Originally by: Jenna Sojik

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Originally by: Witch Doctor

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"Seleene - I know you are busy, but here is some food for thought. Perhaps this is the work of Guiding Hand Social Club. Observe:"
"1. IAC was formerly a relatively benign industrial alliance who ran into trouble from CDC and Curse Coalition."
"2. GH-SC is well-known for their abilities in infiltrating and dismantling an organization, a counterpart mercenary to our military capabilities."
"3. Several pilots with close ties to GH-SC operatives - Tyrrax and Hamish come to mind - join IAC to help bolster their fighting force."
"4. These members rapidly rise to leadership positions and recast the alliance as an aggressive military force, presumably 'for their own good'."
"5. IAC adopts a provocative tone with ISS, the largest regional power with obvious economic ties to larger military forces."
"6. Coincidentally, Priory and SoD adopt a similarly provocative tone, either independently or from GH-SC manipulation."
"7. IAC and SoD open aggressions, leaving open the possibility that they will take ISS stations in diplomatic channels but not openly stating they will, presumably as a nod to the IAC rank and file."
"8. ISS has no choice but to declare an all-out territory war and calls in an array of allies and mercenaries."

"Now we have IAC leadership professing that this is all part of the plan and, as we have seen from intel, attempting to mollify the masses without putting up much of a fight. It is not long, however, until they are past the point of no return. What kind of defense plan could this be?"
"But what if there is no defense plan at all? What if the plan all along is for IAC to lose the outposts and break the alliance? It is right in line with their usual contracts, and they would certainly seem to be doing a good job of it. I can't help but wonder if the lower ranks in IAC are really aware of what has been communicated and done on their behalf and if this is not some master GH-SC plan after all."

Witch Doctor paused briefly, contemplating the consequences, and continued.

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"Now wouldn't that be something ..."

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Witch Doctor may be on to something here, but just had the wrong target:

GH-SC may want to destroy IAC, but what would that get them, 3 Outposts ruined, a thousand or so people displaced, and a low-brow industrial Alliance broken.

If ISS was the target, they would lose quite a few Outposts, a few thousand 'industrial' players lost in dangerous 0.0 space without the infastructure of ISS, and the 300 Billion isk IPO project would become worthless, not to mention the other already established IPO shares that they've sold over the past year(s). And as well all know, GH-SC is a fan for big headlines... IAC isn't a big headline, but their neighbors are

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