Manus Ghostface
Caldari
Quantum Industries
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2006.08.04 18:41:00 -
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The following is a personal opinion:
It seems a big part of Eve politics is to ignore, belittle, or minimize accomplishments of people percieved as enemies.
I remember watching one of Eyeshadows videos and people commented that many of the MC kills were "ganks". But they were kills, and the contracts were fulfilled.
When Mastakilla was on the couch during the tourney he pretty much explained UDIE's modus operandi. Kill others, try to not die, steal their stuff, have a good killboard. So basically kill many more than you lose and make money and make other people sad. I would say that even their victims should be able to agree that UDIE has fulfilled this. When they show up, people who ignore them die, people who react either dock or form up to hunt them down.
Now people say "But they are all about ravens with racks of stabs and sensor dampeners". Well if this is true, then whats the excuse about not killing them? If you go into a fight 95 percent certain of the enemies loadout, you are the one with the advantage I would think.
Now on the other hand, many people who have said that UDIE does their alliance a favor are somewhat right, in that some of their victims will learn from their mistakes and be a harder target in the future. On the other hand, the vast amounts of money to be made in 0.0 allow people to make the same mistakes again and again in many cases. So its a case by case basis.
Summation: UDIE likes staying small, they aren't trying to be a earthshaking/political power, and probably wouldn't have fun if they did. But in their niche of being a small, tightly nit kill ration machine they excell, and show a pound for pound meaness that many would envy. Sure they use some shady things to maintain that ratior (spies in interdictors, out of corp alts in interdictors, ect), but they are pretty much up front about it when asked, and don't seem to pretend to be anything but what they are.
That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.
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