The Defias Blog

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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¶ Far be it from me to ever say that I’m better than someone at a given thing - unless I am. And it’s patently unheard-of for me to say I’m the best - again, unless I am. And yet, during my time with VENOM Alliance, I heard people say those very things of themselves and of that alliance… even though deep down, in their heart of hearts, they knew it wasn’t true. They knew so well, in fact, that it wasn’t true, that they played this game with their killboards one night called “Let’s edit all the killmails so that instead of showing that 3 -A- nanoHACs and one Recon came into D2EZ-X, our current HQ system, and raped us, tallying 44 kills and no losses, they’ll all list the location as “Classified, 0.0.”
¶ I don’t know why they thought this would work, though… surely they knew that Against ALL Authorities would have their own killboard which wouldn’t be so coy about the location of the “battle“. As I watched this unfold on the regional intel channel, I was embarrassed to have been a part of VENOM at all. But ANTX had never been tested, as we didn’t hold anything worth attacking so we didn’t hold anything worth defending. Last night, I had the privilege of participating in a defense of D2EZ-X.

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¶ Over the last two weeks, The Defias Brotherhood has been on a mad dash to raise ISK. Why? Well, because last month when I first arrived in Omist as a new member of VENOM Alliance, the first thing I did was check the region’s contracts. I’d seen tons of great bargains on the contract market before, but they’d always been in deep-space 0.0 somewhere where I couldn’t dock even if I could get there, and I damn sure wouldn’t have been able to fly out with my goods. So now that I would have no problems, I wanted to see what was there to be had. A quick glance at the market details for the region showed that buying 5 Caracal-class cruisers for 20M ISK was a great bargain, so I scooped those up for the corporation. Then I found a contract auctioning off a Domination Control Tower Medium with a starting bid of 220M and no buyout.

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¶ It’s been a hell of a long time since I chronicled the progression of my corporation’s development in EVE, and I apologize for that. So much has been happening, and so quickly, that I’ve been kept pretty busy. And when I have had time to make an entry, the things that I would have to write about have been of such a sensitive nature that they couldn’t be spoken of so publicly.
¶ That said, I will do my best to bring anyone who has been watching this blog develop up to speed. Note that any inaccuracies or vague statements are due to my not being able to disclose every detail for security reasons.

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