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You can read our full story on the Guiding Hand Social Club assassination here. Mirial was ruined, Ubiqua Seraph destitute, and Guiding Hand Social Club became EVE Online legends. At the time, it was a heist of unprecedented scale-30 billion ISK worth of ships and items. Meanwhile, dozens of Guiding Hand pilots stationed in Ubiqua Seraph stations pillaged everything stored in shared hangars and storage. The moment Mirial was cut off from help, Guiding Hand pilots warped in and destroyed her ship and even her escape pod, claiming her corpse as tribute to their mysterious employer. When Guiding Hand at last had enough spies in place, it orchestrated a brutal assassination: Arenis convinced Mirial to follow him on a tour of nearby star systems in her (then) ridiculously expensive and rare Navy Apocalypse battleship. It even infiltrated Ubiqua Seraph's senior leadership, with primary spy Arenis Xemdal becoming Mirial's right-hand man. To pull this off, Guiding Hand spent months carefully infiltrating the corporation at every level with multiple spies. Its mission? Kill Ubiqua Seraph CEO Mirial and steal everything that wasn't bolted to the floor. Contracted by an anonymous employer, the Guiding Hand Social Club spent 10 months slowly infiltrating a player-run corporation called Ubiqua Seraph. (Image credit: CCP Games) The Guiding Hand Social Club assassinationĪt the time, it was a heist of unprecedented scale-30 billion ISK worth of ships and items.ĮVE Online's reputation for skullduggery and betrayal was first cemented back in 2005 after a group of assassins staged one of the most elaborate and brutal heists of all time. They stayed trapped for 30 days, until PAPI managed to stage one of the greatest jailbreaks of all time. But server issues crippled PAPI's offensive, leaving hundreds of its Titan pilots stranded behind enemy lines without hope of rescue. The Massacre at M2-XFE would've led to an even bigger battle a few days later as both sides prepared to wage everything in the final fight to save the M2-XFE starbase. It was also EVE's most expensive battle to date, racking up $378,012 in damages (by converting ISK to game subscription time). Unwilling to give up the objective, PAPI called in its own reinforcements and in the 12 hours that followed both sides took turns obliterating thousands of player ships, including a record-setting 257 Titans-over three times as many that died in B-R5RB. It didn't just call in the cavalry, but a whole army of Titan supercapital ships. But then a newbie Imperium pilot managed to damage PAPI's warp jammer, creating a window for the Imperium to call in reinforcements. A coalition of alliances called PAPI had The Imperium up against a wall and were ready to risk everything to capture a star system right in the heart of Imperium space.Īt first, the battle wasn't particularly exciting or notable-just another routine skirmish. But after two huge wars, the tables were turning.
In the years since B-R5RB, CFC turned into The Imperium and had much of the virtual galaxy of EVE in a chokehold. Even though it happened by chance, players from all over the world dropped everything they were doing to login and fight for their side.įor a long time it seemed like no battle could ever eclipse the Bloodbath of B-R5RB, but in the early morning hours of Decemanother battle created shockwaves that are still being felt in the game to this day. Both armadas crashed into one another in B-R5RB, but hundreds of smaller battles broke out in the surrounding star systems. In response, Pandemic Legion phoned in every favor it had and amassed a colossal defense fleet to retain control of the system. Seeing the opportunity to establish a permanent foothold right in PL's backyard, CFC and its Russian allies rallied every single player they could to swarm the system and quickly take it for their own. Players from all over the world dropped everything they were doing to login and fight for their side.
With the bill unpaid, Pandemic Legion suddenly lost control of B-R5RB, which was bad news since the system was also a key staging point in a months-long war between Pandemic Legion (PL) and its allies and the Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC). Everything happened on Januwhen a player living in a lawless region of territory owned by an alliance called Pandemic Legion forgot to set up automatic withdrawal on the in-game tax players have to pay in order to maintain sovereignty over a star system.
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