Originally by: Hardin

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I have been away from EVE due to a couple of RL holidays over the past month and as a response have not been able to keep up to date with the unusual meanderings of CAOD.

A FEW PROVIDENCE FACTS

1) CVA and Ushra'khan don't work together

2) CVA and Enh/AzA don't work together

3) Contrary to popular opinion not everyone who holds space in Providence is:

a) A CVA 'holder'
or
b) Under our protection

4) Slammers were not a CVA Holder nor were they under our protection. Other groups in Providence have through their actions proved 'worthy'* and do indeed qualify as 'Holders' and receive our assistance as and when necessary. A prime example of this is Paxton.

5) Slammers did help CVA in the siege of 9UY - for their own reasons - primarily because UK had recruited enemies such as Enh / Evoke / BUM and others in their effort to hold onto the station.

6) Because CVA has always allowed 'neutral' entities to operate in Providence (in the same way that neutrals can operate in Amarr space) we recognised Slammers claim on their part of Providence and indeed for a short period assisted them to maintain that claim.

7) Regular displays of incompetence, lack of communication and downright stupidity from Slammers led to an internal CVA decision to withdraw CVA protection from Slammers (which had never been officially provided at any rate). This preceeded the AzA campaign and happened many months ago.

8) While it may be cold hearted our view was that we were not going to put our assets on the line for Slammers when they demonstrated no appreciable diplomatic or PvP capabilities. The view was that if Slammers wanted to hold on to a chunk of Providence then they would have to do so on their own.

9) When AzA decided to launch its campaign on Slammers we were unconcerned. Our HONEST opinion was that Slammers could:

a) Successfully hold onto their space - in which case good luck to them.
or
b) Lose their space to our enemies. While this on the face of it looks like a stupid option it would give CVA the freedom to turf the enemies out and reclaim those systems properly. This would allow us to provide the level of security and protection that is provided elsewhere in Providence, which we could not implement properly while Slammers held Sov and simply didn't cooperate with us at a worthwhile level.

While the CVA is by no means fans of Enh/UK/AzA I have to admit internally we were more than happy to see them push Slammers out. Slammers had proved themselves incapable, incoherent and unworthy of our assistance and we were more than happy to see them replaced by enemies who we could 'legitimately' remove and replace.

So from our viewpoint AzA/Enh/UK have actually done us a favour whether they wanted to or not... I suppose taken in that context you could say that we were actually working together - even if that was by no means an agreed or planned consequence.


*'Worthy' does not = rent. Worthy means playing an active role in Providence vs those who would seek to engender chaos in the area. Being active and 'worthy' involves the regular and neighbourly sharing of information, intelligence, and in general working with both CVA and other Holders to protect their space and keep the spacelanes clear for neutral and friendly traffic. Good examples of the worthy are Sylph, Paxton, s3verance, Cold Steel, Aegis Militia.

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