Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2014.12.30 16:48:22 -
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I caused a 2008-era Triumvirate renter alliance to collapse by selling a Myrmidon.
Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.
Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.
Andreus Ixiris > ...
Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2014.12.30 17:20:36 -
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Sol Project wrote:Do tell us more!!
Back in 2008, I worked as a director for a corporation called Heretic Logistics (LOAF.), an industrial offshoot of Heretic Army (ANTI) meant to serve its ship and module needs. Both corporations were members of The Covenant Alliance (TCA), a renter alliance of TRI living out in Deklein, and if anyone remembers these names - congratulations! You have an excellent memory. CEO of Heretic Logistics at that time was a man by the name of Fat Edd/Vader. We thought this guy was okay. We were wrong.
I had a friend in EVE, Sahaquiel Faust, who had followed me from corporation to corporation across the game since mid-2007, and he wanted a Myrmidon. The corp had the minerals, I had the BPC, and I had permission from Fat Edd to make the Myrmidon for Sahaquiel. I then sold it to him for 30m ISK (man, those were the days - when a Myrmidon cost only 30m. I miss those days). The ISK went into my wallet, and I went offline for a nap and a shower. Scant hours later, the alliance Ventrilo explodes with Fat Edd swearing and making implications about my parentage. Turns out I "had no right" to sell the Myrmidon to Sahaquiel (despite the fact that I had been given permission to do so) and that by not immediately putting all the money into the corporation wallet (despite the fact that given the close-knit nature of ANTI and LOAF, members of Heretic Logistics often just took payment personally and then tithed a share to the corp wallet) I was showing blatant disrespect for everyone in the alliance and I was a duplicitous thief.
I attempted to appease him to no avail. When other people stepped into the argument on my behalf, he removed almost every role from everyone in the corporation and announced his intent to take everything belonging to the corp and leave. This accomplished only one thing - it meant that no-one could refuel our corporation's large tower (that he had paid for) that had, due to the argument taking up so much of our time, gotten critically low on fuel, so it went offline. Rare Faction, who were operating in the area at the time, blew it up. I then noticed that he had only removed my director roles, not my specially-customised corp hangar access roles - so I took everything in every corp hangar and put it in my own, so he couldn't steal it. His stillborn corp theft having failed, he announced that he intended to stagnate the corp by leaving it without any directors, at which point the CEO of ANTI, MirrorGod, said "hahaha no, I have majority share ownership in LOAF" and instated me as CEO.
Fat Edd/Vader then teamed up with ANTI's long-time rivals, Misfits Enterprises, led by notorious troll Outlaw Jenner, and announced his intent to join a different corp in TCA, starting what he called an "in-alliance wardec" to "kick us out." Amazingly, the corp he chose, which also happened to be the executor corp, actually allowed him to join and start work on this. We called TCA's head honchos out on this ridiculous state of affairs, and received as a response what amounted to a shrugging of shoulders and a "meh." At this point, blue-on-blue fighting was actually occuring in O-2RNZ and surrounding systems and because Fat Edd/Vader and Outlaw Jenner were never particularly intelligent individuals, not all of the people getting lit up were actually even members of ANTI or LOAF (in fact, they mostly weren't). This did not assist alliance cohesion.
Eventually we peaced out and went to join Destiny. alliance, who lived further north in Deklein, but not before filing a complaint with Triumvirate itself saying "TCA has allowed a corp thief with a grudge to join its executor corp and bring mercenaries into Deklein for the purposes of starting a blue-on-blue war." Needless to say, Triumvirate was not amused. TCA eventually kicked Fat Edd out of the alliance but by that point, the damage was done, confidence in its leaders was shattered and the alliance crumbled.
Although he doesn't actually play the game at the moment, Sahaquiel Faust, through the many years since that point, has kept the Myrmidon that inspired this whole preposterous affair in his hangar in Dodixie. We call it the Blamethrower.
Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.
Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.
Andreus Ixiris > ...
Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2014.12.30 22:49:58 -
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Jarod Garamonde wrote:This is, by far, one of the best "failcascade" stories I have ever heard.
My favourite part about it is how it was entirely unintentional. You've got Istvaan Shogaatsu infiltrating Ubiqua Seraph and robbing them for everything. You've got BOB's directors trashing the alliance and selling their assets to Goonswarm. You've got Kartoon then turning on Goonswarm and doing precisely the same thing to them. All of these failcascades took weeks, months, years of careful planning.
Then there was me, who crashed an alliance completely by accident by selling a Myrmidon to someone else in the same corporation.
Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.
Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.
Andreus Ixiris > ...
Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
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