Wheelchair Demagogue
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Posted - 2007.05.27 14:24:00 -
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Just read this guys, it tells the whole story:
Events that shocked EVE community after Kugutsmen got busted are the main of ever happened on the backstage in the world of EVE since its creation.
- Guilty?
- Oh yeah, he is. But he is the first and the last., - said CCP.
Well, thats a typical form of sacrifice to stay untoched by potatoes and eggs that can be thrown at the big man.
We all have people that we like, and some that we hate or ignore. So, don't you want to help your beloved in any way?
So, there some people that have enpugh power to make some dreams come true. In EVE they be GMs and Devs. We will call them super-pilots in this story.
They can help theirselves, by the way, too. But they have to operate "the masquerade" ( o/ White Wolf) so the Kugutsmen's fate would not repeat.
T20 wasnt punished for his deeds but for his fail to remain stealthy. One director loved to say phrase "I fire you not because you got drunk but beacause you got caught" before firing an employee that came to work drunk.
So, stages of big love and most beloved.
In the beginning of the EVE there were not so many strong corporations and time was needed for some corporations and pilots to fade others.
And the super-pilots was in need of a corporation that could be their hands in EVE. That existed and were famous as skilled and strong. Like legendary m0o Corp or unnoficial Stain Alliance.
Do you remember antic Greek myths? The one where gods argued which mortal is the best? Well, you got it right here.
But the war needs to be supported materially.
Its hard to imagine a PvP pilot sitting on his barge and chocking on veldspar so he could make himself a battleship.
"Pfft", you will say, "you can get 'nuf money to buy a bs just killing npc in zeroes for 12 hours!". Yes, you can. Nowadays.
But in 2003 year the best bounty you could find in zeroes was... 50k isk! This isn't too much, i'll say you.
The favourite Apocalypse' price was floating around 125m isk and the BPC's one was 9m isk. But m0o had no problems with stuff. They were not hunting or mining. Their work was to shoot people.
And the supplies were made by powerfull industrial corporation Asgard Industries, that had all the ship BPOs within the first month of EVE running official. Far before the Hadeyan Drive Yards.
And the CEO of this corp was just an Iceland guy named Mjolnir. m0o was and still is a legendary corporation, famous for their's actions like mass genocide of CONCORD and other fun :)
They were banned for such "exploits". But who said that they were removed from the game? Super-pilots understood that these guys saw EVE's world from the different position. Hell yeah, they even did that CPP wasnt thinking about when they were creating the game.
But m0o could not tackle a whole alliance, if there would be one. So a triad was made - m0o/RUS/Sinister, that could not be defeated by any force in known EVE. Except the Stain Alliance... That was a "favourite" too, but for some other big men...
So, what was the Stain Alliance? It was a pack of corportions that controlled three regions: Stain and two other regions, that were named with letters and digitals (they are known now as Estoria and Paragon Soul).
And there were no lots of ways to get from one region to another. Everyone had to go through DSS-EZ system, that were blobbed for 23 hours in a day.
The strongest of the alliance were MASS, The Collective, Omega Corp, Seraphin Technologies, Everlasting Vendetta and some others. Heh, The Collective was 95% icelandic corporation and one of the first in SA (Stain Alliance).
The Hand of this alliance wasnt too silent and stealthy. They even killed some Jovian admiral that dropped an item called Miner V "Nibelung". Yes, V is for 5. FIVE.
He was a main figure in the event that was planned for explaining of how this item got into EVE. But admiral got lost 50 jumps away from his target system and was ganked. Noob :P
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