Tesal
Red Frog Investments
Blue Sky Consortium
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Posted - 2007.10.07 22:01:00 -
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I don't think this will be used for volume transport, but what it will be very useful for is hauling things like BPO, BPC, skills, salvage, bookmarks, implants and other high value, but extremely light objects. Even most faction mods are too heavy and need to be moved by carrier. I really doubt people would use it to haul trit. But it will be the poor mans jump bridge.
On a strategic note, the people who have to worry about this most, are people who are overextended. Think about it. Certain large alliances have a hard shell, but are soft and squishy on the inside. They have expanded far too much, and do not have a large force able to respond in their rear. Medium sized alliances are probably tough at their center and weakest at their perimeter, so jumping to their center is suicide because they will get hunted down and podded. This ship is an equalizer. It allows a small, skilled and determined enemy to create havoc in the rear and supply chain of their opponent.
Properly used, it is a tool for harassment. That will force them to dedicate more of their force and resources to protecting their assets, leaving less for expansion. Basically, it leaves any alliance vulnerable that expands too far. This ship combined with the Rorqual will be a deadly duo. You can pre-position jump clones, ships and supplies anywhere in low sec, penetrate deep into 0.0 and launch bloody attacks and the cost will be relatively low. This may also result in a shift away from fleet combat towards guerrilla operations, which may mean less lag. It is going to force 0.0 corps to use the wardec to clear out enemy forward bases.
A third thing that ought to be considered, this opens up a whole new revenue stream for Mercenary corporations. They can expand operations anywhere in EvE, using this as a jump bridge to move between bases along the entire low sec frontier. As long as they have hulls and supplies pre-positioned, they can move anywhere.
Speaking as a trader, that means more trade and more profit for me, and for pvpers, it means bloody, nail biting combat all the time, which is what they live for. Everyone wins, even the pirates.
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