Intergalactic Summit

While to the shortsighted neural boosters may appear to be mere drugs I can assure you they are far, far more than that. Neural boosters allow a pilot to exceed its limits beyond anything you can imagine and offers massive tactical advantages on the battlefield. When this little cold war turns into a full blown war between the empires and the Caldari Navy fleets are burning your precious Placid region to the ground; think of us and all the things we have to offer.

As for standing for anything; your ships have been decimated, your assets are burning and your pilots are cowering. You stand for so little two of your fellow pilots have already turned traitor and are supplying us with intelligence.


You overestimate the strategic importance of the Syndicate region and that of your organization. Should you ever become more then an insignificant nuisance we will let you know.

So because boosters make people into more efficient killing machines, that makes them acceptable? Of course we shouldn't try to focus on ending the war, no, not at all. Let's just pump ourselves full of narcotics and bathe in each other's blood while we trip out instead. Yes, that sounds exactly like the kind of world I and many others want to live in.



The collective pool of knowledge your organizations represent could offer New Eden drugs that do actual useful things. But Serpentis drugs don't cure disease, manage mental or physical infirmities, or anything else positive. They simply promote death.

Besides, if boosters really were the boon you proclaim them to be, pirate organizations like yours wouldn't be the ones manufacturing them. Sarpati and company wouldn't need to hide behind Angels in lawless space in order to do their dirty work.

The majority of boosters originate outside of empire space, and what can be found inside empire space has to be smuggled in or produced in shady, underground laboratories where I can only imagine the health and safety standards leave much to be desired. The majority of these boosters—the ones you say bestow that so-called "massive tactical advantage"—carry legal penalties in a long list of jurisdictions. These penalties didn't come about by accident.

Boosters currently available on the (black) market are all based on narcotics like Crash, Exile, Mindflood, and others. Even if today's boosters may be "improved" over what was available decades ago, the fact they have these insidious drugs at their heart makes them far from perfect.

Boosters suppress the immune system, which makes the body vulnerable to disease. You could claim this is a non-issue for capsuleers since we have our sterile hydrostatic pods, but anyone can see the trend all across New Eden: more and more, capsuleers are leaving their pods to mingle with their fellows and with baseliners. A suppressed immune system makes even the slightest cold highly dangerous. (By the way, that's a smashing outfit you have on, Mr Foiritain. Red is definitely your color.)

There are billions of common people who are at very high risk from using boosters. Don't for a second expect me to believe you take any care whatsoever in making sure the drugs you peddle are kept out of their hands. The more you sell, all the better for you.

Regardless of who uses them, narcotics, which as I pointed out form the base of booster production, are highly addictive in both a physical and emotional way. Boosters, like any drug, are poisonous to the body and interfere with areas such as neurotransmission. With repeated use, substances which alter natural brain functions result in destroyed nerve fibers, which in turn means the user has to use even more of (or more potent variations of) the drug to achieve the same level of functionality experienced before. Being off the drug reveals the damage done, as nerve fibers don't grow back. The stronger the drug (booster) required, the higher the chance of suffering even more serious side effects becomes.

Stand against this? Yes, we will.



Decimated? At the time you made that comment (October 10), you had destroyed a grand total of two ships and their associated capsules. One of those ships was an Atron armed only with a mining laser. Congratulations on such a fine kill!

Public records show that you've added a scant six additional kills to your "decimation" since then. So? While we mourn the loss of the crews, this is hardly any kind of dent in our forces.

Assets are burning? Granted, on October 10 Coreli pilots attacked the Intaki V Customs Office. But a quick check today shows that same office is in perfect working condition. Not a puff of smoke in sight.

Any claim you wish to make about receiving "intelligence" from supposed "traitors" is an exaggeration at best.

And? Although some of our pilots are otherwise engaged with planetside responsibilities at this time of year, IPI has carried on more or less business as usual, war declaration or not. This is hardly "cowering". The other night I went out and cleared several wings of Serpentis ships from the Intaki belts and none of your pilots were anywhere to be seen. Others from IPI have done exactly the same without bother from you. Last night I patrolled the Intaki sov for three hours and again saw none of you. So what is your point, exactly?

As has already been stated by representatives of the IPI alliance, such actions are to be expected by Serpentis pirates and so far the actions of Coreli Corporation pilots reflect well their violent intentions.

This of course contradicts the falsehoods they would wish us to believe such as:

or


Of course if Serpentis and their Coreli affiliates really were interested in the "innocent" pursuits of trade and commerce, I'd expect them to make good use of established and growing markets such as Intaki 5-5. The system benefits from established infrastructure but instead their pilots make repeated attempts to undo the efforts of others, through repeated (failed) attempts on ILF customs offices, we must assume with the intention to start over, at cost.

It's not quite the efficient business model I'd expect from a group of their age, intent on "peaceful trading".

Coreli Corporation would be wise to look to their new friends in Anshar Incorporated, who were at least not so short sighted as to become distracted by inflicting violence upon the existing infrastructure of Intaki system during previous attempts to seed the market with narcotics and associated caffeine products.

Instead, following a week of conflict the official Coreli Corporation assessment of the war is:


It is true that IPI ships have been lost, but they are each replaced without too much effort in the shipyards of the IPI and our allies and partners.

The loyal crews of those vessels however, are mourned both by the IPI and their families. All of us are proud that there is no shortage of skilled and brave individuals who believe, as we do, in a better Intaki, volunteering for service with the stoicism the people of Intaki are known for.

We are comforted with the belief that these losses, at the hands of Serpentis and others, are only temporary. Those who die take with them, the understanding and real truth of the Serpentis threat into their next incarnation, as they are Reborn and returned to us all.

How is your custom office busting going? I have it from fairly reliable source that your first effort on Intaki prime was stopped by two measly pilots from Caldari militia, whom you labeled as outlaws or somesuch for daring to interfere.

I have no love for drug peddlers and crooks, regardless of where they are causing their trouble. Best of luck to the IPI in squashing these bugs.

This war has been brewing for years and is spiraling out of control as we speak. Its far too late to try and prevent it so the question boils down to which side you want to be on; the winning or the losing side?


The applications for neural boosters are quite extensive but unfortunately research requires money. If the product you're researching, like combat boosters, is a profitable one then this is not a problem. Unfortunately those diseases that are hard to cure generally aren't profitable and with a ban on neural booster research you're not going to find many companies looking to sponsor its research.


Throughout history the advancement of science has always been hampered by the narrow minded, the poorly educated and the perpetually frightened. The universe once thought being able to swim meant you were an evil sorcerer and made it punishable by death.


Ignoring for a moment that combat boosters serve no purpose in being consumed by regular people you'll also find the price tag, which ranges from hundreds of thousands of credits to double digit millions, is well out of reach from the general population.


You'll find current generation boosters have none of those effects. The only downside boosters currently have is that without a few days worth of mental exercises the user will occasionally suffer some side effects which go away as soon as the booster wears off.

Plenty of that going around on both sides.

From our experience with coreli and the war reports im reading i have to say CRII doing very well as usual, they are a corp thats been temperd in curse and has a experienced crew to field so you might wanna take Mr Foiritain up on his offer.

seems they allready won the morale war considering they had to move on to destroying customs offices due to lack of engagement in space, Best of luck to CRII from us still in curse and the bets are still open here in the bar at Archangels assembly plant in PO4F-3 tho the odds are so bad that i dont belive anyone will bet against CRII........well any sane person that is

It's funny all the snakes suddenly crowing about victory, because I've heard from reliable sources that whenever IPI actually undock, there's narry a Coreli who'll actually stand up and shoot them without a warp-stabbed heavy battlecruiser.

Perhaps there is something that could be done about that....