Intergalactic Summit

I must admit that I am a bit depressed. I took a while away for some rest and frolicking in the water, only to come back and find that the Coreli still have not told me why -FA- killing millions of their people every day is not a big deal. The closest their Serpentis boss has come to answering that question is that millions of people die every day. Generally, one wishes to make sure it is not their employees. Or, are your employees (and tens of thousands of battleships) expendable to you, Vylier? (Addendum: how much would it cost to do exile off your rack? I would very much be interested in that.)

In case you were wondering, guys, the reason they bombed Rilnais was to "send a message." Apparently, that message was meant to be "give us what we want or we'll bomb your city," but it actually worked out much closer to "you might as well burn what you have so no-one can possess it, because if we get what we want we'll bomb your city anyway."

Why? Fancy making a profit yourself?

Allow me to explain this rather simple. We took what we came for, leaving Ralnais without Isirus poppy. Without the poppy the city was of little value to us. Rilnais, being rather small for a city, really didn't remain important to our overall business. The example with set with the city however, is another story. Already now, local governments have proven quite cooperative compared to before the Evaulon incident. Thus making the bombing of Rilnais very profitable.



What is this ratting? Pest control among Amarr slaves?



I do not know about Serpentis loses outside of operations Coreli participate in. I am also sure you are able to bring actually proof of you claim, right?

Sure buddy, why don't I just give you our list of clients and contacts, as well as whom we are currently bribing?

Would certainly help.

But I think we all know you're bluffing.



You know how to operate the map, right, Hulemand? It's the little constellation button on your Neocom. Now, the little window that pops up is called the "World Map Control Panel." If you'll kindly press the "Star Map" tab, hit the "Stars" buton, open the "Statistics" folder and hit "Pirate and Polcie Ships Destroyed In the Last 24 Hours." Let's examine, on a whim, the VNX-P0 constellation, since I used to live there. In the past 24 hours:

C4C-Z4 - 1,824 kills
GME-PQ - 915 kills
X5-UME - 1,753 kills
8QMO-E - 1,154 kills
I-UUI5 - 4,264 kills

So for one constellation of Fade, in 24 hours - 9,910 kills. Fade has four constellations - roughly extrapolating, that's 39,640 kills across the Fade region in the last 24 hours. Over two days, that's 79,280 Serpentis ships downed - meaning that Ms. Vea was likely severely underestimating the number of ships her alliance kills in a two-day period. Half of them are battleships. Megathrons cost roughly 160 million ISK to make at current mineral prices.

That's 6,342,400,000,000 ISK, not including modules. Across one region. Over a two day period. That would make the Serpentis corporation's yearly battleship expenses for the Fade region alone 1,157,488,000,000,000 (one quadrillion, one hundred and fifty-seven trillion, four hundred and eighty-eight billion) ISK, not including logistics, modules, crew or support ships.

Hope that Isirus poppy's worth as much as you claim it is!

Ha, numbers! Everyone can make up numbers like that. Where did you get these, from some CONCORD controlled bureau? Numbers like these will always be favorable and one sided.

You can check these numbers for yourself. Hell, go to Fade if you don't believe me - when I lived out there, it was much quieter than it currently is under FA jurisdiction, and I'd still manage to get through hundreds of Serpentis ships by myself on any given day. I shared a system with about three to four other pilots hunting Serpentis, and our alliance rented the entire six-system VNX-P0 constellation, which meant on average we had about twenty-four pilots in the constellation hunting Serpentis for most of the day. There would be breaks for alliance operations such as patrols, fleet ops, starbase busts - but we fueled those operations with relentless destruction of Serpentis who kept running straight into our guns.

And incidentally, it would be in CONCORD's best interest to undervalue those statistics, not overvalue them - remember that every time we kill a Serpentis battleship, they have to pay us money. I'm sure CONCORD appreciates not having to deal with Serpentis scum itself, but it has to pay out a lot in bounties. Best to keep those checquebooks tight, especially when the average bounty for a battleship patrolling a belt is around a million ISK, and with 7,234,300 Serpentis battleships a year dying in Fade alone.

I'm sorry, Hulemand, but throwing a tantrum just because the facts don't support your worldview won't change them. I'm giving you accurate statistics for just one region. Serpentis operates full-scale in five - Fade, Cloud Ring, Outer Ring, Syndicate and Fountain. Yearly costs for your battleships alone average out to something around 5,787,440,000,000,000 ISK, not including modules, and this isn't counting the ludicrous number of Serpentis battleships that die every single day in ill-fated operations in hi-sec. Hell, even if the numbers for nullsec are inflated, cut that number in half - 2,893,720,000,000,000 ISK is still a ludicrous amount of money to pour down the drain yearly. Heck, cut it in half again, and you've still got 1,446,860,000,000,000 ISK, which quite possibly exceeds the total amount of ISK collectively possessed by all independently-registered capsuleers.

If this Isirus stuff is covering even 1% of your corporation's yearly outgoings, it must taste like ecstasy wrapped in chocolate and dipped in God, and feel like getting a blowjob from a three-tongued angel.

This just in, CONCORD pays us for phantom pirates we did not actually destroy. Good call, Hulemand.

Slang term. Means killing pi-RAT-es (like you) for profit.