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"Blow it the frack up."

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Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-01-27 01:45:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Alizabeth Vea
I'm going to forgo my usual businesslike method of writing and begin with a story.

I served in the CalNav Marines. I commanded a company in the liberation of Caldari Prime and served until I became a capsuleer a few years later. I had a company Gunnery Sergeant that had been in the Marines for nearly forty years. This was his fourth time as a Gunnery Sergeant. He liked to drink, smoke, fight, screw, cuss and he loved war. One time I had to yell at him just to shoot the bad guys, since he was set on stabbing them with his combat knife. His name was Gunny Surubo.

Gunny Surubo had a favorite phrase anytime something went not to his liking. "Well, I'll just blow it the frack up." One day his ground car would not start. "I'll just blow it the frack up. That'll fix it." He said this with no irony whatsoever. One day I had to call an emergency formation on a day off. I heard him from my office grumbling. "Capt wants to call a formation? I'll blow her the frack up." I loved Gunny Surubo.

There is a blight on the cluster. It's called Sansha's Nation. In the words of Gunny Surubo, we need to blow it the frack up. Now, as some of my peers have pointed out, there may be more to it than that. So, I am starting the Anti-Nation Intelligence Initiative. (ANII, pronounced annie.)

Because I actually know a little about counter-intel, this channel is not going to be open to just anyone. If we coordinate ops, those might be open to those outside of the Initiative, depending. I have a few ideas on how to progress and will share them with qualified persons. The sooner we blow Nation the frack up, the better we will all be.

Note: GIA will be supporting the Initiative. Approval came from on high at 1607.25 Lima 01.26.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#2 - 2013-01-27 01:57:52 UTC
You're still talking about this?
Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-01-27 02:01:35 UTC
Saede Riordan wrote:
You're still talking about this?


This is less of an all out invasion and more of an intelligence operation. And yes. I really do hate Nation. I want Kuvakei dead. I want his true slaves dead. I want his planets burned to ash.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Damien dela Ranouscotte
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-01-27 05:22:29 UTC
Since when did being the Mittani's personal slave/sex toy command so much authority and power?

If this role really entails such things, sign me up!
Streya Jormagdnir
Alexylva Paradox
#5 - 2013-01-27 08:44:32 UTC
I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Hatred of that magnitude only lends more credence to the Sansha ideology of a unified, peaceful cluster. Regardless of the moral debate surrounding their methodology, you can't deny their ideology is just that.

I am also a human, straggling between the present world... and our future. I am a regulator, a coordinator, one who is meant to guide the way.

Destination Unreachable: the worst Wspace blog ever

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-01-27 10:15:28 UTC
Surely the CFC has more pressing concerns at the present time?

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-01-27 10:42:04 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Surely the CFC has more pressing concerns at the present time?


Like what?

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#8 - 2013-01-27 15:26:38 UTC
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Surely the CFC has more pressing concerns at the present time?


Like what?


Losing a few titans for no reason in Black Rise.
Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-01-27 15:55:03 UTC
That was . . . unfortunate. I had the opportunity to talk to Rydis after that fight. She assures me there are steps being taken to make sure that never happens again. As far as the CFC is concerned, our strategic power remains more or less the same. Capital ships lost should be replaced within the week.

We're big. Just because we lose a few titans, and supercarriers, doesn't mean we drop everything we're doing and run around waving our arms.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#10 - 2013-01-27 16:03:17 UTC
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
That was . . . unfortunate. I had the opportunity to talk to Rydis after that fight. She assures me there are steps being taken to make sure that never happens again. As far as the CFC is concerned, our strategic power remains more or less the same. Capital ships lost should be replaced within the week.

We're big. Just because we lose a few titans, and supercarriers, doesn't mean we drop everything we're doing and run around waving our arms.


The actions of that event do cast a shadow over the CFC's ability to appropriately select engagements and assign forces. They make it difficult to trust your Confederation will take appropriately-scaled actions in the future.

Pirates, vultures and warlords. I see no reason to trust you butchers.
Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-01-27 16:22:38 UTC
Scherezad wrote:
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
That was . . . unfortunate. I had the opportunity to talk to Rydis after that fight. She assures me there are steps being taken to make sure that never happens again. As far as the CFC is concerned, our strategic power remains more or less the same. Capital ships lost should be replaced within the week.

We're big. Just because we lose a few titans, and supercarriers, doesn't mean we drop everything we're doing and run around waving our arms.


The actions of that event do cast a shadow over the CFC's ability to appropriately select engagements and assign forces. They make it difficult to trust your Confederation will take appropriately-scaled actions in the future.

Pirates, vultures and warlords. I see no reason to trust you butchers.


Uh-huh. You realized that PL contacted everyone else? Nuli Secunda, NC., TEST, HBC, Black Legion. By the end of the fight there were 274 alliances fighting. And most of them were shooting at us. In hindsight it was a mistake, at the time, it looked like we might have been able to deal a significant blow to the PL supercapital fleet.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Scherezad
Revenent Defence Corperation
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#12 - 2013-01-27 16:37:26 UTC
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
Scherezad wrote:
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
That was . . . unfortunate. I had the opportunity to talk to Rydis after that fight. She assures me there are steps being taken to make sure that never happens again. As far as the CFC is concerned, our strategic power remains more or less the same. Capital ships lost should be replaced within the week.

We're big. Just because we lose a few titans, and supercarriers, doesn't mean we drop everything we're doing and run around waving our arms.


The actions of that event do cast a shadow over the CFC's ability to appropriately select engagements and assign forces. They make it difficult to trust your Confederation will take appropriately-scaled actions in the future.

Pirates, vultures and warlords. I see no reason to trust you butchers.


Uh-huh. You realized that PL contacted everyone else? Nuli Secunda, NC., TEST, HBC, Black Legion. By the end of the fight there were 274 alliances fighting. And most of them were shooting at us. In hindsight it was a mistake, at the time, it looked like we might have been able to deal a significant blow to the PL supercapital fleet.


I fail to see how an admission of miscalculation supports your case, ma'am. While I understand that the art of war is found in making decisions based on incomplete knowledge, one values leadership that makes the right decisions in those circumstances, and not the wrong ones. 'In hindsight' is not a defensible position, ma'am.
Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#13 - 2013-01-27 22:57:07 UTC
Scherezad wrote:
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
Scherezad wrote:
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
That was . . . unfortunate. I had the opportunity to talk to Rydis after that fight. She assures me there are steps being taken to make sure that never happens again. As far as the CFC is concerned, our strategic power remains more or less the same. Capital ships lost should be replaced within the week.

We're big. Just because we lose a few titans, and supercarriers, doesn't mean we drop everything we're doing and run around waving our arms.


The actions of that event do cast a shadow over the CFC's ability to appropriately select engagements and assign forces. They make it difficult to trust your Confederation will take appropriately-scaled actions in the future.

Pirates, vultures and warlords. I see no reason to trust you butchers.


Uh-huh. You realized that PL contacted everyone else? Nuli Secunda, NC., TEST, HBC, Black Legion. By the end of the fight there were 274 alliances fighting. And most of them were shooting at us. In hindsight it was a mistake, at the time, it looked like we might have been able to deal a significant blow to the PL supercapital fleet.


I fail to see how an admission of miscalculation supports your case, ma'am. While I understand that the art of war is found in making decisions based on incomplete knowledge, one values leadership that makes the right decisions in those circumstances, and not the wrong ones. 'In hindsight' is not a defensible position, ma'am.


Based on what the Boatman knew at the time he made the right choice. That's the standard that should be applied to any command decision. I know the Caldari and Amarr, particularly, are fond of executing commanders for circumstances beyond their control. We don't do that in GSF. Mittani already said that the Boatman is not going to be fired. The battle was big, true. And to those that don't leave empire space, it must seem cataclysmic, but it's not Armageddon for us.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#14 - 2013-01-28 01:03:52 UTC
With your recent performance in Asakai I think you may want to reconsider your proposal.

wumbo

Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#15 - 2013-01-28 05:22:37 UTC
Damn it, I actually spend some time working on my fleet, and I miss a golden opportunity to be snarky in this thread.

Look on the bright side, you didn't want those supers anyways, right? Cool
Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#16 - 2013-01-28 05:40:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Alizabeth Vea
Sakura Nihil wrote:
Damn it, I actually spend some time working on my fleet, and I miss a golden opportunity to be snarky in this thread.

Look on the bright side, you didn't want those supers anyways, right? Cool


I shouldn't say this . . . but, I am going to anyways. The insurance was about to run out. They figured as long as that was going to happen, what the hey, right? Drop on PL, see what happens. If you lose 'em, so what? Have you ever committed insurance fraud with a titan? Oh boy, let me tell you.

Not to mention this whole thing was staged from start to finish by the mysterious C C P Engineering alliance that lives in Jove space. They paid the Boatman handsomely to get this whole thing started. Not that they needed to, Mittani and Shadoo had already set it up. See they wanted to get the masses eyes averted from the fact that they are rolling in Tech and bleeding the rest of the cluster dry.

So, the Boatman is now one of the wealthiest man in the cluster. Firstly, he took Pend for all they were worth. I saw the forms filled out before the fight. Apparently he has a million crewmembers on his titan that are each seeing a doctor for the injuries they suffered in combat and a pysch for the emotional trauma. So, there's several trillion right there. Who the hell knows what those Jovian guys paid him. He bragged it was a Jovian mothership, but I'm not so sure. Could be, though. And then there was Shadoo who paid him to jump the titan into the PL fleet. Two trillion. Boat lied to Mittens and told them that Shadoo said Mittens was supposed to pay. So, Boat got paid twice there.

Now, Boat's mothership, which he may or may not have, is immune to CONCORD weaponry. Since the Jovians gave CONCORD their guns, they (the Jove) made sure their own ships were immune to it's effects. Secondly, Jovian jump drives don't need cyno beacons. So, for Burn Jita II, we're bringing along Boat in his mothership. No one will be safe.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Streya Jormagdnir
Alexylva Paradox
#17 - 2013-01-28 07:35:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Streya Jormagdnir
Jove space? Controlling the entirety of this cluster as though it were a game? Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. That way lie madness.

Unless you have proof, of course.

I am also a human, straggling between the present world... and our future. I am a regulator, a coordinator, one who is meant to guide the way.

Destination Unreachable: the worst Wspace blog ever

Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-01-28 07:47:32 UTC
Of course I have proof! I just can't show it to you.


*****


Now that we've all gotten the little skirmish in Asakai out of our systems, can we go back to the topic at hand: working on a way to eliminate Nation? I'm attempting to do something productive. Unlike some people, who seem to think that toying with the markets or fighting over meaningless systems in a few low sec systems matter. Even defending against the current Nation attacks is not winning the fight. It is merely staving off defeat. This is a GIA sponsored operation, the CFC Battlefleet has nothing to do with it. The CFC Battlefleet will not have anything to do with it.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Xuixien
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#19 - 2013-01-28 16:05:20 UTC
My neural paths may not be trained to control Titans at this juncture, however, I'm fairly certain that when you perform a "Titan bridge"... the Titan doesn't go through to scout.

Epic Space Cat, Horsegirl, Philanthropist

Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#20 - 2013-01-28 18:19:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Katrina Oniseki
Alizabeth Vea wrote:
Sakura Nihil wrote:
Damn it, I actually spend some time working on my fleet, and I miss a golden opportunity to be snarky in this thread.

Look on the bright side, you didn't want those supers anyways, right? Cool


I shouldn't say this . . . but, I am going to anyways. The insurance was about to run out.


You can't insure supercapitals.

Katrina Oniseki

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