Intergalactic Summit

With more High-Sec Militia capsuleers moving in to try and prevent freighters from falling victim to pirate raids from CODE, the Militia are now going on the offensive despite the lack of resources they have. Even with these limitations, they do not shy from going first into a fight and are now keeping guard at the jumpgates at Uedama.

For years, the Uedama system has been a junction for many freighter pilots as it leads to the major trade systems of Jita, Amarr, Rens, Hek, and Dodixie. Due to this, pirate raids are frequent and often violent with billions of ISK being lost everyday.

The Militia has moved in with a small force to try and prevent any further damage, and although some of their attempts were succesfull and were able to save several freighters and other ships, many others were not that fortunate.

But the Militia are not discouraged, they know that this guerilla war they are fighting will be a long and bloody struggle. Their forces are few, and resources are limited compared to CODE's near limitless resources and forces.

Many pilots from the Militia state they are not discouraged, that High-Sec is their home and they will defend it, their families, and their livelihoods from CODE and other forces, whom they all now claim to be terrorists and religious extremists.

*slow clap*

Not to discourage the noble attempts made by the white knights of Highsec, but you realize that by engaging them you are giving them exactly what they want, right? I mean this is attempt 539,842,690,642.4* to oust CODE from Highsec and you're still no closer to actually accomplishing that goal...


*numbers may be slightly exaggerated.

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Well, good luck with that.

It's not going to be a long war, it's going to be an endless war. You can't destroy a response to an incentive without eliminating the incentive itself. Ganking is lucrative, attractive, and relatively low-cost to those who will tend to fit the profile of a ganker: lack of concern for even innocent human life (including the crews of their destroyers and tornadoes), a sense of thrill at shooting expensive, defenseless civilian and industrial ships, a desire to break 'the rules'.

How many examples similar to this do we see, in terms of 'wars' on concepts that fail to address the incentive structures themselves? Misguided attempts to solve every problem with a hammer when they're perhaps not a nail. Wars on drugs, for example: they inevitably produce underground markets and increasingly violent, militarized cartels because it is the very consumer demand for the drugs that needs to be destroyed, busting a few dealers and cartels does very little, they're back with a vengeance in a few months time. Same with the 'wars on terrorism' all around the cluster, attempts to destroy terrorism by destroying terrorists, again, ignoring the underlying causes, the socioeconomic circumstances, instability, and in some cases religious and ideological fervor that incubates terrorism as a method for achieving political goals. Another non-nail hammered.. down? Not for long. The root causes are still there, and there are always new bodies to be thrown into the meatgrinder so long as the radicalizing elements themselves are not addressed.

A war on highsec ganking is no different than a war on civilian drug use or terrorism in that regard. You can't destroy the very act itself with a war, no matter how long. You have to make ganking itself unattractive. Problem is, often, those who gank like fights, and the ships they use are disposable and very efficient. There's not likely to be any attrition against CODE in this 'war'. If anything, you'll probably just feed them kills and more of what they want.

This is well intentioned and I'm sure you've saved a few freighters likely captained by sleeping fools, but stay within the confines of what you can accomplish with these measures. Punish as many gankers as you can, and save as many freighters as you can, but don't fool yourself into thinking this is a war that will save highsec or destroy CODE or ganking in general. It isn't. If a doctor misdiagnoses the disease and gives insufficient or incorrect medication, the disease only spreads while perhaps only the symptoms are treated, hiding the fact that the problem itself is not actually fixed.

I am impressed, after long fight and facing danger of losing a Rattlesnake (perservered and will fly again after some hull repair), they really made it. CODE Command Caracal down, gone in blaze together with CODE DPS wing.

Why, this is a very good thing to do. Commendable initiative!

Best wishes in your endeavour.

Claim a win or defeat when it's over. I believe at this point the isk efficiency is in their favor, by a few countless billions worth of Freighter cargo. Good luck trying to change that. Should only take a hundred thousand destroyers or so going pop without a kill to show for it. Another hundred or more every time they do get a successful kill.

Worthwhile endeavor. Effort very well spent. These poor poor capsuleer victims suffer so, after all.

An atheist is about as far away as you can get from a religious extremist.

The religious have trouble with the idea of non-belief. They tend to think that atheists need to have an active belief in Nothing, rather than just shrugging and saying 'don't believe it. Who cares?'