¶ One of the reasons I pulled DFIAS out of 0.0 space was to get away from the alliance politics. Now, though, I’m finding that even if you’re not in the alliance yourself, if you want to do anything besides dedicated piracy you can’t really avoid the politics.
¶ In my last entry, I explained how DFIAS had taken up Not Red; Don’t Shoot RoE inside of the Molden Heath region. This has led to three very different interactions with three different alliances: Electus Matari, Foundati0n and the lesser known Valhalla Alliance.

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¶ Alright, so… Readers of this blog already have an idea of how DFIAS has progressed, from High Security empire space, to Low Sec, to Zero Sec with alliances. Venom was established, but was very poorly run. Anthrax Death was a start-up outfit relying heavily on GoonSwarm to ensure its existence. But the fragile nature of such an existence is evidenced often by threads like this: Anthrax Death Eviction Notice by Zapawork, GoonSwarm diplomat.
¶ When we left ANTX to join DEFI4NT, it was with the understanding that DEFY was to be led by ms kypp and that it would be a PvP alliance working toward its own goals. In my last entry, Ambition, I explained why this did not work out. The alliance we joined, Code Red Alliance, didn’t work out much better…

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.

Aldous Huxley, “Variations on a Baroque Tomb,” Themes and Variations.

¶ A series of events has taken place in the last month that has changed the way I look at things, and in doing so, has nearly completely changed the way The Defias Brotherhood is administered. I have thought deeply about why this is the case; DFIAS has experienced hardships in the past but I did not change and so DFIAS did not change. The simple answer is ambition.

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¶ For centuries, New Eden has existed in a state of tentative peace. Every now and then, there would be a ripple in the fabric of the Non-Aggression Pact between the four empires, enforced by the CONCORD Assembly. Sometimes these ripples would be minor, sometimes they would be quite major indeed. But always they were mere ripples, never tears.
¶ At 09:07 on 2008.6.10, that peace was shattered. An unidentified mixed fleet composed of Minmatar and Thukker Tribe warships plowed through Ammatar and Amarr defenses in an overwhelming blitzkrieg offensive, liberating tens of millions of slaves and returning the Starkmanir tribe to their Minmatar brethren. At 14:27, a Caldari State fleet breached the Gallente Federation border and did not stop until it had captured and locked down the Federation’s capital system of Luminaire.
¶ It was a day of triumph and joy for some. For others, it was a day of horror and grief. Many felt emotions across the spectrum, crying tears of profound pride one moment and wracked with mourning the next. For everyone in New Eden, it was a day of pandemonium, waves of which were felt in the farthest 0.0 star clusters. Nearly a billion lives were lost that day across New Eden. Their blood has ushered in a new age. The CONCORD Assembly still enforces law in the core regions of the four empires, ensuring relative safety to citizens and capsuleers not involved in the wars being fought between the Matari-Gallente bloc and the Amarr-Caldari bloc.
¶ In the interest of history, I log here in this Chronicle a recording of The Scope’s new feed from 2008.6.10. I offer no commentary beyond that which I have already said, which has already been too much; nothing that can be said does justice to the sheer impact of that day.

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em·py·re·an –noun

1. the highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire.
2. the visible heavens; the firmament.

This is where we live. Work. Fight. In the empyrean. Our destinies are forged here. Whether we mine for precious minerals with which to build implements of destruction, or use those implements ourselves to try and impose our will on those who would share the empyrean with us, we make our own way.

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