Intergalactic Summit

Why does an organization make a thread about a new campaign? The production of a capital ship? The adoption of new logo? The beginning of a new initiative? The change of focus? Why does the summit find use for any of these things? It is about publicising a cause pure and simple. For many the cause is profit, for others the cause is simply organizational pride or ego? For us the cause is Radical FreeSpace and our belief that pilots of New Eden should assert their rights and power to travel and conduct business where they please and not bow down to the threats of road-blockers, slumlords and territorial imperialists.

When an NBSI pirate chooses to fire on a neutral starship in open space on the premise the interloper is "invading" their sovereignity that is not a "private" act. It is an act of violence that involves hundreds if not thousands of crewmen and women and may by direct consequence embroil hundreds of thousands more in conflict in the days and weeks to come.

The ending of such disputes (for the Star Fraction) is also not a private act. We see the ideological value in aggressors making apology for the NBSI tendencies and road-blocker practises that led them to hard places and consider such words full and appropriate examples of propaganda of the deed.

Your opinion is noted Caellach Marellus.
But you will grant me leave to disagree.

Out of interest: what is she wrong about this time?

as a matter of interest, how the hell can a 40 man micro alliance control an area covering 7 systems, much less prevent corps from anchoring towers if they wish?

(post is referrencing a communication from the Malum Exuro executor MzR who did a lot of rambling complaints about how unfair it was that Radical Freespacers were shooting up his Pirate gate campers and making them pay for their aggression in space). For some reason the bulk of the message has been assessed unpalatable for readers, but the essence was fairly simple "its not fair WHY YOU SHOOT US!!!!!"


Well pilot Mzr, there are clearly many issues we will continue to disagree on but I will start by clarifying the situation once again.

Star Fraction became involved in “the loops” because our pilots were attacked. Our ideology holds that the best response to incoming aggression from a regressive entity is to reply in strength and pay back the violence to the measure appropriate.

In this case we discovered a tale of economic woes with Trinova alliance telling us they were paying to rent the Loops to Malum and as part of the rent agreement they were obliged to shoot at neutral pilots in this area of lowsec to keep the area “clean” of strangers. Your alliance (Malum) were therefore painted as “slumlords” who not only charged for “access” to FreeSpace but attempted to oblige your clients to adopt NBSI methodologies to literally do your dirty work for you.

Now perhaps you are telling us that Trinova lied to us? That you never charged them rent? That you never asked them to become NBSI gate-campers? That would at least be a meaningful statement from your lips. We remain curious as to whether this is your assertion.

Or was the fifty lines of angry nothing you posted above simply an attempted smokescreen to disguise the unpalatable truth that we were right about you from the beginning?

Now to the general complaints and wheedling about engagement methods, we’ve quite literally heard it all before. You are an alliance of gate-camping NBSI road-blockers who is entirely happy to drop a half dozen ships on an unwary industrial ship in lowsec and call it “good fun and games” but when you are brought a significant organized threat that takes some skill and courage to confront now you are being “bullied and blobbed”.

Well frankly pilot Mzr that is pathetic.

Whatever happened to live by the sword die by the sword?

Everything you complain about is a tactic of war and let me tell right here and now, if you are annoyed about the things you’ve seen so far you literally haven’t seen anything yet.

And when I name you an alliance of dock monkey cowards I do so with the assurance of personal experience mind and a single anecdote serves to demonstrate for the audience what we speak of here:

A couple of days ago you might recall I was outside your station trying to provoke a fight from a Rapier with my Daredevil class frigate. You decided to undock an (anti frigate thorax) to even the odds in your favour.

“Fine” (I thought) and immediately attacked. Rapier thought the better of helping and left. Thorax and my Daredevil fought for a minute or so and while his anti frigate guns had impressive tracking he was unable to make the kill due to my onboard armour reps. Fight was clearly going in my favour. So your alliance undocked a Remote Rep Dominix and (I kid you not) a Triage Archon class Carrier to keep your Alliance Thorax alliance from a single seat Daredevil! I shrugged and made range and left your thorax to have its armour repaired.

Now I don’t tell this anecdote to complain or tear my hair out or curse fate at the ways of war pilot MZR. This is war, these are the kinds of things that happen in war and the audience must decide for itself the value of anyone’s words who complains this kind of thing. You alleged the Star Fraction have mercilessly “blobbed” you, have hot-dropped and falcon-freaked and bomber-spooked, and consistently attacked your station range carrier+battleship group with lighter ships. Fine. We have. And we’ll keep doing it till you die, run-off or you change your approach to neutrality in the loops. You have gained our attention and we think it is in the interest of FreeSpace you be taught a bloody lesson.

So I'll close by highlighting again what an absolute pleasure it remains to be called a "bully" by NBSI road-blocking pirates in Lowsec Placid. I am proud to be "bullying" the kind of people who are happy to themselves bully lone industials and tiny start-ups in the loops. It is high time you had a taste of your own medicine and if you are already growing frustrated over the 2 month duration of this war then let me promise you more to come and I assure you, with every angry word and gum-mashing contradiction you bring against us in public the reality will be sweeter in space.

As for TRINOVA - pilot Oneida made the choice for his organization and his comrades now pay the price while he cowers in the dock range of a station. It is not Pilot Oneida's industrial ships and mining barges that burn every night. It is not Pilot Oneida's blueprint collections and ratting loot that are spilled across the placid stars. It is not Pilot Oneida's courage on display when groups of TRINOVA battlecruisers attempt to attack our single pilots.

No. Pilot Oneida having provoked the resumption of hostilities spends his nights hiding like the dog he is.

So I'll leave you to plan your war strategy pilot MzR.

Perhaps you will reflect on the reversal and irony of the situation that you who once delcared himself the slumlord of lowsec and terrorized any who would not follow your rules and engagement ideologies and killed for sport "because you could" are now reduced to complaining about being "outblobbed" by a dozen drakes and begging for help and sympathy on the Intergalactic summit for all to see.

Frankly its a gift you provide me here wrapped up in soft fabrics and tied with a bow.

A pirate complaining that war in space is not fair.

And for that,

I thank you.

As always, Jade, your war threads are a fascinating read.

double post please remove

Hello again, Miss Constantine—and my fellow New Eden. It's been a small while, ne? I hope you've been well.

I just happened to be skimming this thread again (out of sheer coincidence and certainly not to gloat about your failure to answer certain points of recent history), and I happened upon this gem. Being the helpful member of the community that I am, I thought I would take the time to sit down with you and discuss this matter because it is near and dear to my heart-strings. You seem to be under the impression that whatever entity it is whose pilot recently lost an Orca—honestly, I could not be bothered to check—has reason to look upon that unhappy event with the same perspective held by the unfortunate pilot. Nothing could be furthest from the truth. In this Dionysian space-librarian in which we find ourselves, "hands off!" is the name of the game. You endorse it yourself with your claims of adoration: "Free Space," alongside cries of "Hey, listen to me!" and, "Gosh, how dare these 'people' with smaller post counts oppose my opinions?" But I digress.

In many if not the vast majority of corporations concerned with something besides being the personal entourage of a self-absorbed B-list spaceship celebrity, the loss of a ship for "stupid reasons" is a subject not of horror or tragedy but of shame or comedy. "Hey guys, did you hear about that one guy who lost an Orca to three frigates? Did you hear that those three frigates were from ~Star Fraction~ of all people? Guffaw! Let us chortle while polishing our monocles, then defenestration that wireless git. Serves him right!" The only loser in that entire debutante is the poor soap whose Oracle was lost. I hope you feel proud of yourself, Mister-and-Missus- Space Crusader!

On a completely unrelated note, have you checked to see if your kill qualifies for the Goonswarm Shrugged payout list?

Warm Regardless

Most people think it's funny when ships explode due to your actions.

Then why did you post about it?

Yes, we are! I am jealous that Miss Constantine beat us to that one.