Peace 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...
View ArticleThe Eye of the Hurricane
Who 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...
View ArticleHeaven
I 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...
View ArticleLUMEN 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,...
View ArticleSarum Tormentor
Somewhere in the warzone and on the Republic side of the border, in a system that is nevertheless under Amarr control:Amarr Victor!
View ArticleFleet 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,...
View ArticlePolaris 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...
View ArticleThirteen 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...
View ArticleShadow 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...
View ArticleNo Sleep 'Til Syndicate
The 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...
View ArticleCassandra 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...
View ArticleEight 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDrugs, Guns, Booze
The 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...
View ArticleHas 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleCovenant 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...
View ArticleFuneral 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...
View ArticleGrand 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...
View ArticleBrief 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...
View ArticleCosmic 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...
View ArticleKeepstar 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...
View ArticleDefence 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...
View ArticleLet There Be Light
The Uchoshi system, The Forge, 03/10/126 On a low-level impulse I rented some quarters in a Tash-Murkonite station in Uchoshi, in The Forge, as it was a good base for field-testing a new project:...
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