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Miss Pandora
Pandoras Military And Civilian Operations Group
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Posted - 2007.05.20 23:00:00 -
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Pandoras Mining Covanant (did I spell it wrong, I mean right?) [PMCO] has decided after over two years as a corporation in the EvE Universe to shut down.
What now seems like ages ago PMCO was founded by Lonagan (Lon), who while drunk one day/night decided to spin up a new corporation. As with many things done while drunk a lot of thought went into the creation of the corp. Well, what can we say... drunk thought doesn't always have a spell checker and thus PMCO ended up with a name that isn't spelled quite correclty... but meh... that's not a big deal!
Lonagan was a great founder and CEO. He was often seen in local starting convos with people and asking them to join his corp. Many of the long time PMCO members joined PMCO within days of starting the game. Many of us still laugh about the fact that we were such newbs that NO ONE in their right mind would have taken us in... But Lon took in the group and helped us as a corp grow and develop.
A short while after forming his corp Lon embarked on another venture. One of the corpies knew Talidorn of The Army of Helaman [A.O.H] was considering a move to get connected with a more active player base. So, the two corps merged and suddenly the Mining corp was able to offer a rather good industrial arm. There was actually something to do with all those minerals. Profits began to grow and the corpies were all growing and developing. The introduction of mining barges helped the corp grow from a bunch of carrier/BS miners into full fledged miners.
Then a dark day hit the corp... Our first empire war! Oh noes! A group by the name of Dr. Evil's Assassins [ZIPIT] nearly killed the corp. The war was difficult, if not impossible for a bunch of people that were not ready for such a fight. After the war PMCO began a renewed effort to grow and mine. The corp mining ops were tremendous! Empire belts cried on our arrival. We would regularly strip entire systems. We were miners!
Well as things go, we began to look at other options within the realms of EvE and a new opportunity came to the front. Lon had begun to work on getting us into the FREGE alliance. This was at the time that FREGE was in Pure Blind trying to make a home there. For those of you who have been around for a bit, bodycollector was running the show then. Just as we joined FREGE, Lon had a bad case of the RL... So, Talidorn was placed in the role as CEO.
FREGE was PMCO's first attempt at being in an alliance. Runnig in fleet ops with FREGE was interesting. We were there during the war with Pilots with Honor [POH] (not 100% sure on the ticker sorry guys). After an extended war PMCO was again in a place where it needed to rebuild.
Off we went... this time to low sec. We had a bit of training and understanding on how to deal with gankers and ****ers. But oh noes..... Talidorn suddenly caught the RL disease and he set Lon back as CEO and went dark for a few months (nearly 6).
Crocket took over when Lonagan and Talidorn went RL. He saved the corp and kept things going. Thank God for Corp votes to take the role of CEO!
Bam! At nearly the same time Lonagan and Talidorn recovered from RL and were back in the game. Neither of them really wanted to be in charge so the corp changed to a board of Directors. This proved to be a great move. PMCO began to expand and grow. As individuals were identified as a great benefit they were promoted. The diretor list grew and some of those individuals include (but aren't limited to) Crocket, Lonagan, Talidorn, SigmaPi, TenthReality, Morkhan, DarkArc, Guuci, and a number of others. The directors group grew and matured within the corp and within EvE. |
Miss Pandora
Pandoras Military And Civilian Operations Group
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Posted - 2007.05.20 23:01:00 -
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But that is jumping a bit to the end too quickly! After Lon and Tali came back Tali was really wanting to help the corp grow by moving it out to 0.0. So, opening the list of Alliances Tali picked one that he thought was kewl and had 0.0 access. Which alliance did he pick??? NORAD! Tho now dead many within PMCO hold a special place in their hearts for NORAD. It was where most of us got changed from pure carebears to a 0.0 industrial machine. Note, I don't say that we quite mining... oh no, we mined... and most of us had wallets that proved we were 0.0 miners/industrialist. There are many from NORAD that will tell you that PMCO was a great addition to NORAD. We were helping keep the war machine going. Megathron anyone? Alliance pricing!!!
NORAD was a good run. We had some great fights, and even watched the killboards fill with goonmails. BoB liked to come in and make sure we weren't getting too comfy. Then something strange happened... the goons moved to Cloud Ring to take a shot at owning a region... Those were the days of Remedial... Need I say more? Long and short NORAD was taking two fronts, helping FA in fountain at times and helping/watching as D2 was dealing with Goons in Cloud Ring. At about this time, what many in PMCO and NORAD consider our darkest hour, NORAD began finalizing a grand scheme to merge with FA and form a stronger/better alliance. This is the Birth of RISE. Sadly, the merger was less of a merger than it should have been... RISE was given a plum of an opportunity... D2 offered Cloud Ring to RISE.
RISE was not mature enough as an alliance to hold onto such an offering. And shortly after claiming it YouWhat -Y- came in for a fight. They had friends and after a bit of a fight the initial win went to RISE. PMCO and orther NORAD corps were disgusted with the way things were going so many went our seperate ways. Yakuza and a few formed the R0nin. PMCO went back to low sec empire. I will leave the remainder of the RISE, -Y-, CR, OR issues out of this story...as PMCO wasn't involved in such activities. LOW SEC EMPIRE!
So, we were out of the fray, we spent time in low sec empire mining again and trying to decide where to go and what to do. We ran a refundable lottery for a while and enjoyed that a lot. We had gotten into Capital manufacturing and we were having fun auctioning the ships we were making off to a lucky ticket purchaser. Most of us missed alliance life! After about 3 months in low sec empire (and a quick war on a griefing empire corp - we didn't like how it felt when we were small, so we were being the police and protecting the little guy) we applied and joined POS... JUST AS EVEWAR 1.0 was breaking out! Somewhere in here we lost our Founder... Lon decided he REALLY liked PVP and went over to RAZOR. PVP operations in delve to bother BoB & friends went well and we enjoyed the friends we had in POS... But once again... we needed to recover and rebuild. War is hell on the wallet.
We went out to a nice quiet area close to our old NORAD stomping grounds and had a good run... We even considered and had plans in place to setup an alliance. R0nin was close and we had other really good friends around... But meh!!! The board of directors were getting a bit tired of running things (it is almost like having a second job).
So this bring us to today... We, the directors of PMCO are going to close the doors on PMCO. It has been a wild ride! We have made friends on all sides of the map. We may not be one of the best known corporations in EvE, but we are known! As we leave we thank all of our corpies and the work and dedication they have had. We thank them for the trust they placed in us and for the place that they helped make in the history books of EvE!
I and a few of my mates will be heading out now to join up with our new bosses... It is a great new adventure... We get to be minions again! Sir YES Sir!
Fly safe and thanks for the run!
PMCO signing out!
Miss Pandora
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Vayna Miychovich
NED-Clan
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.05.20 23:37:00 -
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Fly safe guys, respect for one of the true industry corporations that I have known. 07
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RISE Above and Conquer |
Falryx
Caldari
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.05.20 23:47:00 -
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I <3 PMCO.
Congrats on a solid run -- and good luck in your future endeavours.
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Robert Dobbs
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.21 00:08:00 -
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We had fun guys ;)
And that's Pilots of Honour [-PH-] just FYI ;)
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DukeHeart > We dont like those terms, Phoenix does not agree. |
eLDST0RM
Jazz Associates
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.05.21 00:22:00 -
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All the best guys. Hope you have fun in your future ventures. It was fun flying with you in NORAD and RISE. You have/had a good crew 
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Zorlya
Pilots Of Honour
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Posted - 2007.05.21 00:34:00 -
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If you had joined Norad a little earlier, we may have crossed paths again :P
Anyways, good luck o/
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Dravun
Dark-Rising
Fallen Souls
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Posted - 2007.05.21 02:36:00 -
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best of luck to you guys, see you in space
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sableye
principle of motion
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.05.21 02:42:00 -
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was always an honour flying with you guys.
Join The Fight With Promo Today |
blkmajik
ZiTek Deepspace Explorations
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.21 04:39:00 -
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Great bunch of guys! Have fun in Cutting Edge Inc, the giant lot of you that merged with them. Kinda cute how you all ended up with Lon again ;) Don't make Mork haul too much (is that possible?). Tenth: we still need to meet for beers! Best of luck 
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Iksobarg
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Posted - 2007.05.21 06:53:00 -
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Gotta love you industrials...
Props and GL... all considered, you're due for bigger and better things, forget the luck part.
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Iss Hogai
GREY COUNCIL
Sparta Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.21 07:43:00 -
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Aww, shame to see such a fine corp go. Have fun all of you, you know who you are!
In the end, everything is grey...
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Borgholio
Minmatar
Quantum Industries
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.21 07:44:00 -
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Even though you guys only flew under the Prime Orbital Systems flag for a short time, you made lots of friends with the rest of us. A quality group of people if ever there was one. Fare well.
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You will be assimilated...bunghole! |
WiZZyWiGG
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.21 08:03:00 -
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Sad day to see you guys close your doors, great corp back in the NORAD days and was always a pleasure flying with you. Good luck for the future.
<3
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ChronoSphere
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.05.21 14:34:00 -
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Best of luck to all of your pilots future endevours!
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RADM ChronoSphere
Security Division Assistant Director
Sturmgrenadier, Inc. |
Schneiderr
Asgard Schiffswerften
Ev0ke
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Posted - 2007.05.21 14:59:00 -
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as Wizzy said, all the best to you guys!
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TenthReality
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.21 15:15:00 -
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It was both a pleasure and an honor being a director of such a fine bunch of people. As all former PMCO know, my door is always open to you.
To everyone with kind words, thank you, its nice to know that at least for a little bit we made a difference.
Blk, mork's never done hauling :)
And for those of you who might remember, I'm once step closer to making "10thLand" more than just a pipe dream!!!
10th - Proud Former PMCO Director
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Cloue
Gallente Stripping Agency
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Posted - 2007.05.21 17:10:00 -
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Very good corp, flew with you guys in NORAD good times
Walter was too annoying for me though 
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ChronoSphere
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.05.21 20:30:00 -
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Walter? You mean the guy with a fascination with corpses, and would go belt to belt and station to station picking up goon corpses, all the while saying on teamspeak in a very scary voice "Corppssessss, corpssssesss!"
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RADM ChronoSphere
Security Division Assistant Director
Sturmgrenadier, Inc. |
Morkhan
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.21 22:22:00 -
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Edited by: Morkhan on 21/05/2007 22:22:35
I joined PMCO on my fourth day playing Eve. I was at once overwhelmed and impressed by the willingness of PMCO members and directors to take newer players (read: noobs) under their virtual wings. With encouragement and LOTS of support, many of us went from empire noobs afraid to travel into 0.3 to hardened 0.0 combat veterans. We moved from making cruisers to carriers; from a single POS in Amoen to supporting outposts; and from ninja mining in a navitas to stripping entire asteroid belts in an evening.
Even though we have gone our separate ways, many of us still talk regularly on our channel PMCO-Public. Join us to pay your respects. Its better than a slap on the face.
/me salutes PMCO
Morkhan
P.S., back to hauling I guess . . .
P.P.S., to know Walter is to appreciate him . . . WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Vandamsel
Gallente
Dead Eagle
North Star Confederation
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Posted - 2007.05.22 04:53:00 -
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Sad to see you guys go, GL to u all in whatever you do o7
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Alakazam
Bob The Builder
Breidablik
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Posted - 2007.05.22 07:40:00 -
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Arf, an amazing corporation closes its doors. You were an amazing people to fly with. Model NORAD members, you showed us all. You were an amazing industrial PvP corporation. I remember NORAD told its members to look at PMCO for how a corp was ment to fight. An industrial corporation that wasn't afraid of fighting. You will be missed!!
Alakazam
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Zuki Ed
Gallente
Quantum Industries
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.22 09:24:00 -
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Good luck to all former PMCO members. It was great flying with you guys.
RIP PMCO.
Zuki
I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!!
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Angeles
Caldari
ZiTek Deepspace Explorations
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.22 11:30:00 -
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all the best PMCO, was fun flying with you guys
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DinoC
ZiTek Deepspace Explorations
Prime Orbital Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.22 14:44:00 -
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All the best PMCO guys. Have fun and I hope you find lots of pew pew on your eve lifes o/
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Karsten
Caldari
LoneWolf Mining
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Posted - 2007.05.22 16:40:00 -
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I will miss you
Karsten
"All your ISK belong to the Viking Brewery" |
C Duggan
Gallente
Yakuza Corp
THE R0NIN
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Posted - 2007.05.22 16:48:00 -
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:(
<3 you guys
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Zirator
Times of Ancar
THE R0NIN
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Posted - 2007.05.22 17:00:00 -
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Shame to see you guys closing doors. <3 to all ex NORAD people in this thread.
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Earthan
Gallente
The Absolutely Amazing Fire Eaters
Breidablik
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Posted - 2007.05.22 17:59:00 -
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Edited by: Earthan on 22/05/2007 18:02:14
Damn sad to see you close
PMCO was great help in NORAD.As a sponsor who helped/judged PMCO as new NOrad member, i must say i consider helping PMCO settle and recruiting them in the whole as one of my most succesful things i have done for NORAD.
I still remmber when at first poeple were afraid you would be carebears cause of your name and me and Ban Tier mostly argumenting to let you in:).I also remmber helpign tottaly green members getting into first pvp gangs:)
In short after a while PMCO turned not only an industrial backbone for the allaince but also great pvpers....
Good luck in future hope to keep runing into past pmco poeple:).
I am all a sentimental puppy was thinking we could orgnise someday a Norad reunion raid , we meet in a system and fly around Eve until we get killed:)
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SigmaPi
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.22 22:37:00 -
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PMCO was all i knew from a corp for the first year plus in EvE. As Mork already said, we grew from obscurity to being part of the backbone of two succesfull alliances before going our seperate ways.
I still remember that pos in Amoen... ah, life was simple then. I also remember when we had 3 deathstars claiming sov in XZH... not so fun =P
A fond adue to all of my amazing mates from the corp. Miss Pandora did leave out a very special time in our corps history. About the time that NORAD merged with the former FA, the corp Hopless Endevor merged into the ranks of PMCO. Some of my best friends were orriginally part of HE, and now most of them have gone their own ways again. I salute all of my ex corpmates. We maynot be united in name any more, but we are still united in the blood, sweat, and tears we have all shed for the growth and prosperity of PMCO.
May PMCO rest in peace, she was the most fond corp I have ever had, and will ever have.
/me salutes.
/Siggy
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