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Banding Together to Combat Piracy

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Jan 11, 2017 A. Blackstone link
Today is a new day my friends. Today SOM (Spirit of Maynard) was officially formed. Our first order of business brought us to Sedina B8, where myself CO Euscorpius, and our newest recruit XV104 Riptide launched an attack on the VOID pirates posted there. Their numbers and dents were overwhelming at first, but the soldiers of the itani nation (SKV) and Serco nation (ONE) took to arms to combat the pirate menace with us. I heard static on comms about Blaqk and his 14 girlfriends, but could barely hear it over the sound of blasters and deshielded dents. This improvised coalition deshielded their dent Armada and chased them down to Latos M7 where they were held captive. A few scattered to not be seen again, and the rest disappeared without a trace.

Piracy will be eliminated. The 3 Nations have had enough, and this is just the beginning. We will hunt you, you are surrounded from all sides. Nationalists and pirate hunters alike are coming for you. And there is no where to run.

Apolo Blackstone, Spirit of Maynard 1st LT
Jan 11, 2017 XeraX link
Their numbers and dents were overwhelming at first, but the soldiers of the itani nation (SKV) and Serco nation (ONE) took to arms to combat the pirate menace with us.

lol.

soo... you were being battered by VOID and then SKV, ONE and "SOM" worked together to kill off VOID?
arch enemies who regularly kill each other in an ancient war and have targeted unarmed civilians, wives and kids of the other nation to punish their enemy with a horrible impact worked together with some "pirate hunting guild" to battle off some grey space pirates in... grey space?

got it.
Jan 11, 2017 A. Blackstone link
Their reasons for putting that aside for a moment is none if my concern. I just appreciate that they helped make greyspace a safer place
Jan 11, 2017 XeraX link
can you explain to me why you have not sold out yourself by working together with these two guilds?

both SKV and ONE have a history of pirating. ONE targets EMS. fraspex of ONE has killed Dilan Rona of EMS today and then had taken his carge on his EDIT alt fraptor. both SKV and ONE target TGFT and regularly kill them in grey space and steal their stuff. ONE has been seen randomly killing UIT because they were bored.

can you now explain why you did not target all of the guilds fighting in that sector? you were happy that somebody else was there fighting VOID and jumped in. you are not honest to your RP. if you were advocates for making grey space a safe place you would not only target VOID but also ONE and SKV who are no more than grey space pirates.

unless of course you are able to successfully bring across that this is not the case this is my opinion. so... are you?
Jan 11, 2017 A. Blackstone link
I'm pretty sure I just explained my position on ONE and SKVs affairs. They have not proven to be pirates by any definition. I assume they have shot EMS because they believe they work with pirates. I have no opinion on that as I do not know.
Jan 11, 2017 XeraX link
haha. sure man. you're true heros and defenders of the peace.
Jan 11, 2017 bojansplash link
SKV is at war with VOID and their close ally TGFT.
TGFT had a chance to surrender under our terms and end this war but they failed to do it so the war goes on.
Jan 11, 2017 Euscorpius link
We have no conflict with SKV, ONE, or TGFT. We haven't seen these "acts of piracy", so we have nothing to judge bases on. We would have to see it for ourselves. We can't go off and believe everything said in the forums, because not everything said here is true. Of course if we saw ONE or anyone shooting an EMS or some other innocent pilot we would defend them. But, we haven't seen it for ourselves or had it even reported to us by the people who have supposedly been attacked.
Jan 11, 2017 Mi5 link
You should ask EMS yourself, oh and we smoked you guys. There's pictures of the end results of this battle floating around and it was in VOID's favor by a landslide, that's with SKV/ONE/GTE supporting you.

When will [SOM] [ONE] roleplay or will this just be another temporary guild in the federation?
Jan 11, 2017 A. Blackstone link
The end result of the fight was literally you logging off and your pirate buddies disappearing.
Jan 11, 2017 smittens link
Euscorpius:

1. You should ask Dilan Rona, LT of EMS. He can explain to you best who helps and who attacks the pacifist medics

2. Here is the Commander of ONE describing their policy of shooting medics that THEY decide are "helping" VOID (or have otherwise annoyed BigNasty, which you'll find is a long list of mostly admirable people): https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/14/33098#388198

3. If you spend much time monitoring these RP comms or the recent discussions, you'll quickly see which side is trying to make this video game a little more fun... and which side invents bizarre conspiracy theories to back up their kill-anyone-I-hate playstyle

(and just a hint, it's not Blaqk's "14GF alliance" talk which... as the other side STILL somehow hasn't picked up on... is actually a satire of their own inane "anyone who can beat me is a lagger/hacker/alt-abuser"-based conspiracy theories)
Jan 11, 2017 greenwall link
but the soldiers of the itani nation (SKV) and Serco nation (ONE) took to arms to combat the pirate menace with us.

This can't be right. SKV and ONE are sworn enemies and never fight on the same team!
Jan 11, 2017 Ore link
Alts, guilds, nations. who am I?! I'm so confused
Jan 12, 2017 csgno1 link
soldiers of the itani nation (SKV) and Serco nation (ONE) took to arms to combat the pirate menace with us

I don't believe you.
Jan 12, 2017 XeraX link
so your policy is "we didnt see anything!!! you cant prove it and we wont believe you since everyone lies on the forums!!!"? that's interesting.

you'll have to live with me thinking that you're just a couple of opportunists who call in serco and itani nationalists who have completely abandoned real nationalist-RP to be able to stand a chance against a common enemy. and you even admit to that in the very first post of this thread.

on another note, i am sure both SKV and ONE thought "NO. SHUT THE HECK UP DUUUDE" when they read this thread. you rolled in blue eyed telling that you killed some pirates with ONE and SKV as a big nice group, proving something that they were desperately trying to hold low and silent. hehe.
Jan 12, 2017 bojansplash link
Actually, when I joined the battle that was ongoing for a bit, there were no ONE members in it.
There was however, 1 SWA member, 1 GTE member and 1 SOM member in my team - all Itani.
The SOM commander joined us later when the battle was almost finished and all VOID made a "tactical retreat" to M7 to hide and repair their beaten tridents.

I do not deny that SKV & ONE have an understanding over conquerable stations for a practical reason.
None of us want to waste time and resources fighting over stations, we have better things to do.
Jan 12, 2017 Euscorpius link
you'll have to live with me thinking that you're just a couple of opportunists who call in serco and itani nationalists who have completely abandoned real nationalist-RP to be able to stand a chance against a common enemy. and you even admit to that in the very first post of this thread

Like what Blackstone said earlier, we are glad that they put aside their differences and join in on the fight against the pirate menace.

You also have to remember that we aren't the nationalists; we won't interfere in their wars. In fact, GTE aren't a nationalist and they were helping us kill the pirates in the first place. ONE and SKV joined in a while later. We didn't invite them, they asked and we said sure.

Also like I said earlier, if I see/get a report of any player/guild attacking innocent pilots, we will protect them the best way we can.

One last thing. Blackstone has mentioned this in another post as well, the fact being people do want a pirate hunting guild but won't bother joining. I believe this is a matter of not having hope because the pirate threat has been active in VO since the beginning of VO. Stylezmaster said in a post that two SOM won't stand a chance against all of VOID, and that does ring some truth. We need more recruits, and no one wants to join in like I thought they would. That team effort with SKV and ONE was only temporary. We don't want to put SOM into nationalist wars, but we were out-manned and they offered to help us.

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EDIT: Oh, smittens. Later today I will be going in-game and have a discussion with Dilan Rona of EMS about the situation.
Jan 12, 2017 XeraX link
I do not deny that SKV & ONE have an understanding over conquerable stations for a practical reason.

thank you for confirming this bojansplash. i agree it's practical. but you're also selling out and beating up nationalism with a baseball bat by doing this. instead of making an agreement with VOID (who sorta live in grey space) to keep out your enemy - the Serco - you make an agreement with your historical enemies (the Serco!) who have commited horrific war crimes against your nation. that's low and a joke. you pick personal grudges in a game over RP. that just kind of ruins it man.

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ONE and SKV joined in a while later. We didn't invite them, they asked and we said sure.

ok thank you for putting light into this situation Eusorpious. thats very interesting.
Jan 12, 2017 bojansplash link
@XeraX

instead of making an agreement with VOID....

You are missing the crucial fact here - VOID declared war on SKV and our guilds are in a state of war.

SKV has successfully worked together with VOID in the past and participated in many battles against serco militants until the moment VOID decided to sell out to TGFT and became their puppets.
After that treacherous move, there is no going back.
Jan 12, 2017 greenwall link
Actually, when I joined the battle that was ongoing for a bit, there were no ONE members in it.

Totally false. This is confirmed by Euscorpius's repeated confirming that SKV and ONE "put aside their differences" and fought alongside them.

Nobody thinks ONE or SKV are nationalists any longer, or in any way NOT allied. Continuing the charade is simple trolling at this point. The biggest surprise in VO these days would be evidence of SKV actually fighting serco nationalists.

VOID has no problem fighting SKV... after all, they suck.