Soup Spoon
Ars ex Discordia
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.02 21:16:00 -
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Wow, as someone who was there when we were arsT, and helped to form arsC (and was a director) this is so much cooler of a story than the one I remember. Rather than being a kind of small corp that certainly tried to do it's best, it turns out we were actively involved in some of the biggest events in recent eve history!
In case anyone is actually curious, the rough outline actually isn't too far off. Members of arstechnica.com came to eve, mostly from a post by the ceo of arsT in the gaming forum there. After a short while, the ceo disappeared. We waited 2 weeks or so, then decided we would just form a new corp. Achilles was elected ceo basically because we needed someone, and we planned to sort out proper leadership later on. Of course it settled into the board that we set up as temporary, since there was really no reason to change it and (we didn't know when we first formed up) you actually can't go switching stuff around all that easily when in comes to ceo. ArsC then became the corp that drew most of the arstechnica crowd. Later another corp formed as kind of an empire corp for newbies, and then became more independent over time. In fact it was this independence that seemed to be the thing that really pushed achilles over the edge. He had always had much higher dreams for our corp than we realistically could do, as he said many or most of our players work in IT...as in they have full time jobs and as with many eve players had limited play time and at certain hours only. So arsC was exactly what you would expect from a small to medium sized corp with a fairly average player base. Of course as a current director of the new ars corp, that's exactly the kind of thing I would say!
Achilles also seems to have neglected to carry the story a bit further, so I'll go ahead and do that. After he flipped out and took permissions from everyone, naturally we were a bit surprised and upset. He was banned from our corp forums (since they are not directly arsC related, he had no admin power) and we began to see what we could do. A few of our members, due to not quite doing as good a job as he thought, were able to actually recover quite a few ships from assorted pos, it was kind of funny in corp as each ship was recovered and everyone cheered. Achilles was then scammed for something like 3 billion isk, truly the mark of a super spy master ceo of an amazingly talented corp. As for the loss, the fact that he had been getting more and more...well bizzare is about the best way to describe it, honestly it didn't seem like that huge a loss. We formed our new corp, and frankly the enthusiasm and corp spirit have never been higher. Kind of strange that the response to a fairly large theft, including our corp name, would actually be a better and tighter corp. Then again we were able to take down ascn, I guess a nut-job stealing stuff was a piece of cake compared to that.
Ok, this ended up much much longer than I intended, but I thought it might be interesting to post from another "founder" of arsC, and member of all 3 of the ars corps that he mentioned. Apparently achilles and I were actually leadership in two very very different corps, that just happened to share the same name, people and everything else. Honestly I'm a bit mystified at why he even posted this bizarre story of his, but as some people have pointed out above he was always hoping to be an important corp in eve, and since he's most likely leaving I guess he wanted to make his mark, even if it is grandiose claims with zero evidence.
Final note: Now that I think about it, I'm very disappointed in our current progress. We managed to take down both alliances we were previously in, including one of (or the, not sure)largest alliances in eve. I'm going to go ***** the whip and get this damn curse alliance broken up by this weekend!
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