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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => EVE Corporation and Alliance Development => Topic started by: Graelyn on 27 Sep 2012, 00:53
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AEGIS MILITIA - An absurdly brief history
Phase 1 - Always Crazy, all the time.
AM started in response to something, two things, really. The first was the Matari RP corps forming into Alliances with the full capabilities of 0.0 groups. CVA was formalized and began similar growth, but would only allow Amarr characters.
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My corp, The Aeternus Crusade (extremely liberal, Kor-Azor leaning), and Ubiqa Seraph (hardcore Sarumite conservatives), joined together in one of the first official Alliances. We would allow all Amarr aligned groups, be they loyal to one house, or one region or another. Within what was a busy week, we were involved in two 'events'...
- The GHSC Heist (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/180867/features/murder-incorporated/), which crippled the executor Ubiqa's, at least in the Blueprints side of things.
- The go-ahead to 'seige the blooders' in the Bleak Lands anyways, an IGS post, (http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=168088) that few were paying any real attention to at the time, which led strangely to the 'awakening' of the NPCs there, The Blood Wars, and the reshaping of the EVE map, the closest CCP has ever gotten to trying to realize the potential of the game, I think...
From there, for years in a row, we brought on other corporations and fought the Minnies, and anyone else. Usually all at the same time. Events and stuff all happened, some good, some bad. People got screwed. Many many infiltration attempts were halted. Executor got caught cheating at events. I mean, fuck!
Phase 2 - Sucked.
The death of Mirial, at the hands of Imperial Dreadnoughts, pretty much brought an end to AM as we knew it (and, CCPs willingness to ever try anything cool again), and I was left with the remains. Eventually we slummed out with CVA in Providence. I gave the Alliance to Yoshito Sanders, who had a knack for building on a large scale. He set about building a fortress in nullsec.
Phase 3 - Building shit - which is now on fire.
(http://i.imgur.com/VMFJM.jpg)
AM under Yoshi operated on the ass end of Providence 'protection', and was the first line when big attacks came. For years this pocket thrived anyways...until the Horde of the South wiped it, and all of Amarrian Providence, off the map in one massive strike.
Phase 4
Through skullduggery and rumored no-goodings, I have managed to re-aquire the rights to AM. I intend to restore it to something of it's original strength.
What is AM now?
Simply put, we have always been attached to the fate of the Bleak Lands, and as such, in some way, the Militia.
Any Amarr-loyal corp wanting to base out of the Bleaks can be apart. We are a private fleet meant mainly to protect the interests of these worlds.
We aim to be a home for Amarr RPer corporations in the Militia. That is all. When things get crazy on the FW front again in the future, I want new people ready to take part, to be on the tip of Amarrian resurgence.
Got a cool RP idea for a corp? Join up. We don't demand much of anything of member corps, we just help each other fight out there. That's all there is to it.
In the Winter, things may change. :psyccp: The FW switch may make it fun to keep doing this in lowsec. Maybe the content team will get on the ball and engage us all in some way. Who knows. If that happens, I want two things:
- A group in the militia who can be approached by NPC groups wanting to interface with the Militia (Heer be the RPers, devs!)
- A good way to find fleets with fellow RPers, because we PeeVeePee best.
(I mean we collectively. I'm terrible.)
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I have always had a weak spot for my first alliance, full of nice people. Them and CVA taught me a lot back in 2007.
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+1 !
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+1
Best of luck on the amarrian side of things!
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I am very excited by ideas like fighting and dying for the Empire. The stuff like "For the Empress!" really turns me on :oops:
Unfortunately, it was quite uneasy for my other characters to try it, it was embarrassing and my actions were constrained by course I set earlier.
I am really thinking about rolling me a complete Amarr character, 100% crazy zealot fighter, maybe like Vaari, but even crazier, much more offensive and bloodthirsty, not noble, but eager to crack skulls of heathens :twisted:
My previous experience showed I can easily accept slavery concepts. The problem comes from the Amarr religion, because I look at it from scientist's point of view, it is like a trigger, that clicks in your head and refuses to go further. To try to overcome it, I am going to try some experiments with religion on my existing characters. And if it won't be a complete clusterfuck and won't cause huge shitstorms from amarrian part of population, I'll roll myself Amarrian alt.
And maybe give him or her to your corp.
And then we could fight together once again.
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That space is not on fire! (for the moment)
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That space is not on fire! (for the moment)
Well Father Abel dropped a cigarr in my Garden :evil: so atleast a part of 3kb station was on fire.
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My previous experience showed I can easily accept slavery concepts. The problem comes from the Amarr religion, because I look at it from scientist's point of view, it is like a trigger, that clicks in your head and refuses to go further. To try to overcome it, I am going to try some experiments with religion on my existing characters. And if it won't be a complete clusterfuck and won't cause huge shitstorms from amarrian part of population, I'll roll myself Amarrian alt.
The Amarr religion has plenty of room for rational scientific thinking me thinks.
However, playing a zealot might make it a little harder that way... Maybe less with a pragmatic cyberknight though.
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The Amarr religion has plenty of room for rational scientific thinking me thinks.
From my point of view, any religion is quite sensitive and controversial topic. It is made mostly of feeling of the followers, and then you are coming to them with your ideas, with your world view. Will it be a friendly conversation, or they will show their spikes? We will see, if my rational thinking can live together with something sacred and dogmatic.
However, playing a zealot might make it a little harder that way... Maybe less with a pragmatic cyberknight though.
I need to think about it. But Im afraid, that becoming something idealistic and noble isn't the reason why I would like to try Amarr :roll:
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The Amarr religion has plenty of room for rational scientific thinking me thinks.
From my point of view, any religion is quite sensitive and controversial topic. It is made mostly of feeling of the followers, and then you are coming to them with your ideas, with your world view. Will it be a friendly conversation, or they will show their spikes? We will see, if my rational thinking can live together with something sacred and dogmatic.
From my experience it has always been spikes rather than flowers indeed. Except from liberals, characters like Ashar.
But more generally Amarrians have scientists too. I am not sure they all think like obscurantist monks/inquisitors when inventing new tech, and I am sure their views on God involve something different from the usual supernatural fatherly being.
But I think we are going off topic.
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Yup, lets cut this deviation and see how it will go :)
And wish luck to Graelyn.
Man, I might bump into your corp someday :cube:
And for now, some epic music for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65GSQPRhhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o65GSQPRhhw)
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Good to see an active amarrian corporation joining the good fight. Hopefully with 'Winter Coming'(tm) we should see some interesting shifts in both warzones, and much more reason to operate collaboratively on matters of importance (such as capping critical systems when a stalemate has wound on for weeks).
Looking forwards to potentially flying alongside you in the future with Statebros.
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I shall dispatch my
saboteurs and terror agents diplomats immediately!
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Good luck Graelyn, I hope this works out great.
Hell, if I were around and playing I'd be hard-pressed to not pursue a join option with Jesmine. ;)
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Raise the flag time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-b9TioIto
Good luck with this, and try not to collapse until after I get back! I want to shoot at you a bit >.>
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So I guess I resubbed last night. I guess I could do stuff? But...
THING IS... I was planning to actually go back to PIE and rule the world with Mitty...
Now I have choices.
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PIE should join AM then. :yar:
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Well, honestly, no...you two could totally make PIE matter again, and you should do that.
I'd been intending to sort of shore up forces until the next next FW fix (forrealzthistimeWEMEANIT), but...
1. Current odds on CCP not fucking this up a fourth (fifth?) time are in the single digit range.
2. You can't 'shore up forces' in EVE, you must keep pilots active or they move on to find places that are.
3. I've spent 9+ years 'investing' in EVE's development, and I'm convinced that CCP believes EVE (the PC MMO) at this point to be more or less 'complete'. Heh. Heeeheeh....Hooo....
I really do appreciate a lot of the encouragement many around the RP community have been sending my way with the AM initiative. Still, for the couple weeks, I've yet to speak to anyone in EVE that can deny any of the above points; even the usual die-hard hope-givers have gone silent of late, and I was one of them at one point.
As such, I'll be shutting AM down. Total Amarr RPer numbers are getting close enough to where I can count them on my fingers, so I think I've held out about as long as I could.
We give him a hard time, but TonyG got one thing right; in his final address, he noted EVE's plot and setting, and the way those things could integrate with the game, it's Scope, and it's complexity, were "—hands down the most underutilized force in EVE....story is so deep and offers so much to science fiction fans that it has every potential to reach those heights. It could take years, decades, or longer. But the fact remains that it’s possible. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know that’s kept me inspired since 2003."
I will try to keep being inspired.
I will continue to wait for EVE to utilize some of this strength, to have some testicles again.
I cannot continue to pay for the privilege.
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Well, I'm sorry that it didn't work out for you, though if FW does change for the better, maybe you can start it back up again. I hope you're not leaving EvE, though I would understand, its just slightly confusing with what you said.
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2. You can't 'shore up forces' in EVE, you must keep pilots active or they move on to find places that are.
This!
IMHO eve needs now good Amarr players as never before. Current amarr situation is very bad. We really need good, strong, charismatic amarrians, with as minimal liberal ideals as possible, ready to lead and teach.
Inspire peoples around you, and you will find yourself inspired too.
Best way to keep people inspired and active, is to become FC, and militia chat is a very good pool of peoples. Majority of peoples in militia don't go around, because there are no (good) FCs, and even crazyhead peoples like me, who just fly around to shoot something and die horribly death, would like to see good FC and join up.
So, my advice is: become a militia FC.
Teach people to PvP.
Teach them to RP.
And you will pretty soon have enough people around you to put Minmatar coalition on its knees.
Conquer and enslave!
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Graelyn is about as Liberal as its possible to be, iirc.
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In that case, WTS cheap: brutalizer pills and evilifying mixture! :P
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What?
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I will try to keep being inspired.
I will continue to wait for EVE to utilize some of this strength, to have some testicles again.
I cannot continue to pay for the privilege.
This, pretty much. My wallet appreciates the fact that I am no longer spending money on a game I hadn't enjoyed playing in months. It was just an expensive chat interface, and while I miss chatting with many of you, I lack the assets to do it via plex and don't really have the RL iskies to spend.
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Don't leave Graelyn!
We needs you.
You remaining Amarr RPers might consider more 'circling the wagon' and joining something like PIE or working closer together.
Facwar is a burning sinking ship of RP fail, please please do your own things and grow your corps elsewhere.
You can't make any progress with the current setup, as powers greater than any small RP group conspire to tilt the field in a particular direction.
Go be anti-pirate in lowsec, go wardec highsec matari corps, just stay out of facwar.
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... go wardec highsec matari corps ...
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I will try to keep being inspired.
I will continue to wait for EVE to utilize some of this strength, to have some testicles again.
I cannot continue to pay for the privilege.
This, pretty much. My wallet appreciates the fact that I am no longer spending money on a game I hadn't enjoyed playing in months. It was just an expensive chat interface, and while I miss chatting with many of you, I lack the assets to do it via plex and don't really have the RL iskies to spend.
This indeed. My wallet appreciates my absence as well as EVE was turning into a pretty expensive and/or time-comsuming chat-client. I've been around long enough to see Amarr-RP ebb and flow, but now with seeing it shrinking into near-nothingness motivation to actually play (and pay for) EVE did as well.
Good luck Graelyn. Maybe there will be changes in the future that will let us see a resurgence in Amarr-RP.
Until then!