Teister
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Posted - 2003.09.25 03:06:00 -
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Edited by: Teister on 25/09/2003 03:13:10
Edited by: Teister on 25/09/2003 03:12:04
Several interesting items have been brought up in this thread started by Nicci. As President of the Coalition of Free Stars, I shall address them.
Does the CFS Alliance claim the jk-fix and the other two unclaimed regions "below" Khanid for our own?
No. As stated on our forums, website, and our EVE anouncement, we do not. Not sure how this can be more clear. Maybe we should arrange secure cannisters like the XFI sign and write "We are not a regional claming Alliance" in space. Indeed, our Senate has recently passed the "Free Space" bill, so that CFS will not, nor in the future, claim Khanid and the unclaimed regions for ourselves.
To Quote "Nicci" in response to a statement that we leave players who are not pirates alone: "A lie!! I have seen them destoy others. Who Don't have their "blessing"
First, you do not NEED our blessing to enter or leave Khanid or the unclaimed regions next to Khanid unless you are a pirate. Second, to my knowledge, the only time our Coalition forces have EVER done anything to be considered hostile against a non pirate was when an new CFS Black Bird pilot, impatient to tryout his EW skills, locked and scramble/stasis a peaceful non-CFS player. I warned that CFS member if that ever happened again, they were out, and then I wrote a an apology to other players corp CEO. This was about a month and a half ago. So, until you provide names, places, dates, and the such, your accusations are without substance of any fact.
How do we define a pirate?
Members of known pirate corps. Players who, on these boards, state that they are pirates. Players who attack other players in our area of interests, without just cause (Concord or EVE board proclaimed war) are by their actions, pirates. Players who are cargo / corporations thiefs are also in special cases included on our KOS list too. Lastly, unknown players may be attacked based upon their bounty/security rating, as per our KOS bill recently passed by our Senate.
Rase was wondering about ties between CFS and other alliances, namely SA.
There are no ties between CFS and SA. We do not even have a NAP with them, and in the unclaimed regions of Catch, there have been some shots exchanged recently, nor has that incident and another eairler one been settled. The problem with SA is that they do not take responseability for their member actions outside of the Stain region and some members (only few at least)use the SA as a shield for their pirating actions. Such players are, in my opinion, lowest of the low. CFS will not, nor ever, tolorate such actions and will hunt those players agressively within our area of interests.
As for other ties, we may have a military partner who may now be a member of the CA, and if so, will probably have to be removed due to conflict of interests if the CA includes known pirate corporations. Still waiting for some offical membership list about the CA before taking action.
To quote "Nicci" "I say will strike now take down CFS before they grow stronger"
Sorry "Nicci", but with 72 corporations now members or going through the Senate approval process to become members, we are already strong. Estimated active membership (As opposed to about 1800 memembership count per corp descriptions) of CFS is well over 700+ players. Not all are in the Khanid region, for membership of CFS only requires a presense in Khanid. Because of our open policies, we also have the goodwill of many non member corporations, as some have already stated in this thread. Nor does this include Khanid region military partners. So "Nicci" you are more than welcome to come and "Free" this already free space. Indeed, aside for some insults in the local channel, those are only shots which CFS will take at you, at least until you try to hurl more than ignorant claims at CFS.
In closing, for I belive I have addressed all the major topics in this thread. I would like to thank those many non-CFS players who have defended our good name, as well as those who are CFS members too.
I would also like to thank "Nicci" for the free publicity about CFS. We do now blow our horn too much, and as President, I discourage smacktalk about when we have a pirate kill. We have grown at a fast pace without much publicity in EVE. Organization issues are our biggest concerns, but we have learned from the mistakes from the now shattered Venal Alliance, and will not have those mistakes happen here. If anyone has any questions are concerns, please feel free to EVE mail me, post on our public fourms, or converse me if not.
Teister
CEO Independent Miners Guild
President, CFS Alliance
www.cfs-eve.org
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