Inoue, The Citadel - Last Thursday, capsuleer Holiday Spirit held his 6th Holiday Spirit event, giving out presents and getting the attending capsuleers into a festive mood. Hours before the location was officially announced, Spirit gave out a hint and it was soon believed that the event would be taking place in Inoue. Following that discovery, capsuleers started moving in from all over New Eden gathering in empire space to celebrate Christmas. When Holiday Spirit finally arrived, there was much [...]
Jita, The Forge - The market for gambling has grown steadily over the last few years, with lotteries, entry-feed contests and casino-style gaming being offered by and to capsuleers by organizers ranging from large corporations to individual pilots. Capsuleers very commonly seek ways to accrue ISK and assets for as little time away from the battlefield or other interests as possible. With betting offering a chance - a far from certain chance - for a ten- to hundred-fold return on investment, its [...]
Jita, The Forge - On 23.12.112, capsuleer Holiday Spirit will be holding his 6th Annual Galactic Giveaway, inviting pilots from across New Eden to gather and celebrate a traditional seasonal festival. As in previous years, the event will take place in high security space to prevent violent incidents and Holiday Spirit has said that everyone is welcome to join the celebration and spread the festive mood. Traditionally, every attendant will receive a present, which Spirit says come in "all shapes and [...]
C3N-3S , On 12.12.112 over 1,500 pilots engaged in battle over a starbase that had become a regional target of opportunity. The starbase is the home of a titan construction project run by IT Alliance. Titan construction takes months and requires a starbase to carry out the assembly operations. The starbase in C3N-3S is currently building a titan for Lady Scarlet and was put into reinforced mode earlier this week. IT Alliance recalled much of their capital fleet from Catch to defend the starbase. The [...]
Anyed, Genesis - Late last week, over 600 capsuleers from across New Eden gathered in Anyed to repel a Sansha incursion but contrary to earlier reports of a total victory for capsuleer defenders of the system, Nation completed its own objectives, with Sansha commanders in the system uplinking unknown data to an unknown source. DutchGunner, a member of Onorata Societa who was in the system during the attempted attack, said "The forces have all been destroyed, including the capital assets that have [...]
Floseswin, Metropolis - Recent events have seen Amarr Empire corporations, including long-time loyalists 1st Praetorian Guard [1PG] push forward to "reclaim" systems in the Minmatar Republic for the Empire. Borakh Tieberius of 1PG said that by following "the vision" of Legatus Gangleri, his corporation has focused mainly on the Aset cluster in Metropolis which has seen them capture systems such as Floseswin, Turnur and Isbrabata. "The vision is about vigilance, dedication, cooperation, and of [...]
Jita, THE FORGE - Capsuleer F90OEX is currently holding an auction that may end with one of the largest sums ever paid in a single transaction. F90OEX is auctioning a Raven State Issue currently in his possession. Only four of these hulls were ever built; the ships were awarded to the Band of Brothers alliance as grand prize for winning the 3rd Alliance Tournament held roughly four years ago. As he wrote in his opening post on GalNet, F90OEX believes it to be unlikely that a Raven State Issue will [...]
Yulai, Genesis - More than 400 titans are currently operating in New Eden, according to a list maintained by Cyrus Doul of Systematic Chaos. While this number alone seems large, it is likely that the actual number of operational titans is significantly greater due to the care taken in deploying the vessels and the number used solely for logistical tasks. A single titan takes approximately one month to build and costs approximately 35 billion ISK in raw materials for the hull alone. When the ships [...]
Deltole, Sinq Laison - Cold Fusion Syndicate [CFS] has officially disbanded after more than 3 years as a successful high security industrial alliance. Former Vice President of CFS, Aelana Anais, said a major factor in the decision to disband was that the tech 1 ship market in the region is "a mess right now" and it had become "increasingly difficult to fund and maintain the alliance" as they had relied heavily on their tech 1 ship building business She also suggested that corporations and alliances [...]
Deltole, Sinq Laison - Sansha's Nation incursions have increased both in frequency and force since the end of last month. Sansha dropships removed large populations from Oruse, Serren III and Josekorn, while the collective efforts of opposing capsuleers successfully routed Nation forces from Deltole and evacuated Anyed VII and Antem IV and V before Nation forces could attack. One corporation, the Fleet Coordination Commision [FCORD] was founded to offer a fast and intuitive way for capsuleers to [...]
LGK-VP, Stain - Over a thousand capsuleers engaged each other in Stain on the 04.12.112, fighting around the Nation-affiliated True Power Assembly Plant station orbiting LGK-VP V moon 3 in what many claim to be a protest or show of force following Sansha's Nation's attack on Oruse. Several groups attempted, unsuccessfully, to assault the station but many turned their fire on each other, with organizations such as IT Alliance battling head on with Against All Authorities around the station. The [...]
Oruse, Solitude - Sansha 's Nation began an invasion of Oruse at approximately 22:00 last night, as predicted by hidden messages, apparently independently discovered by Arklan1 of Dunedan Rangers and Culmen of Blood Phage Syndicate in Nation network transmissions that have now been verified and deciphered by multiple independent capsuleers. Prior to the attack, Eleutherian Guard pilot Seriphyn Inhonores and Anslo of First Flying Wing Inc claim to have attempted an evacuation of Oruse II, but the [...]
Jita, The Forge - A fourth Hulkageddon event, scheduled for 02.113, was announced on Galnet yesterday. Organised by infamous pilot Helicity Boson of The Jerk Cartel, Hulkageddon is a contest where pilots compete to destroy the most Exhumer-class mining vessels, particularly highly-profitable Hulks. Hulkageddon will take place in February of next year and Helicity Boson has started gathering prizes for next year's competition, with many pilots and alliances already stepping up to contribute and [...]
RMOC-W, Curse - Last Saturday, at about 00:35 New Eden Standard Time, a White Noise. Aeon supercarrier, piloted by Volla of Red Rodgers., was destroyed by a spontaneous joint operation of multiple Curse alliances and corporations when it was deployed to ambush an already-engaged Waterboard [WTB] alliance gang. Buhhdust Princess of BAT PHONE alliance was one of the pilots on the scene. She stated that they initially received word of a White Noise. Dominix becoming involved in in a fight between [...]
Y9-MDG, Providence - A Caldari research outpost belonging to Daisho Syndicate was captured on the 22.11.112 by a fleet of approximately 100 Ev0ke vessels with a 40-strong Northern Coalition. [NC.] gang camping the route to the system through KBP7-G. This capture marked the start of a campaign of conquest from Ev0ke that has now pushed Daisho Syndicate back to sovereignty over only two systems. Ev0ke has fought over Y9-MDG numerous times recently but according to Dominik Miethling of Evoke. [...]
Luminaire, Essence - To celebrate the third anniversary of Eve Online Hold'Em Poker [EOH], Selene D'Celeste is offering the third iteration of the Eve Series of Poker, a special multistage tournament with its grand final timed to coincide with EOH's third anniversary in January. The series is set to last over a three month period, with the final tables being held on the anniversary itself on the 08-09.01.113. The buy-in ISK ranges from 54 million ISK for a "Satellite Table," the three winners of each [...]
Goinard, Sinq Laison. Veto Corp is holding "simultaneous celebrations in several locations" to mark their 5th anniversary this weekend. Describing themselves as "politically neutral", with "very few friendly organizations", [VETO] has maintained an active capsuleer presence in most regions over the years. Comprised of self-professed Gurista loyalists they operate under the same conditions as the Guristas, with "bottom line and the pursuit of profit" as their ultimate goal. [VETO] Operations Director [...]
Jita, The Forge - Earlier this week, the SOMER.blink lottery was robbed of approximately 110 billion ISK in liquid cash and assets by one of its Claims Administrators, Daquaris. Yesterday, however, Somerset Mahm of SOMER Blink confirmed that the corporation had been able to recover some of its stolen assets from Daquaris without payment. Somerset Mahm confirmed that the theft originally took cash and assets worth approximately 110 billion ISK and negotiated with Daquaris the return of all stolen [...]
Jita, The Forge - Earlier today, the SOMER.blink lottery service was robbed of approximately 110 billion ISK by one of its administrators. Daquaris, a long-time aquaintance of SOMER Blink [BL.NK] corporation CEO Autumnries Mahm, withdrew ship hulls and what liquid ISK was accessible to him. He then sold the majority of the stolen assets back to SOMER Blink for an alleged 94 billion ISK; SOMER Blink were interested in reacquiring the stolen assets to save the time and considerable effort involved in [...]
In the early hours of this morning, Ev0ke launched a final assault on the JEIV-E system with supercapitals and over a hundred battleships. The defence fleet formed by the Providence Block could not stop them from seizing the station and forcing a sovereignty drop by Sodalitas XX. Ev0ke has publicly claimed that they have voluntarily left Cloud Ring and are attacking Sodalitas XX space in Providence. It took several tries before the reinforcement timers could be synchronized, optimizing Ev0ke's chances [...]
6VDT-H, Fountain - The battle between IT Alliance [IT] and the Northern Coalition. [NC] alliance in Fountain saw a heavy blow struck in the late hours of 09.11.112, when IT trapped and destroyed 4 NC supercarriers at a stargate in 6VDT-H. The destruction of a fifth supercarrier is disputed. From the initial engagement, in which a 60-man battleship-heavy NC fleet killed a lone IT dreadnought, the battle escalated sharply. IT undocked an estimated 20 carriers from their outpost, 6VD Dark Prime and after [...]
Serpentis Prime, Fountain - In the small hours of 08 - 09.11.112, Northern Coalition. [NC] successfully resisted attacks on their control towers in YZ-LQL and Serpentis Prime by IT Alliance, leaving 14 dreadnoughts and 5 carriers dead on the field. The Northern Coalition. alliance, not to be confused with the Northern Coalition collective of alliances, including Morsus Mihi, RAZOR Alliance and others, recently began engaging the residents of Fountain. NC currently counts 849 members, worked with Ev0ke [...]
Northern Coalition forces recently engaged Red Alliance and their allies in the system CYB-BZ, a system claimed by Red Alliance. Red Alliance and their allies have, for now, successfully defended their system. Xxxak, a member of the Northern Coalition, explained that their efforts to destroy enemy super carriers had little effect, partially due to their falling fleet numbers; "During the battle we lost all of our heavy interdictors to enemy fire, so we had to rely on light interdictors to hold them [...]
JGW-OT, Catch - In the early hours of 03.11.112, Initiative Mercenaries [IM] claimed several systems in the 6JCS-4 constellation of Catch and now hold all but two systems in this constellation. The captured systems were previously held by Against ALL Authorities [.-A-.]. The Initiative. is currently the primary sovereignty holder in Catch, claiming three more outposts in the NNLX-K constellation. This activity appears to mark the end of Against ALL Authorities' sovereignty in Catch, at least for the [...]
Etherium Reach recently topped the list of the most violent systems in New Eden as conflict between the Northern Coalition and opposing forces continues to escalate. Over the past twenty four hours, there have been over two thousand ship destructions and over one thousand capsuleeer pods destroyed in the region. Statistics are showing that activity within Etherium Reach is at least double that of Feythabolis, ranked the second most violent system, with over eight hundred ship losses and five hundred [...]
Over the past twenty four hours, Dead Terrorists and allies continue to successfully defend their holdings in AZN-D2 against a concerted attack by Stain Empire and allies. As a result of the attack, station 'AZN VRIVONATOR' has been placed into reinforced mode, and will be in said state for the next two days. Errari from Fnord Works, a member of Initiative Mercenaries and ally of Dead Terrorists told us that Initiative Mercenaries placed a 'Call to Arms' to assist Dead Terrorists in holding onto their [...]
5S-KNL, Cloud Ring - The Cloud Ring region has always been contested, but during last month, control of the region shifted significantly as Fatal Ascension expanded and consolidated their holdings and the Deklein Coalition, with support from their allies in the Northern Coaltion, pushed heavily against Ev0ke and Ewoks. During 10.112, 17 systems within Cloud Ring reported sovereignty changes, a considerable increase compared to the previous three months in the region. During the final days of last [...]
Shortly after publication of our Capsuleer Fights Back Against Latest Jita Scam article, several capsuleers provided us additional information on the latest scam which involves artificially created buy and sell orders and is further compounded by the privileges accorded to capsuleers trained in Margin Trading. Dasani Waters summarizes: "If a capsuleer manages to collect enough of the rare items to fill the order, he or she will find that upon trying to sell the items, the order will disappear and an [...]
Tau Ceti Federation [TCF] has disbanded after four years of operation. The alliance was formed in YC108 with the goal of uniting French capsuleers under one alliance. At the time of closing, [TCF] had four corporations in the alliance including Le Cercle, Epsilon Lyr, Blue Sun, and Nemesis. Previous member corporations included Alcatraz Inc., now a member of Tactical Narcotics Team. Aranthil announced the closure via GalNet on 26/10/10; "We were decaying from a few months, becoming a shadow of our [...]
Wave two of the Northern Coalition's assault on Legion of xXDEATHXx's solar system and station 'Iridium Plaza' in LXQ2-T has begun. At 20:00 New Eden Time today, over 2,300 capsuleers from the Northern Coalition and Legion of xXDEATHXx engaged in battle over the 'Iridium Plaza' outpost. A Fleet Commander for the Northern Coalation commented that Legion of xXDEATHXx members appeared to be breaking off the engagement, "they tried to jump out but they seemed to have more issues with [spatial anomolies] [...]
It has come to the attention of the Interstellar Correspondents that in the next few days the future of Pandemic Legion will be decided, with strong talk indicating they will be disbanding. Rifts have apparently occured inside the alliance with many members becoming disillusioned by the lack of leadership and activity. Wrik Hoover, of North Eastern Swat [NESW] said "a lot of operations were cancelled due [to fleet commander's not showing up]." Emergency meetings have apparently taken place with [...]
T.R.I.A.D Celebrates its third year of offering private agents and campaigns to the capsuleers of New Eden. T.R.I.A.D began development in YC108 and offers a multitude of mission types for capsuleers. Missions are added regularly to broaden the appeal of this type of agency. Det Resprox, CEO of T.R.I.A.D explained the Campaigns that are available within the corporation, "Once a pilot accepts a 'Campaign', he becomes its fleet commander and other agency pilots can join the mission, which could take [...]
Ships of EvE, a corporation and lottery event run by T'Amber, has been sold for twenty billion ISK to capsuleer Selene D'Celeste. Ships of EvE is a lottery known throughout New Eden for it's large payouts. In a special edition of Ships of Eve, T'Amber spent 50 billion ISK for an Adrestia cruiser to place into the event, which was won by capsuleer Darthion Illys. T'Amber Announced on October 22 that she would be leaving New Eden, and that all of her associated corporations and assets would be sold off. [...]
Earlier this evening, Northern Coalition forces assaulted Legion of xXDEATHXx assets in the LXQ2-T solar system. At least 600 pilots in total were within the system during the assault as Legion of xXDEATHXx attempted to stop the Northern Coalition attack. After destroying the system's I-HUB (Infrastructure Hub), Northern Coalition turned their guns on the outpost 'Iridium Plaza'. The outpost was placed into reinforced mode at approximately 20:10 New Eden time. Junior SvK, a NC fleet commander [...]
Late last month, Mixed Metaphor [MXD] corporation officially withdrew support from both the Gallente Federation and its militia claiming SDII's policies as the reason. MXD CEO Andreus Ixiris explains: "Recent activities by members of the [Special Division of Internal Investigations] have brought me to realise just how much of a betrayal of the Federation's principles the SDII actually is." Although referencing an incident last year, MXD did not offer any recent "official" proof of wrong-doing nor [...]
Pator, Heimatar - Recently, capsuleer Borgholio offered relief in the form of ISK to The Minmatar People's Theatre to help with the reconstruction efforts after the main stage had been bombed last month as part of a protest by the Minmatar right-wing organisation Free our Families [FOF]. FOF members had claimed responsibility for destroying the stage as a reaction to the continued showing of the controversial play 'Plantation'. The Scope also reported that the theatre's director had faced death [...]
Cistuvaert , Verge Vendor. Einherjar Alliance [THOR-] has closed its doors following the mutual withdrawal of the two remaining executive corporations: TalCorp Enterprises [LTCE] and Forging Industries [FORG]. Einherjar had previously been active in Tash-Murkon and Domain in Empire space and Providence and Great Wildlands in null sec. Operating a strictly Not Red Don't Shoot policy (NRDS), the alliance had engaged in general anti-pirate operations including support of Curatores Veritatis [CVA] [...]
BZ-BCK, The Kalevala Expanse - Earlier today R.A.G.E Alliance claimed Sovereignty in 8 Systems of the Kalevala Expanse after heavy fighting, owning now almost the whole 2Q-8WA constellation. R.A.G.E alliance is part of the Northern Coalition (together with Morsus Mihi, RAZOR, Majesta Empire and more). The NC began an invasion of The Kalevala Expanse in the western Drone regions a few days ago. The current long-term owners of the Drone regions (Legion of xXDeathXx, Red Alliance and others) and their [...]
Jita is a notorious haven in New Eden for scamming. Being the primary trade hub within New Eden, capsuleers come to Jita with the intention of buying or selling items, and some capsuleers fall foul of varied and crafty scams. There is the most common form of scam; offering to "double your ISK" by claiming to send you twice the amount you send them. Some scammers will send back double of small amounts of ISK in the hopes that you will send back larger amounts for doubling after your 'test'. Needless to [...]
Earlier this month a Kronos-class marauder owned by mission runner Willbur was destroyed by capsuleer pirates in the Irjunen solar system. The loss is estimated at about 19.7 Billion ISK. Willbur, a member of IMpAct Corporation, was assaulted by ten members of 'The Inf1dels'. The pirate fleet was comprised of eight Raven's, one Tempest, and one Armageddon. Some of the more expensive modules that were lost in the attack included; Chelm's Modified Cap Recharger, (8,000.00 M ISK), Selynne's Modified Cap [...]
Rens, Heimatar. Estel Arador's Corp Services [EACS] has been sold at auction for 10.6bn ISK. The new owner, Alacta Lithia, took control of EACS operations earlier this week following a smooth handover. Ms. Lithia of Carniffles Corp [CARNI] had by her own admission extended herself precariously in order to remain in the bidding: "I have basically invested all of my spare ISK ... even selling off some spare assets to raise the ISK required." She also stated she does not forsee any real potential for [...]
Last month, the capsuleer owned Khanid Publishing House Ltd. released their Book of Prayer and Devotions for the Reclaimer, a compilation of prayers and holy scriptures designed for loyalist Amarr capsuleers. The Book is available to every capsuleer free of charge. It is 30 pages long and includes words of faith, prayers for battle troops and officers, benedictions and sermons. The book was written by Odelya d'Hanguest of the 1st Praetorian Guard; "The first goal [is] to humbly offer a small spiritual [...]
The New Eden Assembly's first presidential election is currently underway. The NEA, formed this past August, is lead by Benjamin Shepherd and has been described as "a union of capsuleers from all empires and organizations, discussing and debating resolutions to universal issues." The endeavor has attracted several high profile capsuleers incuding Elsebeth Rhiannon & several members of Moira. The new initiative allows every capsuleer the opportunity to voice an opinion within the assembly. It has [...]
Rens , Heimatar. Estel Arador Corp Services [EACS] will be be sold to the highest bidder this week. The corporation has been speculatively valued, based on past donations from satisifed customers, at between six and eight billion ISK; with no value placed on one thousand extant 'novelty' shares. Current CEO and founder Estel Arador told the Interstellar Correspondents that "due to changing personal circumstances" he would no longer be able to take an active hand in the day to day administration of the [...]
Cat, Esssence - A Paladin class marauder worth an estimated thirty billion ISK was recently destroyed in a coordinated high-security suicide attack. Professional salvagers or 'Ninjas' are believed to have stalked their victim for two days and through several systems before springing a carefully calculated ambush on the Vale gate in Cat, Eustron constellation. Despite ultimately succumbing to CONCORD the gang of capsuleers and accomplices from five different corporations managed to escape with booty [...]
RILERA, KHANID - Early last month, pirates belonging to the Without Remorse alliance destroyed a freighter piloted by Tardass of Synchronized Elements of Alligned Lethality in Rilera during their regular hunting operation. This loss brought the existing internal tensions in the alliance to the breaking point. The freighter was carrying a large amount of assorted materiel as a part of the Soldiers of Solitude alliance's push to low security space in their first step towards a null security existence. [...]
A few weeks ago, Aperture Harmonics [AHARM] moved 16 capital ships into a wormhole to engage Capital Construction Research [CCRES] for control of the wormhole. The inherent instability of wormholes made this task difficult and time consuming. The mass of capital ships passing through a wormhole can collapse the opening after only one or two ships have gone through. In addition, [CCRES] was aware of the pending invasion and made every effort to prematurely collapse any opening they could scan down. [...]
New Eden - DevilDogUSMC has completed his second circumnavigation of New Eden in less than 12 hours. The venture saw him manually navigate through 25 regions, including Delve, Fountain and Cache, and make a total of 435 system jumps, beginning in Fluekele, Sinq Laison and finishing in 4C-B7X, Outer Ring. DevilDogUSMC had hoped that his second circumnavigation would attract more capsuleers, and afterward he claimed he was satisfied with how it went: "I had a greater positive reaction in 0.0 than I [...]
Rens , Heimatar. Enigmatic Minmatar billionaire Estel Arador has recently celebrated the 10,000th capsuleer jump clone installation with his not-for-profit organization, Estel Arador's Corp Services [EACS]. At the corporate headquarters located in the Brutor Tribe Treasury, Rens IV, Arador broadcast a special message personally thanking all those who have contributed to the project. During the speech he urged every capsuleer to take advantage of their facilities: "I'd like to thank everyone who has [...]
DevilDogUSMC is planning a second venture through New Eden in which he hopes to visit more than five hundred systems in less than two days. Having already successfully completed a circumnavigation, DevilDogUSMC pointed out the reasons he believed it may have been a little disappointing: "Last time there was no challenge. I was flying in the shadows and I did it! I survived but... Nobody got to be apart of such an amazing trip." This time around, he plans to involve as many capsuleers as possible by [...]