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Recently, Osmeden found itself a hub for low security space. There are many, many advantages to being a corporation or office in Osmeden. In the future one of two things will be happening. The honest corporations around Osmeden will unite and provide an excellent place for business to be conducted or the honest corporations will be required to move operations elsewhere as a result declining casual traffic, declining purchaser traffic (who will risk getting podded to buy what we sell), declining recruiting traffic and a loss of our resource systems (Adacyne, Maut and the resulting low security areas).

Already, Orvolle has become a veritable warzone. High pirate traffic has forced many Osmeden based corporations to open offices further into Empire space to keep their newer members from being killed on their way to headquarters. A single jump from Orvolle virtually guarantees not only loss of ship and cargo but being podded by pirate corporations such as DRUFF and COW. Many times in the past two weeks a jump into or through Orvolle has proven fatal, in particular at the gate leading to Osmeden.

Recently, player pirates from surrounding systems have been witnessed freely attacking CONCORD and Gallente Navy ships in Osmeden... and winning. Player pirates have been looting floating canisters after scattering Osmeden mining teams and have discovered that camping the gate into Osmeden (in Orvolle) is a sure-fire way to collect valuable loot from players running missions and shipping goods into Osmeden. This should make any corporation with interests in Osmeden take note and action.

We run a VERY real risk of losing Osmeden as a good place to house our corporations and conduct our business. As the CEO of a company founded in and always headquartered in Osmeden I don't particularly want to see DRUFF, COW and the smaller, lesser-known but still valid pirate corporations take our system.

I am recommending that the honest and motivated corporations with interests in Osmeden and the surrounding systems band together in an alliance to make our corner of space profitable for us, friendly for outside (honest) corporations and extremely dangerous for pirates and griefers. I do NOT propose open war. I do NOT propose political structure which would detract from the corporations involved. I do, however, propose that we form an honest alliance to help each corporation involved. Pirates are united by their goal, to kill as many ships as possible before logging. While they are not intentionally cooperating the effect is that every corporation within their realm is effected negatively in exact proportion to the amount of pirates and pirate corporations active. How much greater would Osmeden be if when someone was attacked, all that was required was a message in an EVE channel stating this. Security Officers from all over the alliance who were available to respond could do so and gain valuable PvP experience. Or if a mining team finished their mining chores and needed someone to haul their minerals. For a cut of the minerals that team should have a place to request help from someone trustworthy.

The Osmeden Alliance must be formed if Osmeden is to remain a profitable venture. I am currently organizing the Alliance project but will turn all responsibilities over to a committee of intelligent, level-header leaders once the aliance has been formed. I am currently seeking five (5) Founding Member organizations. The CEO or a director of any organization interested should contact S3VYN in-game to reserve a place in the Alliance and to begin scheduling the first meeting to discuss our collective abilities, responsibilities, needs and processes.

The choices are made evident by the rising daily pod count in Orvolle, our only gate to the outside world. Unify... or die.

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We have our reasons for remaining in Osmeden. We're staying, and we will not be threatened. Besides, what fun is this game without an element of risk?

Incidentally, my corp leader has received death threats from some pirate groups already Bah, only a matter of time.

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