Rawne Karrde
Bre-X Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2006.09.30 12:02:00 -
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Yeah those days were rough. IAC had been an empire industrial alliance mostly before then. We had flown with CVA and Huzzah in some ops in low sec. I remember one of the wars against The Short Bus Boys. Was funny when Bre-x, a mining and production corp, had 5 of the top 10 spots for kills at the time. Heck a 2 week old corp member of ours was top being that he was fearless and used a noob ship with a 2 strength scrambler to tackle. Got frustrating at times.
IAC had been running large amounts of logistics for pos productin in low sec and we had our sets on becoming a 0.0 alliance. We were green as a whole really, but Datamax, aka Yyrkoon was good at numbers and was able to give us our Marching orders. We started looking for a spot in 0.0 and we got an invite from celtic industries to come to the JZV constellation.
So plans were laid. Bre-x had prepared financially to make the jump to 0.0 as a few other corps. Genco had the resources already to get out there, and MINC was prepped too. In total that meant like a whole 20 active pilots from bre-x, 3 from Genco, and about 10 or so from MINC, out of an alliance of like 200-300 at the time well its the best we could do.
Logistics were prepped, offers were made to CCC about working together instead of fighting. We were turned down so the invation, which began with Celtic's Invitation began. Bre-x was the first corp to move their POS out there. Tigress from Genco used her dreadnaught to jump out the Bre-x pos and fuel. All CCC could do was watch while we moved in shouting at us in local. Soon after, MINC as well as Genco also setup their POS in RNF.
Things seemed to be going well all considering, a few bumps on the way. Yyrkoon had a new job and we lost our strong and highly involved leadership. A new fledgling alliance in 0.0 and coming from such an industrialist background we were in for some "fun." Tigress began handling the combat side of things, while the responisibility of day to day drama fell on me.
For 2 and a half months Bre-X, MINC and Genco were the ones mostly fighting against CCC. An enemy less organized and much less ready for combat than even ourselves. We should have mopped them up much quicker. However, the rest of the alliance literally scared of 0.0 and it took 2.5 months and the recruitment of some other corps to help ease the stress. I remember around this time is when Kirstoffer and his corp bailed and he convo'd me to offer up info on CCC alliance. He spilled everything from forum access to the mercs CCC was about to pony up and hire. We actually already had all that info thanx to spies in CCC already, but at the time we parted ways it seeemed we had an amicable relationship as we had no problems with them hanging out in JZV.
Finally we stopped messing around, alliance op was called to bust up the pos's in g-7 that CCC had. Our 80 ship fleet mostly of bs's hung on the gate and our dreads went in on the pos's. 3 went into re-inforced that night. CCC surrendered and we started getting on with things. As far as Tigress and I were concerned we thought we had turned a corner with having soo many pilots out in JZV, sadly most went back to empire for atleast another month and a half before we started having bodies in pods out there. Was sad when we would put together a gang to fight CC and other hostiles that started showing up and we were lucky if we scraped together a gang of 18, atleast a dozen of them being from my corp alone.
Shortly after this was pretty surprised when we saw redstorm corp setting up a pos in MB-nke under the CC flag. Having had contact with Kristoffer before we took his word about a ceasefire. Hindsight 20/20 shouldn't have trusted kristoffer farther than i could throw him. Oh well. Was a crazy time of bleeding and die'ing out there for something. Props to CC and all they did was a fun ride even when I took CC's bait and became the 2nd person to loose a carrier in eve.
As far as IAC goes, had some friends there, wish you luck.
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