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I never quite understood why CONCORD doesn't simply just says screw it all, blows everyone up and proclaims galaxy wide peace.

Is there some kind of UN type of deal going on there?

Gather around children, let old Agon tell you a story about the origins of Concord and the group of capsuleers that once stood against them.

Concord was formed around the same time as Capsuleers, The Jovians gave humanity capsuleer technology as a way to curve the massive loss of life from wars, after all why lose millions of lives when 1 person can be sent in time after time.

The Jovians took the technology from the 4 empire races and combined them into 1 line of ships enhanced by jovian technology.

Some years ago a corporation known for their criminal acts against rare ships of the time, some of which are now extinct or near extinct, came to a very high rated security system and proceeded to kill everyone and everything that moved...including Concord.

As wave after wave of Concord Fleets jumped into the system to put the criminals down and were defeated, Concord resorted to a secret weapons and those capsuleers vanished, their hangers of ships and equipment collect dust, their bank accounts stagnate, and their clones empty.

After the fight, with much destruction and death on Concord side and civilian sector, Concord retooled their aging fleet with updates and are now stronger then ever.

Can Concord be beaten? In it's current state it needs some serious co-ordination & firepower. Players attempted to gank a Concord ship late 2013, but the chaots turned it into a shooting gallery for the Concord Police Commander.
Read about it here: 'Capsuleers fail to organize a gank on Concord'




Nice to see someone else recall it was the Zombies who did this. Note the participating Zombies all received a 3 day ban, so it was a temp ban.
In response to this, CCP also revamped Concord, with the most notable addition: the Concord Killbeam (only fitted on Concord Police Commander battleships). have a read about it here: 'EvE History: Zombies defied Concord, leading to their revamp'

Ever since, tanking concord has become a thing of the past (Killing a concord response ship also became a thing of the past, despite several attempts over the years)



The Chimera carrier is a full blown carrier, but one of the few ships that escaped the early Caldari design philosophy 'Function over form'. By Lore, the Chimera resemble the water-freighter converted to carrier commanded by the hero that saved the State during the Gallente attack & bombing at the start of the first Caldari-Gallente war.
You can read more about the heroics here: 'Hero of the State, Admiral Yakiya Tovil-Toba'. In this light, the Chimera resembling this makeshift carrier of old is to inspire their fellow Navy recruits to perform heroic deeds themselves & never give up, no matter the odds.

I see. That makes a little more sense to me now :D

Ultimately, in the very early days of EVE, players found means of killing them and in response they were made more powerful. Most if not all of the NPC ships are actually pilotable and some have been used in game by a combination of CCP Devs, GMs and ISD volunteers (for lore events etc).

With regard to CONCORD I believe the Devs/ GMs did once field a fleet by hand to take on a pirate band, but we're talking around 10 years ago and my memories are vague. :D

CCP Devs did, very long ago, take out a Concord Fleet to clear a gatecamp. While they were successful there was a huge backlash from the player base about Dev's manually killing players with devhax and for the rules being vague. As such Concord was (and has continued to be) buffed, so it no longer ever needs to be done manually.. As such when Dev's DO come out to kill players, they are in ships that we can kill too. Generally on special little roams that are fun for all.

In short, Devs did it once, it blew up in their faces, and they won't do it again. Now if you are doing something against the rules you just get banned :p

If CONCORD is the equivalent of the space "UN", I'm amazed that CONCORD even shows up when a ship is ganked (you'd think they'd be stuck in perpetual meetings debating whether or not to send a response)...