Log 044

Log 044

-Author: Rinas Rylos
-Rank: C.E.O.
-Corporation: Rinas' Raiders (R.R.A.S.)
-Date: 115.08.06

Guilty pleasures. Everyone has one. On the battlefield,  mine is nailing headshots on unaware snipers that aren't moving. Some call it low-hanging fruit, but I like to imagine I've saved at least a few people who the snipers were about to hit my own teammates. Granted, the quality of snipers that hang out where they're within easy access of my own sniping perches probably varies a great deal, so let's call it a toss-up.

Outside of the battlefield, I'd have to say my guilty pleasure lies in reading about which corp is murdering another over land in Molden Heath. It doesn't affect me in the slightest, apart from occasionally making me wish I could get hired by some flashy corp with too much money to go mount up for them, but I enjoy watching the reports flow in about who killed who, which corp has taken over what, and all the rest of the drama that comes from the various alliances and truces happening across MH. I know it's only a single system, but damn if it isn't fun watching the carnage ensue across all the different planets, with millions upon millions of ISK being procured, then spent. Still not entirely sure how the Minmatar are expecting to take the system back, or if they even really want to given how much lower the ground-side crime has gotten since we moved in, but that'll definitely be a battle to remember if they do.

Speaking of defying authority, word on the grapevine is that more and more capsuleers are getting fed up with dealing with the bullshit the Empires keep throwing out. Can't say I blame 'em in the slightest for it, but occasionally I'll read about their dissatisfaction causing them to do more than simply spite the empires for the sake of it. Is it rebellion when you're already practically independent of the faction that made you? I guess not, but the steps they're preparing to take are certainly going to cause one hell of a ruckus throughout New Eden. It's one thing to blow up a few government ships and get paid for it by another empire. It's a whole other ball game to start usurping what those pricks in office (or church, if you're Amarrian) consider rightfully theirs, and I don't imagine they're going to sit down and take it.

With that said, this has been a long time coming. Did anyone ever stop to think that perhaps continuing to push out immortal after immortal along with handing them near free-reign to do whatever the hell they want wouldn't come back to bite them in the ass someday? And not just in the whole,"Oh, we made them but now they're on our shitlist" kinda way, but by building up an independent nation of people who are -thanks to you- immortal, wielding destructive capabilities when banding together that would put everyone besides the Jove to shame, coupled with a sense of ruthlessness and independent action that would make the Minmatar blush? The only thing that's really kept them appeased for all this time is killing each other, and even that gets old eventually. Mind you, that's not even getting into us, the immortal mercenaries that can cause trouble ground-side that the capsuleers can only dream about. Yeah, they can drop strikes from orbit and all that, but if you want a continual force to take over and hold a construction yard, a town, or even a city, that's where you need us. We are crossing the Rubicon on a boat of the Empire's making, and they're not going to like what they find on the other side.

-End Log