Crime & Punishment

After nearly 4 years in the business, starting from literally one person with 100m, some snake implants, and a vision, fighting through every challenge both external and internal: we finally did it. Over two *hundred* contracts. That’s over 150 satisfied customers plus repeat business. We have been hired by almost every 0.0 power block that has existed in EVE since our founding, some several times, and have gone from an eager startup to one of the leaders in the mercenary community. We have set records, we have broken them. And we’re gonna break another one celebrating how far we’ve come.

The Noir. Bicentennial Celebration.

By now, some of you have no doubt received the “invitations” in your Notifications tab.
The life a mercenary in EVE, especially when you are a small alliance trying to do it full time, is not one of convenience. Sometimes we have to take a contract that we know is gonna suck because it’s either that or *shudder* mission. If a contract turns into a meat grinder or we discover we’re in over our heads, there’s no “declare victory and go home”: we have to fight till the end of the contract and do anything and everything we can to pull it out. If something fun happens on the other side of EVE or even a few systems away, our contract takes priority even if it’s boring.

So to celebrate completing over 200 contracts, we’re going to do something completely different. In all its years, Noir. has NEVER, before today, declared war outside of a contract. So I decided our reward for coming this far would be to break that cherry with our Bicentennial Celebration, Pinkie Pie style. As best I could research, the concurrent war dec record in EVE since the P-Nerf was 22, set by the Orphanage. Today, we have broken that record by war decing the largest 25 alliances in EVE. It’s not about efficiency or trying to “win” any of these wars, there’s no goal for us here but FUN.

And there will be prizes! The NMG. Pilot with the most kills will receive a T3 of their choice, the Noir. corp pilot with the coolest kill will get a medal, and we will have a “Guess the Damage” contest closer to the end (inspired by Guess the PCU) open to everyone in EVE where you can win a faction cruiser by posting your guess. Track our progress via our new API killboard and site created by JaredC01 (maybe someday he'll fix the rest of the site lol).

I would like to take this time to thank Kirith Kodachi, Diana at EVE Time Code, and the donations of time + ISK from my members + corps which made this possible. Much thanks to VG COLT for creating our awesome new ad. I would also like to extend a special thanks to the many members who have returned to EVE and returned to Noir. to share this moment, without whom we wouldn’t be the corp we are today.

Shadow of xXDeathXx
Goonswarm Federation
Test Alliance Please Ignore
Intrepid Crossing
SOLAR WING
White Noise.
Morsus Mihi
Against ALL Authorities
RED Citizens
Brick Squad.
Red Alliance
Raiden.
Ultima Rati0
Razor Alliance
Fatal Ascension
The Initiative.
Tactical Narcotics Team
Northern Coalition.
Pandemic Legion
RED.Overlord
Fidelas Constans
Nulli Secunda
Ivy League
Ares Protectiva
Legion of xXDeathXx

Total Characters: 61,153
Total Cost: 16.7B ISK

Good stuff. See you out there.

hot damn.

"A Bicentennial or Bicentenary is the two-hundredth anniversary of an event"

*golf clap*

Congrats guys

I remember one such contract... dear god, killing a large jamming d1ckstar in a wormhole with about 30-40 people in AHAC Zealots.

The loot pinata afterwards was fun though!

Get out.

Why you no dec Flying Dangerous?

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