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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => CCP Public Library => Topic started by: Milo Caman on 12 Dec 2010, 16:09
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Julianus Soter > why isn't there a 4 page long backstage thread about this?
Probably going to end up crossposting this on Backstage in a few days, but anyways:
-Serpentis Actor (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Aerte%20Benset) pops up in Orvolle: Fantasic! Turns out CCP haven't forgotten Serp Faction after all.
Mail Sent out pointing out that Serpentis should really be using the Incursions to push their own agenda:
Re: Placid
From: Milo Caman (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Milo%20Caman)
Sent: 2010.12.12 20:04
To: Aerte Benset (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Aerte%20Benset),
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I'm amazed that people can happily claim to wreck Serpentis property, kill employees and expect no retribution.
Why chase ghosts around the cluster when there's profit to be made and oportunities to wreck your enemies?
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Re: Placid
From: Aerte Benset (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Aerte%20Benset)
Sent: 2010.12.12 19:27
To: Milo Caman (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Milo%20Caman),
And how did you suppose I could help here?
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Re: Placid
From: Milo Caman (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Milo%20Caman)
Sent: 2010.12.11 19:09
To: Aerte Benset (https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Aerte%20Benset),
Ms Benset
In light of the Incursion at Orvolle, I'd like to bring to your attention the following article. (http://www.arcadianewsnetwork.net/?p=415)
The Serpentis should be using these Incursions as an opportunity to push their own agenda, not involving themselves in struggles between the Nation and the Empires.
Yes, the Nation are a potential threat, but short of them infringing on Serpentis Space, I think we can safely leave the Faction Navies and Independent Capsuleer groups to deal with them.
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I do hope you’ll take this into consideration.
Regards
Milo Caman
CEO of Anshar Incorporated
-Unconfirmed Sighting of Serpentis actor in Khanid Space. Apparantly left before I arrived. Orvolle is a fairly logical place to show up, but Khanid is really rather out of the way. I'm concerned CCP are going to just run the serps into a head-on conflict with the nation, totally ignoring the fact that they're an amoral organization only out there for profit + power. This is probably unfounded.
Thoughts on where this might go?
Also, Apologies for minor Pyramid Quote
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Maybe they took your EVE Fiction post to heart? Wait and see, I guess...
Meanwhile, keep on reppin' True Serp. :)
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nice. Shiney.
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I happen to agree with you here Milo.
I really don't think the Serps would be in it for anything other than "A quick few bucks".
Although they have been in the business of helping out at major points recently, see their aid assistance at the planet that imploded when the wormholes appeared (forget the name right now)
So really, I think its a good idea to make CCP think a bit more about their direction with the Serps as they really are quite awesome :P
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Here's hoping we get some response from CCP. Looks like people here want to see what happens as much as we do. :D
Serps get that money! >:U
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I happen to agree with you here Milo.
I really don't think the Serps would be in it for anything other than "A quick few bucks".
My dear sir or madam. One of the worst mistakes you could possibly make, is to assume that a criminal organization is merely out for "a few quick bucks." A few quick bucks is what the corner drug dealer wants to make. A few quick bucks is what a criminal earns, when he's just starting out - because the whole point of crime is to make more money than is legally feasible!
An organization such as Serpentis, with its countless members, should be assumed to be capable of far greater forethought. I, for one, suspect there's a grand reason why they hijacked that Titan...
To figure out what that reason is, ask yourselves... "what can a Titan do, that no other ship can?"
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My dear sir or madam. One of the worst mistakes you could possibly make, is to assume that a criminal organization is merely out for "a few quick bucks." A few quick bucks is what the corner drug dealer wants to make. A few quick bucks is what a criminal earns, when he's just starting out - because the whole point of crime is to make more money than is legally feasible!
An organization such as Serpentis, with its countless members, should be assumed to be capable of far greater forethought. I, for one, suspect there's a grand reason why they hijacked that Titan...
To figure out what that reason is, ask yourselves... "what can a Titan do, that no other ship can?"
- Fart and take out a blob of ships surrounding it (assuming the Solteur that the Serps have hasn't been "updated")
- Blow up one ship at a time with a stream of what I'll refer to as "titan piss" (if it has been "updated")
- Jump bridge ships that don't require a covops cloak.
Am I on track there? :P
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Hm, and if they can bypass whatever cynojammers the empires use... like, say, the Thukkers did... :twisted:
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My dear sir or madam. One of the worst mistakes you could possibly make, is to assume that a criminal organization is merely out for "a few quick bucks." A few quick bucks is what the corner drug dealer wants to make. A few quick bucks is what a criminal earns, when he's just starting out - because the whole point of crime is to make more money than is legally feasible!
An organization such as Serpentis, with its countless members, should be assumed to be capable of far greater forethought. I, for one, suspect there's a grand reason why they hijacked that Titan...
To figure out what that reason is, ask yourselves... "what can a Titan do, that no other ship can?"
- Fart and take out a blob of ships surrounding it (assuming the Solteur that the Serps have hasn't been "updated")
- Blow up one ship at a time with a stream of what I'll refer to as "titan piss" (if it has been "updated")
- Jump bridge ships that don't require a covops cloak.
Am I on track there? :P
No, not yet.
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"Nice coastal city you have there, planetary governor. Would be a real shame if there was an improbably large tide. A real shame indeed."
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The Serpentis are primarily interested in booster manufacturing and maybe some implant production as well, I thought. That said, while they might look to extend their operations into new areas, they don't strike me as the violent extortionist types directly. (That's why they contract the Guardian Angels, after all.)
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"Nice coastal city you have there, planetary governor. Would be a real shame if there was an improbably large tide. A real shame indeed."
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Cookies. Though it'd have to be a rich planet :)
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They might not be inherently violent, but booster manufacturing isn't the ends, its the means. It's nice to have a constant stream of income from addicts, but you can't just sit on it forever, that's a waste of currency.
Boosters are the means, the Titan is a means, and the Sansha invasion could also be an opportunistic means. The ends, well, only Big Boss Sarpati knows that part.
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ooooh fun =)
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deadmau5 also released his new album, so I suggest anyone with loyalties to the Serpentis do their part and start passing copies to the underground Gallentean raves. All the cool kids are doin' it! :D
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"what can a Titan do, that no other ship can?"
Reschard.
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Well, thing about the Serpentis Corporation is that...
They look like they'd fit in a Bond film. With all the improbable and outlandish schemes they come up with.
"Ah Bond, come in. Now, what do you know about the Serpentis Corporation?"
"Pharmaceuticals. Recreational ones. Owned by Salvador Sarpati. Moved after a dispute with the government. Stole a Solteur titan."
"Yes. Very good. Have a look at this."
"A shipping manifest. Jump drive components. Isotopes. Hmm, lots of them."
"Exactly Bond. Lots of them. Ordered by a Serpentis shell company infiltrated by Federal Intelligence. Intelligence believes they are planning on updating and moving the Solteur, possibly using it. Obviously this cannot be allowed to happen. We want you to go there, find out where it is, and destroy it, if it's not possible to retrieve it."
Later on it is revealed that Sarpati wants to use the Solteur to... Write his name on Gallente Prime's Moon!
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I like the Serpentis for the pure reason it implies a lot of "illegal corporations" as Serpentis fronts in the Gallente Federation...
ME2 anyone? Professional military types up against deadly corporate paramilitaries? :3
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I happen to agree with you here Milo.
I really don't think the Serps would be in it for anything other than "A quick few bucks".
My dear sir or madam. One of the worst mistakes you could possibly make, is to assume that a criminal organization is merely out for "a few quick bucks." A few quick bucks is what the corner drug dealer wants to make. A few quick bucks is what a criminal earns, when he's just starting out - because the whole point of crime is to make more money than is legally feasible!
An organization such as Serpentis, with its countless members, should be assumed to be capable of far greater forethought. I, for one, suspect there's a grand reason why they hijacked that Titan...
To figure out what that reason is, ask yourselves... "what can a Titan do, that no other ship can?"
Perhaps the incorrect use of wording is missleading here, as compared to what I thought to myself.
Rephrased, that the Serpentis corporation can use the discord and diverted attention of the Major empires to further its own agenda's and reap exorbitantly large amounts of ISK... to fund some grand plan involving a Titan, or maybe even a second? >_>
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Louella, I <3 you.
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"Nice coastal city you have there, planetary governor. Would be a real shame if there was an improbably large tide. A real shame indeed."
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I will now and forever think of that Monty Python skit when ever someone mentions the Serps.
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Well, thing about the Serpentis Corporation is that...
They look like they'd fit in a Bond film. With all the improbable and outlandish schemes they come up with.
"Ah Bond, come in. Now, what do you know about the Serpentis Corporation?"
"Pharmaceuticals. Recreational ones. Owned by Salvador Sarpati. Moved after a dispute with the government. Stole a Solteur titan."
"Yes. Very good. Have a look at this."
"A shipping manifest. Jump drive components. Isotopes. Hmm, lots of them."
"Exactly Bond. Lots of them. Ordered by a Serpentis shell company infiltrated by Federal Intelligence. Intelligence believes they are planning on updating and moving the Solteur, possibly using it. Obviously this cannot be allowed to happen. We want you to go there, find out where it is, and destroy it, if it's not possible to retrieve it."
Later on it is revealed that Sarpati wants to use the Solteur to... Write his name on Gallente Prime's Moon!
I loled.
A lot.