Intergalactic Summit

Because it's a smart thing to engage a combat vessel in an exploration/scouting vessel.

Keep thinking like that and you will never be able to survive if the universe ever decides to stop killing each other and settle down.

I imagine you will turn pirate then and there.

Admit it. You are just sore that you are denied an easy kill. You come in, expecting to catch an exploration frigate off-guard, and get a free killmail, only to find that the guy in the exploration vessel is fitted just for that event and had been watching the D-scan and is already ready to warp out.

You are just like a 15 year old who thinks she figured everything out only to find her little Thorax model taken away and then throw a tantrum.

Get used to having the universe not bending itself backwards for your benefit.

Besides, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MY BREACHER WAS VISITING YOUR SYSTEM? HUH? HUH? Too afraid to take on something that can actually retaliate in kind without the support of a hundred buddies?

Now we don't normally agree on much but I have to complement you on your choice of Gallentean comedy verse. There is little finer comedy available for your amusement.

With due respect, the thread in question quickly became a fairly ridiculous pissing match, and I really couldn't make myself read it all. I don't think any of us escaped that cleanly.

However, if you're willing to talk privately, I believe we can reach a mutually agreeable conclusion without much difficulty.

In service,
Makoto Priano
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.

I appreciate the candor, but this is by no means a frivolous display of force. The company one choose to keep is often a reflection of oneself - especially when we choose to keep precious few in our company. Miss Priano's associate interrupted a conversation with the sole intent to accost me. I gave him a polite warning to back down, but he chose to continue. Miss Priano then asked him to pipe down, which he also disregarded. He challenged me physically, and when I accepted the challenge he whimpered like an injured hound. He took no responsibility for his actions and decided that his ego was more important than the safety of his Corporation mates, and of this expedition. Given an out to stop the nonesense that he started, he again decided that his ego was more important.

It would be downright RECKLESS to let such an ego-driven adolescent like this near an expedition as important as this one. Instead I have offered 400% more resources and an uncountable increase in military assistance. Not to win an argument, but to keep men like Miss Priano's subordinate - which she seems unable to control - from doing any harm to such an essential experiment.

While I would love to combine resources for such a task, it is - and never has been - up to me. I've been responding to the situation around me, and should the situation become reasonable then I will act in kind.

Again she deflects the accusations that her associate - Mr Victorian - is an uncontrollable and reckless force.


I am honored to call JEFFRAIDER a friend. He is a gentleman of quality, and if you are insinuating that his actions reflect unto me me then I take that as a grand compliment. Not sure why you're trying to justify the reckless actions of your Mr Victorian - who is single handedly responsible for putting IKAME into war - by comparing him with a man who intent on supporting his friends. Oh right, you have a knack for deflection.



According to Scope and DED records, Pandemic Legion is the #1 killer of Drifter battleships. In fact we were the first alliance to manipulate the Drifter AI in such a way as to allow us hold their focus in one region (Derelik) and relentlessly kill them. Likewise our research wing at SPHERE Laboratories were deemed the most instrumental in assisting the Empire in understanding Entosis technology. A research simulation, mind you, that IKAME did not even bother to attend.

While I acknowledge the great work that IKAME have put into understanding the Drifter menace - including releasing the first (public) autopsy - my very valid concerns regarding the stability of your group continue to remain unanswered. It is not our past glories that define us, but the way we respond to our most recent follies.

I'll have to take your assessment of Raider on faith. All I saw was a singular and sort of alarming fascination with chode juggling. What are chodes, anyway? Does he farm or grow them? Is juggling them some sort of low-class sport? Frankly, I'm a bit confused by it, but that's how it goes.

As for Mr. Victorian, I've spoken with him, and he understands he's both out of line and on thin ice. That's all I can offer in this case. After all, noone involved attempted to de-escalate the situation, but instead met bluster with greater bluster.

As for responsibility for the war, let's be honest here. Was Victorian overstepping his bounds? Absolutely. However, try as you might, noone forced you to declare war. You did it of your own volition. There is no powerful entity forcing your hand on a trigger, no evil driving you to defend yourself; simply words and pride. I won't fault you for declaring the war, of course; it's any capsuleer organization's prerogative to declare war on any other. All I ask is to shed the facade that is claiming that you were not happy and willing to carry on with that farce.



There are a lot of claims here; some worthwhile, some questionable. Let's parse them. #1 killer of Drifter battleships? Please provide a reference on that one. I personally know one of the finest Drifter hunters in the cluster, and while I'd welcome the Legion showing him up, I very much doubt that's the case. Ciniel's been hunting them by a myriad of methods since their first appearance, with Cerberus and Rattlesnake, and has demonstrated a fantastic ability to destroy those ships by the hundreds if not thousands.

Please provide a time period where you focused the Drifter threat on Derelik, so that I can check it against publicly available records of losses to Drifters. I have no doubt you've engaged them in force for the harvesting of Antikythera, but at no point have we noticed reports of their being mysteriously absent from New Eden since their appearance. Intelligence to this effect would be immensely valuable, both to the Empire and to the cluster at large.

As for the Entosis testing, your contribution is notable. However, IKAME is a small exploration group, and so frankly not interested in holding sovereignty. We did our part with testing Entosis Link technology on Jove Observatories when Carthum Conglomerate first released the technology. You'll find the public report at this link.

As for the public autopsy, you are unfortunately mistaken. That was performed by Anslo Tetua, Mizhir Starsurge, Kalo Askold, and Kybernetes Moros, per the release here. While I'd happily count them among our number, they are part of the greater research community. Our report was the analysis of the Hilen Tukoss neural tissue sample, acquired during the first penetration of a Drifter Hive. There is, as always, more work afoot, but we have no releases to make at present.

On the subject of deflection, you seemed to ignore a point; would you actually interfere with raids against the Drifters simply to spite Victorian? Is personal pride more important than attacking the enemies of the Empire?

edit; a small note. The more we bicker amongst ourselves, the more we play into the hands of honestly worthless pilots like Funk.

Whoa, you have managed to force liar Makoto Priano into verbal diarrhea!

Although I'd like to point only one interesting point today.

That one person is known to be most incompetent loudmouth gallentean, giving threats he never was able to achieve. He likes to spew words without backing up and running in shame from own system when was pushing out, his "corporation" kicked out from multiple alliances for his incompetence and rotten attitude.

On other hand, since Makoto herself is a word-spewing and lie-generating machine, they would certainly make a good pair. A gallentean Tetua and disgraced honorless not-a-Caldari anymore Priano.

I don't think they could actually make any "research", but in circus their performance would be appreciated.

What will they do..?

Assuming you're ever in a situation where a titan is usable (kind of hard to do that in highsec).

In all honesty, a wardec against an exploration based group such as IKAME, with no real in-space infrastructure or large assets, is ultimately rather pointless. People get to wave their ego boosting phallic status symbols around, but not much actually happens.

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about: underestimation. PL isn't all about titans and supercapitals. Once you're wardec'd, they're just as likely to use locators to watch your movements and then come hunting you with quick-response teams in subcapitals.

Or to get someone into your corp, wait anywhere from a few months to a year and then come and kill you whenever you put anything even vaguely resembling a significant number of your people on the field - or follow you into w-space, kill anything that might have a probe launcher, and then close the hole on you.

And that's probably still not the half of it, depending on how much you annoy them.