Crime & Punishment

Once upon a time, some Dragonz thought it would be a cool idea to play eve so off they went to play. They spent their first years as a simple corp out mining and mission running. They wanted more and used their webs of contact to land them in Providence space. After a few months, they found that it just wasn't for them. NRDS doesn't work in a game where neutrals are a common enemy. So they packed back up and returned to where they came from, Molden Heath.

Upon arriving, they decided they didn't like living in high security space full time and wanted more. They moved to what is known as a High Security space island, where you must go through low sec to reach. All was fine and good for the first while. The Dragonz were making friends and all was well. Then one day, the dragonz got a fun idea, "lets scare the **** out of people in faction warfare complexes for giggles'. They were then kindly informed by the local Coalition of Anti-pirates known as Electus Matari that they were in violation of their Anti-pirate protocol for entering their complex without being a part of faction warfare. Without any proof on the matter, they set the dragon men red. All was still okay, these guys had very little pull on the places that the dragonz lived so they thought nothing of it. They lived as a Non Hostile Dont Shoot (NHDS) alliance for a few months. One day, the dragonz decided that is was boring being NHDS and decided to switch to NBSI. All was still good, there didn't seem to be much going on anyway and it was nice being able to get some kills for the dragon men.

Then one day, some mining barges were being a pain to the dragon men and the dragon men decided to have fun with them and bumped them with a mach. The barges then brought out their own mach to bump back. This was only the beginning. It was found out that the locals had set the dragonz red for bumping the mining barges, which both sides took part in, and for killing people that were deemed neutral. In an attempt to fix the issues, the dragon men initiated diplomatic relations with the leaders of the local coalition, HELM Alliance. After a long talk with the head diplomat, the dragon men decided to at least switch back to their NHDS Rules of Engagment while patiently waiting to see a change in local attitude. Many words and promises were made to the dragon men in return for keeping their NHDS ROE. Then the lies started to happen...

A few days later the dragonz were contacted by HELM diplomats with an extreme attitude over the bumping incident with the barges. The dragonz tried to be reasonable as the event had happened nearly a month before then and tried to give them their word that it wouldn't happen again. The diplos were having none of it and forced the handing over of logs. They were then told to wait for 2-5 days for the coalition to discuss and that they would get back to them. 3 weeks passed, and the dragonz hear nothing except for a message that there was going to be an attempt to get the COA/EM to remove the dragonz red status. The Dragonz did everything in their power to try and further relationships with the island folk, unaware of what was about to happen.

One simple day in mid February the dragonz were on routine patrol when they were attacked by some players that lived on the island. They respectively set them red and killed them when they saw them. All was fine until one day out of the blue, the dragons find one of their research POSs under attack... by HELM? Surely this must be some mistake. They attempted to open diplomatic talks with HELM to find out what happened but was completely ignored. After talking to the locals, the dragon men were kindly informed that HELM declared them pirates, liars, and spreading of propaganda. The dragonz were not happy about never receiving any notice or anything. They later found out that they were declared pirates for attacking the very people that had previously attacked and were already set red, but since HELM did not know about this they saw it as a neutral kill.

At this point, the dragon men decided they had enough. They wanted to see HELM pay, even if it meant playing the bad guy now. After the killing of 1 Fleet Issue tempest, 1 850m pod that was suspect flag afk on a gate, and 2 of the HELM Hound's, the dragonz switched back to their NBSI play style and began setting up gate camps all over the paths off the island. But the fun doesn't stop there. It had been nearly 2 months since the Dragonz contacted HELM and HELM made promises. Promises that never happened. The Dragonz were lied to. It was found that the bumping incident was of no actual interest to the parties involved and it was HELM that blew it out of proportion. It was also found that they had lied to the entire APB/COA about the Dragonz and managed to paint the dragonz as liars, deceptive, and killers of neutrals.

After more talks with the locals, it was found that HELM lied to many of the locals. It was also found that some of the locals were threatened into setting the dragonz red or face being set red themselves, that the dragonz were in bad faith, and that the dragonz were guilty by association simply because they have Real Life friends that are in big alliances such as EXE, TEST, GOONS, LAWN, and Darkspawn.

Just a few days ago, the Dragonz succeeded in attacking HELM assets just to prove a point. Afterwords, the dragonz found an uncloaked Rapier sitting afk on the asset that was attacked. After successfully taking it out, the dragonz mascot, who constantly explodes, was killed in an Atron and empty pod in battle. HELM members then began to act extremely proud of the kill, going as far as to find the dragon men and link the Atron and empty pod like it was a glorious kill.

The dragonz, left with no alternative, continue to fight against very large odds. What should they do? Should they move? Should they keep fighting? Should they seek help? The dragonz really wish to win back the locals..

I wasn't quite sure. since this also includes kill brags and stuff like that. I wanted to include images of the kills in the post but character limits >.<

Oh, the MH island dwellers are still terribadbears. More news at 11 !

Lost me after ....once.....and seeing a wall of text.

that **** semple killed more of our assets in my talwar last night than helm has so far :(

it's good writing, but the subject material is borrring =(

This is a reply I got from HELM shortly after today :P

"And yeah you didn't notify us as you should have per your own "-SD- standards." And just cos you "don't check your killboards because of RL and being a student with Mid-terms" is just a lame excuse for being confronted by the fact that you're not a responsible and competent alliance leader. If you were you would do a quick daily check and handle any issues, or have someone delegated to do so, it takes a minute or two at most. Finally, on this excuse, if you log into the game, then RL is left at the log-in. "

There shall be no peace. Only destruction as has been deemed fair for poking us :)

I am surprised you pent so much time trying to play nice. Burn the island, kill them, kill them all.

Not taking sides....but I want this in story book fashion with illistrations heh.