The Defias Blog

¶ First, I would like to say that after correspondence with Smakalicious of IAC, I will be writing for EVE-Mag.com, an eZine focusing on Eve-Online which has carved out a nice little place for itself in the EVE-O community, even becoming an officially recognized Community Site.  I expect to submit my first article before the end of this week after some questions I have are answered.

¶ As I was familiarizing myself with EVE-Mag’s current body of work, I came across an article by ShadowRhino titled “Why EVE is Not Going the Way of the Carebear…“  In it, he says*:

I’ll start with what is likely to be the least controversial change coming up, the high sec ganking nerf. Some people are wondering why Concord would respond faster then in the past. Why would there be a bigger sec hit when attacking someone in 1.0 as opposed to .5? It’s rather simple. Ganking someone in highsec is an “illegal” act as far as concord is concerned, that would cause them to respond. The patch will cause concord to respond realistically, if you were to stop and think about it. I being from the U.S., in California, I have been to various areas where the police presence varied greatly. That difference in presence corresponded with the “value” of the area to the city I was in.

(*Please see the original article for the complete context - Havo)

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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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This is a video that I found embedded on CrazyKinux’s Musing. It shows a Drake mired down in countless webs and warp scramblers, battling it out with NPC police. He came, he saw, he shot ‘em down until he ran out of F.O.F. missiles (faction police jam you, too) and then he slowboated back to the gate and jumped out of the system with the Gallente Federation even more pissed off at him. The point here is the Drake’s CRAZY tank.

NOTE: These are not CONCORD Police, these are Gallente Federation Police. When your standings drop below a certain point with a given faction, that faction’s police NPCs will attack you as soon as you enter a highsec system. Fighting these faction Police does not get you CONCORDed. …I wouldn’t want to hear about any of you taking your pimped out Drakes into Bille like this guy did and trying to fight CONCORD. It just won’t work out well for you.

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