EVE Online at Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMOG Gamers to the Next Level!

Espionage in EVE is typically done to provide strategic intelligence to an alliance's leadership or for raw profit. But that's not entertaining enough for the GIA. Not only do our agents serve an intelligence function, but they also keep an ear to the ground to acquire the finest 'chat porn' - the posts of our enemies, wailing and gnashing their teeth in the face of our war machine. Over the years, we've collected an inordinate amount of chat porn. Some of it is fairly mundane - the bromides and rationalizations people typically ward themselves with to cope with defeat. But every now and then, truly exceptional examples crop up. For your sadistic enjoyment, they are reprised here: the Archive of Tears. If you're not a griefer at heart, you might want to stop reading; This isn't pretty.

Firmus Ixion: God Save Us from Goonswarm

In March 2007, the coalition was preparing to invade Querious and oust Firmus Ixion (FIX), a Band of Brothers vassal alliance. The GIA was lucky enough to have director-level access to FIX's forums, which meant that we could follow the every move of their leadership. The FIX directorate got word of the Swarm's plans to invade and grief them, and began discussing what to do. Under normal circumstances, one would never risk director-level access just to show off chat porn, but what we discovered wasn't just an alliance on the verge of a failure cascade. We had inspired a crisis of faith. A seemingly normal thread, begun by the leader of FIX, swiftly became a place for director Creed Richards of Dark Centauri Inc to unburden his soul.

FIX's leader announces the pending invasion:

Ok so Malindah kindly passed me this intel today from a source (reliable)

"Goons are being recalled to Agil. Not for any specific op but in general - against FIX. There is Mittani's sticky thread on their forums giving a lot of details about FIX - names of their leaders, officers, known directors and so on. Mittani is telling his goons to scam them, harass and do other... not very nice things He also listed complexes, choke points and other important info about Querious."

Be on the alert for scams and other such crap and stuff like you really shouldnt have to deal with in an on-line game, keep logs too incase it crosses a line!

Do not deal with anyone claiming to be an alt of leadership or anyone else etc etc, basically just take extra care in everything and be ready for it.

Yesterday I was contacted by an alt claiming to belong to Laird about cheap POS's after passing it onto Mal he then claimed to be Breakerjoe's alt.

I will put out a less specific alliance mail to this effect too.

James

Creed Richards begs for the Almighty to intervene to save his spaceships:

What has become of a game that would drive people this low? What has become of honor? Will such people be allowed to complete their goals using such dishonorable and underhanded and downright mean tactics. I pray not.

In the SA war, even in the CODA war, I have never heard of our advarsaries going this low. Again, what has become of honor, even among advarsaries?

EVE is become a game that is very difficult to play these days. Between being very poor in PVP, being cruely ganged upon by the Goons, RL needs, and to top it off hearing about CCP's decision to give suicide gankers the means and rewards to search for big payoff targets in areas meant to be safe (see my rant in the relevant thread in the general forum) makes my sorrow all the more unbearable.

There is not much I can do for my corp or alliance these days, except pray. IMHO, God has delievered FIX many times from the brink since the first SA war. The prayer I posted above 9cg station has been answered. I thank Him for that, and I hope God will answer it now, and defeat those who wish to undermine us so cruelly and thoughtlessly.

It is one thing to fight against BOB and allies because of ideals. (they aren't perfect either, and I don't always like the manner they conduct themselves, regardless of recent allegations), but to go this low...It's just unexcusable.

I hope we can be lifted up, strengthened in resolve, Christ-like in mutual charity, and fight this. Fight with honor, fight with conviction, and make a good accounting of ourselves amd Gpd willing, rout this foe. I hope I could be a little more like that, and the time available to do that, maybe I could. But it's hard...JAKD and FIX has suffered much these past months, some wounds self inflicted, and they have yet to fully heal.

We need to get back on our feet, and stand tall again, even in the face of such darkness.

God save FIX.

Creed

ps...Please forgive this little emotional piece, recent events and reading have brought my spirits down and I needed to vent a bit.

In the end, Jesus did not save Firmus Ixion. Alas!