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[Steffanie Saissore]

So, during a conversation I had in game the other day, someone brought up the idea that I should take my Order to the Sisters of EVE.  Thinking about it, and what the SoE seem to stand for, it does make a certain amount of sense...join and provide armed protection for their missions, etc.  I am not 100% married to the idea, but would there be a way to go about this in game?


I ask mostly because I don't just want to say "this is how it is" especially if there is a chance to build a story around it.  Hope that makes sense.

[Svetlana Scarlet]

The problem with humanitarian organizations having military power is then all of the sudden everyone gets very nervous about letting them actually do anything. If the SSoE need protection, then optimally, it needs protection provided by the people they are trying to help or those with influence with them to provide that support. Once they can wield their own military forces, people start being very wary of letting them get too entrenched, or letting them even in their borders. Part of their protection is that very few people consider them a threat.

[Aria Jenneth]

(1) There's an SoE epic arc, I believe-- the original highsec one.

(2) There's no "actual" way to get your doings officially endorsed by any faction, regardless of who you are. You can work to get your standings up by running missions and such (and even the SoE have work for capsuleers, IIRC), but very few will criticize you for claiming that you've got some sort of relationship with a faction that isn't strictly possible within the game's framework so long as you don't take it too far.

(3) The SoE do have a militant branch of sorts. Check out the "Black Mountain" chronicle series (which I don't actually like very much, but for other reasons).

[Mithfindel]

In the fiction the Servant Sisters of EVE are unique in that sense that they are nearly immune from attack by anyone, except Rogue Drones. This is because most pirates realize that if they get into trouble, probably the only people who will help are the SoE. However, Sanctuary (the R&D arm) is having its own zealots and fanatics, and are not shy of doing black ops (e.g. in the Black Mountain series of chronicles).

[Steffanie Saissore]

Thanks...and some of the points raised are things that were not far off my own thoughts.  Think I will continue on the original plan I had, but always good to ask 

[Ghost Hunter]

(1) There's an SoE epic arc, I believe-- the original highsec one.

(2) There's no "actual" way to get your doings officially endorsed by any faction, regardless of who you are. You can work to get your standings up by running missions and such (and even the SoE have work for capsuleers, IIRC), but very few will criticize you for claiming that you've got some sort of relationship with a faction that isn't strictly possible within the game's framework so long as you don't take it too far.

(3) The SoE do have a militant branch of sorts. Check out the "Black Mountain" chronicle series (which I don't actually like very much, but for other reasons).

Well actually...

If there's a monitored actor character you can try cutting deals with them~

[Aria Jenneth]

If there's a monitored actor character you can try cutting deals with them~

Can you?

Excellent. Good for CCP. A bit late for my use, but excellent.

[Ghost Hunter]

If there's a monitored actor character you can try cutting deals with them~

Can you?

Excellent. Good for CCP. A bit late for my use, but excellent.

I'm not sure who the SOE character is, but generally yes. If it's a simple handshake of acknowledgment and what not, it's not that difficult in my experience. If you come asking for serious military ops, things that requires Internal Affair's approval, then it'll probably get turned away until a later date.

[Lyn Farel]

So, during a conversation I had in game the other day, someone brought up the idea that I should take my Order to the Sisters of EVE.  Thinking about it, and what the SoE seem to stand for, it does make a certain amount of sense...join and provide armed protection for their missions, etc.  I am not 100% married to the idea, but would there be a way to go about this in game?


I ask mostly because I don't just want to say "this is how it is" especially if there is a chance to build a story around it.  Hope that makes sense.

Yeah if you have the time you should read the Black Mountain chronicle. It tells a lot about Sanctuary and the military means of the sisters.

[Safai]

I had thoughts about this a while back, too. Definitely you should read the Black Mountain chronicles.

[Steffanie Saissore]

Thanks.  Will track down the recommended reading and proceed from there 

[Shintoko Akahoshi]

In any case, using the (perhaps tired, but it's most of what we have available) mechanism of agent missions as an indicator, the SoE do have a need for military allies. Shin used to run mission for the SoE in Pure Blind, and about half of them were kill missions. Then there was that time that her SoE agent gave her several cases of high tech firearms as part of a mission reward...

[Vincent Pryce]

TBL has a nice peek into SOE and how they deal with things.

They are humanitarian, but they will fuck you up if you stand in their way. They are not at all nice people at core, lots of grimdark in that house of holy. Pardon the pun.

[Svetlana Scarlet]

TBL has a nice peek into SOE and how they deal with things.

They are humanitarian, but they will fuck you up if you stand in their way. They are not at all nice people at core, lots of grimdark in that house of holy. Pardon the pun.

There's a lot of grimdark in everything Hjalti writes. It's one of the things that generally bugs me about his stuff, honestly.

[Creep]

TBL has a nice peek into SOE and how they deal with things.

They are humanitarian, but they will fuck you up if you stand in their way. They are not at all nice people at core, lots of grimdark in that house of holy. Pardon the pun.

There's a lot of grimdark in everything Hjalti writes. It's one of the things that generally bugs me about his stuff, honestly.

Oh come on, the very end of Black Mountain is deliciously hair-raising with the realization that the SoE are just as cold and brutal as the SoCT.