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IamLEAM1983
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This is kind of niche, but has anyone from the Red or Blue Chimeras joined EVE Online in the 2010s? More specifically, was anyone with actual military service with Elysium or the US Military involved in the Fountain War of 2013?
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IamLEAM1983
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As Travis
"The funny thing is, a lot of folks were absolutely, positively convinced that Caliban Smith was The Mittani, back in 2014. He's gone on record for saying he's played EVE before and that the game's Excel-spreadsheet-plus-politics-and-space battles schtick kind of appealed to him. The thing is, you don't get to sit on hundreds of billions of ISK by playing between congressional hearings. If you're a top-tier CEO in-game, you're probably flipping burgers in real life and maybe get to converting one-third of a region's net gains into enough PLEX and hard cash to maybe pay rent and buy groceries.
The lucky bastards with game-paid dinky Nissan Sentras and no real job? They're the ones resorting to Greg Rendell-levels of shady shit on the game's servers. I knew a few of those across TEST and the CFC, and our own Ops division knew for a fact that a couple bored Reds started their own corporation together and used the company line outside of company time. Kuhn never really cracked down on them - it kind of served as a nice way for them to flex their tactical muscles. Clan Deinochyus started fighting on TEST's behalf, then switched sides in one of 2013's hottest transactions on the servers. Once TEST was down to a single staging ground and a couple moons, Spearhead's nerds figured they'd expended everything their current fake employer had to offer, in terms of challenge.
Thirty bombers turned on TEST's capital ships overnight, during Australia's server downtime, and kicked the alliance to the curb. By the time the sun rose on Hope, they'd switched to CFC logos and callsigns and mopped up the brunt of Fountain.
Rendell was stupid enough to figure that online treachery meant there was the potential for actual dickery - but they went back to being honor-bound asshats as soon as they logged off. Now there's books and movies being made about the biggest fake war in fiction - one that involved real people online."
The lucky bastards with game-paid dinky Nissan Sentras and no real job? They're the ones resorting to Greg Rendell-levels of shady shit on the game's servers. I knew a few of those across TEST and the CFC, and our own Ops division knew for a fact that a couple bored Reds started their own corporation together and used the company line outside of company time. Kuhn never really cracked down on them - it kind of served as a nice way for them to flex their tactical muscles. Clan Deinochyus started fighting on TEST's behalf, then switched sides in one of 2013's hottest transactions on the servers. Once TEST was down to a single staging ground and a couple moons, Spearhead's nerds figured they'd expended everything their current fake employer had to offer, in terms of challenge.
Thirty bombers turned on TEST's capital ships overnight, during Australia's server downtime, and kicked the alliance to the curb. By the time the sun rose on Hope, they'd switched to CFC logos and callsigns and mopped up the brunt of Fountain.
Rendell was stupid enough to figure that online treachery meant there was the potential for actual dickery - but they went back to being honor-bound asshats as soon as they logged off. Now there's books and movies being made about the biggest fake war in fiction - one that involved real people online."