"9UY4-H" via Ga'len
I believe in Providence’s NRDS policy. I believe that it is a critical training location for new pilots and a location where you can make some of your first steps into nullsec space. After a few months of playing eve, I wanted to get into the nullsec games so I spent some time mining Dark Glitter in Providence. There I learned how to take orders from a FC, watch local, scout, “run the pipe”, etc… …
NRDS Not Red, Don’t Shoot. An engagement policy of corps/alliances where “red” refers to having negative standing, leaving neutrals as “shoot only after being shot at”. More usual in low security space than in 0.0, due to the greater number of genuinely friendly/indifferent neutrals in areas of higher population.
All good learning experiences that helped me grow in my Eve career. I would hate to see CVA loose Providence as it would rob other new players of the same exposure to nullsec.
I didn’t feel like mining last night so I bought some mods in Jita 4-4, hopped on an alt account, and set a course for 9UY4-H, which was recentry taken from CVA by Ushra’Khan.
Leaving empire and entering through KBP7-G I expected resistance or a Heavy Interdictor Bubble on my way to Unity Station, the outpost in UY4-H, but I made my way through alive. When I reached Unity Station, I wasn’t able to dock as my alt is in a NPC Corporation.
Here are some screenshots of the heavily Mobile Warp Disruptor’ed Outpost.
Perhaps someday I will fight the fight in nullsec.
My point is even though I am not able to play EVE at the moment, it feels as though the walls are closing in. We are the defenders in a cave with our backs to the wall and no way out apart from outside, right into the enemy. Even so, I can say, morale wise, m3 are still up for a fight and are doing what they do best, dish out pain. Personally I am definately still in the fight, as long as we can fight I'll do it in every ship I have, until I lose them all, and then, I'll buy some more. We do not give up, "first to fight, last to leave" is our second motto, and apparently why we lose more ships ratio wise than any other corporation in fleets. Morale overall in Proviblock though? Sketchy I would say.
What will the future of Providence be? Rumours are flying around about friend and foes alike, some with solid, hard evidence, some from a random pink lemming falling off an apple tree in the Houses of Parliment. -A- are formidable enemies, and yet, Proviblock is still standing tall, proud and defiant. Reports of unexpected war declarations from Morhus Mihi and Razor Alliances have been confirmed against -A-, I do not know their motives or whether or not how much of an impact that this wil have on Providence and not to mention the situation regarding c0ven and -A-.Will Providence fall? I doubt it. But how much damage and punishment can it take before -A- suffer the consequences?
This (trying very hard not to be ranting) post was mainly inspired by a comment on my (mostly ranting) post here.
Here is the comment in question but feel free to read the entire discussion on the original post:
First of, the proviblock only lost d-g because of grid lag, -A- took the field first, and due to the unfortunate issues introduced in dominion, it appears that whoever takes the grid first wins.
Your corp then proceded to rub it in by bumping out pilots out of a POS bubbles using passwords they got their hands on by placing spies within CVA, underhand tactic that the Provibloc would never use.
The people of Providence have a loyalty that -A- players don’t have. You sound like a glory supporter, jumping to whichever corp you feel you will win with, maybe you should think about trying to stick it out with an underdog alliance and try and put up the best fight you can facing overwhelming odds.
What I understand the least about -A- is that they completely missed the oppertunity to take advantage of the fall of goonswarm. Delve region is worth so much more than Providence, yet you decide to fight for pointless little systems and make life difficult for an easier opponant when you could have push full force into delve and taken over that region. Instead you let it fall to IT Alliance, who I believe will want to come for your blood in the not-too-distant future.
Yeah you can bully the proviblock, but think about it in the long term, its going to be much better to clear out, leave them too it, and concentrate on bigger enemies. Even if you push them out, -A- will fall eventually, and you wont stick with them, you’ll jump into the next strongest corp that will let you in… Loyalty is more important than brute strength.
Yes, I admit that I am an alliance grunt, I have no knowledge of what either CVA or -A-/U’K have in store for the future, so perhaps I’m missing quite a lot somewhere. Perhaps providence has some epic smackdown planned. I’d also like to admit that I feel no ill will whatsoever, I am not bitterly ranting like Helicity Bson did in the epic post about carebears far from it.
I’d just like to address a couple of issues, the first of which is that I have switched alliances to be part of the winning team. In doing so I also hope to demonstrate that despite being an alliance grunt, I know something about defence in both pre and post dominion.
First of all: I did not leave Mostly Harmless (part of the Northern coalition) solely due to the fact that they were on the back foot. In fact, from the moment I entered nullsec until when I left in early January I have only been fighting defensive wars.
We fought against Tri, although that was before I started this blog
We fought against Evoke continuously, holding on, sometimes with the rest of the Northern Coalition, often by ourselves to the critical stations in Cloud ring. When they got the advantage and held our station systems, we fought back.
We fought against Sons of Tangra by ourselves, as they struck into our critical high-end moon systems and staged their entire capital fleet just outside our home region. We won because we counter attacked and they made mistakes. We did not stop harassing them on their home turf. Heck – we reinforced their R64 moons by deep incursions in frikking stealth bombers. We camped their jump bridges, we brought as many people we could to the fight.
We fought against Pandemic Legion who were hell bent on reclaiming all our R64’s just before dominion hit. They presented so much of a threat that we ended up losing the entire region of cloud ring to Evoke while we were defending our home systems. But still we made an effort to harass Evoke and yes, we got wiped out often also but we gave as much as we got. yes, ok, sometimes the northern coalition managed capital blobs. but when the NC weren’t backing us and we faced superior forces in a cyno jammed system we got into stealth bombers and executed coordinated attacks on their RR battleship fleet and made sure that we at least had sub capital fights rather than loosing a system without a fight at all.
Again, we tried to fight off evoke. Here we were fighting a war on both fronts. Pandemic Legion in the heart of our systems in Pure Blind and Evoke making a very good effort to take over cloud ring. We made some very bad mistakes and lost a lot of ships, but immediately afterwards got back into stealth bombers and executed coordinated attacks on PL’s battleship fleets. (the more perceptive here may note the recurring “get in frikking stealth bombers” theme here). Even after the entire Northern coalition tried to force Evoke out, but after some initial success we had to pull back, leaving Cloud Ring to the hostiles.
And again Triumverate came, and we fought against them but also didn’t let evoke take cloud ring without a fight. I didn’t write about the battles where evoke came and destroyed our r64’s in cloud ring because they had more in fleet. I didn’t write about the hours spent sitting staring at a system being totally ripped apart by hostiles because screenshot opportunities were hard to come by. Nor do I write blog posts about the hours spent sitting in a covert ops ship trying to find out where the hostile jump bridges are or which pos’s have Capital ship construction facilities, or where the enemy stages from because that is seriously boring stuff. I write about epic battles, whether we win or loose or even when the battles don’t happen but we made an effort. At one point it was so bad that we were told to move to an NPC station because we didn’t think we could hold Pure Blind. We also had our main staging system attacked, and destroyed prior to which I spent hours ferrying alliance assets out to a rear staging point. And a week of logging off in the ever decreasing number of pos’s in system.
As for the few fights I have had in providence. I have to say, I’ve only been here 2 weeks, I don’t know the history behind -A- and Proviblock, so I have no grudge or any emotion about this. The fight in D-G was great – and I don’t mean great in the fact that we won completely and utterly, I mean great in the fact that Providence actually tried to win. In fact, if I would say that the fight wasn’t satisfying at all. Read this post: Turkey Shoot and you’ll see my views on one fleet wholesale slaughtering another fleet. You’ll see that it is not enjoyable, I would much rather have my ship destroyed and me be podded ten times over if it meant we could have a good bit of a fight.
The reason why I am disappointed with CVA is that there is no resistance, there is no counter attack, you’re not deploying SBU’s in GE-, you’re not harassing our jump bridge network. Did you know that if you incapacitate a jump bridge or pos-based cyno generator, we have to rep it up or kill it entirely before we can online another one? Do you know how freaking long that takes? You can do that with a smallish battleship fleet and therefore prevent reinforcements coming to the front lines and/or divert valuable assets away in order to fix the logistics network. Put together a fleet of 40 or so stealth bombers, find a valuable POS of ours that has only large guns on it and reinforce it or kill cyno generators! If the tower starts to target you, cloak up! make it a war of attrition, leave alts cloaked up in our carebear systems and our staging station systems. harrass our undock points, camp our jump bridges! Don’t just sit there whining about grid lag on a battle that happened half a month ago. Do something!
As for the station loss itself: With the new Sov mechanics, you have 5 days or so, and two major battles with which to reset the attack. Control the system yourselves and the enemies won’t be able to gain it back without a lot of effort. That goes for both sides, attacking or defending In case you didn’t notice, a combined force of -A- and IT alliance was pushed back by goonswarm when we (I wasn’t here at the time) tried to take 49U from them. You’ll notice that goonswarm, despite being at a timezone disadvantage managed to prevail against a superior force. Don’t tell me it’s impossible for CVA to at least try the same, yet over those 5 days sieging 9UY there was no concerted effort to take back the system. there was the occasional freighter breakout fleets and the occasional solo stealth bomber (solo stealth bombers won’t do much at all, get in a group and coordinate your targets and warpings) but that was it. As I have said, I don’t know the reasons high up in CVA for this, but I’m under the impression that it was a major psychological blow to all providence holders, and indeed it was intended to be. -A- doesn’t want that system! we just wanted the psychological blow that it would deliver and we succeeded in that.
Finally, I’d like to state the obvious: holding nullsec requires fighting. If you’re not capable of fighting, then you need to be good friends with an alliance who is. That is the way of it. it’s not “unfair” it’s not “bullying” I don’t even understand what you mean by that…. it’s just the game mechanics. you’re in 0.0 you are not going to get a free ride. I do understand that there are a lot of people in providence itching for a fight. It remains a leadership problem then if you don’t get what you want.
Perhaps it’s not relevant now, U’K have 9UY and are NRDS therefore with the exception of D-G, the holders of Providence region are still NRDS. -A- is withdrawing from the offensive for the short term. perhaps this is the politics that I’ve been missing, perhaps this was intended by CVA.
Still, CVA would do well to heed what confucius said. A quote that I have in my Bio:
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. – Confucius (circa 551-479 BC)
Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not trying to twist the knife, I’m trying to exhort you to take control yourselves!
oooh, and again finally: I’d like to sincerely thank the CVA and proviholder members who have posted on this blog – I appreciate being corrected on things like the relationship with goons and the fact that I’m missing political goings on that are over my grunt-like position in the alliance. I never got that honest feedback when I was in the NC. Being able to have an open dialogue with your enemies is certainly refreshing. I will approve any comments posted on this blog usually within 12 hrs at the latest (I usually post at night and I need my sleepy time) so please be patient if it doesn’t appear immediatly.
I am trying to write a post about the victory in 9UYH-4, the crumbling empire of CVA, and Aralis’ delusional statements. Unfortunately I can’t write anything that sounds even vaguely balanced and I don’t want to stick the knife in and twist it when many friends are having a torrid time. I hope that if this invasion continues, as it seems it inevitably will, that both sides get good fights in the future. Until then, congratulations to my Minmatar brothers. I’m only sorry I couldn’t be there with you.
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And so, after many years, it has come to pass that Unity Station is back where it belongs. I would like to say we had to fight for the right to dock yet I cannot. For reasons known only to the slaver horde, they chose once again to hide away behind propaganda and lies. When all you can fight with are words, the fight is over before the pen hits the paper.
Two years, eight months. To the day, in fact since I delivered the saddest announcement of my life. Two years and eight months ago today I made a broadcast from an infirmary to all of New Eden, accepting the fall of Unity Station to the slavers.
A lot has happened since, and yet I find myself replaying the past, not just writing of it. To my everlasting shame, I spent the final weeks of the fall in an infirmary bed rather than on a battlefield. Perhaps it will be with an equally enduring regret that I spent the liberation in an equally decrepit state.
Two years and nine months ago a blood clot moved into my implants and damn near killed me in the final sense. The doctors still haven’t figured out what the true cause was, or how to cure it for good. Well, a few days back it struck again, as they warned it might. They think its a flaw in my clone imprinting, some subtle defect in the genetic component necessary to even become a Capsuleer. Some days I wonder if even the Jovians fully understand this stuff, because we sure as hell don’t seem to.
And so it was that I woke up in another sick bed, staring at a monitor watching it all pass by as the anaesthetics wore off. That was when Takashi Oshai showed up, I swear he does it to gloat over my misfortune, that damned Caldari.
“You’ve seen then? It happened at last, the party is still going on upstairs I think.” He said waving vaguely towards where ever he thinks the bars are. I had seen of course, I think it was all my eyes had focused on since I woke up.
Takashi told me of the fighting, of the siege, of the first landings and of the exuberant near-riots sweeping through the crews across our stations and ships. “And so, you miss it all again, eh?” he finished.
Damned Caldari. I didn’t say it aloud, but he could hear me thinking it judging by that smug smile on his face. “Its fate’s little joke I suppose, to try and cripple me as history unfolds around me” I said.
“I suppose” he replied. “Still, I figured we can toast the day here, provided that nurse doesn’t come back too soon.” He pulled out a hip flask and two shot glasses from a pocket, poured and handed me a drink. “And what shall the toast be, on such a historic day as this?”
What indeed? What does one drink to on such a momentous day? I had spent maybe hours now thinking back on how we had ended up here. Of the two years rebuilding and gathering our strength to strike back, of the fall that hit us all so hard. I remembered the day we anchored Unity Station’s construction platform, and the moment I announced its completion to New Eden. I remembered the events that saw us move beyond the Republic’s borders and set foot in Providence for the first time.
And that was why I said it, sitting there with this Caldari, celebrating what often seems like such a Matari concern. I raised my glass. “To Hnolku.”
He smiled, perhaps sadly, and with a slight pause and nod of his head replied softly; “To Muritor.”
We have all lost heroes to this war, sometimes I almost forget that it often doesn’t matter where you were born. The war finds you sooner or later. There was only one thing I could find to say to that thought, and the Caldari sat by me. “To those who fell along the way.” We drank to that, and he left.
The voice behind me came as little surprise, the only one being that I hadn’t thought to look for it earlier. The Shaman never seemed far away these days. “And how long have you been there, I wonder?” I asked of him. He declined to answer, of course.
As he walked into my view I saw the familiar leather pouch in his left hand, the strings untied and a fist full of carved finger bones in his right. “Your thoughts linger on the past, as the future lies before you.” Ahh, it would be one of those conversations then. I don’t quite know when I started to indulge the old ways, I wasn’t always so patient with its vagaries as now. I asked if he had a point to make, he had something to say at least.
He cast the bones upon the metal tray at my bedside, and loomed over them to see whatever it is he sees. “Your thoughts are ever on the past, of reclaiming what was taken, of restoring what was lost. That time is at hand.”
“Yes Shaman, Unity Station is ours again, you do not need your bones to see that!” I replied, my patience might have been running short. I hate hospitals. But he had more to say.
“And what now, will come? This is a time of changes, a time of stability draws to an end. You must prepare to ride the shifting winds, to see the new shape of the world and your place within it. As you lie there now the world changes around you; lie too long and it shall change again. Will you be ready? The bones speak of hubris swept aside in rising winds. At whose hand…I cannot say.” And with that he turned to leave.
I was left with the feeling that he might have made a point after all, cryptic as it was. And I needed to get out of that bed! I tried to get myself up but the room started to spin and I found the floor, harder than I’d like. As I pulled myself up I noticed a small box on the bedside table that I didn’t remember being there earlier.
The nurse came back then and man handled me back into bed, cursing me all the time. I didn’t protest much, I knew that I was going to need a few more days before I was ready to go anywhere. When she had moved on to harangue another luckless escaping patient I pulled out the box and snapped it open.
Inside there was something I hadn’t looked at in two years and eight months. It was an encryption key, one that unlocked a special door I hadn’t expected to see again for awhile yet. Looks like I’ll be seeing the old girl again sooner than I had thought.
But first, I need to get out of this damn bed. But next stop, Unity Station.
