Intergalactic Summit

I have approached CVA privately and I am assured that so long as I am in Goonwaffe that I will not be invited peacefully to Providence.

Well, I believe you best said it yourself:



By your own words, due to your CFC involvement, you are permanently tainted. Asking for swift destruction of everything barely related to CFC and acting as a penitent regarding the same don't really work hand-in-hand, mr. Fred.

I never said it wasn't a cancer for us. The reason why we had trouble finding another alliance to join after we were screwed over was because we had Goonswarm taint on us. Nobody would take us because of that horrid tumor. I think we can speak for ourselves how nobody wants a former goon, we experienced it first hand.

A wise man took pity on us and we were able to prove ourselves again. This was our chemo. This cured us. We seak to administer this cure to the rest of null, by force if necessary.

Anyone other self proclaimed experts on a corp they know nothing about?



Now, now. Go run back to your corner of insignificance please. You can pretend you are important there.

I suppose I do. However unlike her, I have a personal vendetta against Goons rather than a prejudiced hatred.

And even still, my demeanor isn't as hostile as the text would imply. The hyperbolic nature is really just to get under their skin. Im not pounding furiously into my neocom with bushed eyebrows, a red face, and seething teeth and then going outside to kick puppies when I'm finished. Merely writing what would agitate a Goon.

Thank you for the link, Lady Devonshire. I shall celebrate it with a swish of brandy and perhaps a chocolate chip cookie. No, two of each.

Now, for the record, I do not begrudge any Master its day, and I applaud the Swarm's ability to keep things together as long as it has. The logistical complexity of such an operation is formidable. In truth, I block out its disagreeable statements and root for its success in closing the circle, primarily because I wish to know "what happens next." My belief is that we have passed a tipping point, and that the Swarm shall - within say half of a year - control more of the Cluster's resources than all of its rivals combined. This may already be the case, or close to the case, based on relationships between the Alliance members, but I expect any such ambiguity to evaporate within the proposed time frame.

At that point, only a non-linear increase in the logistical challenge of conquest would stop closure. Resistance would, to borrow a phrase, "be futile."

However, my further belief is that the forces of this emergent shogunate will not be able to abide the boredom of victory, nor will the emergent shogunate have the ability to disarm its knights (as similar empires were able to do under different technological paradigms).

Consequently, the Master of the Master Swarm will, ironically, be the chaos unleashed by victory.

As for the eponymous region, unfortunately, I believe there are only three convenient paths from Fortress Delve to Origin Feythabolis. One is through a cluster@#$! of its own, one is way the @#$! out in the middle of nowhere, and one is Providence. Fortunately for those sympathetic to the glory of Amarr, Providence would not remain particularly important to the emergent shogunate as the circle neared completion.

I will give the Goons credit where it is due, the cluster could not have asked for a better villain. No single entity in the galaxy can be both hated by everyone, yet admired by everyone all the same.

They still have to go though, don't get me wrong.

However, a major power rarely falls and disappears. It usually splits off into many different factions. The CFC is a coalition, made up of alliances, made up of corporations, made up of capsuleers. Whether they win or lose, there is no way that so many diverse groups of people with differing interest can exist without a hitch. Look at what happened to the Federation. The Caldari split off and we lost roughly a third of our country as a result.

One screw up, and it's all over for the Goons. Mathematically, philosophically, and what ever "ly" you can think of, gaurantees it will happen eventually. And when it does, I and many others will relish that day.

Additionally, everyone likes to back up the underdogs. Watching someone who always wins is boring. The side that has to struggle and fight against all odds makes for the better story. The Goons will never truly win because there will always be resistance, if only for the sake of resisting.

Greetings everyone, I must say that I've enjoyed the discussion about the goons and the future of the space they put their pods in. I find it most insightful and intriguing, no matter how ætheric the nature of the future.
I must admit that, as time passes, the division of classes, into lower, middle and high, fades from my vision into one plane of existance. Though I see how such a structure makes for a resilient and more manageable and focused chain of command.
In the end capsuleers prosper, and capsuleers piloting together prosper together. And everything has it's season, every planet and every region as every corporation and alliance.
Granted they vary in span of time, they all exist in the same span of time.

Now as for piloting in Providence, even if you are not on the CVA KOS list, there are other entities piloting there and though many of them operate under NRDS policies, some of them can be quick to cry spy in local and set you red. Leaving little room for neutrals, cause spies be witches and witches be burned after a witch hunt.

It is outside of Concord's safe embrace, treat it as such.

The Swarm is now responsible, either directly or indirectly, for bringing the word "slubberdegullion" and the phrase "grew bulbous from their spoils" to my attention, for which I must necessarily be grateful. I do believe the only enemy which can fell the giant presently is the boredom of its constituent body parts, a process not unlike the bulbousness referred to above.

I watched this topic for a while thinking: Not sure if serious or just being a goon.

All joking aside I was looking into your request and though I can't speak for the holder council as someone who is a holder and has much invested in our space I can safely say I don't trust you as far as I can shoot you.

And I like my pulse lasers.

CVA-diplo is always open to you if your honest but you don't have my vote as long as you wave that bee flag.