An EVE Online Player Has Pulled Off A Major Heist In One Of MMO's Most Powerful Alliances
Betrayals and EVE Online are almost synonymous with each other twenty years into the MMO's operation, but a heist pulled off at the expense of one of the MMO's most powerful alliances hit a bit differently yesterday as Havoc launched.
EVE Online's history is riddled with heists, betrayals, and revenge, its capsuleers sometimes going down in the annals of legend within the game universe as a result. Heists have been pulled off before — one we reported on earlier this year saw a former Corporation leader use a corporate takeover scheme to rob his former group blind — and this is just the tip of the iceberg. The fabric of New Eden is written by the exploits of its player capsuleers, whether on the battlefield or with the old cloak and dagger.
As EVE Online's latest expansion, Havoc, was launching yesterday, another such story that will likely feature in the annals of the MMO's history was written, and it was perpetrated against one of the MMO's historic power blocs: Goonswarm.
It seems long-time Fleet Commander for Goonswarm, Jay Amazingness, decided to turn on his former Alliance in one of the most spectacular ways possible. Jay, who had been part of Goonswarm for nearly a decade, had just recently returned to EVE Online after a hiatus from the MMO. Having been given his Director roles within the corp back by Alliance leader Asher Elias, nothing seemed amiss to those closest to him.
It should be noted, as Asher told me via a Discord chat, that usually this doesn't happen, as was evidenced by the very public and very costly split between Goonswarm and former member turned TEST Alliance war leader Vily, which sparked World War Bee 2.
«He recently came back to EVE and I gave him director roles because I trust him,» Asher wrote in
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