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Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.06 19:46:00 -
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Autarky is an EU time-zone corporation which is starting out right now (for the second time!). The corporation is a part of the alliance The Autonomy, because we're free. Free of the blocks of the blue or the red doughnuts of k-space. While I'm idling at work, I may as well kick this off.
The aim for now is to recruit key people in the European or UK time-zone, who will help with building the corp to where it is ready to move into wormhole-space.
I'd like to invite you to join Autarky there.
A key part of our job will be to organise and execute The Plan according to the key stages of development. You have to love spreadsheets! I'll make you cuddle your Visio and your Powerpoint yet. Living in a wormhole requires autonomy, and resilience, and versatility. You must enjoy PVP as much as you "enjoy" planetary interaction and mining.
Candidates should be Eve-experienced, look for a challenge, and love the idea of rough living because that is what we're going to do.
You are: A 'glass is half-full'-kind of person EU TZ Eager and willing to use voice comms! Not a Neanderthal whose humour consist of jokes about blondes, women, Muslims, or gay people. One who has a relaxed sense of humour One who has played this game for a while One who speaks fluent English. Or Swedish. Or Norwegian. Or Danish. But English, mostly. Organised and know how to follow a plan Eager to live in wormholes
Join "Autarky Pub" in-game if you want to have a chat. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.07 07:19:00 -
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Before I trudge off to work once again...
In the age of the Peloponesian war, emissaries from great Athens went to the Spartan colony of Melos, who were neutral in the war, and declared: GÇ£Surrender your city, or face the horrors of the siegeGÇ¥.
This, the ancient Greek historian and writer Thucydides wrote in the great Melian monologue, which poses the depressing moral lesson that GÇ£the strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they mustGÇ¥.
Will Autarky do like the Athenians and at least send a messenger with a threat bundled in a pretty wrapping, or will we like Xerxes just take that which we can? If you join Autarky, we can find out together! |
Stoseph Stuarts
Isk Enterprises Darkness. Citizens
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Posted - 2014.03.07 12:33:00 -
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Xerxes was Persian not Athenian, was he not?
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Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.07 17:13:00 -
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Stoseph Stuarts wrote:Xerxes was Persian not Athenian, was he not?
I am not sure if answering questions counts as a bump; the stickies do not say. However, yes, Xerxes was indeed Persian, but he was also a King. So, from the point of view of the Melians, did the pretty ribbons and 'considerations' matter? The end result was the same as if someone with the "right to rule" took it all or when a 'democracy' did it. :) |
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ISD Tyrozan
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.03.07 22:41:00 -
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A question, not relating to the Alliance or Corporation, has been removed. The response to the question was also removed. May I suggest a review of the Bumping Rules.
Bumping rule 3. Carrying on a conversation on the forums is discouraged, answering someone's request for a GTC by saying "sent" still bumps your thread to the front of the queue and gives you an advantage, please use EVE mail or a personal convo if you wish to converse with a purchaser. Please use the Market Discussion forum section if you wish to have a conversation on any items.
Thus a reply to such a conversation or post by the original poster would constitute an illegal bump. ISD Tyrozan Captain Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department @ISDTyrozan | @ISD_CCL |
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Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.08 06:33:00 -
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Maybe it was a joke on the part of the King of Wu, during the Warring States period of Chinese history, when he gave Master Sun (who you know as Sun Tzu) his harem of one hundred and fifty wives so that he could form them into an army.
Master Sun, dutiful and efficient as a General of Confucian upbringing should be, accepted and formed the harem into two companies with the king's two favourite wives as Captains.
GÇ£Turn right,GÇ¥ Master Sun commanded his new companies, and the favourites just stood there and giggled. Knowing that a General had a duty to explain his orders so that they were understood, he overlooked the confusion and explained what he wanted them to do.
GÇ£Turn rightGÇ¥, Master Sun again commanded his new companies after explaining, and the favourites just stood there and giggled. Having explained the order, Master Sun now had the favourites executed GÇô despite the King of Wu's alarm.
It is an illustration of 'fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on meGÇ¥ Master Sun knew, as any General of Confucian upbringing that a General had to explain his orders clearly and communicate so that he was understood, but having explained orders, a General had a duty to be respected and obeyed.
GÇ£Turn rightGÇ¥, Master Sun now ordered his two companies once the Captains lay dead before him. The two company of wives now performed their orders flawlessly after the cost of the frivolity and disobedience was illustrated to them.
Maybe the King of Wu made the harem into an army as a joke, and maybe I'm trolling people now talking about Sun Tze in a too long post, like a certain kind of confidence trickster who is prevalent these days? Those who know nothing of the contexts and nuances and unique qualities of China of the period and think that Sun Tze's aphorisms were the source of his success. After all, I could just have bumped. Did you read this far?
If so, join Autarky! |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.09 01:01:00 -
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Off peak post, but I won't be in "tomorrow", which means later today since it's nearly two AM here...
The warrior was always a poet. It was only after the industrialised slaughter of the twentieth century that aesthetics and art and poetry became something to be disdained.
Even as the waves lapped against the boards of the long-boats of those most famous of urban terrors, the Vikings, as they journeyed from the farms and fields of frosty Scandinavia toward loot and plunder on the continent, they pored over the sagas and their meanings.
Their descendents, once they managed to cajole and threaten and harass the kingdoms of England and France into first granting them a foothold and then later the very keys to the kingdoms themselves, would in time create the ideal of chivalry where knights would be both adept at poetry and at war.
And did not the greatest generation of poets rise as the dawn of industrialised slaughter descended upon man in the trenches of Somme and Verdun? There men like Erich Maria Remarque, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon would emerge and give voice to the agony of their misspent generation.
The poet, the aesthetic, the warrior, and the thinker GÇô the ideal for most of human history. That's the person we want in Autarky, and that's why I write these long posts in a recruitment thread. It tends to sort out the twitch-people whose eyes will blur at the sight of more than three sentences. This in answer to a question I received in-game about why I write GÇ£so weirdlyGÇ¥ here when just trying to reach a bunch of guys in an internet spaceship game.
If you've come this far, what are you waiting for? Join us! After all, once you have hacked and hewn your way through a horde of drooling Neanderthals, is that not the time to arrange the bodies into a warm soft recliner so that you can catch up on your Ovid? |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.10 15:12:00 -
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In the Achaemid empire of Cyrus the Great an administrative invention called Satrapies were introduced. It allowed for a local administrator with restricted power, permanently overseen by 'eyes of the king'. It allowed for some local elite to surround themselves with the trappings of wealth and power, without actually allowing them to have any actually real power.
In the universe of Eve the rise of the renter empires is a re-imagining of the ancient Satrapies, where corporations are taken in under a renter agreement and put into alliances which are dependent upon the beneficialness of an overlord alliance.
It allows for the trappings of wealth and riches, but yields no power, and like in the Satrapies the participants are neutered by a combination of fear of loss and realisation of their lack of power into continuing to play the part.
The only way out, is of course, to make a clean break with the Satrapies. To go out on one's own. This is a dangerous thing, but ultimately the more satisfying one. In the Universe of Eve where the rise of the Satrapies now are ubiquitous, there is only one place to go if you want to be free. Wormholespace.
Will you join us there? Join Autarky! |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.12 19:53:00 -
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What drove explorers from China's Wang Dayuan to travel to Sri Lanka and India or Erik the Red to settle in Greenland was often a combination of curiosity and a desire for material wealth.
The Spanish and Portuguese explorers who started the Age of Exploration in Europe wanted trade routes and wealth as much as they wanted to see the world. In competition, Britain and France struck out as well so as not to be left behind the growing Latin empires.
In cultures defined as stale and dogmatic, the explorers would open boundaries and borders, and place themselves on the edge, drawing more people who would look for a new life. Exploration was often as much about getting away as it was about searching for the new.
In Eve where much of null-sec is every bit as stale and stagnant as the old courts of Europe and China, there is an outlet for the intrepid. While small corporations and alliances are barred from the great swathes of nullsec, there is still wormholespace. And this is where Autarky is going.
Yes, just like Cristopher Colombo, we must prepare and just like Vasco da Gama we must risk it all. But that's just part of the fun, and if you think so too, join Autarky! |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.13 23:02:00 -
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It's a bit late, but I suppose we have to bring this to the front page without a whole essay which I'm too tired to write at the moment. :) |
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Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.16 16:23:00 -
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Let's get this back to the front page. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.18 07:34:00 -
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I was seriously considering introducing a corporation requirement to have read and understood Carl von Clausewitz 'On War', but that might have lead people to believe that we are this incredibly intense bunch that take Eve far too seriously.
Another danger is that we would attract intense looking people who can drop quotes from Clausewitz, and worse Sun Tzu, at the drop of a hat without understanding anything about the context and nuance of those quotes.
But if you have read, and understood, Clausewitz then you're a shoe-in for this corp because what we mostly try to reach is excellence. Yes, excellence can be had even without a second-job attitude to Eve.
But, instead of talking about Clausewitz, it's probably to get this post back to the front page. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.19 11:13:00 -
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The American novelist Anna Quindlan once wrote GÇ£Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.GÇ¥ A sentiment I profoundly disagree with.
The beginnings set the path, and set the nature of the path. Do we walk on a forest trail, or an urban boulevard? Which it is, will determine everything.
That's why it's necessary to get an Eve corporation on the right path, at the beginning. It has nothing to do with 'muddling through'. It has everything to do with the beginning.
So, why not share our new beginning? Join Autarky! |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.20 09:19:00 -
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Since it is that time of the day when I have to brave the weather, which is actually quite nice although there's snow, and go to work - I shall send this post to the front page so that more of you realise the glory of the Autarky and decide to join us. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.21 09:40:00 -
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The business of the hairless great ape which is known specifically as Homo Sapiens Sapiens is a constant source of bemusement and befuddlement, and that's a reason as good as any to bring this to the front page again, with the usual admonition that you should, indeed, join us. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.22 09:46:00 -
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We now have our hole, and the OP has been changed to reflect that. New members are also coming in, and that's great, but we want even more, so it's time to get this to the front page. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.23 07:46:00 -
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So Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" came on, and I thought I should bring this to the front page as I wait for the day's first coffe to percolate down into a sizeable mug, together with some cream. And the toast looks crisp, and the marmalade looks delicious. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.24 16:14:00 -
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The French writer and philosopher Antoine de Saint-Exupery, most known in the anglophone world for his wonderful GÇ£Le petit PrinceGÇ¥ once put it like this: GÇ£Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.GÇ¥
One could say that his book, The Little Prince, is trying to deal with this. It tries to explain the strange adult world, and tries to instil that little rebel in the reading child, the critical thinker. And in the tradition of his quote, on July 31, 1944 de Saint-Exupery boarded a P-38 in Corsica on what would be his last mission in the war. He was to inspect German troop movements in the Rhone Valley in mainland France. And that's where he faced the unknown, and maybe the terror that plagued him ceased there.
Which is a good reason to bring this to the front page so that you too can come and stare into the unknown with Autarky. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.27 19:15:00 -
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My internet died because there was something wrong with the base station, or summat like that, and for two days I chewed my nails and tried to read the entire catalogue of Kierkegard but only got to page one because I found a new shiney in Unreal Engine 4, and then for a bit I stopped chewing my nails from the withdrawal and was productive. Then I got my internet back, and therefore it's time to bring this to the front page again. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.03.28 16:11:00 -
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Time to get this to the front page, and this without me writing incredibly long run-on sentences which will be read by few people, or even no people, and which will make me sad. So, that's it. To the front. |
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Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.02 15:53:00 -
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It is that time again when I try to think of something remotely clever to say, but fails to do so, and then just think 'to heck with it' and warp this back to the front page. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.03 17:58:00 -
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Our lonely home amongst the unknown stars is humming and waiting for more people to call it home. So, this goes back to the front page. :) |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.05 18:45:00 -
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Right, time to get this back to the front page again. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.06 16:38:00 -
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Once more it is time to contemplate eternity and wonder if the conditions that exist in a black hole is anything like what existed in the moments before the big bang. Maybe, our entire universe exists inside a black hole? Okay, that's just an excuse to write something that will warp this post to the front page so that more of you can see it, and possibly be intrigued enough to come and join us. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.09 16:37:00 -
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Let's just get this back to the front page without a lot of twaddle today. Shocking, I know. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.10 17:25:00 -
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And yes, we are still looking for more people to come and live with us in our hole among the stars, so this had better go back to the front page, right? |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.11 17:08:00 -
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Still looking for more people, so to the front we go. |
Francine Diderot
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.04.12 18:30:00 -
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And again it's time to bring this to the front page, because we're looking for more people. Naturally. |
1c3crysta1
Autarky The Autonomy
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Posted - 2014.05.05 19:11:00 -
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After a long hibernation, it's time to resurrect this thread again, since we're looking for like-minded to join us. |
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