why else wouldn't they have rebuilt their HQ yet?They must be using the same contractors Ishukone's hired.
No doubt there's instances of corruption and enemy faction infiltration given how large they areOne of the live actors played a Nation sleeper agent posing as a CONCORD officer during the Incursions. She got bloweded up by some players who were suspicious of her.
If this mandate had been more public knowledge earlier on, I think some of the prevalent attitudes might have been different. :p
Natalcya's unbending letter-of-the-law-instead-of-spirit-of-the-law attitude was always interesting when she was a CONCORD loyalist. (Even if it made Ko want to pull her hair out more than once. :p)
The Corrupt Police is the perfect archetype for CONCORD, however. I don't see where the The Law Above All Else Cops comes in play for CONCORD, because they would step on the toes of the Big Four's own police affairs. 'That is the intention', could be said, but CONCORD is fundamentally composed of members from the Big Four. There is a subset that is apart of CONCORD's unique disposition, but they are a small minority.
The Corrupt Police is the perfect archetype for CONCORD, however. I don't see where the The Law Above All Else Cops comes in play for CONCORD, because they would step on the toes of the Big Four's own police affairs. 'That is the intention', could be said, but CONCORD is fundamentally composed of members from the Big Four. There is a subset that is apart of CONCORD's unique disposition, but they are a small minority.
This is what I mean. In the chronicle I linked, it says that the DED (at least) are 'incorruptible'. This FP entry (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/CONCORD) says CONCORD "is doing its job very well and there have been no major cases of abused power" with a "fear that this may change one day".
The "corrupt CONCORD" seems to be a player construct more than anything, probably for the sake of RP convienience. Uncompromising paladins is how they've consistently come across so far, and certainly the Inner Circle characters in TEA/T1 weren't all Dr Evil supervillains planning to advance their own schemes.
In addition, the DED takes care of all kinds of security issues regarding meetings and conferences between the empires, they lend ships for operations by the other branches of the CONCORD, and they often support local law enforcement in dealing with large-scale criminal activity or similar matters. DED ships are equipped with the latest surveillance technology and are considered a great support for customs patrols. The DED’s jurisdiction is limited to space but in recent years they have been authorized to operate in stations and on planets.
Quote from: SeriphynNo doubt there's instances of corruption and enemy faction infiltration given how large they areOne of the live actors played a Nation sleeper agent posing as a CONCORD officer during the Incursions. She got bloweded up by some players who were suspicious of her.
CONCORD pays the supporters of pirate factions to shoot the Navies of the empires in 0.0?
If that is not a sign of corruption or unbridled megalomania then what is.
why Gallente/Minmatar relations are currently "strained" (no real explanation for that).You mean besides the crippling of the Republic's Federation-backed parliament and rise in Tribal government?
why Gallente/Minmatar relations are currently "strained" (no real explanation for that).You mean besides the crippling of the Republic's Federation-backed parliament and rise in Tribal government?
"The Gallente had a dream, and they called this dream democracy," said the Ambassador in his speech. "This dream was given to the Republic in its infancy and held to be the right and true way for a civilized society to govern. We now stand in the shattered remains of this dream with one unavoidable truth facing us: democracy has failed."
I also have wondered why so few, or even none, really paid attention to what the Elders did.
It is very unclear/vague to me what is stated in PF regarding the new Tribal governement. They still speak about a Republic parliament that is still there, but not much else. I guess that tribal stuff gets important is at the level of tribe/subtribes/clans representatives and how they are nominated. And maybe also the composition of the parliament itself.
I also have wondered why so few, or even none, really paid attention to what the Elders did.
I suspect a bunch of people hadn't read TEA, or were in denial about it. I know I'd like to pretend the Elders had never been invented, and once they'd officially decided to take their Starkmanir gene samples off to their secret utopias, I was pretty happy never to speak of them IC.
1. a CONCORD agent was working for the Sansha during the live RP events..Uncle Sansha has nanites! And far more subtle forms of mind control hinted at in TBL. That's not corruption so much as infiltration.
3. CONCORD in general allows some pretty shady practices. Like for instance, war decs? Where you basically 'pay-off' CONCORD so you can shoot at another capsuleer run organization? Sounds corrupt to me.Ah, but nowhere in CONCORD's mandate does it say anything about keeping free capsuleers safe and happy. In fact, read with a touch of paranoia, it's quite the opposite. Divided and warlike capsuleers are both manageable and aggressive and skilled enough to be useful tools of the Empires. Dependence on the ISK economy makes sure that we will be just that.
CONCORD isn't corrupt. It's just that no one realizes CONCORD are our true enemies.
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Also, yeah. CONCORD aren't necessarily corrupt. They are, in fact, working as intended: Keeping the capsuleers under control. We can't do much more than take a shit without CONCORD's approval and likely their oversight as well. They're holding us back from actually being the powerhouses we should be by limiting our access to the outside world.
CONCORD isn't corrupt. It's just that no one realizes CONCORD are our true enemies.
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(Request: tinfoil hat smiley.)
I think a few of us have characters that have made that leap lately...
And a tinfoil hat smiley would OWN.
I also have wondered why so few, or even none, really paid attention to what the Elders did.
I suspect a bunch of people hadn't read TEA, or were in denial about it. I know I'd like to pretend the Elders had never been invented, and once they'd officially decided to take their Starkmanir gene samples off to their secret utopias, I was pretty happy never to speak of them IC.
Oh I would like to pretend they never existed as well. The same with Jamyl, raped Midular, the Broker, etc.
And, I have never read TEA. But those events are so widespread, like the slave emancipation, Tibus Heth rise, the Elder attack (we even saw it on a trailer), it is hard to miss them as a roleplayer. I may even argue that they are one of the first things new RPers see in the lore now.
Also, I find it helps if you imagine that the Broker's real name is "Istvaan Shogaatsu". Fucking up things by finding a crazy person called Heth and giving him the Caldari State strikes me as totally in keeping with his reputation.