Intaki Assembly condemns "orbital strike tournament"
Intaki - The Intaki Assembly has harshly condemned the Imperfects mercenary corporation for organizing a combat tournament on Intaki Prime which featured capsuleers providing off-field support via orbital strikes. The tournament, which involved mercenary corporations from across the cluster, was characterized by the Assembly as "an illegal bloodsport which caused untold damage to the planetary biosphere."

According to information gleaned from satellite reports, survey probes, and official releases from the organizers, the tournament took place amidst military installations recently abandoned by Mordu's Legion and the Ishukone Watch after the revocation of the Blind Auction by Tibus Heth. The mercenary corporations involved battled over the objectives on the planet, while capsuleers, who had been encouraged to place bets on the matches, were allowed to assault the facilities from orbit. Over the course of the tournament, numerous orbital strikes were recorded, and satellite images show several of the facilities have been reduced to rubble.

The majority of the installations were far from habited areas, typically being placed in arid regions of the planet without much surrounding wildlife. The Intaki Assembly claims this is irrelevant. "Orbital strikes, even tactical ones on remote sites, can kick up dust and spread pollution and wreckage," the press release read. "It is unconscionable that someone thought these activities were acceptable for entertainment and profit. That doesn't even consider the fact that it was essentially killing for fun. The Intaki Assembly would have never sanctioned such an event."

Tournament organizer Kane Spero brushed off such criticism, saying, "If anything, they should be thanking us for providing free demolition of those abandoned bases. If not for us, who knows? Kids might have gotten into them. Besides, it's not like anyone was permanently injured."

When we see an interesting place for player interaction with the lore to be acknowledged, we're going to try to tie it in when possible in the future. We've been doing it with our live events in EVE, mentioning organizations who got involved in events. We're not planning on tying things in too tightly, so that if a player organization falls apart or the like, it won't negatively effect our lore.

It's definitely a change from how we used to do things, but we feel like DUST (and EVE) are player-driven games so we want to keep that consistent with our lore.

This has been done in the past with Eve all the time, and no one has ever worried about it. I think your admitted bias against Imperfects is causing a bit of an overreaction on your end, bro.

This has been done in the past with Eve all the time, and no one has ever worried about it. I think your admitted bias against Imperfects is causing a bit of an overreaction on your end, bro.

I'd be more convinced if there were more evidence of this. You're more than welcome to provide that.

A few weeks ago during the tribal summit event there were several players in eve escorting GM ships.

Many player organizations, as well as former members of RP blocks such as Ushra'Kahn, were mentioned by name in the news.

Even Goon suicide gank attempts were mentioned.

Right, but Ushra'Kahn was an RP entity, as I had previously mentioned. In fact, they were the premier Minmatar RP entity fighting against Curatores Veratatis Alliance (spell check?) which were also an RP Entity; expanding into null-sec on behalf of the Amarrian Empire and (despite their major flaws) claiming to operate their space as if it were player-controlled high-sec.

When we see an interesting place for player interaction with the lore to be acknowledged, we're going to try to tie it in when possible in the future. We've been doing it with our live events in EVE, mentioning organizations who got involved in events. We're not planning on tying things in too tightly, so that if a player organization falls apart or the like, it won't negatively effect our lore.

It's definitely a change from how we used to do things, but we feel like DUST (and EVE) are player-driven games so we want to keep that consistent with our lore.

Don't worry, Aeon. If you continue to whinepost all over forums you will eventually get your own story as... hmmm yeah, things don't work that way. Try being beneficial to the community and do something fun instead. This just builds bad reputation to you, to be really honest.

This is cool, and will remain cool. And since it is DUST, RP side of things have to be different as you can't really RP that well in an fps anyway...

I am sure if Searphim/Zion/GIANT/SyN or anyone else organized anything big like this they would get mention as well, but Kane was the first. Hopefully others will follow and build stories and universe as we go. And less post about "why did he get a story and I didn't" on forums.

It's worth noting that specific player groups have been mentioned in lore-related news before, especially when it comes to Intaki.

There has been an Intaki Liberation Front for years and they were brought into the lore years ago.

Also, this is more of a news item, not a "Chronicle". News items are very often about player corps.