Originally by: FowlPlayChiken

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Edited by: FowlPlayChiken on 10/12/2006 17:23:08

Originally by: n sx

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To Count TaSessine,

[...]With all of the above said, and our previous experiences in dealing with ISS it would be unwise of me to ignore your actions and only listen to your promises (our fault in the past). You have nearly 100 ISSN pilots one jump from our outpost, for an operation that I have been told has nothing to do with IAC (lies, more lies) and I know you personally have warned your own pilots to make sure all blues are on overview incase of incident.

As I have said before, IAC's pilots have only been asked to exercise caution when operating near ISS and to remove assets from your stations. We dont currently have an army right up in your face, and its currently business as usual for our pilots. I recommend that you offer IAC the same courtesy.

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are you seriously afraid of ISS attacking you and taking your outposts?

Think things through thouroughly before posting ffs. Ok. let me explain this in modern terms.

China is a capitalist country with a communist government. Their massive, burgeoning economy relies almost exclusively on the buying power of western nations, especially the US. The ISS, in this case, is china. They may have the military ABILITY to go on the offensive, but can/will not for a number of reasons. They are like china in that should they begin attacking ANYONE, attempting to siege someones stations, whatever, all public trust in ISS will be lost, and the shareholders who OWN iss outposts will be very unhappy. To say the least, the ISS economy would collapse. ISS will never attack IAC. My guess is that the farthest they will ever go is to defend ISS assets against IAC should IAC attack them.

other reasons ISS will never attack a neutral/+ standings outpost, for any reason, or possibly even wont attack a -10 outpost:

Manpower. ISSN, while a large corp, is a tiny pvp force compared to the pvp force able to be leveled by, say, any other 0.0 alliance.

Public Outposts: ISS dont own their own outposts. Different, and some powerful, individuals in eve do. Such individuals would tear ISS apart if they began randomly attacking their neibors like "normal" alliances.

Cap Fleet: Does ISS really have enough dreads to take down a large POS?

Carebears: nough said.

future outposts: ISS must stay true to their charter. If they do not, not only would their own corps leave them, but future IPO launches would be failures due to lack of public funding.


I think the idea of IAC feeling threatened by ISSN a few jumps away from the outpost THEY just recently built there is funny as heck.

The way I see it: ISS was there. IAC build an outpost next to ISS outpost, and decide they want both. IAC bluster, claim they are feeling threatened by ISS, and use it as an opportunity to get a free outpost or two. It sounds like IAC see's a squirrel and is shouting "OMG its coming right for us!" and then blowing the squirrel up with a bazooka. Theres no problem with attacking your neibors. thats part of EVE. just dont try and pretend you have the moral highground:-p as an outsider looking in, with great respect for both IAC (after our contract against them) and ISS (after working for them), it looks like you two really need to sit down, call "re-do!", and go at it it with a fresh, friendship-driven face. or else IAC need to just call a spade a spade:)

I just hope i have enough popcorn to watch this play out!

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