W-3BSU - An assault on IDLE EMPIRE installations ended in three capital losses for the United Freemen Alliance earlier this week. The aim of the UFA operation had been part of a wider strategy to maintain control over the region of Geminate, along with their allies KIA Alliance. A small number of systems in the region have been under IDLE sovereignty for 2 weeks; it was only early this week that their presence has drawn UFA's attention. Rowlandos, head of IDLE, denies UFA or KIA had any right over the [...]
Intaki Prime, Placid - Recognizing gaps in the availability of some local products, the Intaki Liberation Front [ILF] have upgraded their starbase in the area to include a research and manufacturing facility. Under the leadership of corporation member Sumerio Rayej, the starbase has been producing several profitable items with a focus on small and medium ship rigs. An Ishkur, their first Tech 2 ship to be manufactured, is set to be completed within the next couple of days. Sumerio explains why the [...]
Stacmon, Placid - A war earlier this year in Placid between the Intaki Liberation Front [ILF] and Moira. forced the closure of the ILF shipyard "Prosperity Station" in Intaki after 4 months of operation. Following the end of this war, the ILF facility is now once again fully operational. Saxon Hawke of the ILF said "The conflict began [roughly two months ago] when Moira. CEO Julianus Soter ordered his pilot Seraphim Risen to carry out a suicide attack against one of the Intaki Liberation Front miners [...]
Amarr - The Imperial Navy issued an emergency press release explicitly stating that the Kador invasion was not sanctioned by the Ministry of War and that all military actions by his forces should be considered rogue and not representative of the Amarr Empire. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continues as the Federation is reported to have launched a massive counterattack to support forces in Ratillose. This is a breaking news story. We will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.
Late last week the Band of Brothers (BoB) alliance, and the Coalition of the Imperial Republic Of The North (IRON) together with the G Alliance, clashed heavily in the Deklein region, resulting in the withdrawal of BoB and the surrender of the system JU-OWQ and its outpost to the attacking force. In the early afternoon of last Thursday a sizeable contingent of IRON, G and associated ships entered the JU-OWQ system under the sovereignty of BoB. Their target, a large control tower, had been reduced to [...]
Kador Prime - Sunday 24th 19:00 , the ISGC Racing League roared into life once again in New Eden, with Season VI kicking off in the Kador region. The race organiser Gyra Rho , states that this season hosts a range of changes as well as new features, "With the new season comes lots of changes, including the allowance of Faction frigates in the frigate class, (the addition of) amateur and professional pots for individual pilots, and a rookie pot exclusively for new pilots to the league, (these are) in [...]
New Eden - Season V has recently come to a close and has been one of the most successful seasons for the League with an increase in the number of racers and teams, it has however also been a season of upsets, firstly with the death of Kendar Zek a great supporter of the league and well known philanthropist, and secondly with the title for the frigate class going to a rookie. The individual prizes this season went to: demon flir - [Scuderia Caille] Individual Frigate Champion Takashi Kurosawa - [...]
Malkalen – The Ishukone Corporation Board of Directors agreed to grant strategic control of industrial operations to Tibus Heth, joining the rest of the mega-corporations in their partnership with the Caldari Providence Directorate. Ishukone employees, still mourning the loss of Otro Gariushi and the hundreds of thousands who also perished in the Malkalen disaster, overwhelmingly support the measure. The board also announced that an active search is underway to appoint a new CEO. Chief Financial [...]
Malkalen - The Ishukone Corporation released a statement in which they confirmed that CEO Otro Gariushi was killed during the attack on its headquarters station in Malkalen. Also killed were Federation Economic Minister Wadis Chene and the entire Gallentean delegation. Although Chief Financial Officer Kinachi Hepimeki was declared the acting CEO, she has not been seen since the tragedy occurred. The statement recounts the sequence of events leading up to the catastrophe. The transcript is available [...]
Metropolis - 22 nd February 111. The Interstellar Racing Championship (ISRC) kicked off Season 7 with an exhibition event teaming veteran racers with rookies. As an exhibition event, racers did not race with their regular teams and were restricted to tech 1 frigate class vessels. The organiser for this race Catherine 'Quintrala' Delorois , had the final decision on whether a racer was considered a rookie or veteran. Once the teams had been sorted, the race began at the Aliastra Retail Center Station [...]
The Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has launched the first of its Caravan fleets on March 25, marking a new chapter in their history of innovation and zero-sec pioneering. The Carrier-led fleets will journey out to the recently uncovered regions, where they will conduct personal trades, as well as seed the markets with goods. Since the loss of their outposts, the future of the ISS had been somewhat uncertain, beyond general statements that they would continue to push for innovative approaches to zero- [...]
CATCH. The first publicly owned Outpost, ISS Marginis, has opened for business last October 26th. Finished more than one month ahead of schedule, the Gallente Administrative-type Outpost located at the KDF-GY system is expected to inititate operations with unrestricted access to all pilots regardless their affiliation. Docking rights may be reevaluated in case of acts of piracy in the Outpost’s and neighboring systems, or due to committing acts of aggression towards the ISS Alliance. “We have [...]
Over a month has passed since the opening of the ISS Marginis Outpost on October 26th. The area reportedly has seen little conflict or open disagreements. Dividends have been issued on time, and the commitment to the project continues unabated. Peace, often difficult to attain and sustain, appears to be the result of an open-door and welcoming policy that is keeping the ISS Marginis outpost in operation. Practices of “active diplomacy”, as said by Count TaSessine, involves keeping any piracy or unrest [...]
Providence. Forces of the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate and Ushra´Khan have defended against heavy attacks upon the 9UY4-H system over the past week; an invasion force comprised of several pirate corporations is responsible for the attacks. Sykosys, a pilot from U´K, reported that the invasion started weeks ago when they saw an increase in the number of Finite Horizon pilots in the Providence region. Apparently more like minded corporations and alliances joined them such as the Establishment, [...]
The Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has recently come across a bump in the road in the form of the once hospitable Band of Brothers Alliance. With a swift turn around in policy BoB gave ISS just three days to vacate their space, after recently renegotiating its contracts with the ISS. For many months the ISS has had access to the Period Basis region, a BoB controlled territory, to set-up and maintain their Starbases deep in lawless space. While the terms of the contracts binding both parties remain [...]
Hare, Solitude - IT Alliance's campaign against Cloud Ring residents has met with resistance in Solitude, forcing IT to withdraw from a recent engagement in the Hare system. Three days ago IT alliance started to reinforce towers belonging to Ev0ke, Dead Terrorists and Cry Havoc. in Syndicate and the nearby low security systems. The events began to unfold when IT formed their attack fleet in 6-CZ49, Syndicate. "[We] Tried to catch their fleet staging out from there, but we missed that..." Hoxothul from [...]
C3N-3S , On 12.12.112 over 1,500 pilots engaged in battle over a starbase that had become a regional target of opportunity. The starbase is the home of a titan construction project run by IT Alliance. Titan construction takes months and requires a starbase to carry out the assembly operations. The starbase in C3N-3S is currently building a titan for Lady Scarlet and was put into reinforced mode earlier this week. IT Alliance recalled much of their capital fleet from Catch to defend the starbase. The [...]
6VDT-H, Fountain - The battle between IT Alliance [IT] and the Northern Coalition. [NC] alliance in Fountain saw a heavy blow struck in the late hours of 09.11.112, when IT trapped and destroyed 4 NC supercarriers at a stargate in 6VDT-H. The destruction of a fifth supercarrier is disputed. From the initial engagement, in which a 60-man battleship-heavy NC fleet killed a lone IT dreadnought, the battle escalated sharply. IT undocked an estimated 20 carriers from their outpost, 6VD Dark Prime and after [...]
Eygfe - In the early hours of Sunday morning, three pilots of the Sounds of Violence corporation lost their ships to CONCORD in order to bring down a Mackinaw suspected of covertly working for a local hostile corp. The trio of Ruptures, flown by pilots Psyfr, Jakamo and Ullyses of Sounds of Violence struck in the early hours of the morning, when their target, dailq03, was in the ice belt harvesting Glacial Mass with a large number of other miners. All three were aware of the risk they took. CONCORD [...]
Concervationists have called for a day of mourning today. Strip mining operations have depleted numerous Ice Fields in high-traffic, high-security Empire regions. Initial reports state these resources will not replenish, and other Ice Fields are in danger of the same fate. "Today is a very sad day, knowing that these once vast stretches of natural ice and beauty are forever gone," said Marcalin Chronet, a noted champion of resource and new Capsuleer protection rights. "How many more fields will suffer [...]
INTAKI V - A little over a month since resigning his position at the University of Caille, controversial Intaki spiritual leader Vremaja Idama called for an open summit to discuss the problems afflicting the Intaki populace of the Placid region. Although attendees were deeply divided about the political future of the region, there was a consensus that economic growth should be the first step toward the revitalization of Placid. The region’s vast and untapped mineral wealth was a large topic of [...]
In an official visit to Athra, Idonis Ardishapur is believed to have ordered the immediate arrest, torture and execution of Ray Hardman, a freelance journalist. The arrest is said to come after the journalist interrupted a scripted press event with questions regarding a debated decision by the Amarr Imperial Succession Committee of allowing pilots of other races than Amarr to assist the "pure blooded" Amarrian champions in their upcoming combat duels. While at first ignoring the reporter, Ardishapur [...]
Nonni -- The recently released Spacelane Patrol report on the accident at DCMI's Kaunnoka III-1 facility is "ridiculous," according to a highly placed aide to Provist Director Suvasemi Aikinen. Highly-placed sources within the Kaalakiota Corporation say that Illa Kajoien, head of the Caldari Providence Directorate's Reform Oversight Committee, gave the assessment at a dinner honoring wounded veterans yesterday. The Directorate and Kaalakiota are refusing to comment on his words, saying only that it [...]
Earlier this week, word started to trickle through the criminal underground in the Lonetrek region, that an as yet unnamed Gallente corporation is making preparations to buy large amounts of contraband goods for what is rumoured to be a drastic new research project. Many of the universes worst drugs, as well as slaves are thought to be on the list of desired contraband. When and were the items will be purchased, and for how much is something that the rumours have as yet failed to deliver. Concord has [...]