EVE General Discussion

Stupid double post.

"Pirate faction" is meant as something like "ain´t part of five main empires".

made so much better by the fact they use the Empires Holy Fire, its like someone at CCP buys overpriced miniatures from a greedy british company or something

It is worth noting that amongst the more common and recognizable symbols on the Stratios there is one unidentified one that bears a striking resemblance to Polaris Corp the enigmatic Jove/Developer run corp.

http://i.imgur.com/cw0dO0V.png

The recognisable corps are:
Chemal Tech - Gallente Federation
Propel Dynamics - Caldari State
Zero-G Research Firm - Caldari State
Eifyr and Co. - Minmatar Republic
Carthum Conglomerate. - Amarr

In terms of the OP, anything that sources more than one faction is "pirate".

Yer too FAST for meh.

My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Maybe you should read the lore/chronicles, there are some pretty strong indications of soe having ulterior motives

I saw a movie like that once, lets just say I didn't watch it for the plot

Oh the Nestor, where to begin? It is no doubt a beautiful ship, and no doubt more than person thought that "something" was keeping the Nestor from reaching the same potential of her sisters.

The Nestor is rife with modifications and design artifacts done to the hull to accomodate the different design directions SOE took during the Nestor's development, but the number one key purpose of the creation of the Nestor was to create New Eden's first Covert Ops Exploration Battleship. The same technology used to make the Astero and the Stratios possible was employed on the Nestor, including changes to the warp core placement, propulsion systems and performance tweaks in order to reduce the interference with a Covert Ops Cloaking Device with the Nestor's warp cores. The result was an incredebly light, agile and spacious Battleship class vessel capable of traversing wormholes with minimal stability loss done to them.

But the Nestor still couldn't fit a Covert Ops Cloaking Device even after all the modification done to it. A warp core capable of moving a Battleship lets out too much intereference to the cloaking device. So SOE scrapped the idea and invested in transforming the Nestor into a support logistics ship, and instead of starting from scratch, they picked up from where they were and used the heavily modified prototype hull as basis. This allowed it to retain a lot of the work done to the Nestor, including the subsystems borrowed from the Astero and Stratios.

Perhaps what makes the Nestor special is her role as a Master of None ship. Logistics, support, offensive, defensive, exploration. The Nestor is capable of filling a myriad of roles, and it is most famously known as a capable fleet flagship. But it is also sturdy, capable of meshing drones and large laser turrets, and employ them from a distance. Recently the unused shuttle bay (an artifact from the initial attemps to make the Nestor an exploration ship, still visible in the lower deck of the ship) was finaly give a purpose in the form of a maintenance bay, further cementing it's role as a support ship. Still, there are a lot of voices saying the Nestor is still missing something to reach her full potential, and a lot of guess work went to finding that out with no avail.

Trust me, if I had the ISK, the skills, and even a silver of tolerance towards armor tanking, I'd get a Nestor and go on Highsec adventures with it. And the ship is beautiful, even if it underperforms when compared to other Battleships with a smaller price tag.

And this is why the Servant Sisters of EVE are my favourite Pirate Faction.

FTFY.