offer you at this time. On behalf of the Free Captains of the Star Fraction I accept your surrender and request for a return to neutral standings Captain Garrish. You have clearly learned a lot over the past weeks and have come to know the people you were set to fight by "Rocks" and their masters in the Supreme Providence Big Hat Council were not as they were described, helpless, weak and ripe for the picking. Yet there is strength in knowing when to shake hands and end a war as well. And in this I'm content that matters between our organizations may now return to profitable neutrality and I wish you well in your future endeavours. Be assured that when the sanctioned war timer has elapsed "The Devil's Eyes" will be neutral to the star fraction and your ships will pass without hostility from our continuing patrols and campaign against the race-traitors and turncoats of Teutonic guard and their creatures in G-5 system. I acknowledge your words and contrition and wish you well in pursuing the destiny you seek on the frontier. Dare to dream Captain Garrish. And always distrust imperialism. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.01 13:19:00 - [26] Originally by: lucifers widow Probably because you wrote it and as always it's a rambling mess. The more likely hypothesis is that neither he, nor you (his creature) are capable of understanding any concept more profound than "here is a slaver's boot - kiss it." Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.01 18:38:00 - [27] Edited by: Jade Constantine on 01/11/2010 18:43:57 Originally by: Shalee Lianne Confirming that Lucifer's Widow is not Eran's 'creature' nor does he have a boot licking foot fetish. Try again. If I ever need commentary from the resident 24th crusade camp-follower-in-chief I'll let you know. Until then get back to servicing the latest in your string of Huola-bound lovers and leave the discussion of actual campaigns to those with the independence of spirit to attempt anything in this universe beyond lurid melodrama and flushing hysterics. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.01 19:20:00 - [28] Edited by: Jade Constantine on 01/11/2010 19:25:57 Originally by: Shalee Lianne And in the 'spirit of freedom'... cuts off the red-faced posturing slaver harlot's nonsensical broadcast with the slightest gesture. Get out of my thread you ridiculous woman and grow up - the Amarrian Empire is a dungheap and you are down on your knees paying lip-service to the dung-beetles. Seek a little self respect before you embarrass yourself in public again. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.02 01:30:00 - [29] Originally by: Aldrith Shutaq Do you, Jade Constantine, believe that the Empre as a society has the potential to change for the better without the need for you, The Star Fraction and others to inflict violence upon its capsuleers, navy and people? A question I'll be happy to answer in an appropriate thread. Post a thread of your own on this topic and you will receive your answer. In the meantime stop attempting to derail this campaign discussion thread with off topic commentary from your members. Operation Icebreaker has nothing to do with Knighthood of the Merciful Crown. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.02 03:39:00 - [30] Perhaps you should have kept the idle speculation over the fate of our outpost out of the public memoirs on your latest 24th crusade sexual conquests. Now be a good doxy and scram. Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.02 20:38:00 - [31] Edited by: Jade Constantine on 02/11/2010 20:46:15 Originally by: Zylithi Today is a glorious day for NUKE, indeed. The well-paid industrial pilots of NUKE have stepped up to the plate and have become fully-fledged, well-paid mercenary pilots of the Military branch of NUKE. Although fairly inexperienced with standard military protocols, and very much fresh out of the tube nurseries of Caldari space, these mercenary pilots took it upon themselves, in light of seemingly narcissistic and questionably dishonorable military tactics, to move their combat vessels down to Gamis to assist their brothers and sisters in need from the scandalous bribery of Star Fraction to CONCORD. Indeed, we have suffered numerous losses, but these mercenary pilots are becoming quite adept at military protocols. Indeed, it is quite true that we have scored only a minor victory, reducing a Star Fraction Abaddon to rubble (Killboard link). However, the morale of our mercenary pilots have majorly increased, and we predict the balance of this scandalous CONCORD bribery empire war will begin to shift ever slowly. Indeed, there are hard times to come. However, the mercenary pilots do not forget. They do not forgive. Star Fraction shall be reduced to rubble for their scandalous CONCORD bribery. I for one pay full respect to the mercenary forces of OWTBS alliance and their achievement in destroying a Star Fraction Abaddon class Battleship in Gamis System. In downing a front line Fraction battleship you have achieved more in a few minutes than your partners in the race-traitor alliance Teutonic Guard - have achieved in weeks. So respect where it is due. You have considered your position and decided not to surrender and apologize for your part in the ill-fated "Rocks" offensive on YWS0-Z and we will honour your decision with warfare and violence until the matter is resolved to our satisfaction. This is how matters go on the frontier. At the time of writing we have achieved around 9.5b isk of punitive damages against our foes from the 25b billion which will mark the accomplishment of objective two in our campaigning - I trust your membership will make up some of that total in the weeks and months ahead. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.06 13:55:00 - [32] Originally by: Obsidian Hawk Ok, im going to keep this short. The route NUKE has taken does not reflect the interests of my corp and they path they are taking we cannot follow. As of this moment RONA has set everyone back to neutral and are leaving. We thank the SF for some fights and helping us to remember what empire war was like. We also apologize for our part in helping ICE and those others in their efforts to invade your space. We wish our former opponents are fruitful in their endeavors and fly safely. Also Jade, you may want to tell some of your pilots to really stop the smack talk in system local, it doesn't make your corporation and alliance look that good. On behalf of the Free Captains of the Star Fraction I accept your apology and surrender Obsidian Hawk. We consider the damages we have inflicted on your corporation already in this war to be sufficient recompense for your role in the "On the Rocks" offensive against the Freeport TAZ Norlonto and so your words here will draw a line under the issue and we will be returning you to neutral standings once the war status cooldown elapses. I advise your pilots to excercise due caution until this time. As for local taunts and hot comments, I think you must forgive the impression many of our pilots gained that by your association with race-traitors and turncoats you had inherited more of that foul stink that you actually had. In the future I wish you well, and urge you to fight for Free space and fair causes rather than regressive imperialism when next you strike out onto the frontier. Originally by: dccbx To whom it may concern I dccbx leader of the allaince owtbs is leaving the area to follow a contract of a different part of 0.0 we have learnt that we should not get invoulded in a war that we have no business in being apart of we are asking that we have standings return to netural and ask that the war deck finish, as we will not be staying in the area any further, further more those resonsible for exucalting this war further will have the apporite action taken againist them. Sorry for the lateness of this letter Jade looking forward to talking to you soon Kind Regards Dccbx Further to our conversation a week ago I accept your words as appropriate contrition and given the damage your alliance has already suffered in the war with the Free Captains we feel it is appropriate no further punitive damage be inflicted. You have paid your portion for the attack on TAZ Norlonto and in light of your decision to renounce associations with "On the Rocks" and "Teutonic Guard" and seek a future elsewhere in New Eden, I have ordered the retraction of the war and will be returning your alliance to neutral standings when the war cooldown has elapsed. I wish you well in your own punitive adventures against tyrants on the frontier. And as I said to Obsidian Hawk, I strongly urge you to find common cause with Freedom rather than imperialist delusion in the future. Space is free for the bold of heart, don't let anybody tell you different. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.06 14:12:00 - [33] As an update: To date our campaigns of retribution "ICEBREAKER" and "NUKING THE RACE TRAITORS" have inflicted a combined total of 12.36b isk on those forces that dared stretch their diseased hands against the Freespace Outpost TAZ Norlonto. This leaves us mid way to the next milestone of our campaign, but with plenty of blood yet to be shed. Having closed the book on "Rocks" alliance (deceased) and "NUKE" alliance (surrendered/withdrawn) we continue our attack on the race-traitors of Teutonic Guard in their Gamis and Providence nests and we today enlarge our target selection by the addition of Adeptus Arbites alliance who have announced themselves as "pets" of Teutonic Guard in G-5EN2 system Providence. Little is known about this entity save the colourful name of its premier combat corporation ... "Demons of the Murdering God" and its doubtful reputation of as "pets" of the providence "pets" and while we struggle to understand exactly how one can pledge pet status under the sway of a dungbeetle I'm sure the next weeks will prove illuminating. We give fair warning that any corporation or alliance that fights alongside Teutonic Guard runs the same risks as Teutonic Guard does itself. We have long memories and a love of battle in the Fraction. It may be the promise of golden asteroids and platinum bounty complexes in G-5EN2 system are more costly than described. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.06 15:16:00 - [34] Originally by: Kimsemus I enjoy you point your aggression towards Teutonic Guard even though TG shows up to fleets and fights to fend off Evoke from your very doorstep. You waste ships, resources, and energy on both sides with your selfish campaign while the greater enemy knocks on your very door and sits on your porch. Whenever you decide to get on the same page as the rest of your region and contribute to something meaningful, you know our communication channels. Until then Jade Constantine. A little over six weeks ago the Supreme Providence "big hat" council informed the Free Captains of the Star Fraction that you were intending to steal our outpost unless we accepted the paltry and insulting "offer" of 400m isk. We have since been told by the big dogs (BDEAL) of the "big hat" council that they still intend to steal our outpost. We are currently fighting the alliance Teutonic Guard that not only betrayed us, they also betrayed our allies in the Ushra'khan, the only other entity in Providence who actually constructed their own outposts rather than simply moving in like thieves in the night. And you have the temerity to come here and extort us to put aside our recent memories and full understanding of Providence treachery to fight at your side against another aggressor? You attempted to steal our 25b isk asset in YWS0-Z. We considered the asset lost and resolved in open council to take back the sum from the wrecked ships of the traitors and turncoat weaklings that made the filthy compact in the "big hat" council behind our backs. Have you no shame. Seriously. If you put a knife in somebody's back and somehow fail to kill them don't come round publicly begging for charity six weeks later. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.07 06:22:00 - [35] Something ôpresidentö Winguut (and to a lesser degree) pilot Louis deGuerre need to realise is that the Free Captains of the Star Fraction owe precisely nothing and pay zero respect to the self proclaimed supreme ôbig hatö council of neo providence. These combined exhortations that we somehow should be defending the claimed territory of those who have tried to steal the Freeport we established is beyond ridiculous to us. Furthermore, since the Fraction has never recognized exclusive territorial claim and closed border protectionism on the frontier, the interests of the "big hat councillers" are not (and have rarely ever been) our interests. The Free Captains of the Star Fraction opposed the slavers of the CVA in Providence and fought alongside our friends and long-term allies in the UshraÆkhan to liberate the region from the cloying stench of hierarchical tyranny and standings enclosurism on the frontier. We did not fight for the establishment of another NBSI hegemony designed to prevent the free transit of traders and explorers on the frontier. We did not ôpurchaseö, ôrentö, ôgain on loanö or otherwise ôinheritö the system sovereignty where we established our Freeport. We drove out the last remnants of the CVA and built TAZ Nortlonto with our own labour as a testament to freedom in post CVA providence. The current Providence ôfight clubö concept is ridiculous to us. And the thought that one might build relationships with neighbours by raiding and murdering their pilots and then join fleets to defend against collective territorial threats is absurd (an absurdity readily highlighted by the slight we suffered against all prior diplomacy and agreement). We have attempted to treat with honour and dignity and been rebuffed and betrayed at all turns by the remnant interlopers of New Providence. Now I say plainly that we reject any notion of authority or influence on the part of the ôsupreme providence big hat councilö. We are neither signatories nor subordinates; we are not soldiers to be manipulated or victims to be taxed. We established our own outpost as a Freeport for the good of neutral trade and 0.0 access in New Eden. What we do with that outpost is our commercial business. The only significant threat against its nature ever yet brought has come from the traitorous dogs of New Providence û and we destroyed an alliance in punishment for that offense. Now as for Teutonic Guard alliance I say plainly. You made yourselves our blood enemies by betraying our friends and allies in the UshraÆkhan. You then compounded your treachery by working with ôOn the Rocksö alliance at the order of the ôbig hatö council in the attempt against TAZ Nortlonto in attempted low thievery against anotherÆs asset. I told you personally in local space G5 system some weeks ago that we would make you pay for your attack on the Freeport Winguut, at the time you laughed and told me the might of nine alliances would descend on our station and blot out the sun. I remarked weÆd get round to them all eventually. And while you are partially correct û that the Freeport Norlonto is still open to neutral trade, you are forgetting your part in razing the systems developed IHUB and returning the system resources to null while the continuing aggression from Providence holders (including yourselves) renders the notion of a commercially viable Freeport fragile at best. I have already told you that the council of Free Captains have met and voted to write off the effective loss of the outpost against 25b isk worth of punitive damages to be levied against the ships and holdings of the treacherous dogs who moved against us. We consider our investment null at this point. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.07 06:32:00 - [36] As for ceasefire and leaving conflicts in the past? I can tell you now the mood amongst my comrades calls out for your blood and the destruction of your alliance. And even if you decided today to move 50 jumps to the north and abandon Providence I believe we would vote to follow and complete the annihilation of your organization. You have committed a grave offense against the interests of the Fraction and the dream of Freespace and we intend to take our pound of flesh and make a salutary lesson of your fate to other tyrants who think to close space and deny the fruits of economic development on the frontier. We seek your destruction Wingnuut of the Teutonic guard as we destroyed ôOn the Rocksö before you. The Star Fraction does not ôdefend spaceö û we destroy tyrants. And the sooner you realize this fact the sooner you will come to understand that the month of war you have suffered thus far is just the tip of the ice-burg in our designs against your corrupt and despicable conclave of petty thieves and mewling race-traitors. Do not think to talk your way out of this conflict of your making. Order replacement starships and draft unfortunate crews and prepare to fight for your existence. War is the harvest of your treachery. War and destruction. For once in your life stand and face your fate with some dignity race-traitor, take responsibility for your deeds and decisions and understand that all that follows is the product of the choice you made. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.08 18:08:00 - [37] To pilots ôduch eaterö and ôporkchopö of Teutonic Guard alliance, I can see I will need to repeat myself to remind you that the Free Captains of the Star Fraction have NEVER been motivated by the desire or interest to ôdefend spaceö for its own sake. We are about opening borders, encouraging free trade, inviting commercial exploitation of the frontier and opposing any close-minded xenophobic imperialistic regression we find. We believe new providence would have served itself better by opening its stations to neutral trade rather than predating on it like carrion dogs. It is certainly true to say that we have no part whatsoever to play with the current ôbig hat councilö coalition of backstabbers and turncoats and it would be fair to say any potential cooperation ended when Daisho broke the diplomatic agreement we brokered in the summer and the remaining ôbig hatö councillors decided to put the knife into our long-standing friends and allies in UshraÆkhan. As for dejected mewling about our combat tactics from TG, I reject these comments as the nonsensical bleating of a losing cause frustrated at its own inability to project power in even its strong time-zone and reduced to whining disconsolately from its stolen station during the rest of the day. Nobody but a madman fights to the enemyÆs preference and I take pleasure in each assassination, ambush, trap, murder, slaughter or lopsided surgical destruction that befalls the starships of Teutonic Guard as they rush about like headless chickens in the warzone. Honour is for diplomacy and formal agreement. Honour is keeping oneÆs word regardless of the cost. Honour is maintaining friendships and punishing traitors and turncoats. Teutonic guard pilots are probably the least well-grounded creatures in New Eden to speak about honour at this point, having betrayed and flip-flopped, and turned their coats so many times even they have no idea what colour they are supposed to be showing. The Star Fraction is hostile to a vast coalition that can outnumber us 100-1 if they choose to mass their strength against us and some scant weeks ago the TG leadership was warning us that nine mighty alliances were going to tear down TAZ Nortlonto and scatter us like leaves in the wind. As a result we choose our fights carefully and seek to do you harm when we can. Every day you are dying, and every day takes us closer to our next objective. Thus far things are developing very nicely, after all, your leaders would hardly be here publicly requesting truce and ceasefire if they were confident of their position or ability to win this war. Something you might consider in the few introspective moments you allow yourselves between bouts of choleric local ranting from the depths of your ill-gotten station. But more importantly, this is our war; this is how we choose to express our ideology and our dream. By destroying road-blocking xenophobic power-worshipping insects in flashy acts of creative anarchy and guerrilla panache we show the star cluster how fragile tyranny truly is. This is what we live for. This is the moment we crave of fire and revolution and fury. There is nowhere we would rather be. You didnÆt make war on dirt-farmers and closet territorialists who wanted to spend the rest of their career voiding asteroids and camping gates for the local coalition. I think you mistook us. You decided to betray an organization that exists to fight black operations and guerrilla warfare against sitting territorial powers. You foolishly lit the blue touch paper on wonderful new campaign of slaughter and atrocity against those who dare enslave the minds and dreams of capsuleers on the frontier. Your slavery is herd instinct and regressive political submission. We will set you free with beams and torpedoes and cascades of antimatter in the ether as our heroic ships dance in the void and follow you wherever you hide. Our enemy is imperialist memetics, our identity their vexation. This is who we are. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.09 13:29:00 - [38] That the Providence ôbig hatö council feels the need to employ a ridiculously-named proxy to spin the defeat of its unfortunate ôon the rocksö hirelings, says everything really. It wasnÆt so long ago that the BDEAL leadership had the temerity to threaten the Fraction with ôwar decsö more ôwardecsö ômerc-decsö and ôendless harassmentö if we refused their offer of 400m isk for TAZ Norlonto. Now in the wake of the complete crushing defeat of ôrocksö and the humiliation of BDEAL and the associated ôbig hattersö with the continuing punitive campaign of the Fraction against the traitors now reaching 15b isk in total losses inflicted, we have a pointless lying nobody trying to re-write history while standing on the summit with eyes-balled shut to hold back the tears chanting: ôIt never happened.ö ôIT never happened.ö ôIT NEVER happened.ö As if simply saying a thing makes it true and repairs all those destroyed ships, sbuÆs, tower, and puts the 500 lost and driven ôRocksö pilots back into their alliance like nothing happened. ôBut we never wanted that sov anyway!ö he wheedles. ôBut we never wanted that alliance anyway!ö he cringes. ôBut we never wanted that war in the first place!ö he splutters. Of course you didnÆt little BDEAL proxy. But hindsight is 20/20 and in New Eden choices and consequence matter, as does the notion of credibility. When we decided to laugh in the face of the ôbig hatö councillors we expected them to make good on their threats for endless ten-year wardecs and harassment and the might of ônine alliancesö to descend and paint the skies black as a backdrop to our heroics. We took you seriously. We considered your threats and the likely consequences to us and decided to accept the burden of hostility that would follow in full knowledge of the price. Now you are claiming it was all meaningless bluster? That you had no credible threat behind the words of the ôbig hatö councillors? That it was all front and nothing solid? That you had no power, no will, no ability and no intention to make good on your words after all? So it be, what history will remember is that you threatened dire consequences and an alliance a 1/10th of the size of your coalition called your bluff and found you were holding nothing but a busted flush and a sprinkling of idiot rhetoric. Why should anyone henceafter take any threat you make seriously? Why should anyone believe a word you say? What is the point of diplomacy with whinging child incapable of following through a scintilla of consequence from a storm of frothing noise? History is not kind to buffoons. That too is a consequence of war in New Eden. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.09 18:01:00 - [39] Pilot Faust, You claim your goals are not very different to the Free Captains so let me ask you first, do you really understand what the Star Fraction stands for? I have to be blunt because from my understanding of Teutonic Guard you are an NSBI closed-border territorialist outfit that believes in your sole claim on a system and justifies the random murder of any passers-by or visitors on the grounds of your territorial possession. Even leaving aside (for a moment) your history as deceitful race-traitor turncoats, I assure you the core ideological basis of your AllianceÆs intentions is wholly counter to the FractionÆs vision of free commerce and trade on the frontier. We really donÆt see much difference between a ôsuper-allianceö and a ôsuper-coalitionö like the ôbig-hat councilö. I imagine we all know the adage about power corrupting and the greater the power in the hands of an individual ôspeakerö or ôpresidentö the greater potential for corrupt misuse of power and assumed authority. This was precisely what happened when Grandius Fustias of BDEAL attempted to bully and threaten the Free Captains of the Fraction with ôwardecs and harassmentö if we did not take his paltry deal of 400m isk in exchange for our outpost. What greater example of corruption and petty tyranny did we need than this? Your alliance, Teutonic Guard, supported this tyranny and did its level best to stab us in the back and ensure that the interloping ôon the rocksö alliance was triumphant at the cost of the honest builders in YWS0-Z. So you will understand that your warnings about the ôgreater tyrannyö of Evoke fall now on deaf ears. The reality is that TAZ Norlonto is likely lost in the long term in either case. If Evoke win in Providence doubtless they will come to claim the system. If the ôbig hatsö come to win in Providence then they will come again to conquer the system. Whatever we do in the Fraction we are unlikely to change those outcomes û but what we can achieve is the destruction and elimination of race-traitors and turncoats who aided our enemies and betrayed the compact that brought them to this region in the first place. We in the Fraction want to see a freespace Providence with open commerce and free trade. We want space inhabited by those corporations and alliances that keep their diplomatic agreements and donÆt fall victim to the tyranny of coalition-rule and ôbig hatö mouthpieces attempting to use their numbers to bully independents. What we want may well be a distant dream but weÆd rather try and fail than reach a shoddy compromise at the cost of our idealism and reputation as honest fighters opposed to territorial authority and corrupt imperialist power. After all, space is free. And a capsuleer may only be enslaved by regressive memes and hierarchical folly. So I in turn urge you pilot Faust to look deeply into the mirror and realize that when you say your ideals are close to ours you are rejecting the entire foundation of the ôbig hatö coalition in Providence and speaking nothing so much as your absolute self-loathing at the behaviour and crass parochialism of your alliance-mates in clinging to the coat-tails of a tyranny in the hope of a few breadcrumbs from the BDEAL table. Stand up and name yourself an individual. Fight for something you do believe in for once in your life and realize that we in the Fraction simply give voice to the inner desire for freedom laying dormant in your every thought and dream. This is not a war between the Providence big-hats and Evoke; such issues are the movement of mountains and storm-clouds in the atmosphere. The real war is in your head, in your thoughts, in your secret knowledge that post-human evolution is meant for more than simply guarding borders and snapping out salutes to the passing dignitaries of the ruling coalition. Fight your own fear and free yourself from the ideological chains that make you less than human. Then perhaps we will talk. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.12 14:55:00 - [40] Originally by: Flashh Gorden Most of the people involved in that Nip represent everything the so called free captains claim to fight against. Why on earth enter into deals pacts and bargains with such villans and scumbags in the first place? Was holding some space that important? I think if you read closely you will see that the only people we really cared about in Providence were our allies in the Ushra'khan. As for the rest, well, we hoped to persuade them on the merits of NRDS free trade and we worked quite hard in the months after liberation to sell the advantage of a freespace pipe through KBP->9UY as a first step in opening the region to neutral pilots. Of course history will show we were less than successful in that attempt and indeed our primary allies in the region ended up getting back-stabbed and turned upon by the johnny-come-lately outfits in the "big-hat" coalition. But here's the thing pilot Gorden. We didn't expect anybody would take us seriously in our urging for a global NRDS/Freespace policy in Providence if we didn't stake anything ourselves. The construction of TAZ Norlonto in YWS0-Z system was us putting our isk where our mouths were and standing up to demonstrate what we believed in could work. We staked 25b isk to construct an open-borders system with a free access outpost because otherwise we were simply talking heads without anything to bargain with. We installed full bounty-hunting upgrades in the IHUB not because we ever wanted to be staying there to use them but so visiting neutrals could earn isk to spend on the things we were selling them. This was construction for ideology. As for the NIP pact stuff. Well, I think we've all seen what that is worth in the long term. Interesting if you read back to last summer on the issue with our short war with Diasho Syndicate in the first weeks after liberation you'll see that the Fraction was pretty divided on the issue of trying to deal with these people or simply shoot them in the head. It was a marginal open vote of the free captains that swung it to diplomacy and though the Fraction leadership honoured that decision to the best of our ability, its no secret that Jericho leadership specifically was pretty opposed to the notion and many of us had deep misgivings from the beginning. But an organization like ours respects internal democracy and free choice of the movement, and sometimes mistakes need to be made to learn from them. "Holding Space" has never been important to the Free Captains pilot Gorden. Opening a Freeport so that all neutrals could dock and trade in post-liberation Providence was. In retrospect you can certainly say that we were foolish or misguided to expect any fellow-feeling or understanding of our ideological intentions from the "big-hats" but this is a cold hard universe when all is said and done, and you really get anything unless you try. Its an adage as old as new eden that you don't fly what you can't afford to lose and I think it goes for outposts as well. Don't build what you can't afford to lose. This campaign of ours is not about saving TAZ Norlonto, as you can see, the dream of the place and notion of a freespace outpost in a gradually opening Providence has been betrayed and stiffled by the insanity of the "big-hat" fightclub (regional NAP coalition) and the base jealousies and petty xenophobia of its leadership. Of course one might have hoped for better from those displacing slavers and tyrants than simply putting on the discarded slaver's robes and sitting on the thrones to order a new tyranny in place, but thats the tricky thing with territorial memetics and regressive hierarchical thinking. Its very difficult to remove from the human psyche and while we try our utmost with peaceful persuasion, diplomacy, economic incentives and open debate, it is a sad fact of the universe that often the most compelling argument remains ... Shooting imperialism in the face. We can do that to. Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.11.22 16:53:00 - [41] Originally by: Sinti Vailatti ""Holding Space" has never been important to the Free Captains..." Interesting words considering all the crying that occured whenever you lost a POS in Kamela. Are you referring (somehow) to the heroic sequence of tower fights in Kamela beginning last autumn and concluding in the epic victory of the Fraction and our matari allies at the battle of space and freedom IV? Quote: Anyway, I think a lot of us are well used to how SF and by extension Daedalus X spin their actions. Whatever. Everyone spins a story to make themselves look like the hero. Then I was thinking...see, I was telling U'K that they should be careful who they hire because they already got jacked from within. Now I see it Jade. Very smooth. You're trying to be the one who pulls U'K strings. So your theory is that Daedalus X is a Star Fraction infilitration attempt against our allies in Ushra'khan? Mind-boggling really. Here, let me award you the most clueless post in the thread award against some quite stern opposition. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2010.12.02 21:13:00 - [42] Originally by: Wingnuut To the Free Captains of the Star Fraction, Speaking on behalf of Teutonic Guard, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for the misunderstanding regarding the attack by Teutonic Guard on the Free Port of TAZ Norlonto. The circumstances were confusing, miscommunication occurred and actions were taken that were not intended. We have taken steps within our alliance to prevent another occurrence such as this from happening again. As such, we accept the cessation of hostilities with the Star Fraction. In addition, we are willing to acquiesce to the request of allowing the pilots of Star Fraction to dock in G-5. Former CEO Of Teutonic Guard Alliance Wingnuut There comes a time to accept that a particular opponent has been wounded enough for the needs of vengeance and its fair to say that the last couple of months has been particularly hard on Teutonic Guard. The war with the Fraction began when pilots of Teutonic Guard aided the cowardly assault on the Freespace Outpost of TAZ Nortlonto alongside the now dead "on the rocks alliance" and we considered this a particular betrayal given the friendly welcome we'd given to TG on their arrival in providence in the months before Ushra'khan were driven out by the "big hats." Hence the fury of the Free Captains expressed in the months of slaughter we have brought to Teutonic Guard in G-5 and Ammatar territories accounting for around 10.3 billion isk inflicted and around 221 recorded ship kills concluding in the functional collapse of TG as a spaceholding entity several weeks ago and the final dissolution of the concord sanctioned alliance indentity a couple of hours ago this evening. In the wake of this dissolution I met with CEO Wingnuut in Faspera system where he proposed to negotiate the formal surrender of Cyro Innovations (former executor corp of Teutonic Guard) and we agreed to accept this on provision he make restitution to the symbolic total of 400m isk. With the formal elimination of Teutonic Guard alliance that brings our total to 3 dead alliances and 21b isk punitive damages inflicted against the "big hats" and their servants and hirelings thus far. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.07 19:05:00 - [43] Update. As of the beginning of this year we have moved on from dismantling the "big hat" allies who moved against Norlonto. Over the course of the campaigning several entities were effectively destroyed and we accounted for a punitive damage total of over 21b isk against the initial traitors and turncoats who sought to purchase the freeport for the laughable sum of 400m. While a few billion short of our target (24-25) we had to yield to the conclusion that there was literally nothing left of our initial foes to break anymore. For the last month or so we have switched our intentions to the Evoke/Ewok coalition in Providence and in due course will detail the campaigning there. Its been a fruitful beginning and we're up to 11.5b isk damage on the industrialists and minor pawns of this territorialist alliance in Providence but we have much further to go and raise a toast to the ghost of freedom in YWS0-Z as we torch the roaches and miners of this "elite combat alliance" who chose to steal the labour of others and then bleat to the Privateers for help when things went wrong at home. It takes around 24b isk to establish an outpost. So far the enemies of the Fraction have paid 33b to steal one. War continues. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.07 19:57:00 - [44] Originally by: Vaarun Regardless of your hand-waving, I see you without a system ... Whilst I see a man without a backbone. New Eden is full of tragedy. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.07 20:41:00 - [45] Perhaps you are right, you deserved a more detailed response. Noting the collapse of your own imperial aspirations I will attempt to spread a little more light. Originally by: Vaarun Regardless of your hand-waving, I see you without a system ... Whilst I see revolution unchained. The difference between how you and I view matters appears a matter of optimism and perspective. New Eden is full of tragedy and unfortunate circumstance after all. Yet your argument appears to be since 0.0 is rich it is pointless to shoot pilots affiliated with 0.0 regimes to make a point. One wonders how you would have responded to the charge that since the Matari republic is rich it is pointless for your militia to engage its enemies? But it is a flawed and weakling point at best. No conflict is truly meaningless. All action and gesture has moment. 0.0 is rich and territorial conceit largely unchallenged because of the fear and trepidation in the hearts of men like you. You imagine the wealth of nullsec moons and mass industry renders the imperial body politic invulnerable but it is not so. An empire (any empire) is built on pride and terror. The pride of the hierarch and the terror of its subjects. It is beyond imagining that individuals might challenge the collective - how dare they? But history teaches us otherwise. Individuals do challenge the collective and they do win. Because after all, what is lost when the guerilla fails a battle, or loses a skirmish? Nothing much, after all, the empire is meant to win. But when the empire loses a fight? When the combat elite of the territorial empires are humbled? When the awsome power of thousands of capsuleer legionaries is mocked by the bravery and war-arts of a bold few. That is when empires crumble at their foundation because they cannot afford to lose the precious currency of pride itself. Pride is worth more than isk to the territorial warlord, pride is the knife we twist into his ribs, pride is the acid we spill upon his bones and broken pride is the poison boiling in the lungs and stomach of the wounded giant. How many giants have the fraction outlived Vaarun? Countless. Because we challenge them to defend their individual pilots against our guerilla-arts and never yet have they managed it. Individuals of worth see this and break away, learning to make their own decisions and count on their own talent and power alone to ensure their safety and prosperity and this is how the war is won. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.08 19:35:00 - [46] I can see why it will comfort you to believe that Lyn Farel. But the reality is that many many capsuleers have access to ôPR and wealthö, those are hardly rare possessions in this universe after all. But it is easy to tell oneself that an enemy succeeds only because he or she is better provisioned, better prepared, luckier in news, in reputation, any one of an thousand reasons why your own righteous cause is failing. But so much harder to look at a thing honestly and see the truth. I have the wealth I need Lyn Farel, but wealth doesnÆt keep my heart beating. The Free Captains are rarely rich; all of us could make more isk, greater fortunes, and more comfortable income in easier ways after all. The cluster has a myriad ways to reward the risk-averse. Even your own corporation in the Knighthood has access to better sources of isk than we do. It is well known that Militia agent missions represent the easiest isk income of all, subsidized by an empire desperate to ensure the fealty of pilots addicted to sucking at the teat of loyalty points and discount items. And ôPRö? Public relations, the packaging of corporate messages for popular regurgitation by news media. DonÆt we all use these arts? IsnÆt that why we are both recording messages on the summit after all? But does the desire to explain oneÆs actions and motives render them false and void? Is the act of telling ideals and philosophy corrosive to the ideal itself? I wonder if you prefer solipsism to communication in the final analysis? It is true we have different opinions and we fight for different things. I after all, believe that the hierarchy of empires and collectivist subversion of individual capability is detrimental to the human condition whereas you believe that submission to a greater authority in all is the perfect state of existence, but can we not debate the ideals themselves without the gut-reactive spasm to attack the medium rather than the message? ôClueless peopleö in a ôPR Netö. It would be so easy for me to dismiss your whole existence and individual nature in a sentence and respond with an idiot (but entirely appropriate) ôno youö but doing so would allow your ôPRö preference to dictate the terms of the interaction so I demur. (my choice as a sovereign individual) I prefer to debate with a person rather than a reactive meme-system Lyn Farel. We have eternity you and I to fight the war of ideals û take your time but do return when you are prepared to reach past the banal and address the essence of our dispute. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.08 23:23:00 - [47] Originally by: Aryanna Ta'Lone Ms. Constantine...how does one become a "free" captain exactly? The irony is that most people start out being Free Captains but end up giving their freedom away to territorial powers, to mining overseers, to national militias, to religion, to convention and hierarchy. There is nothing special about the Free Captains of the Star Fraction except we have decided to maintain and assert our freedom and take arms to its defense. Quote: You are so cool...ummm, and pretty too...I'm just sayin', I dont mean anything by it or...hells. I think you would do well to stick to simple enquiries and questions and the like on the summit for now. Incautious words to the lovers of notorious revolutionaries AND sani sabik heretics can have bad results if not followed by dignified and immediate retraction. I truly have scant need for the stumbling compliments of novice capsuleers pilot Ta'Lone. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.08 23:41:00 - [48] Originally by: Silas Vitalia Originally by: Jade Constantine I truly have scant need for the stumbling compliments of novice capsuleers pilot Ta'Lone. Nonsense! I think your entire cult of personality is singularly fueled by sycophantic appraisals of your character. grins If you weren't such a walking grotesquery in the makeup department I'd be inclined to take that to heart Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.09 00:33:00 - [49] Originally by: Lyn Farel Anyway, now that you seem to look for a serious debate (Over what ? What keeps SF alive ? How about we start with what keeps your faith alive? What do you stand for Lyn Farel and why do you think it superior? Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.09 13:45:00 - [50] Why do you think it is an inappropriate one though? After all, you have chosen to involve yourself with a thread only tangentally-associated with your conflict with the Fraction and made some comment and assertions that might equally be applied to your own faith and outlook, is it really unreasonable that you be invited to explain your interest and preconceptions to the casual reader? Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.16 14:04:00 - [51] Originally by: Lyn Farel Originally by: Jade Constantine Why do you think it is an inappropriate one though? After all, you have chosen to involve yourself with a thread only tangentally-associated with your conflict with the Fraction and made some comment and assertions that might equally be applied to your own faith and outlook, is it really unreasonable that you be invited to explain your interest and preconceptions to the casual reader? Well then. I stand for science, progress and evolution. I believe it is superior to stagnation, which only means death ultimately. Strange to consider why we are fighting then really. After all, I consider the Amarrian Empire stands opposed to science (believing as it does in a mythological creator/tyrant deity that demands belief rather than factual proof). I consider the Amarrian Empire stands opposed to progress given its reliance on the institutions of feudal hierarchy and manual agricultural labour - promoting as it does a slave-based economy purely for literal fetish rather than commercial sense. And I consider the Amarrian Empire stands opposed to evolution by definition since the continuation of government and rule by the physically and mentally infirm by centuries-old repression and tyranny cannot be anything other than anti evolutionary. Does the Amarrian faith not consider the post-humanity of the capsuleer class a threat to its celestial order after all? Why do the Amarrian leaders consider cloning a sin? Why do we see so many doddering old diseased specimens of failed genetics in the empire? Simply because the priesthood considers genetype correction and improvement of the human species a sin in the eyes of God. So by all means explain how you can justify standing for Science, Progress and Evolution while fighting for an Imperialist government that most (beyond its borders) would probably agree stands for precisely the opposite? I'm interested in your rationale here because I believe it will prove informative when dealing with your general interaction with public debate ms Farel. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.16 18:10:00 - [52] Why indeed ms Farel? From our perspective it is because you have taken up arms in support of an institution that believes it has the right by superior violence to make other sentient beings slaves. We consider this belief places you firmly in our crosshairs because we believe that no-one has that unchallenged right and that by killing your pilots and liberating your captives when we can, we do something for the good of humanity and aspirant posthuman culture (as well as our own commercial self-interest). We do profitable business with free populations and independent groups the cluster-wide. The closed markets and feudal principalities of the Imperium are often too primitive even to trade with û IÆd like to liberate your slaves and victims and set them on road to business and anarcho-capitalist diaspora. You are right to highlight the anarchist principles of the fraction as a point of significant difference though, absolutely right, even as you are typically imprecise and predictably misleading on your assessment of where we stand. Absolute freedom is something of a straw man to your statement. For how can one individual be absolutely free without impinging on the freedom of another? Can one be absolutely free without consequence? One might say the state of absolute freedom is meaningless when one is bound by physical laws û surely we should be free to step off cliffs and sprout wings to fly away? Does the fact that the tyranny of gravity will drag us to physical destruction impinge on our freedoms because we are limited by the concepts of the physical universe? We free captains are not absolutely free of consequence. We are free to act, free to explore, free to trade, to travel, to dream and to love. But we are never free of consequence. We do as we will, as we see fit, but we are bound by our own standards, our reputation, or business relationships, our interests our cares and our dreams. The nationalist tyranny finds it all too easy to conjure the ghost of absolute anarchy as a chaos of a billion murderous children stabbing each otherÆs eyes out with pokers as a spectre to terrify the foolish. But that is not how the anarchy of the Fraction works, it is not what we promote, it is not where weÆd like to go and it is not the future for post humanity. When you enter into an agreement or arrangement with a Free Captain you may be assured it will be kept because there is value in keeping oneÆs word, there is competitive advantage in being trusted, there is mutual benefit to cooperation in commerce and culture and war. What we fight against is the nationalist hierarchy that ensures individuals are robbed of their individual choice. It is easy for you ms Farel to say that the Amarrian Empire chooses primitive theocratic hierarchy as its ôchoiceö because you know well that nobody with the liberty to speak on such matters exists outside the hierarchy and slaves, well, they donÆt count in your estimation do they? Grant the Amarrian people (all of them) the right to choose their government and culture, release your captives and allow them the choice of how they live their lives. Disband the camps and execution factories, send the hounds back to the wilds, disarm your police and orbital satellites and then tell me the Amarrian people have made a choice to remain as they are. Until then your argument is specious and dishonest. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.16 18:13:00 - [53] We in the Fraction fight those who would deny choice to individuals. We do not respect your choice to deny choice to others. It is pure and simple and fact undeniable. And back to the subject of this thread. The reason for our involvement in Providence many years ago was our opposition to the CVAÆs suppression of individual and collective choice in the matter of its standings enclosurist regime in this region. CVA (as Amarrian Nationalist proxies) conducted a policy of ôif you are not with us you are against usö and forced neutrals to set neutrals negative to remain on their good side with access to intel channels and infrastructural development rights. We opposed that. On principle. So when our turn came to make good on our principles we constructed a genuine Freeport in Providence and granted access and docking without strings or preconditions to those interested in neutral status. We didnÆt tell people who they could fight or how to conduct their wars. We didnÆt insist that blues to our reds would make them red also. We allowed people to make a choice. We fought a war to promote that freedom. And that is the anarchy of the Star Fraction ms Farel. Now we fight a campaign of commercial raiding to ensure that those imperialists and road-blockers who took that choice away from the neutrals of Providence will pay a fiscal penalty for their tyranny because when all is said and done the greatest argument for political free is mutual advantage and cooperative profit. We intend to ensure that the theft of Norlonto costs the organizations involved more than they gain from the deed. Call it aversion-therapy for territorial greed. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.17 17:11:00 - [54] The blunt reality is that the Merciful Crown supports the 24th Crusade which is the armed capsule-militia of the Amarrian Empire. You fight to enslave the Matari people. This is clear and factual. It is also entirely predictable to hear a tyranny call on its victims to show restraint in their violence and work ôwithinö the system. This is called manipulation. But yes, we do agree that consequence for action is the way of the universe. Your consequence for supporting a tyrannical imperialist regime that denies the rights of sentient individuals is incoming violence from fraternal supporters of your victims. I did in fact read your words about ôourö anarchy very carefully, and you did specifically use the term I quoted entirely in the context I quoted you in. If you now admit you were wrong to report us speaking of ôabsoluteö anarchy in the terms you reported then fair enough. Further, I simply do not believe that a majority (or even significant proportion) of the Amarrian populace do support the regime. It is an armed feudal theocracy and the price of demurral is a terrible one. We can certainly go in circles with the ôwe do not respect your right to xö statements û this is where conflict enters the equation of human interaction. If you want my respect for the Merciful CrownÆs expressed and claimed intentions to strive for a ôbetter and fairer empireö then you must take actions to prove the honesty of your ambitions: Spoken plainly you should withdraw from the 24th Crusade, release your slaves (I obviously have no faith in the fairness of Imperial criminal law for determining punitive guilt of individuals), and declare your opposition to the institution of slavery by standing rebellion to the prevailing hierarchy of the Empire. These are actions not mere empty words. And to the matter of the CVA dominated region of Providence, while this is a matter that has generated much debate over the years the reality is certain facts are now commonly established and generally unchallenged by any credible voice: -The CVA seized parts of Providence from the UshraÆkhan, stealing their labour and dominating the fruits of free matari infrastructure. Capturing enemy outposts is not moving without violence to a barren land. -The CVA did in fact enforce their viewpoint on the inhabitants of Providence since full settlement and moon mining rights were dependent on obeying the central CVA-administered standings list. -The CVA did also use their controlled intelligence channel to report the ôfriendly, neutral or hostileö status of 3rd parties to neutrals in absolute terms. Many times the NRDS ROE of the Star Fraction was ignored by the CVA leaders as they preferred to describe us to neutrals as ôpiratesö, ôgriefersö or ôrandom gankersö. On the notion of a unified NRDS policy I will say that the desire for such across hundreds of diverse and independent organizations can be as close tyranny as to brook no difference. Ultimately if you are telling 3rd party organizations that they must set a particular (to them neutral) organization -10 to gain access to infrastructure development on the frontier then you are involving them in your wars and reducing their free choice in fair diplomacy. For this reason we have always considered ôstandings-enclosedö NRDS to be fundamentally regressive since it promotes a top-down hierarchy where one small group of individuals or ruling entity come to dominate the diplomatic outlook and interactions of a submissive mass. You say the locals in Providence were supporting the CVA? I say they had no choice if they wanted to remain. Access to collective defence channels and infrastructural development rights were dependent on submission to the CVA standings list. We learned many times of the pressure brought to bear against neutrals who wished to remain neutral while we pursued targets who had attacked us under NBSI ideology elsewhere in Eve. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.17 17:19:00 - [55] And last ms Farel, I will agree that post CVA Providence was a ridiculous mess. The NIP/fight club ôbig hat coalitionö was a pointless, vapid, shiftless and deeply corrupt entity and we very quickly lost any illusion it could be otherwise. Yet we made our own choices and established our own outpost with genuine NRDS freespace principles without interference in 3rd party standings or threats to ensure compliance to our red lists. Our system infrastructure, docking services, moon-mining and bounty hunting wealth was open to anyone prepared to remain neutral and simply avoid firing on our ships. We did what we said the CVA should have done. But ultimately both efforts failed to the imperialist greed of regressive territorialism. This is now history; more interesting is what lays in the future for the ideologies we are speaking of: The CVA have their approach and I understand their leader now considers NRDS "unworkable" for nullsec settlement and has closed neutral access to their remaining holdings. The Fraction has decided to make a point of ensuring the theft of another's labour is a costly business via the aversion therapy of commerce raiding and assassination as we humiliate and tweak the pride of territorial juggernauts that think themselves beyond the reach of consequence and revenge. The historian may decide on the relative merits and faith expressed in these divergent approaches. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 03:08:00 - [56] Ms Farel, first as a point of order I would advise you against the commonplace ôcut and chopö method of forum hurly-burly practised by some on the Intergalactic summit. While it might help to bang out a quick response in (apparent) refutation of points, the confusion and general lack of clarity in the multi quote format rarely adds up to a more than simply picking words from the air and speaking across one another rather than attempting to genuinely debate or change minds. IÆd strongly advise you to take notes on those elements of my speech you which to address and incorporate these into a natural presentation rather than quoting hither and thither. One quote is forgivable, half a dozen... less so. But moving swiftly on from that point of order, You take issue with my characterization of your corporation "aiding the fight to enslave the Matari." Having re-read your recruiting and general publicity material I can see why you believe you are simply ôdefendingö the Amarrian Empire by refusing to take place in offensive bunker captures in Matari space but you will have to acknowledge in return that it is my view that all Matari slaves held by the Amarrian people are immorally held and the Knighthood (by defending existing slave ranches and processing plants in Amarrian territory) is AS BAD to my view as you taking an active role in capturing more slaves alongside your fellow crusaders. Let me be plain: You have stated (as your public corporate material states) that you are committed to defending and maintaining the current Amarrian held systems in the Amarr/Minmatar conflict zone. This includes systems where Matari slaves are held by the Amarrian Empire. I consider your defence of this status quo as tantamount to the defence of the Slavery itself and I believe it makes a mockery of your public stated opposition to this institution (and of course we will later re-examine your stance on so-called ôcriminalö slavery to properly understand why this statement of "opposition" is not being taken as seriously as you might wish either). Still, I made the assertion that ôyou fight to enslave the Matari peopleö. It seems to me that you quibble over the tiniest point of definition so I will alter my accusation to ôyou fight to maintain the slavery of the Matari people (in those holdings where the Amarrian empire is dominant and you wish to maintain the status quo). I trust we will find agreement on this item now. Moving on. I think the sub-debate on the term ôabsolute anarchyö is now rather pointless since you have gained understanding on what I mean by the term anarchy and we both accept that actions invite consequence regardless of oneÆs political persuasions and ideals. On the ôpower of theocracyö it seems you partially agree with me. Yes the theocracy does have power over the masses, the power of terror, the power of oppression, the power of hierarchy and absolute fear. But we are talking about a population cowed by its masters, deluded by the precepts of monotheistic faith, and terrorized by the threat of living purgatory (slavery) if they would go against the prevailing order. I believe to claim this lower class mass of population can ôsupportö the theocracy is to say that a slave ôsupportsö his master. Certainly they might obey, but the term ôsupportö speaks of a degree of choice and preference that is lacking both majority demographics in the Imperium. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 03:11:00 - [57] Now, to your so-called ôcriminalö Slaves; for you to understand why this is not deemed a salutary demonstration of righteous benevolence on your part you must understand that Amarrian law is not respected, trusted, or deemed a worthwhile seal of approval at this juncture. After all, Amarrian law supports slavery, Amarrian law considers one racial/ethnic group is superior to another, Amarrian law believes in terms and concepts that the rest of the galaxy consider frankly ridiculous and whimsical at best. Your ôcriminalö slaves are therefore just slaves. That an unreliable tyrannical codex of laws dominated by irrational mythology terms a man a criminal does not make him any less a slave in the eyes of those who oppose the regime you serve. To oppose slavery the Knights of the Merciful Crown would need to well ... actually oppose slavery. Claiming to oppose something while fighting tooth and nail to defend it in the territories dominated by the Empire simply makes no sense. Just as claiming to hold no slaves (well apart from those slaves a corrupt and slaveholding state has condemned to slavery) also makes no sense. You ask me what the Knights of the Merciful Crown could actually do to make a stand? I tell you plainly, oppose the Amarrian Imperium, support the liberation of all Matari and other slaves in Imperial territory. Yes it will be difficult because you would be opposing a vast architecture of corrupt ingrained influence and cultural lassitude, but you really cannot play with freedom û to seek it you must fight for it. There is no room for mealy-mouthed platitudes about higher goals while you act as prison warders for those your masters term ôsubhuman cattleö in the farms and meadows of Huola. Sometimes you need to take up your slug-thrower and shoot a tyrant in the face ms Farel. That is simply the way of the universe. Most villains do not willingly give up their villainy without the overthrowing force of violent opposition to the status quo. Now then, to matters CVA (again): I simply reminded you that the CVA stole outposts belonging to the UshraÆkhan to refute your argument that the Amarrian Nationalists had found Providence barren and empty. One might point at parallels to the strangling of fledgling Matari culture on their homeworld when the Amarrian Empire stretched out its hands to claim all life to its prize and domain but we stray into ancient histories and it really doesnÆt matter who was right or wrong first when one side holds another in slavery and claims it is GodÆs will. To your question on how YWS0-Z was administered precisely so. We didnÆt insist that those seeking to develop towers and mining bases submit to our standings and we didnÆt interfere in 3rd party conflicts. We did as we thought best and have been fighting for all these years. When you go to say that we cannot bear ôany form of governmentö it would be fairer to say that we will not accept ôany form of coercive rulership that sets one individual above another in arbitrary hierarchyö. What is the purpose of such to the capsuleer class? Why should we not treat as equals and arrange our business on simple terms of mutual advantage and interest without treading the muck of planetside feudal dogma across the beautiful tapestry of stars? On the historical conflict between the Fraction and the CVA you will no doubt be amused to discover it began when we demanded that the CVA release a group of slaves (the Mamet 500) because we considered the ôgiftö of human beings from one holder to another to celebrate the depravity of the empire was an insult to our potential as post-human capsuleers with the power to make a difference. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 03:15:00 - [58] You make a telling statement on the issue of ôchoiceö û this being the choice of the residents of Providence to remain (and thereby set the enemies of the CVA hostile in exchange for mining, tower and collective security rights). Of course I can agree with you. The Providence residents did have a choice from the CVA û obey or leave. But then we could equally say that the victim of piracy has a choice too ... pay the ransom or die. These choices at the barrel of a gun are similar in essence. As for the Citadel channel, it was fully penetrated by Fraction agents within the CVAÆs own hierarchy from the time of our earliest conflicts with the Amarrian holders of Providence. We saw what was said and done there ms Farel, we saw the bullying, the lies, the mischaracterizations and assimilations of neutrality and we saw the truth face of standings enclosurism that soured the idealism of NRDS with instinct to dominate and control and make a new Amarrian province of the nullsec frontier. I made it plain before when I spoke specifically of infrastructural development rights, mining, defence channels and settlement when describing the coercive domineering of the CVA. You are correct in stating that random neutrals were not required to adopt the CVAÆs standings. But those who wished to do anything substantive in Providence most certainly were. Again you might respond this was their choice ... adopt CVA standings in exchange for moon mining or residency rights. And I would agree with you. But then we are talking about the difference in ideologies here. And it does rather come to reflect the ingrained instincts of a slave-owning theocratic hierarchy that needs to control its population in traditional paternalist bounds of control and oppression against the FractionÆs belief that the best society is one of genuinely free individuals cooperating purely form enlightened self-interest with none of the detritus of overarching government and corrupt administrative tyranny common to planetside regimes. Yes we did proudly play our part to destroy the NRDS of the CVA because it was NRDS turned to the interests of an Amarrian state which cannot bear to see free individuals associating to their preference and mutual interest. It was a corrupt and terrible twisting of free-space ideas existing as a caricatured reflection of the slave-farms and horror on the planets below. We helped burn it to the ground and tried to do better. And as I said earlier we are still fighting for our principles. The CVA decided theirs were impractical. History will decide who is right. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 17:04:00 - [59] Edited by: Jade Constantine on 18/02/2011 18:04:26 Apology accepted Ms Farel, I do appreciate that you have tidied up your newest reply. Thank you. I also acknowledge your admission on the support of slavery by defending Amarrian slavers and enslaved victims in the Imperial-claimed territories. Direct or Indirect is seldom relevant, whether the bloody-handed overseer at the razerwire fences around the murder pits or the capsuleer standing guard from orbit with beams and weapon drones, the intent is the same û the support and protection of a regime and practise and all that entails. Your further justification that since the Empire is in a state of war it is right for the Merciful Crown to delay/postpone its liberal/abolitionist aspirations is a very common historical tactic also. But understand ms Farel, you will never determine when and why and how the empire declares its wars aggressive or defensive so to abrogate your abolitionist room for manoeuvre in so complete a surrender to the empireÆs military engagement status does render the Merciful CrownÆs ôreforming agendaö effectively meaningless. If you have no way of influencing the entity you claim to want to change then why should your liberalist rhetoric be taken seriously? How exactly can you work for your ideals when you have surrendered the ability to criticise the Empire or oppose its regressive agendas while the forces in control ensure it will always be ôat warö and thus immune to your influence? This is a question that should keep your fellow Knights awake at night ms Farel. As for the FractionÆs choice to attack the Merciful Crown I am not sure why you find the choice weird ms Farel. We cycled war declarations around several dozen Crusader-aligned corporations to allow ourselves to engage their ships during our interventions in the Amarr/Minmatar warzone. You were the only one to dare make the war declaration mutual and declare eternal animosity so thus it remains. We destroyed, routed and humiliated many more hardline entities in our time in this region ms Farel, but you all defend Amarrian slavery by your deployment so all are equally suited to destruction in our eyes. Moving on, I am not sure that theocracy does imply faith actually. I think it simply implies government by those using religion to control the masses. Religion can exist without any faith at all. Religion can simply be used as a whip to punish the credulous as means of control for the sitting plutocracy. In my experience the truly faithful have little use for theocratic pomp and ceremony and do not seek the oppression of sentient life as a divine path. And I have long said that the Amarrian theocracy is more about sex than faith, and those clergymen and prelates that speak of educating and punishing and chiding their victims to learn lines from speculative fictional tracts to gain release from the sacred nipple clamps are simply playing out domination fantasies with helpless prisoners because they are too ugly to seek a consenting partner and too mean to pay a certified professional for the experience. On Prisoners/Slaves debate, all I can do is emphasise what I have said to you earlier: When one does not respect the law there is no legal basis for terminology that categorizes one victim a prisoner and another a slave, and I do not acknowledge the Amarrian ImperiumÆs right or moral authority to make laws ms Farel. I believe these prisoner/slaves you speak of are improperly held and immorally punished because I do not trust your government to behave fairly, reasonably, or with any sense of equality. Lets consider a simple "crime". Your empire considers it a crime to spit on the image of the Emperor? Why? What harm is done? Who is harmed, what loss is incurred? Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 17:11:00 - [60] Now, if I owned a statue and somebody spat upon it I might reasonably ask them to make good the ôcrimeö by wiping it off and giving it a quick polish. That way justice and fair equity is done û there is no deeper meaning or ônationalist prideö to be considered in the matter û simple a possession slightly marred and fair to seek reasonable redress. But in your society the "criminal" in this case would be carted off to the inquisition, tortured, beaten and hurled into prison for expressing their feelings about a distant corrupt politician. How then can I have any belief in the virtue and fairness of your criminal system when it falls so wildly divergent from my own? You talk of correcting the flaws in the your victims à and this is very close to my eyes to the psycho/sexual motive of the Amarrian priesthood seeking paternal abuse/contrition games for personal gratification and is deeply suspect at best. You Amarrians make a fetish out of re-education and brainwashing û it is rather disgusting and would be best kept in private between consenting individuals. But the conclusion is you cannot be trusted to speak of justice and criminality while the basis of your government is essentially lets-pretend dressing up games and platitudes spoken of mythology in the sky. You need some genuinely grown-up systems of interaction and consensus in place before you can be considered equal, let alone intellectually-persuasive on such issues. So back to broader questions of foreign relations and quibling about who shot who first and villainy or lack therein, it really is a pointless subject of debate: As I said earlier itÆs irrelevant who fired the first shot, since by holding slaves and practising a mockery of a justice system you invite attack from anyone of sound mind and fair outlook. On matters of the Matari government, we have a colourful history there and something you said a post or two ago is pertinent, we do oppose all governments on principle yes. We simply do not believe that aspirant post-humanity has a need for such things anymore. The Matari are not sugar and sweetness and they are as prone to corruption as any people establishing governments and civil structures, but they are in the right in their conflict with the Amarrian Empire because the most profound right of humanity is the right to fight the power that would enslave them. The Fraction cares nothing for control ms Farel, we care about freedom, we want trading partners and comrades with the freedom to choose how to live their lives and cooperate and interact as they see fit. At present the Matari republic is the least corrupt of the major governments of New Eden and most likely to allow separatist splinters, independence movements, breakaways and free colonies. The Matari are a fiercely independent tribal people, empire does not come naturally. With final regard to Providence situation, be assured our policies worked well ms Farel, the frontier is vast and there are moons enough for anyone to exploit. What you describe as a ômessö when 3rd parties fight is simply what freedom looks like. It is messy, it is inexact and sometimes baffling but it is also beautiful and pure. Stop believing you need to control everything in the universe for things to work! On CVA era history, really, you would do well not to parrot the words of the clusters most notorious liar in this thead! Pilot Blake is a blustering old has-been discredited years ago. I consider he fills the role of a drunken tramp in a tuppeny melodrama most of the time, coughing out platitudes he no longer understands while lamenting the passing of prestige he never really owned. If anything itÆs a melancholy morality tale on the perils of theocracy and strong drink. Join the Revolution!

Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 17:13:00 - [61] Edited by: Jade Constantine on 18/02/2011 18:09:33 But yes, you say that we criticise the coercive manipulations employed by the CVA wrongly because ôany form of governmentö (works that way). Well that is largely why we stand opposed to these governments. And yes of course, we helped destroy the CVA power in Providence because we opposed their expansion of corrupt imperialism to the once-free regions of the frontier. NRDS or NBSI rules of engagement employed to spread a vile theocratic regime across a hundred star systems must be opposed by any lover of freedom. On a final point ms Farel, you did appear to offer to free your personal slaves and give them over to the fair attentions of my comrade in your earlier post. I encourage you to do this. The Fraction will guarantee the safety of the ship you use to bring these people to Kamela if you inform us clearly in advance of the time and route of your transit. Until we next speak. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.18 18:38:00 - [62] Originally by: Vaarun It is in the nature of the native-Matari to fight. It is in the nature of every sentient mind to fight Vaarun. When you crawled from the womb as an infant and sucked a breath from the air in triumph over death your primal scream was a challenge to entropy, to stasis and all the laws of the physical universe that made that spark of life so completely unlikely. We are born to fight. All of us. We fight every second of every minute of every day. We fight with the mind and body, with the heart and soul, our existence is a constant enduring struggle against melancholy and decay, against genetics and evolution and against the immutable laws of personal extinction which exist in the terrible sterile radiation of the cruel and wonderous universe. Show me a man of peace and I will show you a liar. Join the Revolution!
Jade Constantine Gallente Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2011.02.20 22:50:00 - [63] Originally by: Lyn Farel I think we have discussed of most of what had to be, Ms Constantine. If you can't accept the simple point that we do not condone violence against the amarrian people for the liberation of slaves, we do not need to discuss about it more. Perhaps it is so, still I felt the discussion was an interesting and informative one. Clearly we will not agree on the justified use of violence against those who use violence to enforce the unnatural state of slavery on others. Ultimately you have chosen your side ms Farel and I think in the future we have clarified the status of the Merciful Crown as willing defenders of slavery in the Amarrian Empire. Join the Revolution!

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