Intergalactic Summit

When does Imperium sends their viceroy to the Providence. Im senior diplomat of the Silent Infinity Alliance and i cant wait to meet him.

We would need to assume that there is profit to be made from assaulting that hole.

Providence is a hole in space worse than Cloud Ring, and if you pay any attention to the news - it was abandoned since it lost all strategic value after our departure from Fountain. We would probably need to enact special legislations for Providence, drop the percentage-based mineral tithing and stick to raw numbers to make it even worth considering, let alone torching.

It was fun as a testing ground for a few days, I guess.

I'll admit, monetarily from a resource point of view, Providence for the most part is wanting. It doesn't have as many high end valuable minerals on its moons as other regions, CONCORD issued bounties on the local Sansha raiders are pretty low, there's not as much asteroid and planetary harvesting activity as deeper null regions due to regular raids by pirate Capsuleer organisations.

However, one thing Providence has in abundance is spirit. The unique nature of the mission of CVA, to one day see the Empire reclaim the region, and its enforcement of non-hostilities to non-pirates/kos pilots has nurtured a great spirit of co-operation and mutual defence. There are occassional diplomatic issues, sometimes residents just refuse to take up arms to help their fellow, and the odd 'burning' occurs. However, the status quo has been remarkably stable for some time.

The last time the CFC/imperium/Insert new brand name here came to Providence, they did a good job of ruffling some feathers, killing a few Ihubs, and patting themselves on the back after getting home for tea and medals. It was a fairly minor success under their plan of 'all i-hubs', but I guess they did get the knowledge they were after in how to operate under new methods of conquest. What they didn't achieve either, was the breaking of Providence's spirit. After they left, things got back to normal pretty damn quickly, and the promised ravaging by other third party wolves post-invasion just didn't occur.

For all the wishy washy, chest thumping, GalNet tough guy attitude from the CFC/Imperium's leadership, it seems lately they're happy to do half a job and call it quits. They're happy to use the threat of crushing their enemies and seeing all laid waste before them, but never actually seem to manage it anymore, it's apparently all a ruse for their real objectives. If you're going to keep using such boastful rhetoric, some time you're going to have to deliver on it or those threats will become more or less meaningless.

Have fun bullying your nearest neighbours but you'll struggle to find a way to 'tax' spirit.

I don't have a horse in this race and don't really care one way or another but, Pilot Onzo you should be thankful that the Goons and their mates really were only seeking tactical information and left your area when they got what they were after. Had they truly wanted Providence they had the personnel, logistics, infrastructure and equipment to easily have subjugated and occupied your space permanently. Let's face facts here; Providence is a resource impoverished area not worth the time or effort to conquer, however.

Perhaps it's you who should stop the chest beating and talk of your indomitable "spirit".

P.S. to Vaari- Providence is a blighted backwater with no strategic or resource value and you are a buffoon. Why would anyone waste their time with Providence or you ?

The issue is, they can burn it for a time, but they can't hold it. That's proven by the fact they voluntarily reduced their own claimed demense. They could take Providence and hold it, but I believe it'd likely be at the cost of the north. Not a great trade off, and Providence forces have waged an aggressive insurgeancy war before after being removed from the region, history you can easily do a GalNet search about and find out. They didn't just pack up and give up because someone else stuck a flag up in the systems, unlike several other Null organisations in recent years. I call that indomitable spirit any time of day.

I'll take 5000 units.

Oh, we do, believe me. We do. It's... people are getting used to the new Guardian fit we've paired up with the MWD Proteus fleet comp. It's a little unorthodox, but so far, it seems to work... as long as Machariels aren't killing Strategic Cruisers in under 6 seconds a pop.

I can imagine that went down a treat. I assume it's also MWD fit?

Just getting people to realise you can change the propulsion module on a Guardian seemed like heresy to some.

And using sensor boosters instead of eccm when all the enemy were bringing damps in Delve? Such horror!

100MN you say...?

Guardians? Guardians!
Also, there's a Repswarm FRC?
Edit: Wait, internal GSF services. I thought for a moment there was a public channel somewhere.