tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-866467953778710702024-03-13T09:03:09.677-07:00It's Not Personal, It's Strictly BusinessAn in-character EVE Online fansite.Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-33141681148229303792024-03-05T02:57:00.000-08:002024-03-05T02:57:24.530-08:00Defence of the Realm The U4-Q2V system, Syndicate Syndicate, or the two constellations of the Syndicate Coalition, has become my home, as God has willed it. Part of my role here is maintaining the stability of this part of space so that SynCo's interests can develop and grow both economically and spiritually.Some of those interests include maintaining the small number of planetside colonies that exist hereCassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-90068008269312964982023-07-31T06:07:00.000-07:002023-07-31T06:07:16.443-07:00Keepstar on the Edge of Infinity The desire to seek remoteness is not about adventure, it's about escape - from other people, from yourself. It's a calling. An obligation, to save your soul.from Essays on New Eden's Sociological Evolution, 3rd EditionI've been performing a series of experiments with Needlejack Filaments: those devices that came about as a by-product of the Triglavian Invasion.I'm loath to get into this Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-81296251845613356942023-04-11T12:01:00.002-07:002023-04-11T12:01:30.276-07:00Cosmic Rifts and Spacetime Distortions 'On a long enough timeline, the survival rate drops to zero'Overheard in a bar in Kandashi Station in M2-CF1At some point in the deep past, the area of space that we now call the Syndicate was an unusually violent place - in a cosmic sense, not in terms of the behaviour of its inhabitants. Evidence of that past is demonstrated by three 'landmarks' located here, all of them within a few Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-11263119623060289232023-02-13T14:44:00.000-08:002023-02-13T14:44:36.933-08:00Brief Notes on the Blackglass/Zeugma Combo I upgraded my head recently. I installed a Neural Lace 'Blackglass' Net Intrusion 920-40 implant into what I've come to regard as my Explorer Clone: the version of me that has a whole bunch of very expensive implants installed in it, all to make me uncatchable, undetectable and as slippery as a Gallente politician.The Blackglass implant is remarkable, incredible in its enhancement of my Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-72826058325604710082022-12-09T04:08:00.002-08:002022-12-09T04:08:41.577-08:00Grand Theft Supercarrier The A-3ES3 System, SyndicateOur allies in the Intaki Business Logistics Union had an interesting time earlier this year when the two constellations of 'Synco Pocket' were invaded by a capsuleer group of gangsters led by somebody called 'Tinkerhell', who, in apparent reprisal for some perceived smacktalk/insult that took place in Placid, attempted to take the Pocket's space for themselves. Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-35822672028263288082022-11-06T15:39:00.000-08:002022-11-06T15:39:09.461-08:00Funeral in Palas'They don't make 'em like this anymore''Good!'Overheard at the Novae Prismaticae, the Girani-Fa system, Genesis, during 03-YC124The Armageddon battleship is actually a bit dreck when viewed dispassionately by military analysts, because its age and general obsolescence mean that it is outclassed in its category by virtually everything else in the cluster.But I own one, and I have a soft spot Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-9477012762500851422022-10-24T15:00:00.001-07:002022-11-01T08:28:38.331-07:00Covenant Network Disruption Syndicate, 10/124It seems the Sani Sabik abominations have started their annual 'Crimson Harvest' again. These vile heresies are like insects. I must have killed literally millions of them in their spacecraft but they keep on coming. It is among the highest of religious duties to purge them.And yet they persist.This time the Order of St.Tetrimon has stepped up and declared its intention to Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-76999655723418218412022-09-22T13:00:00.000-07:002022-09-22T13:00:59.952-07:00If Only Bombs Were Legal in Low-Security Space The Ahbazon system in Genesis. YesterdayIt's been some time now since a direct stargate link between the State and the Empire was restored - in record time, it should be said - after Niarja was drawn into Triglavian Abyssal Deadspace, and, in all likelihood, lost forever; severing the previous direct link between our two great civilisations. 'Our' end of the new link is in the Ahbazon Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-40678449016336983652022-08-09T14:48:00.000-07:002022-08-09T14:48:02.299-07:00Has It Really Come To This?Amarr Prime, 5/8/124 Another Foundation Day is upon us. It is once again time to praise God and all that is Holy Amarr - its people, its territories, its faith - and give our thanks to the Great Prophet himself for establishing his church on Athra - Amarr Prime - all those millennia ago.Khimi Harar's Foundation Day Parade played its customary part:Foundation Day is a time for the rest of NewCassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-77132206410864769582022-06-05T11:24:00.006-07:002022-10-02T14:27:47.107-07:00Drugs, Guns, BoozeThe Vicinity of the Fourth Moon of Jita IV, earlier this year'This place is unbelievable. You know ever since they built the extension, that's no space station anymore, it's another moon. I don't know why they don't just call it that. Tow it into orbit around the planet and leave it there. But yeah then they built the elevator, so at least there's that.''You can get anything you want in this Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-80944036309360917302022-04-18T02:24:00.001-07:002022-04-18T02:24:55.486-07:00How Can It Be Murder When No-One Ever Dies?Operation Remember Raravoss IVIt was only a capsule. Only a capsule.It's not the first time I podded somebody either.I've done ganks before and regretted it afterwards. Ganking novice capsuleers who haven't yet realised there is a big difference between initial training and actually doing it. Ganking unarmed Ventures in gas sites, or ganking novice explorers who hack sites with the mentalityCassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-28773353742971598982022-03-14T12:39:00.000-07:002022-03-14T12:39:06.634-07:00The Ethical Issues Concerning The Athanor Mining Laser Firing Sequence 'What if this thing were used where life already exists..?'Question asked by the media during the Upwell Consortium press conference announcing the Athanor-class refinery station during YC119A while ago I docked in one of our Athanors in the Gamis system to prepare for a mining operation the following morning, so for the first time ever I would be present when an Athanor fired its mining Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-36037917691379471532022-01-26T17:00:00.070-08:002022-01-30T04:44:43.312-08:00Eight Years On - Titanomachy Revisited'Most wars start for fairly prosaic reasons.'New Eden's History of Violence Vol III - Hedion University ArchivesIt is eight years since one of the biggest, most notorious, most destructive capital ship battles in New Eden history took place.The Battle of B-R5RB.A week ago I visited the site for the first time. This is my account.* * *Prologue - Tanoo IIWhen I made the decision to go to B-R5RB I Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-71453880558990193452022-01-17T13:40:00.001-08:002022-01-20T13:13:54.968-08:00Cassandra Tyrannos Somewhere in Khanid...There is a Drifter ship that appears to bear my name.A couple of years ago - possibly before the Triglavian Collective appeared dramatically and cryptically out of nowhere/higher dimensions/abyssal space with those scratchy holofeeds that appeared to show them owning Drifter ships with complete impunity - a new class of Drifter ship appeared in New Eden, classified by Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-4960364568222035132021-12-01T14:32:00.001-08:002021-12-01T14:39:34.344-08:00No Sleep 'Til SyndicateThe Tactical Operations Centre of Astrahus-Class Citadel 'LUMEN Cathedral of Syndicate', the XS-XAY system, Intaki Syndicate - 01:00 NESTAs may be apparent already, I'm spending more time in the Syndicate lately. In fact as I type this into my datapad, I'm pulling a shift as duty capsuleer-in-command of the citadel's defensive arsenal. Evening prayers were observed before I signed in, and I have Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-71368227940079238042021-10-21T05:46:00.001-07:002021-10-21T05:48:27.239-07:00Shadow Serpentis Titan Encounter The Syndicate Region - 10/20/123 15:10 hrsLUMEN has deployed to Syndicate for Operation Oriflamme Threshold: a series of exercises aimed at asserting Amarrian influence in the region against both the Serpentis Corporation and the Fed; and to demonstrate our ongoing support of our allies in the Intaki Business Logistics Union [I-BLU] and the Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive [I-RED], who Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-54455440082626083262021-09-26T05:00:00.001-07:002021-09-26T05:00:00.239-07:00Thirteen Shots of Exploding POCO Gantries Operation Divine OrderIt has become a thing in New Eden where some corporations looking to wage economic warfare engage in a somewhat passive-aggressive tactic of blockading planets and impeding normal trade with them by establishing POCO installation gantries - the temporary structures that are used as a base from which a full-sized POCO structure is built - around a planet and leaving Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-36938868276809677372021-08-30T10:02:00.000-07:002021-08-30T10:02:05.073-07:00Polaris Legatus Frigate Another of LUMEN's events commemorating Foundation Day YC123 was Brother Theodosius Savnar's tour of several of the Empire's most important in-space landmarks. The first tour he ran was so successful he ran a second tour later the same day, which I was honoured to join.The tour was not limited to LUMEN members; it was publicised in advance on various media outlets as one of the many events Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-46280794567523965122021-08-22T03:59:00.004-07:002021-08-22T03:59:00.235-07:00Fleet of Charons Back when I variously and at different times lived in Khanid and Genesis, a fleet of freighters was a rare sight. Now, living in a highsec 'pipe'** system, I see this sort of thing all the time, although it's no less spectacular for it:**This pipe being what became, after the Triglavian Invasion and their 'Final Liminality' event, the new principal artery between Amarr and Jita that was forCassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-23358487773552874562021-08-18T02:22:00.004-07:002021-08-18T04:46:35.033-07:00Sarum TormentorSomewhere in the warzone and on the Republic side of the border, in a system that is nevertheless under Amarr control:Amarr Victor!Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-52017680968412230432021-08-08T09:32:00.000-07:002021-08-08T09:32:55.913-07:00LUMEN Foundation Day Fleet Review In honour of Foundation Day YC123, LUMEN performed a Fleet Review over several landmarks and installations in the Home System. It was preceded by some formation rehearsals in the Sarum Prime system, followed by the Review itself over the Emperor Family Academy station, the Imperial Navy Honour Guard over the Amarr homeworld, and the newly-commissioned TES St. Jamyl The Liberator and its Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-3723107642844948222021-07-11T04:21:00.004-07:002021-09-05T10:36:18.052-07:00HeavenI have a vast and ever-growing archive of cam-drone stills, because New Eden is a staggeringly beautiful part of the cosmos when viewed through the visual enhancements and augmentations that are intrinsic to being jacked into a ship through a neural link. In fact it is an aesthetic unavailable to baseliners as it is not possible to, for example, view the galactic plane with a star in direct Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-79441744088664428922021-07-07T05:20:00.001-07:002021-07-07T05:20:57.332-07:00The Eye of the HurricaneWho dares wins24th Imperial Crusade Advanced Tactical and Strategic Frigate Doctrines, Vol III LUMEN has resumed fleet patrols of the warzone since the Pochven campaign ended. Our most spectacular 'kill' during the first of this new series of operations was the ambush and destruction of a Hurricane-class battlecruiser, no less, in the Hadozeko system, deep within the Minmatar border Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-40685044280640561572021-07-04T04:12:00.001-07:002021-07-04T04:12:10.691-07:00Peace In Our Time - is perhaps an optimistic and even unrealistic attitude to take in the long term (especially with respect to recent 'Emergent Threats'...), but given the status of the border systems between the Empire and the Tribal Hordes and the CONCORD-refereed 'eternal war' between us and them, we must rejoice in the fact that right now all the systems on the Empire's side of the border are safely Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86646795377871070.post-57994897268392395862021-06-20T12:20:00.002-07:002022-02-10T10:31:09.354-08:00Into The Domain of Pochven 'When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target; better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with the elusiveness of your presence.'Utada Rura - Templar Operations (Advanced) - Hedion University Archives LUMEN historically took a defensive posture with respect to addressing threats to the Empire, preferring to operate within Cassandra Habaluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15131698270566246881noreply@blogger.com