Jumpgate Evolution: Deepspace Diary - Volume I, Number 3

Brotherhood has announced its intention to continue Quantar's "Holy Conflict" with Hyperial by disrupting any effort to help the Hyperians finish their announced mission - who knows what will result from the mission. Given the Hyperians well-deserved reputation for subterfuge and double-cross it could be just about anything.

In an interesting turn of events, TRI Marshals has decided to lead the effort to help Hyperial. Aided by Solicidal, Lapis Lazuli, and OAS. Opposing the effort is Brotherhood, ISU and Mujahedin - although with other political tensions between Brotherhood and ISU, this is an uneasy alliance at best.

A major two-day push started last evening (103.9.26). It is unclear what will happen if the pro-Hyperian alliance is unsuccessful. Stay tuned.

There seems to be a rejuvenation of factionalism. Each faction boasts at least one (relatively) new factional squad with the Lapis Lazuli (Sol), IDC (Oct), and Mujahedin and The Arcadians (Quant) - with the Arcadians being the first Quanti shipping on the scene in quite a while. Tensions between Solrain and Octavia have been on the rise, while Quantar has been focusing on its historical enemy, Hyperial.

ISU found a new way to create ripples throughout space with a recent "sting operation" against Brotherhood pilot RangerW. Sources say RangerW was contacted by a member of ISU who was interested in making an artifact purchase. RangerW headed out to deliver two CM4s to an ISU pilot who had offered to buy them provided they were delivered to his POS, with the excuse that he did not want to pick them up flying HG (as required by ISU code) and risk dieing. Ranger headed to Omni V - the deliver point, where he met the ISU pilot who was allegedly leading him to his POS. Suddenly, more ISU appeared off roids and demanded 60 million credits. RangerW refused on principal, choosing, instead to die and lose (by his estimates) 100 million in equipment.

Since then debate has swirled over the action with once side claiming all is fair in love and war and the other claiming that there is no excuse for this kind of underhanded trickery. Needless to say, this has brought political tensions between ISU and Brotherhood to a boil - making the Hyperial blockade even more interesting both the TRI-rebels and the Quanti monks are blockading - each with their own reasons and agenda. If Brotherhood and ISU begin to fight in earnest down in Hyp space, it would work to the advantage of the pro-Hyperial alliance.

Conflux swarms and infestations have been notably on the rise and they seem to have made Quantar Core their target. Pilots of all factions have joined to fight several swarms, one of which left QC entirely isolated. Luckily there were enough nukes available to destroy the infestations, but stocks are reaching critical levels.

LupinOne of New Dawn is leading the charge to restock nukes, announcing Operation Starfire -- an effort to coordinate ice-mining, biomass manufacture and nuke-building. This will require a massive effort and coordination with a dash of luck to complete. The operation is set to kick off on 103.10.2.

Unfortunately, with TRI computers on the fritz, there are no updates on the TRI recruiting program, though simply by observation it appears that the network outage has the number of new pilots venturing out way down. Too bad.