The Captains Log

The Captains Log 31/7

 

Well it is amazing how things can change in a matter of hours. How the mood of an alliance can change from one of euphoria to utter despair. So after our first few skirmishes with the forces of Stain Wagon they sent down their battle fleet making short work of our cyno jammer and then proceeded to jump in 20 capitals (along with the other couple hundred people in system). Our home was under attack and completely controlled by Stain Wagon. We could do nothing but watch it all burn.

So I did something I have never done before. Something that had to be done as none of the other leadership was doing it. I opened up diplomatic conversation with Stain Empire.

 

The Cause of this Debacle

The first stage of the diplomacy consisted of setting up a meeting to negotiate terms with them. This was done shortly, though at an early time for me. Additionally, they wanted the CEO of the Corps to be present, which could be hard due to different time zones. During this time I also learned why they were attacking us. Our alliance leader Stra Tegist had tried to negotiate lower rent with Stain Empire but had done so in a way that pissed them off so they came down and attacked us.

The next morning I started the second round of diplomacy, which took two hours to complete. Basically it boiled down to four options

9119 > in first option you can contine rent this const

9119 > 2nd: you leave peacfully and pay us reparation

9119 > 3d: you dont pay us – fight is continue

9119 > 4th: you join Stainless and rent space

In this case reparation consisted of 7 bill in isk or assets while joining stainless was exactly the same as continueing what we were doing before. Well after a little discussion in alliance chat I decided it was best to move on and find greener pastures. So we payed two billion isk upfront and got blue standings with Stain Wagon. We now had three days of blue standings to get our stuff out.

 

Then end of Cartel Syndicate

After this I went away and came back a little later only to find out that our alliance was dead. One of our corporations Obsidian Operations had left the alliance along with our alliance leader. On the way out Stra Tegist decided to make life hard for us. He had disbanded the alliance taking all the assets he had in the executive corp (not that there was much), he messed around with the stations settings resulting in refining having a tax of 100% and a docking fee of 25 mill. Well this was the end of Cartel Syndicate, an alliance I had helped to create and put a lot of work into. Ah well such is eve. The worst part of this was that the standings I had negotiated for were now gone.

However there is good news. Our CEO, Nan Shoku, had been offline for over two months due to technical difficulties, but now he is back. This has provided some much needed direction to the corporation. He reopened negotiations with Stain and got some of the standings redone and convinced them to let us join Stainless for a few days so we can move our assets out. Unfortunately, Systematic-Chaos was still hostile towards us and began attacking us again. But some quick work by DefiantFury fixed that up (and at the right time as well as they were planning on bring down a cap fleet to give a new FC some practice).

 

The future

So now we have to find a new future for us. Currently this is in discussion, but the future still looks bright for us. We are still sticking together and that is what matters for our members.

 

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