A Mule in EvE

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SO things have really heated up, VERY quickly.

Atlas it seems capitulated to PL as Mr. Atlas, bobby, was AFK from some reports.  Seems as if Atlas could not put up enough of a defense, I never wish Alliances poorly but some were miffed inside SyS-K that Atlas set us neutral when .-A-. did their reset, I hold no illusions, such is life.  Seems as if .-A-. will hang on a bit, I expected to see the SOV map change but it didn’t, we shall see what comes to pass.

Huge weekend for me, I added  another 20 kills or so, in various different ships, from the Minmatar Broadsword, to the Vagabond and yes. wait for it..I purchased my Revelation.  Now for those needed implants, any thoughts would be welcome as I know capacitor is life to these monstrous beasts.  We shall certainly see what we might find. Getting ready to crack 700 kills soon, boy I can remember when I had 15…

With .-A-. slightly bloodied, Atlas reeling from the surrender, who knows what will happen in the rest of the South. ROL is still around and certainly a force to be reckoned with…

Fall is a busy time in EVE to be sure people are back from vacation, plans made over the summer are kicked into high gear, lots and lots of tumult and chaos to be found. We shall handle is systematically…

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Gratz to Myxnee for joining the VETO corp along with Shae Tiann, both are excellent Pirates by reputation and hopefully will serve VETO for a distinguished amount of time.

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Anyone who feels like posting  rev fit, your welcome to do so, my Rev pilot will remain nameless for security sake but will be rounding out current training with Dreadnought to 4 and Tactical reconfiguration to 4 as well, with Jump Drive Calibration skill to 5 I will hopefully be able to take advantage of the extra range it might afford me

Not as large an update as I normally do but work is very busy ATM, so you gotta live with what I can do in shorter amounts of time.

This weekend was a good one, aside from wracking my brain to figure out why a killboard I keep trying to setup keeps crashing and burning, we have had a good couple of days.

in 7UTB CEPTA was ‘in’ on 27 Kills, there was a Massive bubble on the gate and PL TCF a few others from the NC showed up.  They were spanked fairly hard.

We may be opening up more recruitment soon, so keep your eyes posted here and I will let you know details when I can.

We have also been busy seemingly having endless meetings as well this weekend.  Thank goodness it was a holiday weekend so some gaming could be done…haha

for some reason I keep getting a screen shot message about primary monitors and crap and well it si REALLY gd irritating I made a couple NICE screens shots of the oh, 20 anchored bubbles but damned if I can find it…I will do some looking…grr still no luck. The message is some dumb thing about primary monitors and whatnot.

Anyways I will figure out why I cannot seem to get screenshots to work.

Oh yes the overview crap might be fixed tomorrow..let us hope so.

TC and Good hunting.

I’d like to walk readers through a history of SyS-K.  Having been there from the beginning through the end of our time in Esoteria, that amount if time gives me decent insight as to systematic-Chaos

When CEPTA joined SyS-K they were a small group living in the Stain region of Space.  That is NPC space, and as such as long as you had more numbers, assets could be moved in relative safety. The bad part of Stain  is that my standings with Sansha do not allow me to run missions ( which I loathe anyways)  Many people spout the potential profit of Nightmare Blue prints blah blah blah, my standings with the NPC’s never budged an inch, as such I was extremely bored with that area of space, and loathe it to this day.

We then moved when we were able to Esoteria.

MONEY

Pre-dominion you needed POS’s to claim Sovereignty.  At it height CEPTA Maintained 24 of the 88 POS eventually used to claim Esoteria, but that ended come Dominion.  Initially we made money by dividing the number of POS that we maintained (at it’s height I recall 24 Sys-K POS, were anchored by CEPTA) .  Moon minerals were harvested and split among those corps that had POS claiming Sov.

Post dominion new ways to make cash had to be found….simply put they are anomalies!

ALLIANCE FIGHTING STYLE

While we played in Stain, and got to know the players down there.

In the beginning we were the rapid reaction force  of what came to be known as the Stain Wagon.  We would go to great lengths to get to a fight. We would titan bridge, use bridges, by any means needed we would show up to a fight with well fitted ships ready for action.

With the inclusion of several new Corps in the Early part of SyS-K cap fleets with 60-80 Dreadnoughts were not unheard of.  While I was just a BS pilot being a Cap pilot was something that was pushed to a large extent.

The theory at first was show up in the best fitted ship you could. This way a slightly out numbered group could take on a larger if less well fitted group. That and we would show up for any fight if asked.

This later morphed into a sometimes very impressive Battleship and Cap fleet, as such we often engaged in HUGE fights, and fighting within lag was something we excelled at.

CONFLICTS

C9N: 3 Major Battles were fought at the beginning of SyS-K.

49-U6U at least 8 Major battles were fought here…one of them the single largest I have ever seen ( till H-W) we had 1609 pilots in 49-U6U fighting against the goons/Zaf and others.

T-GTMI Battle “the great turkey shoot in Providence”

Hundreds of other skirmishes

We had many fights with Br1ck Squad while in Stain and later in Esoteria.

We also had many fights with Goonswarm ( those who think Goons abandoned Esoteria obviously did not see the hundreds of kills that SyS-K got in the old Goon areas)

We were asked, and agreed to help kick the goons out of Delve, Querious and Period Basis, once IT lost their space.

We aligned with IT and Atlas and ROL and basically continued being the rapid reaction force.

DOWNFALL

During last summer we had a long period of light activity and this involved people farming in Stain.

We brought in corps that well, simply wanted someone to protect them while they farm for ISK.  This was huge mistake.

After Goons fell and ZAF withdrew, we still maintained the presence in both Period Basis and in Esoteria.    Once IT re-gained the region a deal was struck to allow Legeunia ROmana to hold one part of Period Basis, while SyS-k would occupy another part, and IT would occupy the remaining bit.

Logistics this deep in the edges of the known universe have some distinct logistical disadvantages. To this end Jump bridges were key.  As were the logistical jump bridges in HHQ & O1Q.  The loss of these two systems was very detrimental to move gear around and SE/C0ven took full advantage of this.

in January, Liam was ill and was out for about 2 weeks, at the same time we brought in more Corps that just wanted to farm and make ISK.

Liam came back and we headed to Providence to help .-A-., and indeed we seiged the D-GTMI system and were a major player in the “great Turkey shoot” Apologies to you former provi guys as it was a total bloodbath.

SE/C0VEN FIGHTING

We came back to Esoteria and Liam got word that IT had been set neutral but C0ven and SE, IT rolled into period basis and beat the shit outta them there ( much like we have just had done to us) Liam intervened at the begging of SE/C0ven, and IT relented.

SE/C0ven set us neutral as we refused to set IT neutral.

We were given standing orders to skirmish with C0ven/SE but to NOT en age in any other warfare (sov, etc)

Liam became gravely ill and basically did not log in for 5-6 weeks, still being under those  orders we skirmished a bit.

About a month ago SE/C0ven hit HHQ/JAUD, as our logistical beachhead.  They attacked and attacked and we simply had grown to full of people who would not fight.  IN an Alliance of 3000 we could field maybe 10% sometimes only 5%.  This was the single greated downfall of SyS-K too many Corps were recruited that simply did not want to fight.

Carl and Amyna & Arcanum took over about 3.5 weeks ago about 1 week before the large assault in A1-AUH, basically they were given a burning Car and told, we are in the middle of the race, you have to win, you have no pit area ( logistics) only 5% of your pit crew, A sluggish engine, with only three tires , oh and no driver.

They did their best but the damage was too much.

Excellent CORPS

I.NET and especially Amyna who really did all he could to hold things together

737 a small little powerhouse of a Corp that also did everything it could.

RAGER and excellent bunch of guys that towed the line and had some phenomenal FC’s

EDF another group of guys that really went the extra mile

SSE, nice bunch went over to .-A-. were a kind of ‘sounding bell’ of changes to come.

As you are redaing this 111-F1 is under siege, but it is not contested at all.  ALL gear has been moved, many many carrier jumps happened, but all the gear was moved to safe areas.

To the former Corps of SyS-k  I say thanks.  I enjoyed fighting with you, and many will be missed.  To GLD I wish you had a better leader, Cosmoboy will be your downfall, none the less you stand by him so I give you credit.