5KG-PY II - The End of the Line (60)

On October 7th, Firestar Inc. opened the newest CVA outpost, "The End of the Line" in the dead end system of 5KG-PY of the QBL pocket.

Reverend Cutter from Deus Fides Empire was once again there to preach and bless the new outpost.

*emote Activates the system wide coms from the small chapel deep in the hull of the Archon class carrier “The Will of God”*

Hello and good day everyone. We are here to bless this, the newest station in Providence number 60! and of course celebrate that once again we have proven that our way of life is the only way that one should live among the stars.  Happy in obedience to God, The Empress, the Theology Council, CVA, the Holders and our system of NRDS. These things are of course the legs or columns if you will, of which our way of life is built.  The call of reclaiming illuminates my heart every single day that I breathe and for sure that must be your goal also.  Service to God the Empire and the Empress is what we all strive for, whether you are Amarrian, Caldari, Gallente, or Minmatar!

We are showing today that we have reclaimed this space for the Empire and the Empress, for God and of course for the Holder union of alliances. We are doing what God has commanded us to do.  "I give to you the destiny of Faith, And you will bring its message to every planet of every star in the heavens:Go forth, conquer in my Name, and reclaim that which I have given."- The Scriptures, Book of Reclaiming 22:13

What does this mean for you?  As we all know, we live in trying times right now. We have seen great upheavals in the large coalitions of the north and the south of us, but I can tell you now in our present situation that we are profiting from these times.  They teach us to trust our Ways, humble ourselves before God, and the Empress, to turn with unfeigned Repentance and Praise GOD in every system we have.  God’s judgments, given to us through the Empress and the Council show us that no other way of life or system of determining who is hostile works, or is even worthy of our attention.

Maybe you do not believe me?  CONSULT your Conscience, and then tell me---Should we not hearken to the Voice of God, speaking to us in his Judgments, and calling us to our destiny of reclaiming?  Can we look for his Favor or Pardon, if we stop now or change our trusted ways?  Or expect his Blessing, if the Cry of our Sins continues to enter his Ears? Would it be right in us to repeat or multiply our Transgressions, when all that is dear to us, or valuable in this universe, is at Stake?

I TRUST that these Considerations will sink deep in our Minds, and produce suitable Effects.
Let us not defeat his gracious Designs to reclaim and save us all.  Sincerely lamenting our past Sins, which have been committed against the clearest Light, the dearest Love, and the most transcendent Mercy,  let us prostrate ourselves before God, implore his Pardon and then by his Grace, to amend hereafter, to worship him, and walk devoutly only in his Ways, do only his bidding so that eternal God, be ascribed immortal Praise, Glory, and Dominion, henceforth, and for evermore.

Amen.

This marks the 60th Outpost to be constructed in the region of Providence.

Hashu Blog: Sieh (10/6/2012) AAR

The Following is an After Action Report following action in the star system of Sieh on October 6, 2012.  Originally posted on theCitadel Forums.

First I'd like to thank Hidetoshi and theLadio and the guys who joined their quick tempest fleet for coming up and helping us.  That could have gone very poorly if you hadn't formed quickly and shown up.

It started with a ping amongst a few people by Tinator from Excon (PILL) wondering if there was any interest in getting some people on standbye.  A neutral POS had been reinforced in Sieh by some KOS folks who had a history of killing POS' with capitals.  I said sure and got a few IG caps on standbye and in fleet as well as a few other CVA folks, mostly out of *censored*.  

POS came out of reinforced but hostile corporation only showed up in a bs or two and a drake to shoot the tower.  After waiting a bit PILL warped in a few battleships and killed the drake than left the tower to the sun were they waited to see what would happen next.  After a bit a second neutral group (RELOADED DOT) cynoed two carriers and some support and started repairing the tower.

While we were running a quick test to determine if these folks were KOS (or needed to be KOS) our BS in system warped to the POS than warped out to see how reloaded would respond.  Just as Awg went "they killed a CF guy so probably should be KOS" they attacked Tinator's battleship, and it was on.  Things quickly escalated as their support became 10-15 battleships and a couple logis.  Initially didn't bring any capitals in because they had a lot of battleship on the field but Tinator quickly decided to bring a triage and when I offered I also came in in a triage Archon.  For the next twenty to thirty minutes three battleships and two triage Archons faced off against two Thanatos and about 20 BS and logi support with neither side able to break the tanks of the other side.  With about twenty minutes of triage left and no real end in site I started pinging P-FC to see if someone could form quickly and turn the fight for us.  Hidetoshi nearly immediately said sure and he and theLadio formed about 30 tempest + logi support for us.  

In Sieh we were fighting around this pos.  I had come out of triage off and on a few times and managed to wander about 70k from our other triage archon.  Seeing how far off I was hostiles pulled their battleship fleet over to me and forced me back into triage.  However they refused to move their thanatos which they were not triaging, meaning their battleships were being pulled out of thanny repair range.  This move finally allowed us to take down a person or two.  Around the same time I was getting down to about three triage cycles left and getting a little paranoid.  We had been on the field for almost 40-50 minutes.  I asked Hidetoshi to just burn instead of waiting to sort the titan bridge (in retrospect a mistake as we likely could have killed a bunch more).  Tinator brought a fourth battleship onto the field and cynoed in three-four extra carriers who brought in some extra stront for me.  

At this time we assume the hostiles had spotted the Tempest fleet inbound. They started retreating towards the POS.  Despite our best efforts they managed to get their carriers inside the shields just as the Tempests entered Sieh.  We decided to kill the pos because we could and the tempest fleet started shooting.  In order to speed it up we did a quick ping for dreads and managed to pull a decent number in under five minutes.  Just as we lite the cyno for the dreads a known RnK cyno entered system.  Tinator pulled all the caps off the field and we let the battleships quickly finish off the pos alone.  While that was going on we managed to get eyes in Nakah to find RnK not forming (so we likely would have been okay) but things worked out in the end.

Finally tally in the end
Lost 2 Geddons and an Abaddon during the inital engagement before triage entered the field.
Killed Drake, Hound, Tornado, Abaddon? and the control tower + Mods.

Probably the funnest fight i've had in ages, even though there weren't many kills it lasted a long time.  There is something about fighting five against 20+ and coming out okay that is just thrilling.  

So again, thank you tempests for coming to the rescue, from me and the "For Medicinal Use Only" crew.

Fun Fact, found out after I jumped in that I didn't insure the triage archon . . . >.>

Killmails will be forthcoming when I can find time while eve-kill is actually working to sort links.

G7AQ-7; The Fall of Genesis Invictus

Early this morning TETIC recovered the system G7AQ-7 whose sovereignty had been dropped by Holder Genesis Invictus.  Rumors of potential trouble within the alliance had been forthcoming for some time.  Regional participation had taken a noticeable decline in the last months with little to no intel being reporting from G7, a vital crossroads system at the entrance to the QBL pocket.  Several inquiries into the status of the alliance had been forthcoming from high-ranking TETIC members who own two of the three neighboring systems and had noted the security hole stemming from G7AQ-7.

After the sov. drop in G7 it is reported that ZombieFX, leader of Umbrella Chemical Inc. booted the remaining corporations from Genesis Invictus and closed the alliance down.  While not confirmed it is believed that some GNS members will be joining TETIC who now hold sovereignty in G7AQ-7.  Holders and Providence entities are reminded to remove standings to the now closed Genesis Invictus alliance.

Silent Infinity Celebrates its 2nd Year Anniversary

Silent Infinity celebrated its second year anniversary this weekend with prizes and fun in its refinery system YQB-22 this weekend.  Originally hailing from the Sukanan constellation in Tash-Murkon where they had developed strong relations with elements of the Curatores Veritatis Alliance which also originated in the Sukanan, Silent Infinity were given several systems in North-Central Providence this year by the CVA, joining the ranks of the Providence Holders.  Since they AFK have built up their space, including two new outposts in YQB-22 and 3GXF-U.

This weekend saw the celebration of AFK's second year Anniversary, including a cruiser tournament and the giving out of over 5 Billion ISK worth of prizes and rewards.

AFK Combat Award Recipients 2011-2012

Top Killers (8)

Members in the alliance more than one year ranking highest on the killboard.  Each of the Top 8 Killers is receiving a Tier 3 Battlecruiser with fittings for fleet doctrine.
Nero Draconian - Magic Crisp - republicov - Boom Tucker - Darthoreo - Tolidobob - Ryzig - Jay Loftus

New Killers This Year (8)

Members in the alliance less than one year ranking highest on the killboard.  Each of the New Killers This Year is receiving a Tier 1 Battlecruiser with fittings for fleet doctrine.
dementia fitth - ivan stoner - Manila Plague - Gordane - Shock Fist - Red Marllboro - Lordan Endericcson - Nemiza

Combat Veterans (16)

Members in the alliance with the most participation in stealth bomber fleets.  Each of the Combat Veterans is receiving a Stealth Bomber with fittings for fleet doctrine.
Anastasius Steiner - ablazetrogdor -  Juan Thang - Brick Tanner - Gecko Hareka - Aeryn Zarniwoop - Rin Tomoko - Scarlet Number - travasty space - Bad Pinup - Silverspar Smoke - Sir Binks - Scamald Calore - TASHA DIABOLIQUE - Otto Durako - Demon Blackstar

AFK Cruiser Tournament Winners

1st Place: Silverspar Smoke, CEO of Pilots of Epic [Pilot]

2nd Place: Brick Tanner, Member of Old American Syndicate [OASY]

3rd Place: Ryzig, Member of Forging Industries [FORG]

Best Fights - Dairkia, Jay Loftus

Best Fit - Juan Thang

Worst Fit - QuantaXtreme

Providence Skies

This little gem (song) was linked by Codo from YF on theCitadel forums a few days ago.

It appears to have been written about a year ago by Cat Faber and was released on bandcamp about two months ago

Providence Skies

Lyrics and Melody by Catherine Faber
Through hisec and lowsec the warp engines sound
And through zero-zero, for Providence bound
For Eve will forever be making it plain
You have to defend what you want to maintain

So its X up for fleet, form up and clear coms,
We need more repair ships, and ammo, and bombs
With fire in our bellies, and stars in our eyes,
We'll scour the pirates from Providence skies!

In deep zero-zero, where trust often dies,
Strangers fly safely in Providence skies
But some would destroy that in hopes to recall
The chaos incarnate of all against all

Some people are parasites, taking their joy
in friendships they ruin and hopes they destroy
While some folks are builders, who hold in our hearts
a dream that is more than the sum of its parts

Pirates are poison, no trip is too far
To hound them to death like the vermin they are
But they are good for one thing - the way that they die
in firework flowers, all over the sky

(Chorus with extra line)
We'll hunt them like dogs till the last of them die.

Eternal Evocations set KOS after Raven does complete Reset

On Saturday the 22nd of September, relations between x-holder Eternal Evocations and the Providence Bloc turned sour quickly.

At 13:58 a roaming fleet comprised of Providence residents engaged and destroyed a [-E.E-] Thrasher in Catch at the orders of their FC.  Five hours latter elements of [-E.E-] participated in the destruction of an A-Clinic Hurricane in Sendaya, Derelik.  Within Provibloc there were moves to reprimand the Providence pilots involved in the thrasher loss and KOS requests over the hurricane kill were at least initially denied because the incident happened in Derelik and not Providence*.  There were also offers to make the Provibloc FC pay for the thrasher loss.

However all attempts to negotiate with Raven and return relations to normalicy was stonewalled

[19:50:18] Raven Shadows > i think you guys jsut want to set kos regardless lol ..  if i run nbsi ..and i stay otu of provi ..but you guys roam into my space ..we defend ourselvs ..you set us kos ..p
[19:50:39] Raven Shadows > anyway yea ill just talk to eq

And than negotiations got ugly.

[19:53:18] JedsZero  UrhoKekkonen  http://kb.cva-eve.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=246984 because of this u get wardecked if my wallet is not blinking soon
[19:53:24] JedsZero > someoen better get them to back down...
[19:54:07] Raven Shadows > over a cane lsos ?
[19:54:29] Raven Shadows > im still waiting for compinsation for my guys loss today ..
[19:54:30] JedsZero > apparantly...
[19:54:33] Raven Shadows > yiou knwo what
[19:54:35] Raven Shadows > fuck this
[19:54:39] Raven Shadows > remove all ee from all your channels
[19:54:45] JedsZero > I told him to not do that
[19:54:46] Raven Shadows > FULL REST AS OF RIGHT NOW
[19:54:49] Raven Shadows > fuck all of you
[19:54:52] Raven Shadows > bye

And so, as of now, Eternal Evocations are full KOS.  Provi Bloc people are free to engage them wherever found.  Sadly diplomacy doesn't work all the time.


*Side note, I note that technically Sendaya is in Derelik and therefore part of the Amarr Empire and therefore does qualify for KOS requests which are suppose to be restricted to incidents in Providence, the Amarr Empire, Wormhole Space, and ProviBloc controlled systems in Catch.

Eternal Evocations Moving On . . .

This past week saw Providence lose one of its holders.  After internal deliberations the membership of Eternal Evocations decided that they would like to try something else and to leave Providence.  After a peaceful evacuation E.E handed over their sovereignty.

With the loss of E.E Providence is experiencing a bit of a shuffle of the current holders and the introduction of a new holder.  Long-term NRDS extremists and Providence residents, Yulai Federation are moving into the bulk of Eternal Evocations systems, taking control of XHQ and the entire JEIV-E pocket.  Silent Infinity have inherited the H-GKI6 system within their pocket which had previously been E.Es.  And finally the alliance 'Of Sound Mind' has joined the ranks of Providence Holders and have been given the E.E system of 9-fob and the -7- system of 4B-NQN.

Currently it is planned for Yulai's previous systems to go to CVA, at least temporarily.  Potentially we may be introducing a new holder and Apocalypse Now. are likely to receive a system or two however no concrete plans or decisions have currently been made.