Absolved Victory, Part 2

Previously, on MinerBumping... Damned Defeat, an inauspiciously-named highsec mining corporation, was subjected to an audit by the New Order Spai Agency. Our Agents joined the corp and were shocked by the miners' indifference to the Code, so they started killing everybody.

While CEO JTClone Ares was busy re-watching Godzilla at a movie theater, his corp members' mining op was awoxed. Our heroes stomped on the carebears and poured out destruction upon them--much like Godzilla, in fact.

Agents Jerry Rin and McRibwich vonBlueRibbon GuitarSolo were baffled by the miners' willingness to schedule a mining op just hours after the day's previous awox session. An Orca and other miners were counted among the dead. Then the miners huddled in a station and awaited their CEO's return from the movie theater. When JTClone Ares came back to EVE and heard the news, he sent out a blistering EVEmail to everyone in Damned Defeat.

Because his corp had been awoxed, the CEO felt it was time to show his cards. JTClone Ares' long-term plans for Damned Defeat were quite extensive. Here's a summary of how he envisioned the corp's future:

1. Build corp-building supplies.
2. Wardec "noob corps and alliances".
3. Move to lowsec for dreadnought and carrier warfare.
4. Move to NPC nullsec to build titans and supercarriers.
5. Roams and massive nullsec wars.
6. "Kick some serious assholes who do nothing but pick on noobs".

Interestingly, step #6 demonstrates JTClone's distaste for those who pick on noobs. Yet step #2 reveals that he planned to pick on noobs.

In just a few days, Damned Defeat had signed up quite a few new players who'd been sold on the carebear lifestyle. JTClone Ares had much bigger plans for them. But then came the New Order Spai Agency's audit and all the attacks. Did this jeopardize JTClone Ares' plans?

Kinda, yeah. JTClone Ares didn't know how to deal with awoxers. He felt he had no choice but to negotiate with them. Luckily, a compromise was reached. Agent McRibwich was granted all 1,000 shares of Damned Defeat stock. He immediately called for a shareholder vote to determine the new CEO of the corp. All 1,000 votes were cast for Agent Jerry Rin.

As is usually the case when a new CEO takes over, the corp underwent some restructuring. Jerry decided to streamline the corp by eliminating redundancies. To begin with, all of the bot-aspirants had to go. This resulted in the immediate termination of nearly everyone in the corp. JTClone Ares and CaptAristotle were permitted to stay onboard in subordinate positions.

It turned out that Damned Defeat's new CEO was a man of deep convictions. Jerry was unashamed to declare his support for the New Order and adopt the Code as the supreme authority of Damned Defeat. Jerry was ready to take the corp in an exciting new direction. Of course, now the old CEO had to be told. An Agent of the New Order was dispatched to speak with JTClone on TeamSpeak.

SoundCloud: Former CEO of Damned Defeat hears the news
(Note: This recording is unedited and contains long stretches of silence. You'll need to fast-forward to the content.)

During the conference, JTClone Ares was informed of the changes to his former corp and given some frank criticism of his leadership skills. He was also asked how he felt about his new role in the corp. Sadly, it would seem that JTClone was too stuck in the old ways of highsec to embrace the future.

JTClone decided not to stay with Damned Defeat. He issued an EVEmail to the corp announcing his intention to quit EVE forever.

JTClone tendered his resignation and went off to parts unknown. He started off with great dreams of wardeccing noobs and attacking those who wardec noobs. Now he was a broken man.

To be sure, the New Order won an extraordinary victory that day. They weren't the only winners, though. Everyone who was kicked out of Damned Defeat got the opportunity to find a better corp--one where the players play EVE instead of AFK mining. That's as big a victory as any.