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Hello,

I am Hunter Blake, CEO and Founder of The Southern Legion, a Hybrid Corporation formed to deepen and delve into the interaction between EVE and DUST 514, bringing New Eden into a new era of integration.

I have played EVE for over 5 years, both in High Security Industry / Mission Running and Nullsec Sovereignty Warfare. Recently delving into Faction Warfare alongside the DUST 514 portion of my corporation, I am better known to DUST 514 Players as The Black Jackal.

I'm running for CSM8 with an eye toward Integration. I want DUST and EVE to have more interaction, walking in stations, station chat and Lunar Bases that could serve as ports for EVE Capsuleers as well as docking for warbarges.

I also want to represent Faction Warfare, and continue the improvements made in recent patches so this great war never goes stale, and attracts even more new players to it in such a way that it can become just as much a way of life as Nullsec Sovereignty Wars.



My Platform

DUST 514 / EVE Integration
- I want to see DUST and EVE Avatars walking side by side in Stations. A deeper connection between DUST and EVE Players by allowing us to directly interact, even if it's just at first in a social environment. And beyond that, I want to see the support DUST can give EVE Players expand, the rewards attained by both increased for supporting actions (ie. Loyalty Points for Providing Orbital Bombardments for your Faction), and increased bounty gains, or LP gains based on DUST control, as well as EVE Tier.

Furthering Faction Warfare Interaction and keeping people flowing into it.
- better rewards, greater gains, and Faction Warfare EXCLUSIVE ships, modules, and gear that require the Militia Flag to be used.

Pushing for DUST to hit EVE players in more ways than one.
- The ability to hire mercs to accellerate greatly your conquest ideas. The ability to break reinforcement timers with a DUST assault on a reinforced station, or the ability to 'capture' said station. With th alternative being to destroy and rebuild said station.

More Content! More ships, more DUST Vehicles. I want to keep us rolling in new, and fresh content in upcoming patches.
More Capital Ships based along roles. Ships capable of giving strategic, as well as Tactical Advantage (possible ideas include 'Jump Ships' Able to temporarily create a Titan-like bridge between 2 of them that goes both ways.)

Loyalty Points for DUST 514!
- Yes, I'm going there. Corp Battles should reward Loyalty points, much like EVE FactioN warfare sites. Forget Skill Points and ISK for the faction Warfare Battles, those matches couple with PvE will give us those aplenty. I want to particpate to get Factional Standing AND some epic 'Army' type Modules, Weapons, Armors, Vehicles, and More.

Secondary Platform

More variety in PvE in DUST 514 and EVE Online
- DUST-side Missions similar to Campaign-modes (miniaturized) in other games. With diverging outcomes based on actions. More EVE-side mission varieties, with new types such as 'escort'.

Helping make Nullsec more fluid.
- Inciting warfare in Nullsec always sets my heart aflame with the fact that it's supposed to be danagerous space, yet large coalitions are making it actually safer than lowsec... but with greater rewards? What happens to risk vs. reward there. Here is want to instill a DELAYED LOCAL. Giving pilots the ability to actually catch enemies unaware, move forces through hostile space undetected (if no-one sees them) and eliminate botters and macro miners (don' scoff, they're there we all know it.)
- In addition, I want to give gifts. Giving a select few stations the ability to dock up Super Capitals. But every gift, has a price. Not matter how well hidden. The stations are scattered, far and wide, rare, and in addition stations should become destructable. Eliminating any assets that station holds... and requiring said stations to be rebuilt at the cost of the rebuilder. (Minerals etc.)

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In addition to the platform stated above, I intend to gain Voting rights for DUST 514 players through an AURUM Purchase. One per Account, equalling (roughly) a month's subscription to EVE-Online. This 'Citizen's Package' would also include a Month XP Booster, as well as the right to Vote and Run for CSM Election.
Feel free to contact me at the_black_jackal76@hotmail.com or on Skype BlackJackal76. And we can discuss any questions you want to ask about policy and my platform.

Thank you for your time.

Hunter Blake
aka. The Black Jackal

Do you even know if DUST accounts will get votes for the CSM yet?

If not, wouldn't it be better to wait until you did know before you get out there with your DUST-focused agenda?

we echo two steps concerns regarding your platform. it should also be noted that such integration may sound great to dust mercenaries but are you convinced eve players will be open to such ideas? this is their universe being impacted more than the other way around, after all.

with regards to your secondary platform, "make nullsec more fluid". what do you mean by this? vague, unclear platforms have been the norm so far, and we feel this is more vague and unclear than most.

I'm going to take this opportunity to ask you the same thing I asked ZionShad. It's going to be the same thing I ask all dust focused candidates.


The tie in between EVE and DUST is such that DUST impacts EVE, and very little the other way around. In the eyes of many EVE players (full disclosure: that includes myself) that makes someone's credentials or lack thereof in DUST irrelevant, because as far as DUST is concerned, the tie in is largely a "reason to fight". The metagame aspects may be of interest to you ground-pounders, but outside that, at the end of the day the only difference between (for example) a battle over a planet in FW space and a far off future where maybe mercs help take stations is the scenery.

As a result, many people have been arguing about whether DUST should have representation at all. But that's the wrong argument, frankly. The right argument to be having is whether about any notional DUST representative's qualifications, because 99% of the time they'll be concerned with eve, and a good majority of the time related to DUST will be on how EVE is impacted by DUST. And that's an argument that you play a very big role in, and should care about very much, because it's the EVE players who will or will not elect you. And we EVE players? Most of us don't give a damn about DUST.

So. Convince me - or rather, as I'll be casting every last vote I have for myself, convince everyone else - that you actually play EVE, that you know a thing or two. Voters in EVE don't necessarily ask that you be an expert in every field of the game or even in most of them. What they do ask is that you're passionate and interested in the game, so that's what you need to convince them of. And you've got a challenge ahead of you there, because neither your short posting history nor what killboard history I can find suggest that you're a terribly involved player... although to your credit, I didn't find a dual-tanked Algos on your killboard.

In short, your EVE credentials are what matter here. Time to put up or shut up.

Indeed, but if he's expecting support from the EVE community, he needs to explain why he's worthy of it.

Of course if he thinks he can get enough support purely based on cross-overs (and if those newly created accounts would be old enough to be eligible...), more power to him.

Yeah, they're free to, but I hardly think that the several thousand votes he'll need are going to come from DUST players buying EVE accounts especially for his CSM campaign. He's gotta realise that this is an EVE community election, and if he wants votes from the EVE community he's going to need more in the way of an EVE platform.

To answer your first section. That is one reason I want to run for CSM8... I want to give EVE more impact on DUST 514, and vice versa. The current state is, minimal, and that is more to save face and not overly impact the EVE Community on whole, who (myself included) were initially against having another set of, 'console jockey's' impacting this beautiful universe we inhabit.

Even then, however, I, amidst others, yearned for more... Walking in Stations had been such a talking point for many years in EVE, a more interactive Avatar-based Community wasn't always the goal, but it can add depth to a game as deep as EVE Online, and as deep as DUST 514 is likely to get.

What Iwant, to be more specific on integration of DUST 514 and EVE Online, is to reward EVE players more for aiding, or having DUST 514 Support (increased LP Gains etc for District / Planet Control or other form) making EVE players want to have DUST Soldiers on their side. And vice versa, playing defensive battles in 'controlled' space, or making offensive attacks in 'hostile' space should have increasing rewards for DUST Soldiers based on certain criteria being met in EVE Online.

Currently, DUST in Faction Warfare increases or decreases the speed at which the EVE Pilots can make a system vulnerable to capture. What could come if suddenly Planetary Orbits became battlefields. Not only to maintain superiority and provide Orbital Bombardment, but to gain support from DUST Soldiers and their 'bases' Skyfire battery from below. Giving you a similar tactical advantage to fighting near your own POS, with guns controlled by a player.

To your second point. Though I've been... less than stellar on my website community activity, nor, as you said, my killboard... much of what I did in Nullsec was Solo Stealth Bomber Scouting, and after that, I took a sebatacle due to Real Life Issues. On top of that, I also spent much time in Industrial pursuits, mining, production, or such to provide a more rounded form of leadership to my corporation. Formed in thought, when DUST 514 was announced.

I'm also much more active on the DUST 514 Forums (until Tranquility Crossover when getting my corporation up and running was foremost in my thoughts). With immediate plans to return and begin crusading for more changes, content, and interaction there.

Hunter Blake
aka. The Black Jackal

So you are basically Xenuria who plays DUST?

I would say No Xenuria is more popular.

But that would just be too mean

Given the current relevance of Dust to EvE, to have a similar impact (s)he just needs to play WoW to be on par.