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.

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.

Because it was a big, well-advertised event that included a lot of people in both Eve and DUST. Unlike you, CCP doesn't decide to not include people based on the way they post on a forum.

There is no problem with this. CCP recognized a group of players by mentioning them. That's it! I think it's just a great piece of community engagement.

If they had been given stuff, or given 'the opportunity' to get stuff, we'd be talking about an entirely different ballpark. Those kinds of rewards and events only lead to the bad old days of Aurora where an alliance in Eve was given pre-event knowledge so that they could acquire a Hel supercarrier at no cost or risk. (present day value approx. 22 billion ISK, although this was a long time ago) And, of course, there's the whole BoB and t20 thing which was way worse, but the Hel incident is more relevant considering that was actually related to RP/a live event.

I wouldn't take it personally