Originally by: Vaijon

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Ok..Im fairly new to Eve and I belong to a corp that is still getting its legs under them. So I took some time to read the lengthy threads of the war with PA

First of all, I play a good guy online and will always do so. I think it's somewhat sad that a number of "good guys" appear to be at war with each other.

Secondly, despite the massive amount of posting, the original issue was the CDI issue and PA's dealing with CDI. It appears that the other alliances have taken issue that "Swift" justice was not carried out by PA. This led to attacks between the alliances that I am still trying to sort out. One thing that stands out in my mind is this comment by Bobby:

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It isn't moot. Instead of providing proof (which TBH wouldn't have been hard) RKK did nothing for 3 days, then attacked a PA pilot (NOT CDi) in free space and then immediately AFTER posted a war declaration with no explanation (see the first post here: http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=83511
It seems pretty obvious to the PA that RKK were planning a war on us and they shot at a PA pilot prematurely. Jericho and RKK then went on a PR and propaganda blitz (with some threats and manipulation as well) to bring a pile of more corps into their little war.

From that point on PA wasn't interested in RKK's opinion on anything. Within 15 minutes we investigated the RKK attack on a non-CDi PA pilot, confirmed it, infoed RKK and discovered ALL PA CORPS had been set to -10. We then got word Evolution was on the move towards Venal and within 2 hours an invasion force of RKK and Evo were in our space shooting at us. There has beeen ZERO break in the hostilities since then. PA has not had a moments rest from fighting since the RKK sneak attack. If we had, we'd use it to build more ammo, not try to placate that unreasonable lot.

The CDi issue has been taken off the table because of RKK's actions. The two most interested parties (Jade and RKK) no longer have any influence with the PA and are KOS. In fact, frankly, there are no longer any special limitations regarding travel on any PA member corp. Any place where a corp with -10 to the PA is, PA ships are free to travel. Any corp with -10 to the PA will be fired upon. Any corp who wants to make peace with the PA is invited to do so. Otherwise everybody in the PA fights.

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I think the issue from the side opposing PA... Bobby...is that the CDI issue is not moot and that even though this has now devolved into a major shooting war, PA's handling of the CDI issue has been determined to be the main cause.

Of course, that is all forgetten once the shooting starts and numerous players are drawn into the fight. I have an ultimate question for you alliance leaders. What is the price of pride? How many billions must suffer (roleplay here :D ) during this unnecessary war? How hard would it be to draw back, take a deep breath, and do the right thing here?

Unless you all just have a bunch of shiny new toys that you all want to test out, I point out that the price of pride is just destruction.

Anyway...keep up the excellent political climate. You guys make the United Nations look like Mrs. Smiths Kindergarten class. I've never seen anything this complex in any MMORPG ever.

Hehe...for now I will steer clear of the Northern Reaches :)

PS. This is my first post and I'm learning to use the quote function. The Bobby I refer to is the PA spokesman.

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