The Birth of Civilization, Part 5

Previously, on MinerBumping... Agent Kalorned struggled to teach the miners of Abudban. It seemed Kalorned was incapable of making them love the Code, no matter how many of them he killed. But our Agent refused to give up.

SNIPER301090 > Gankers are back Krominal Kibbera Keraina Talie-Kuo
Krominal > Kill: Vitaliy Bessoltsev (Covetor) Kill: Vitaliy Bessoltsev (Capsule) Mining AFK in New Order space is not permitted
Remyo > Kalorned is CODE. Immediate gank warning.
SNIPER301090 > Remyo Too late

In his journal, Kalorned reflected: Remyo is late again. I wonder why I'm so fascinated by Remyo... I guess I've just never seen a more persistent failure up until now. I almost feel I have to better understand him as a benefit to all society in general. If I can understand Remyo's motivations, perhaps we could better deal with the mentally ill in general?

Remyo > Kalorned has the three CODE gank alts, it is not "them" as such as it is only one guy with 4 alts
SNIPER301090 > 4 alts ^^ crank ^^
Remyo > Snip you CODE propagandist or what
SNIPER301090 > i dont understand ^^ i am german and my english so not well
Remyo > Oh now you no habla English eh

Remyo's condition and paranoia seem to worsen by the day. An innocuous comment by SNIPER301090 seems to have triggered Remyo into thinking Sniper belongs to the New Order. If only Remyo took a moment to check his killboard, he would see Sniper is one of the miners he's attempting to "help".

SNIPER301090 > i hate the code guy... he ganked my hulk and mackinaw.... =(
Ch'lly > he bumps you to stop aligning so they can suicide gank you in blaster cats
Remyo > Apparently he has a bad day at kindergarten or something
Remyo > Kalorned would make nice psychopathological study for some criminal psych student
Remyo > He does nothing but griefs miners and traders

Even as Kalorned studied Remyo, Remyo studied Kalorned. Nevertheless, New Order Agents know much more about miners than miners know about Agents.

ArcAngel702 > hello
ArcAngel702 > questions does anyone know what is a good ore type to mine??
Remyo > Arc as long Kalorned is active NONE
Remyo > IF you mine when he is around, you will get ganked
Remyo > Arc perhaps try Rookie Help channel, local with CODE around is suicide
Remyo > Kalorned just cleared the Suspect flag, expect more ganks soon

At the very least, Remyo is educating newer miners to avoid mining. The method may be unorthodox, but the message is getting across.

I'm reminded of the old adage from my First Person Shooter days: Eventually you live to see the day you're so good at what you do that you're accused of being a cheater. I think the term used in FPS circles is "wallhax".

I can't help but laugh at the irony of Remyo insinuating I'm a bad pilot, as if he were some master pilot. His occupation and killboard say otherwise in any case. What is this, though? Another Retriever mining without a permit...

Naturally, the unlicensed miner refused to answer Kalorned--until he lost his mining ship, that is. Afterward, the sullen miner couldn't keep quiet. Carebears really do everything in reverse, don't they?

True EVE players often taunt the carebears by saying things like, "Go play Hello Kitty Online if you don't like PvP." Given the miners' penchant for playing other games while "playing" EVE, maybe they already are.

This miner seems to have taken his loss pretty hard. I need to remain careful not to aggravate him further.

As the miner continued to rage at Kalorned in local, the other residents of Abudban perked up.

The New Order has always tried to get people to pay more attention to local. Perhaps the miner's tears were the best incentive.

He calls me a terrorist; I consider myself the opposite. It's always interested me, people from different cultures looking at the same thing and having wildly different conceptions of it and what it means. To most, the New Order of Highsec and its Agents are viewed rightly as the saving organization of highsec. But to the minority, something has gone wrong and they perceive it to be anarchistic. It's so strange, and yet so fascinating.

Although the miner disobeyed Kalorned's command to calm down, the rest of Abudban started warming up to the New Order's presence. Was our hero finally getting through to them?

To be continued...