Nick Curso
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
KenZoku
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Posted - 2009.02.06 20:32:00 -
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 Originally by: fugazii
Originally by: Dungar Loghoth
I posted this on the Something Awful forums - this is how I remember things going down, please correct me if I'm wrong (I was but a wee space-ship flier at the time and it was many years ago)
Originally by: "Umdrehung"
You guys are blowing the blood-raiders thing out of proportion. There's nothing there that wasn't public already.
Back before the in-game role-playing **** got shut-down (aurora), the GMs liked doing events from time to time with the different factions in the game. You might remember LV getting a Hel out of completing some special RP event with the Angel Cartel, or us (Goonfleet) ****ing up a Serpentis RP event by killing a mothership.
The thing with Bloodraiders and BoB (as I remmeber it, so I'm surely getting some details wrong) is that the Blood Raiders faction was exiled from the Amarr Empire for some kind of blood-letting religious bull****. They chose Delve as their new home and to make room for them, NPC sov had to be added to the region. As part of the "event", they had an agreement with BoB (who owned all of Delve at the time) where they got to choose, as part of their reward, 10 pilots to receive free standings increases from the Blood Raiders - similar to what happens now with the alliance tournament. This was part of BoB's compensation for having their region ****ed up by pirate sov.
This kind of thing was really common at the time - ATUK got the Guristas to attack towers with dreads as part of a role-playing event. Stain Empire got Miner II BPCs from True Power (an NPC-stain corp) in the middle of their war with Curse Alliance, which was met with pretty unprecedented outrage, seeing as no one else had miner IIs at the time.
If you guys continue harping on this, you're going to look really foolish, as this is simply how the game was at the time. Everyone did it, and it was just accepted as part of the game.
From what I remember, a couple organizations got various items when SA got theirs, I can't remember what the event was but the winners were each able to grab 1 very rare item from a can. A couple of those items being Miner 2 bpos, think there was a Harvester BPO(the only one ever givin out). I believe Everlasting Vendetta was the SA corp that got one of the M2's. (Though its been so long, I may be bunching up events).
MASS got the miner 2 BPO iirc |