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Interview with Bear Heroditus of Kempston Productions

KNac — Wed, 18 May 2016 13:32:03 +0000

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Recently Bear Heroditus of Kempston Productions interviewed CMDR RealDB to talk on behalf of Victoria Wolf and AEDC.

You can hear the interview at their website, check it out!

Rise To Power F.A.Q.

KNac — Tue, 17 May 2016 11:59:47 +0000

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What distinguishes Victoria from Mahon?

Prime Minister Edmund Mahon is a duly elected member of the Alliance government. As such, his responsibilities are great in making sure each member system’s voice is heard and needs are met. Victoria Wolf VI, not being an elected official, has no such responsibilities. She is able to focus all of her energies on building successful relationships with individuals and organizations throughout Alliance Space. She has formed partnerships with corporations like Lakon Spaceways and government agencies like the ADF.

While not being elected, she is still building a coalition based on her tireless efforts and strong vision for what she and her supporters can accomplish. Thanks to each of her numerous friends, she will be able to engage in actions both overtly and covertly to ensure the safety, security, and prosperity of all Alliance citizens.

Victoria has grown in a backwater system, having to deal with the problems of the “small people”, that shaped her as a DIY (do it yourself) character, with a pragmatical, sometimes rough, approach to problem solving.. To get things done. In that sense she may be cold and detached from the political and bureaucratic intrigues of Alioth, where skilled politicians like successful Mahon are better equipped to deal with the nuisances of dealing with a fragmented parliament.

Instead Victoria strengths are dealing with the daily operations and problems of the people who, many times, won’t feel the decisions being taken in the parliaments, and have a more direct approach to democratic governance on the ground, on the fringe systems that blend with the Federation, and coordination with peaceful merchants and traders, as well as dealing with local felons and violent dictators, sometimes with force, sometimes building local support with local resistance groups and Alliance aligned factions, and sometimes with skilful diplomacy getting systems to join the Alliance network.

Which are Victoria political goals and interests?

Being the CEO of a corporation does not preclude Victoria of having ideals or interests beyond the mere acquisition of profits. On the last times, the corporation has just been a tool to further advance her goals, especially as a funding vehicle, as seen on her recent operations.

Her education on human values, freedom and progress have shaped her character to value those things, and her privileged position have allowed her to focus on pursuing and extending those values ultimately.

On this regard she values the Alliance as an organisation which has always defended and pursued those values too, and considers it a vehicle to spread them. On the last decades the Alliance has stagnated under the weight of heavy bureaucracy and growing pains, and more recently border conflicts with Federation forces. On this regard she wishes to return to a path where the Alliance is not focused just on commerce and trade, or turning a blind eye on local dictators and criminal gangsters. But transform the Alliance towards an active power seeking the restoration of democracy where it has been lost, and spread fairness and justice on place of corruption and jingoism like under Federation rule, or brutality and barbarism like under the rule of local thugs.

And on with such goals she has formed a network of factions and local like minded leaders which have become detached of Alioth due to all the mentioned problems, with the idea of restoring the rule of democracy, overthrowing corruption and let commerce thrive, and get things done in a practical way, using whatever means are at their disposal as long as are justified.

What would be Victoria standing with the Federation?

The Federation, under the command of Hudson and Winters influence, has been attacking Alliance system relentlessly, and are one of the main actors behind increasing instability in the fringe Alliance member worlds.

With Minister Mahon being constrained and Alliance resources over-extended fighting the large Federal military machine, many of those systems have fallen under Federation influence zone, or are constantly under attack and siege.

It’s obvious Victoria is not happy with the situation, as this has been one of the main reasons that have pushed her to act and raise as an influential person in the region.

What would be Victoria standing with the Empire?

Obviously she is not sympathetic with slavery, and as such sees the uprise of a new generation of Imperial citizens identified with Aisling with good eyes and hope.

However the current conflicts in her region concern her more than the distant lands of the Empire, instead she wishes to focus on more pressing matters and dangers and expand civilization further into the galaxy.

Wolf 406 Transport success, secures Lakon contract and starts production!

KNac — Sat, 23 May 2015 11:35:52 +0000

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The community goal:

Civil war!

KNac — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:53:03 +0000

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We got a civil war to win! Check daily orders for an update.

Update

And five ays later we won, congrats to everybody who participated. Good job!

Progress Report 28/01/3001

KNac — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:05:30 +0000

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Today we saw further advances in influence both in Enki and LHS 2687. It does not seem that an accelerating influence differential equally accelerates the triggering of the civil war, due to this and to not risk a 'boom' we are halting every activity in LHS 2687, we tested what we wanted to test, and now we want to know what happens when a civil war triggers in absence of player action.

In Enki there seems not to be changes in the trends of the states (pending or active), but we will keep trying a few more days, although our actions seem to hurt more EC than stopping our 'boom'; in case we fail to do this, we will let the states run their course and wait for the necessary cool downs to end.

As always, visit the 'orders of the day' thread for more details on how to proceed!

Enki

Alliance Protectorate - 57.6% +3.3%
Enki Corporation - 25.1% -3.1%
Others: -0.2%

LHS 2687

LHS 2687 Progressive Party - 28.5% -7.5%
Jet Power Interstellar - 49.1% +13.6%
Autocracy of LHS 2687 - 19.8% -5.3%
Partnership of LHS 2687 - 2.0% -0.5%
LHS 2687 Dynamic Inc - 0.6% -0.2%

Progress Report 27/01/3001

KNac — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:58:55 +0000

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Today report, influence by AP continues well on track with further rises. Unfortunately it seems that while our active black ops campaing is having an efffect on the Enki Corporation (with uptrending civil unrest and lockdown now), due to orders latency or simply uncontrollable conditions we are getting uprising boom again. However this is not bad news because we got a partial confirmation that Boom has a threshold, when reach it will precipitate the end and for counter-cyclical reasons we may see a comeback of civil war chance.

In order to reach that threshold, we are opening again all mission running and trading (in Bass Port) with the Alliance Protectorate. The objective is to flood the market, all sort of imports and exports are welcome. Meanwhile our campaing of terror against the Enki Corporation must continue, specially against trading vessels remember!

For more info proceed to daily orders and the current operation thread, as usual.

AP: 54.3% +2.1% trending UP (economic Boom - trending UP)
EC: 28.2% -1.1% trending DOWN (Civil Unrest and Lockdown pending - both trending UP)
Others: -1%

Progress Report 26-Jan-3301

KNac — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:06:59 +0000

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Early report today...

AP: 52.2% +3.3% trending UP (economic Boom - stable)
EC: 30.3% -2.1% trending DOWN (Civil Unrest and Lockdown pending - stable)
others: -1.2%

Solid progress again. But no state changes.

We know from recent posts by FD executive producer that certain states are incompatible, and as long as there is one active state it will block other states. We suspect that Boom blocks Civil War (obviously, it makes sense, too busy counting the monies to grab a gun!). We will change activity to try finish this economic boom ASAP. Please visit the updated orders of the day for a summary about what to do.

We are running a friendly competition for this week that hopefully will help us to get on the right track, read about it in case it may interest you (who knows, you may get a fat prize if you win!).

Cheers!

Progress Report 25-Jan-3301

KNac — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:24:36 +0000

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Last reports came today from AP intel division. The upsurge in AEDC pilot activity (300+ transit last 24h) it's giving very positive results:

AP: 48.9% +3.7% trending UP (economic Boom - stable)
EC: 32.4% -2.4% trending DOWN (Civil Unrest and Lockdown pending - stable)
Others: -1.3%

No changes in states for now. We advice everybody to NOT accept missions for taking out traders as the effects are now very negative for AP (negative influence, reputation, outbreak, civil unrest and lockdown!). Likewise do not get missions to kill "bounty hunters" or "propagandists" because are bugged and cannot be completed.

Congrats to all the active members who are contributing to the effort here. We must find a way on how to increase civil war (and have a chance at a civil war to start with!), as we are very well positioned in the influence trend (must get +55% influence though, as that may be key). Orders stay unchanged for now, we may revise strategy in the coming week if we do not see a civil war coming any time soon or moves in the civil unrest inside the Enki Corporation (including the comeback of 'mass control campaings' of the enemies of the Alliance, like the thugs of the Enki Corporation and their "trading ships").

We encourage people to team up and try completing "piracy missions", as we need to gauge the results of those in our efforts. What they call piracy is simple provission of combat stabilizers for our valiant freedom fighters, personal weapons for self-defence against the bullies, or 'recreative drugs' for the opressed workers of the Enki Corporation to endure the pain of their patrons.

Resuming Operation Enki

KNac — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:13:55 +0000

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After our little departure from Enki to STF 1774 we have spent enough time to see how relatively ineffective combat zones apparently are. The odds are really bad at STF 1774 system so as the rest of the Alioth area seems in relatively good shape for the Alliance (now that some bugs seem to be fixed), we are coming back to Enki while our explorers finalize details for our next move.

To summarize were we left: the system is pretty much ready to flip, the only thing we need to do is find out how to trigger a civil war. If we can do this probably there will be a flash civil war and the main station will be ours, and with it, the system. So that's the goal, find out how to start a civil war!

To everybody who joined us recently, we encourage you to move on with us while we try to have fun, learn more about the game and fight for the Alliance!

STF 1774 Needs your help!

KNac — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:14:50 +0000

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Recently (yesterday) we got noticed that the Federation is waging war against peaceful comrades of STF 1774. Apparently the Federation has been trying to gain control over the single station controlled by the Alliance in this system, close to Alioth itself. This interferes with our long term strategy and would push out of the system the Alliance presence.

We are temporally halting operations in Enki to try help our troops in there. We are calling every Alliance pilot from AEDC (or other organisations that sympathise with the cause) in the region to come here, even if temporally, to help our fellow comrades. Orders are:

Base in Hill Hub.
Complete every mission for the Pro-Alliance League we can in this system, this includes checking every station possible. Focus should be in Vizcaino City (controlled by the Federation), but missions are scarce so check everywhere. Missions are priority #1 above everything else (including combat zones!). Sabotaging STF1774 Central Ltd. missions is also a viable tactic! (Complete alternatives from USS.)
We will be focusing on the High Intensity conflict zone near Vizcaino City. Please join open mode with the rest of us so we maximize our effectiveness. When you enter a conflict zone remember to pick sides in the right panel > functions > choose a side and pick the Alliance faction. You can cash out combat bonds at Alliance stations, it helps with combat rank and reputation.
If you feel like it, trade with our outpost, Hunt Terminal (is a far away outpost, 100k Ls away from the main star unfortunately, so not very efficient). Bring the usual goods like weapons and armour and export expensive metals to finance war efforts.

P.S: For Enki last update check the forum, steady influence progress but not civil war incoming so we can safely disengage temporally, I hope.