Aighun
Zumari Force Projection
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.06.27 19:43:00 -
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And now time for a little lore...
Just how did there come to be so much salvage in New Eden? The answer is simple. Classic case of overproduction based on massively over hyped projections that just didn't pan out.
The Empires were hoping that with the rise of the cloned mercenary soldiers, they would ba able to make up some ground on the capsuleers. Factories and related facilities across Galletne, Caldari, Amarr and Minmatar space ramped up production of armaments and marteriel for ground based warfare to what is generally referred to in the vernacular as "Triple A level." Both middle management and line workers, both free and enslaved were expected to stay laser focused maximizing throughput as they labored round the clock.
Soon, profits would be rolling in. Expectations were that somewhere between 60 and 75 thousand cloned soldiers would be duking it out in battles from Jitta to Fountain, from Cloud Ring to the Drone Regions at any given time. On a daily basis. Sadly, as we here today know all too well, this never came to pass.
So there are literally boat loads or weapons littered across the many systems of New Eden. For a while it was viable strategy to ground barges full of guns and tanks on planets in backwater systems in order to at least make back some of that lost time, effort, and ISK in insurance claims. Shipments were abandoned, hidden, lost, left in self storage units only to be auctioned off to sellers who found it more profitable to cut the cargo containers adrift rather than pay to ship those items anywhere they could be sold for pennies on the dollar. Deliveries were refused but by the time those shipments had reached production facilities that were rapidly winding down operations (to B even C levels, before shutting down entirely) those same facilities were already buried under uncounted piles of unmoved stock.
Middle managers spent lonely hours contemplating the vagaries of capitalism, watched their life savings slowly erode while trying to scrape by on unemployment and tried to stave off misery and depression by tending tiny exotic trees said to be alien in origin though we all know there aren't any aliens in New Eden. Factory workers shipped out as maintenance crew on capsuleer starships and all but a lucky few died within a few weeks. Others can even today be seen wandering the streets of any major metropolis begging for tree fiddy.
Long story short, there is a lot of salvage. And we, the new, new cloned soldiers of New Eden, are numerous, we are legion, like ants. Like ants, we are New Edens cleaners, heroic scavengers that are here to take out the trash and make up for the overly optimistic mistakes of yesterday.
But no matter how many times we hoover up a particular stretch of rocky desert, there is always another scow filled with assault rifles or discarded cargo pod packed full of basic drop uplinks in a decaying orbit just about to burn through the atmosphere and crater into the exact spot you looted a few hours ago.
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