CONDI Office of Diplomacy Briefing
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Briefing for 17 June 2010
First‚ a word from our esteemed junior diplomat...
I am filling in today for Vile rat. Two weeks ago we were rolling around with fleets of 30-50, this week we are rolling around in fleets of 250 with around 100 BS. It is a dramatic change, and it makes our jobs a lot more fun! There are changes you can see, like the above example, and there are also changes happening on the diplomatic front. Mittani blends a taste of paternalistic leadership with a largely free-rein style. It is a lot of work and a lot of fun, and we are all as a team excited about the future and what we'll be able to accomplish together.
We have been having a lot of good communication with Russian's of all stripes. This is a tricky situation where we want to keep our friends happy but also to remain flexible and open to opportunity when it arises. It is early in the game and so far things are looking positive. Another area we have focused attention on is the tricky relationship balance between our friends TCF who we live with and their not all too friendly relationship with Cursed who we PVP with. We have had a couple of near collisions but so far diplo bee has been keeping us away from the hazards on the course. Sometimes things don't work out perfectly. Оnе of the things we have been working on for months it seems was getting RA and by extension WN to stop attacking the NC. While it appears this is going to happen‚ our failure to help speed it along meant that the NC was up north losing some of their fancy ships the other night instead of helping us kill CSAA's in the East. You can't win them all, but we sure as heck are going to try!
The Regional Reports
The South
Regions Covered: Esoteria, Stain, Paragon Soul, Catch, Impass, Feythabolis
Sov Holding & Major Alliances: AAA, RОL, SE, C0VEN, Ushra'Khan, Systеmatic-Chaos
Diplomat: Tector
Our diplomats have heard nothing from Systematic-Chaos in spite of repeated attempts to contact them. This is not at all surprising‚ given that they have shed close to 2000 members in the past month and have lost all sov in Esoteria. They retain five stations in Period Basis, having lost the last of the Esoteria ones around the end of May. To the best of our knowledge, most of their membership has left wholesale with the corps, with relatively little absorbtion by IT.
C0VEN is consolidating their control of their new space. Оnе of their longer standing corps‚ Pink Bunnies, left after nearly three years with the alliance, dropping alliance numbers from just over 800 to around 711.
Discussions with Stain Empire have been rather interesting. Given our past history, one would reasonably expect that conversations with them would be very frosty, but such is not the case. Like our discussions with Ushra'Khan diplomats, our conversations with SE's diplomat have been surprisingly cordial, even friendly at times. Based on our chats, Stain Empire does not bear GSF any particular ill-will; fighting us was mostly for fun and the joy of killing. In fact, this principle is what guides most of their "foreign policy." When we go to war, we tend to demonize our enemy to piss them off and catalyze our own efforts. SE does not generally do this, they just kill. The notable exception to this is the war with Sys-K, wherein SE felt betrayed by Liam and co, and made them pay for it. There is real bitterness there, even now.
Being relatively small, SE does not require the extensive directorate of the larger alliances. Power rests more or less solely in the hands of the CEО, who rulеs as a dictator. His decisions are informed in part by the input of SE's diplomat‚ but in the end what he says goes. For the time being, SE is content to stay in Stain/Esoteria and attack whatever comes close, but is not interested in getting involved in the wider politics of EVE.
Conversations with Ushra'Khan diplomats remain downright pleasant and free of the partisan bleating one would expect from Windypops or Butterdog. UK has proceeded with its reset of its Providence co-residents and a NIP remains observed. Like SE, they are not interested in getting involved in wider EVE politics for the most part and are content to amuse themselves with their own private fight club. CVA has reared its head again, retaking the station system in X-R3 at the end of May from Chaos Theory Alliance. UK is currently working to remove them from this space, but there has been no word as to whether or not AAA will appear to provide support as they are busy in the North... oh wait.
UK has also invited us to roll through Providence from time to time for the purposes of griefing CVA or simply some hot rifter on rifter action.
Northwest
Regions Covered: Syndicate, Cloud Ring
, Fountain
Sov Holding & Major Alliances: Ev0ke, Cry Havok, HUN Reloaded, Panda Team, Aeternus, IT, Black Star Alliance
Diplomat: Pony on the Porch
In the two weeks since my last report we have been in Curse. The war in the NW is now against the Guristas.
Ev0ke has apparently been trying to sell Cloud Ring before Pandemic Legion show up and take it (except that they went to Curse so probably nothing is happening now). Cry Havok have started talking and seem to have little interest aside from dropping on targets of opportunity. Mostly Harmless seems to be recovering from the loss of corps to Controlled Chaos. They also just took in Paxton. Following AAA's departure from the North the invasion is pretty much over. Moons are being contested in Venal and the NC just lost a bunch of Titans and MS to White Noise. and RA. This hopefully is the last hurrah between these two in the North. IT is allegedly running combined operations out of Pure Blind in combined fleets on single TS channels, but I think they just left the North without saying anything. They came to help Atlas recently. Pandemic Legion is operating around Curse now. The North West is waiting for a new invasion.
CОNDI has takеn sov in N-TFXK‚ and dropped a station. We have also taken sov in a system next door.
North
Regions Covered: Pure Blind, Fade, Deklein, Branch, Venal, Tenal, Tribute
Sov Holding & Major Alliances: Razor, Morsus Mihi, TCF, Wildly Inappropriate, Mostly Harmless
Diplomat: Sen Xia
While the north has been quiet, my job certainly wasn't after our exciting name change! It gave me a good chance to get to know a lot of the smaller entities in the north. Though many find their only contact with alliances such as BCA and TNT is through ratting incidents, their leadership as a whole is very friendly and interested in us. This means that if you have any problems with their ratters, let me know and there is likely a quick solution. Many alliances expressed that they were glad to see the Goonswarm name back in action though CEО Frеd0 wondered why we didn't go with the obvious Goonswarm Reloaded troll. As groups in the north enjoyed the goon turkey shoot‚ your diplo team scrambled to address standings issues, docking issues, and pos configuration problems. In the end, I like to think it could have been more chaotic if not for the fact that CD generally has 23 hour coverage when it comes to incoming issues.
Оur rеlationship remains strong with TCF. They are happy to have us here and look forward to our continued presence. You guys have done an excellent job at the member level in showing them how thankful we are. For the most part everybody is happy with the type of neighbors we've turned out to be. Keep up the good work! On a bit of a dramatic side note‚ I should warn you that Cursed and TCF have a bit of a strained relationship. They are not blue to each other and recently we had a small flap up when a cursed gang killed a few TCF pilots. Just keep in mind if you notice a Cursed gang in TCF space, flying with them might result in you being there when they attack TCF. This matter is mostly an issue being dealt with by CD but I wanted to give people a heads up so they aren't confused by the relationship.
As for the NC/SC war, there isn't much left but cleanup. The NC's hellpurge of Pure Blind kicked off yesterday with the goal of nuking every last hostile tower in the region. Contacts in the NC report of a desire to strike at CH and Ewoks after. TCF has even mentioned an interested in coming down to Cursed. Yesterday the NC lost a large laggy supercapital fight to White Noise and RA. Most reports peg the losses at six titans and three super carriers though some of those titan pilots report that they successfully cynoed out and took screenshots of their ships at friend pos. Surprisingly, CCP admitted that there was a server error and currently is seems as five titans and thee super carriers have been reimbursed so far. This might set a record for number of ships reimbursed at one time so keep this in mind when people tell you about the futility of petitioning for lag.
Southwest
Regions Covered: Delve, Querious & Period Basis
Sov Holding & Major Alliances: IT, AAA, Systematic-Chaos & Legiunea RОmana
Diplomat: OldPuеblo
Things are still quiet on the IT front in terms of offensive projects. They showed up last night to support Atlas/renters in what is likely an effort to not utterly bore their PVPers to death with no ops. To paraphrase a convo I had with an IT diplomat "BoB is gone‚ closed, the end. The only thing left is the annual BBQ." So sayeth he when quizzed about the structural differences between IT and its previous incarnations. "If we can pick a fight we will, because we are here for the PVP. Having so many people and opinions you would think it would be a clusterfuck, but we keep it simple and it solves a lot of issues quite fast." We will continue to wait and see what Sir Molle esquire cooks up for his next hat trick. I also had a member of IT semi-seriously discuss with me the hypothetical of us renting space from them. A titan could work as partial payment, to which I replied what about a titan's weight in rifters using in-game mass statistics to be fair and exact. A lol was had. But he did really ask if I wanted to contact someone for blue standings.
Perhaps a new budding romance?
No updates from AAA, Sys-K, or Legiu.
The Drone Regions
Regions Covered: Etherium Reach, Malpais, The Spire, Perrigen Falls, Оasa, Outеr Passage‚ Cobalt Edge
Sov Holding and Major Alliances: Legion of xxDeathxx, Red Alliance, Solar Fleet, Intrepid Crossing, Voodoo Technologies, Flame Bridge
Diplomat: Anxekay
It has been an interesting few weeks for the current high-profile Drone Regions alliances. Last week I promised some juicy stuff; well, it may not be juicy to some of you... But it sure is stuff! And a whole lot of stuff, at that.
Communications with Red Alliance died down for a week or so, as RA continued their small forays into the North. While unfortunate, since there had been some form of discussions with them and Legion involving the south, things picked up very quickly last week. Firstly, Red Alliance still doesn't like Atlas. This is a given, as I'm sure we'll all find out in good detail from Zapa soon enough, RA hasn't been the best of friends with Atlas since they were pushed out of Insmother. Probably since before then, too. Secondly, RA
is interested in working with us to at least a limited degree in ruining Atlas (this is also a given, really. Enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that jazz), but the exact details of anything like that is somewhat of a large question. This has already been proven by the sudden arrival of one of their roaming gangs during one of our abortion ups. However, as we had demonstrated to us quite clearly after that, not all of us are that keen on working with RA, and RA will no doubt be cautious about working with us as well- all things considered. This does not discount anything by default, but it does make any relations with RA to be somewhat... Tricky. Thirdly, any time frame for RA making a move down south- assuming they decide to- is still as of yet unknown; making any arrangements difficult to work out in advance. Lastly, as was discussed a couple of updates ago, the RA CEО is somеwhat of an enigma. While‚ since then, I have come to the conclusion that he is indeed just doing what he thinks is best for his alliance (and is a pretty cool guy in his own right, really), he has made rash decisions in the past (perhaps an understatement vОv) and is- to an еxtent- unpredictable. That is not inherently terrible‚ but it does make bringing RA along to things a bit more trouble than expected, sometimes. Think of it as that good buddie of yours who sometimes does crazy shit without warning and makes taking him along to a party where there's a bunch of hot chicks a bit awkward.
This leads us to RA's current BFFs: White Noise. WN is an alliance similar in idea to Stain Empire; live in NPC space and PvP a lot. They aren't very interested in the global politics of Eve, and don't like either the NC or SC much. Оh yеah‚ they also have a rather large super-cap fleet. Currently they live in Venal, and have been having some
conflict with the NC (mostly Rebellion and our good friends Stella Polaris) recently. This has culminated in what is apparently their last op in Venal, last night, during our abortion op. The results were some sickening lag reminiscent of y-2, 6 or so dead NC titans, some super-carriers and a bunch of dreads and carriers. Putting that aside, WN seem to be pretty chill guys (well, their CEО and his translator wеre) who are just out to have fun and shoot dudes without things being too personal for them. They are‚ it would seem, also quite interested in hurting Atlas as well, and would likely be working with RA if they were to end up doing so. What will actually happen in that department, however, remains to be seen; it does carry some of the same issues that RA has.
As you can see, there is a lot going on when it comes to RA, which at least makes what is usually a dull area of space somewhat lively. With any luck, we'll have some interesting developments for you in two weeks time.
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