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The Empires Are Lying
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Eran Mintor
Metropolis Commercial Consortium
#41 - 2014-10-11 18:14:35 UTC
Streya Jormagdnir wrote:
Gwen Ikiryo wrote:
The problem of this idea is that it assumes benevolent intent amongst the majority of Capsuleers, which simply could not be further from the truth. With respect as it is due to my CEO, I'd much rather have a new piece of dangerous and powerful technology under the control of any of the 4 empires, manipulative and deceitful natures or not, then in the hands of a completely unstable and discordant group of what mostly consists of profit-obsessed authoritarian dictators at the best of times, and thieves and mass murderers at the worst.

Further, I severely question the portrayal of us as exploited victims who deserve anything at all, considering the lifestyle of ludicrous excess the average pod pilot already enjoys. Make no mistake; Us hoarding technological progress for ourselves and leaving the rest of the world to capitulate to our terms or rot simply because we have the position of advantage to do so would not be a bold, heroic defiance of authority. Rather, it would be just another example - amongst a near-infinite number in human history - of a small group of hyper-privileged and hyper-empowered individuals selfishly profitting at the expense of the vast majority of human beings alive.

It really doesn't seem like a good idea at all.


We're the ones risking lives and ships in collecting the trinkets they want us to give them. I think it's only fair that we remain part of the equation when technological discoveries are made. We already have a medium through which capsuleers can aid in the research of Sleeper technology: the Arek'jaalan Project. Why aren't these avenues being taken by the empires? By excluding a donation option for A'J it almost comes as a slap in the face to anyone who seriously wants to aid in the progression of knowledge, and I think it goes without saying that such potentially powerful data is better in the hands of a scientist like Tukoss than poster-boy admirals and politicians.

When all of the options are poor in an election, some people will write-in their friends or fictitious people and essentially vote "none of the above". Sometimes the write-in is Sleeper Social Club, for lack of a better option. Of course, opinions vary wildly even within our own organization. The flexibility of the sell-to-corp model will allow each of us to make our own decisions, and I hope you make the one you find most reasonable Pilot Ikiryo.


If Tukoss wasn't MIA and A'J was active, I could see this being realistic and I'd probably be supportive. As that's not our current reality, I would have to agree that the Empires are the better option. It is sad though that there are no real secondary choices here.

-Eran
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#42 - 2014-10-12 17:36:11 UTC
Update on the research numbers:


- Auvier Bavon of the Federation Navy
- 127.683 Research

- Hikemi Korrado of the Caldari Navy
- 168.564 Research

- Heder Elislar of the Republic Fleet
- 135.430 Research

- Ren Karetta of the Imperial Navy
- 152.740 Research

- Guillome Renard who supports the Arek'Jalaan Project (Independents)
- 106.505 Research

The State is now in the lead for research, but the Minmatar took a giant leap forward! Of the 5 competitors, the Amarr have lagged behind on acquiring new research data, showing the smallest increase over the days.

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Solecist Project
#43 - 2014-10-12 18:03:30 UTC
The state will win this easily.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#44 - 2014-10-14 03:05:13 UTC
Latest update:


  • Caldari - 311,249

  • Minmatar - 167,726

  • Amarr - 155,789

  • Gallente - 154,525

  • Independants - 255,626


Caldari are firmly in the lead, followed by the Independants! This one last dash before the research drive ends today, will prove interesting, very interesting! The Minmatar did speed up considerably as well, placing them third, above the stalled Amarrian research group and the progressing Gallente.

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Makoto Priano
Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#45 - 2014-10-14 22:09:07 UTC
Final reports indicate a surge to approximately 3m in research points by the assorted CONCORD signatories, which I suspect will result in a marked increase in all factions. I'd be surprised if any particular faction ended up with below 650k points, given the presumed average of 750k per faction.

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#46 - 2014-10-19 08:05:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Jandice Ymladris
The final result is in!

- Independents lead by Guillome Renard - 287.232 Research - 5th place

- Gallente Federation Navy - 435.734 Research - 4th place
Top donator & Title granted : Honorary Federal Harbormaster Shipstorm

- Caldari State Navy - 767.014 Research - 3rd place
Top donator & Title granted: Honorary Brigadier of Engineers TorDog

- Minmatar Republic Fleet - 857.310 Research - 2nd place
Top donator & Title granted: Honorary Fleet Architect Lotrec Emetin

- Amarr Imperial Navy - 936.960 Research - 1st place
Top donator & Title granted: Honorary Fabricator General Ascentior


The Amarr prove to be once again masters of the galactic political game and slam down all opposition hard with their final contribution! The State, leading strong for days ended up on 3rd place, presumably because they felt safe because of their earlier strong lead... On the other hand, the Minmatar did one final strong push, allowing them to keep up with the Amarr in the tech race, an important point as they have to compete with them on the battlefield that is the Faction War.

What was this gathering of Sleeper data for? As it turns out, the Navies are working on a new variant of destroyers, utilizing sleeper tech. The change of Sleeper behaviour came at the right time in order to better understand this tech & hammer out the last few issues in the tech 3 destroyer designs!

You can read more about it here: 'The result of the YC116 Sleeper data research race!'

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Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
SL33PERS
#47 - 2014-10-19 15:36:56 UTC
The Amarr victory is somewhat concerning. I really did not expect this result.
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#48 - 2014-10-19 19:25:00 UTC
Ria Nieyli wrote:
The Amarr victory is somewhat concerning. I really did not expect this result.


They did manage to keep a low profile after the first day. They were originally in the lead, but the very low activity in the days after caused the wrong assumption that Amarr had played it's hand early. Turns out, that in true Amarr style, it was merely a ruse to make the others focus attention away from them as they gathered their Sleeper data for one final rush from the backseat to the top of the pile!

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Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#49 - 2014-10-19 19:43:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
Jandice Ymladris wrote:
Turns out, that in true Amarr style, it was merely a ruse to make the others focus attention away from them as they gathered their Sleeper data for one final rush from the backseat to the top of the pile!


You're assuming more institutional plotting than there was. It certainly played out in Amarr's favor, by the Lord's blessing, but one shouldn't attribute too much deliberate, coordinated action on a freelance donation drive. From PIE's position, the withholding of our own corp donations until the last day was for several purposes: Verifying with Admiral Karetta that we could not make a corp contract and so had to gather our purchases onto a single representative (Admiral Ascentior, Hon. F.G.), and also to avoid prematurely pushing the Amarr donations up too high before the end. At no point however was there any active coordination with the entire Amarr capsuleer community to "donate a little bit early as a ruse and then save everything else to the end."
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#50 - 2014-10-19 19:51:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Jandice Ymladris
I'm aware it wasn't a coordinated action to hold back, neither did I mention it was coordinated, but I do believe that most of the Amarr donators came early to the same conclusion as to keep donations for the last day, considering that the Amarr research pool grew the least between the initial day to the last update prior to the closure. The growth was so little compared to the rest that it did stand out.

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Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#51 - 2014-10-21 04:38:51 UTC
Congratulations to the Amarr Empire!

I guess now responsibility for making proper answer to possible sleeper invasion lays in Imperial hands. Good luck, the fate of the whole cluster depends on you now!

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.
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