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Diary of a [MERCS]

2009-11-07T17:28:00.000+01:00

Weekend from the 6th until the 08th of November 2009

We had a fight in Ihakana that day. Actually we wanted to kill a Nyx, but instead we got into some combat with some other guys.

The order of our fleet commander came quickly and I jumped in and had to tackle the bad guys. (That’s the others, not us of course) I immediately had point on my target, but I became very quickly the main target as well. It’s always like this. As a matter a fact I do believe, that I have some sign hanging around my neck saying “I’m a noob, plzzz kill me”

I called for remote rep but MR. FC found that a cruiser was just not worth getting repaired. “Just jump out” he said. I did, in my pod…

I headed back in order to change ship, but I just didn’t have one. Taxes, war and losses made my day and I was broke. I just could afford myself another incursus.
I decided to go to sleep so the incursus could stay in one piece for at least 1 day.

The next day I decided that I was in desperate need of isk, so I started ratting in the belts. Lvl II missions just don’t bring enough money and mostly you have to invest more time.

I killed some rats which were carrying loads of tritanium and other stuff. I decided to get my Iteron, to carry the precious metal quickly into my hangar. That’s where a blinky rupture came into the belts and tried to destroy my ship. Since I always follow who is entering local, I had aligned my ship to a safe spot. It saved my life, I could escape with only little structural integrity left.

I went back in order to bait for a corps mate of mine, but he decided to leave us in peace.

Next time I’ll leave the Iteron docked and try to loot the stuff in several times.

One thing is certain in EVE, trust only ppl u know. Doing pve is another form of going for pvp if you are doing so in lowsec.

To be continued.

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2009-11-04T10:33:00.005+01:00

DIARY of a [MERCS]

13 th and 14 th of October 2009-11-04 Wormhole-POS-Shooting TL.

In a war, where our adversaries didn’t fight but kept docking at the station we did what we could, but without much success. U just can’t kill people in stations.*weep
But since we are no noobs and take our orders seriously, we were happy to find their POS which was situated in a wormhole.

We attacked the POS with a drake-fleet (about 20 drakes and a lot of other nice toys)

De POS was going down real fast and the CEO of TL contacted us in order to save what he could. He offered us to fight for one week. Afterwards I think they tried to keep word but were not very successfull.

My personal experience during the POS operation:

During the POS-Shooting our targets kept moving ships out of the POS which they self-destructed before our eyes. I don’t know the exact figures but we are speaking of approximately 20 or more ships. The most expensive remaining ships tried to escape in a small gang. We intercepted them at one of the wormhole and killed almost all except 1, which was killed in 0.0 by other gangs not belonging to [MERCS] 0.0 is dangerous didn’t I tell that before??

During the fight I lost my incursus which has become tradition^^ The POD survived this time.

I bought a new one and flew back to the POS. I received the order to have an eye on the entrance of the wormhole. I said “copy” which doesn’t mean a thing, since I was standing for 2 hours on the wrong side of the hole. Shit happens all the time*gg After I spotted a blinky Phobbos I moved myself to the other side of the hole. When the Phobbos left the wormhole, I couldn’t tackle, since I was at 110 kilometres and couldn’t warp. My mistake again. Our FC needs to throw me out!!

Later they scanned my position and I got some problems with a rifter and a punisher. I informed the FC and warped out, because they came to close. Again I had no sight on the wh entrance. Since I sucked, I was ordered back into the wh.

The 2 blinky´s stayed at the entrance and I had I superb idea: (I thought)
“Let’s just jump out and kill them” I said. The FC´s interpretation was: “Hon, jump out and make a point on my command” “Fucking nuts that guy”, I thought and looked if I could afford myself another incursus. Then I jumped.

I had directly a point and they shot at me, I wanted to jump back, but off course I couldn’t.
I tried to get away but I couldn’t get far… (Reminds me of a song…) So I died again my friends…

The next day, early in the morning we took down the rest of the POS. Nothing happened anymore. I learned a lot and was broke.

Next time I will do better.

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to be continued...

Diary of a [MERCS]

2009-10-24T14:01:00.004+02:00

09 th of October 2009

A few weeks passed. I skilled what I could, I tried to earn some money by salvaging or doing low lvl missions.
The corp teached me how to fly in a fleet, we invested a lot of time in EFT (EVE fitting tool) and EVEMon which I can both recommend....

This morning my mate asked me to come along in 0.0. He had to get some stuff there which he left a long time ago. I was not feeling comfortable about this, but I wanted to help.

I lost an incursus, a velator and a pod...I do not like those bubbles, they are mean...

I learned how to scout in 0.0 and could practise the reporting towards the FC (fleet commander)
After my curse got stuck in a bubble I got myself a velator which you always get for free. After the velator got killed, I couldn’t find a place to warp to so I warped back to the other gate. Having your pod in a bubble is bad, real bad.

I awoke in Cistuvaert...nice place with friendly people...

Just my 2 cents, do not go to 0.0 unless you can fly cloaked.

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DIARY OF A [MERCS]

2009-10-24T13:45:00.004+02:00

16 th of September "kick-ass-Hon in action"

I was not willing to fly all night so I decided to stay at HQ. I killed some rats or I fled from them*gg Sometimes they can be real mean you know :)

Suddenly a blinky Hurricane was announced and the hero I am, I hurried to the Gate in order to kick ass.
And so all went as I hoped. The cane discloacked just 13 clicks away from me and "paff" Hon directly had his warp disrupter on the cane. Off course I relied on the "Defense-Team" since they where also at the gate and invited me into the fleet. No reason to be affraid I thought, they will kill the cane in no time. (sometimes I can be realy naive^^)

They didn’t. The fuc...bastards where drinking coffee, watched the simpsons or did something else. What they did not do was help me. OMFG!!!
In no time had no shield left and only 50 % of armor. The guys said. "let me go and u will live" I replied" I’m a soldier of G.I.S. and I will hold that point until u blow"
I held the point and I got blown...

The guys killed the cane after coffee and even looted my ship. Thx guys u are all just great*gg

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[MERCS] , GIS and COM-STAR unite forces

2009-10-01T15:26:00.000+02:00

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Mark the day, 30.08.2009 a new alliance appears, the „Mercenaries for Hire“ aka [Mercs].

As a result of a constant developing cooperation between the two german speaking mercenary corporations Com-Star and Gemeinschaft interstellarer Soeldner. Who fought side by side to show bravery, boldness and courage long ago befor they merged into one alliance.

The area of tasks cover all possibilities in Eve.
- Asset Denial
- POS Warfare
- Recon
- Escort/Protection
- Guerilla Operations

The [Mercs] have already successfully completed a couple of high profile contracts and were also able to handle the wardec from REPO quite well, with a 77% efficiency until they retracted the wardec themselves.

If you got to a point when your in need for mercenaries, do not hesitate to contact us.

IG channel =Mercs=

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Am 30.08.2009 war es endlich so weit, die Allianz „Mercenaries for Hire“ kurz [Mercs] hat das Licht der Welt erblickt. Das Resultat einer sich ständig entwickelnden Zusammenarbeit der beiden deutschsprachigen Söldnerkorps Com-Star und Gemeinschaft interstellarer Soeldner, welche schon vor dem Zusammenschluss gemeinsam in Kriegen Ihre Tapferkeit, Kühnheit und Mut bewiesen haben.

Das Aufgabenspektrum der [Mercs] deckt alle Bereiche in Eve ab.
- Asset Denial
- POS Warfare
- Recon
- Escort/Protection
- Guerilla Operations

Die [Mercs] haben bereits mehrere hochwertige Aufträge erfolgreich beendet. Dazu zählt auch ein Krieg von REPO, der bei einer Effizienz von 77% zurückgezogen wurde.

Solltet auch Ihr mal in eine Situation kommen wo euch die [Mercs] helfen können, zögert nicht und kontaktiert uns.

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Diary of a [MERCS]

2009-09-13T19:41:00.000+02:00

13th of September in the same year...

After some RL, yes that exists, I hurried to my computer so I could join a roaming fleet of ours. Destination was somewhere in 0.0. In teamspeak ppl had difficulties to hear me so I prayed that I find a "microboost" soon, since microwarpdrive etc... do exist too.

We later found out, that my mic needs to be warmed up before functioning correctly. Don’t ask me for explanations, I’m to stupid to find one. So we left HQ and soon had our first 0.0 battle. I actually didn’t see it, since I was standing on the wrong side of the gate. Shit happens! I learned that adversaries in 0.0 are not blinky, you just shoot at everything that appears. Bubbles are mean spheres which keep u from warping. The 0.0 gates are full of them and I don’t like them. Incursus is too small for me, I need something that can take in a lot of damage, so that I have enough time to think what I m going to do next*gg

I still want to become a [MERCS]

To be continued...

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Diary of a [MERCS]

2009-09-10T19:40:00.001+02:00

10 th of september 2009

NPC´s destroyed my catalyst again. Sometimes I wonder what I m doing in this game.??? I´m not even in a position to kill some rats, so better forget pvp, since people are unpredictable. Just keep the spirit high is what I need to do. Karpov and Kortchnoj had difficulties with the computer too.

In the evening a small fleet of ours left the HQ for little roaming. The new ones could come along and I was tackler in an incursus. (This incursus is a ship which I recommend ppl to build, because as u will read, I´m destroying loads of the in the coming weeks. (mostly my own*muhahahha) So the tackle-crew where somewhere waiting at a gate and we had not much to do. All of a sudden, an engagement was going on. When the tackle-crew arrived the fight was already over. (almost that is) I had to accept, that I wasn’t fast enough. Not only because of the skills, but also because I still lose a lot of time searching 4 the right buttons. My personal highlight was 6 % damage on a cruiser that night.

To be continued...

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Diary of a [MERCS]

2009-09-07T19:39:00.000+02:00

07 th of september until the 09th of september 2009

The [MERCS] decided to learn all they know to a noob (me) I even received a tutor, which I can always ask the silly questions I have. I was happy to see, that the complete corps/alliance was always willing to help me. I learnt about safespots, had to change the overview settings and stuff like that. On the 9th I had my first official training.

Did I already tell u about the trainingsession? No, OK. We have 6 basic trainingunits which all new recruits have to assist. If you do not copy all what is explained its OK, because they are repeated often enough and the instructor has nerves of steel. He needs them, believe me.

We learned about behaviour in teamspeak, commands, words like "copy", "jump", "warp", "align" etc.... After the trainingsession we made a little excursion so we could test what we just had learned.

I must admit, that I believed they where going to throw me out in the next few days because I was just not good at all. In fact I sucked! Again I found no sleep. I read in our large knowledge-base on our site, until I fell asleep. At this period I was quite frustrated.

to be continued...

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2009-09-06T13:02:00.000+02:00

Diary of a [MERCS]

Not so long ago I was lost in space. I just decided to use the two weeks free trial, which is offered by CCP, not because I wanted to test EVE but because I wanted do play something until the release of Aion. After a few days I already knew, that EVE was a most fascinating "game" and that Aion was in big trouble.

So lost as I was in my first few EVE days, I was happy that a rookie channel existed, otherwise I would probably still be trying to find out how to use a gate or repair my ship!
Unfortunately, the rookie channel was full of noobs like me and the few helpers where not in a position to deal with all the questions that were spammed into the channel.
So I visited the channel only occasionally and was ... lost in space...
I was saved by Tikka which invited me to a personal chat. He pointed out, that a channel named Gedankensturm existed and that I could get help in the German tongue. ( I m not German, but I live there so is quite handy to use German to me)
After one day in that channel where people helped me without wanting anything in return (which I find most impressive) I decided that their corps deserved a noob like me to become member of it.
It was the best decision I ever made in my game-playing career. (I´m playing mmo´s since Diablo II came out)
Since [MERCS] is a pvp-corps I was clear which "career" was awaiting me. This is where my story starts. I called it "Diary of a [MERCS] but I could have called it also "First nooby steps in Eve" or something like it.
If you should be interested in my efforts, my experiences, my motivation to integrate myself in this corps or if u just would like to know how to become a [MERCS], just stick to my diary and I´ll allow u to look behind the screens of a perfect organised pvp-Alliance.
Honour Aka Hon

DIARY OF A [MERCS]

06 th of september 2009

I was just only a day or two old in my new corporation G.I.S.
New as I was, I moved after the invite into the corps to our base. It was a long journey and I had to cover lowsec. Lucky 4 me, my new corps directly headed into my direction and scouted me to our HQ.
After I arrived, I was a little bored, because I quickly learned, that a noob in lowsec is freeloot for everyone.
The first Pirate that killed me even had the help from some rats in the belts and before I realised what happened I was back in Cistuvaert, since he also killed my pod!

So I flew back in a velator and when I arrived in lowsec, my adrenaline-curve started to rise, but I made it back to HQ in one piece.
A lost another Destroyer to npc rats so I decided to chill at the station.

All started to run better in the evening, where [MERCS], our Alliance with COM-STAR, took me along on a hunt for unfortunate blinkys. (wtf is a blinky I asked myself) I quickly found out*gg
We destroyed a few ships and I even made little damage in my incursus. I even shot on my own mates, since all was red and I lost my nerves.
At night I could not sleep, because I was still excited and on the other hand angry because I made a lot of mistakes.

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We've lost the war

2009-07-14T12:31:00.015+02:00

< Humpfgrunz and SweetJulie concidentially met in the GIS central hall at the huge display representing the killboard, which is surrounded by conference rooms and gangways to other sections. >
SweetJulie > We have lost the war !
Humpfgrunz > Sorry ! I don't know any war, we've lost
SweetJulie > Look on our war list !
Humpfgrunz > Yes ?
SweetJulie > The war isn't there, is it ?
Humpfgrunz > You mean that war ? Which isn't there anymore ?
SweetJulie > Yes, it's not on our war list anymore, it has gone missing, it has been lost !
Humpfgrunz > Oh yes, it has been lost on our war list.
SweetJulie > And before we finally lost the war we performed quite lousy.
< Tragot Gomndor wanders by >
TragotGomndor > Everyone loosing a war performs quite lousy, so what ?
Amun Neith > Who performed lousy ?
SweetJulie > We performed lousy !
< Sergato incoming >
Sergato > I don't think I've performed lousy or any of us recently !
Humpfgrunz > We don't talk about that massacre-war against those lowsec-carebears, we talk about the war, which has gone missing in our list of pending wars.
SweetJulie > As I've said, we have lost the war !
Sergato > I don't get it, I don't know about any war we've lost !
TragotGomndor > That war ? I'm missing it !
Amun Neith > No more small gang actions in Evati ? I'll miss it !
SweetJulie > We have lost a war ! I don't think, we should loose any war !
< Isuna, Dairean Onuris and Tikka just came out of a meeting room >
Tikka > We have lost a war ? We are not meant to loose a war ! SweetJulie ! Do your job !
SweetJulie > I order all of you to the Sisi Simulation System ! You must not loose any war !
Humpfgrunz > ähm ! You've got a strange definition of loosing a war, SweetJulie !
Dairean Onuris > We have lost a war, we go to Sisi ! No Discussions ! This is an order of the High Command !
Humpfgrunz > Ähm, Dai ! I don't think, Sweet defines loosing a war the same way as you do, at least in the moment !
SweetJulie > You, Humpfgrunz, performed badly by unneededly dropping a Megathron Navy Issue at their altar and then we finally lost the war !
< Looren who came out of the nearby electronics laboratory >
Looren > Do you talk about these Evati elite Frig Pilots ?
Humpfgrunz > Yes ! Sweet suggests, we have lost the war against them !
Looren > So much fuss about them ? I don't think they are worth it. They had a good headstart thanks to our Humpfie ! But then they did not get anywhere except in Frigs. Everything greater than Frigs was as good as dead when entering our base in Egmar.
< Tragot Gomndor knocks his Head at the wall repeatedly >
SweetJulie > This is not a Heavy Metal concert ! You can stop Headbanging !
< Someone giggles out loudly >
SweetJulie > I'll stop your giggling ! We have lost the war against The Bastards and Hellcats ! Because of that I'll draw the consequences and your salary will be cancelled for this month and halved from then on ! We can discuss about raising your salaries again, when you've returned being elite Mercenaries again !
This said, SweetJulie walked away while mumbling > "Giggling !!! I'll teach them what it means to giggle about my orders. We'll see, who's gonna be my next bait..."

NC pays us a visit with 80 capitals

2009-07-11T11:57:00.000+02:00

We are in the News!

Check it!

http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3193&tid=7

"...The Dark-Rising fleet along with allies from Reikoku, Com-Star, 3P1C F41L, and Gemeinschaft Interstellarer Soeldner followed the Amarr to the middle station," says Zyck of Dark-Rising in a GalNet statement on the battle. Fighting resumed, with the Amarr and their capital support clustered close to the station and the Minmatar in position some one hundred kilometres away...."

Proteus killed

2009-06-26T11:54:00.000+02:00

Proteus killed

On Wednesday 24th June in the evening a Combat Patrol roamed around in our occupied Systems. A Scout found a small group of battleships which included a Proteus which is extremely rare to find in this systems. The Ships of the GIS Combat Patrol moved to tactical combat positions and waited for the chance to attack the battleship group. After a few Minutes a Ship from the GIS Patrol was attacked by the battleship group and the Proteus. The GIS Pilot was able to place and keep a point on the Proteus while he was under heavy fire from the enemy battleships and the Proteus itself. After endless Seconds of waiting the rest of the GIS Fleet warped in and started firing on the Proteus and the enemy battleships realized immediatley that they couldn't win this fight and started to warp out. The Proteus couldn't escape because it was heavily warp scrambeld and so it was destroyed by the concentrated firepower from the GIS Fleet.

The total financial Loss for the Proteus is about 3.75 billion ISK

http://www.gis-eve.de/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8698

2009-06-13T18:36:00.006+02:00

Introduction

Dear EVE Online fellows !
We at GIS have decided to introduce this blog giving you some insight into the live and doings of us the one and only famous German Mercenary Corporation.

Much has happened the last few months. Our educational corporation for teaching players how to become a GIS Merc has been closed down and our procedure overworked. Now we have continuous training of all our members by our own experts.

Changes have happened in the leadership of the corp as well. New men emancipated themselves and some of our policies have changed.
GIS has had an enormous growth the last year. What once was a small family of PVP enthusiastic players has become a Mercenary Corporation of respectable size. This change lead to some tensions and we had to adapt to new structures.

With the beginning of the war of The Bastards and The Hellcats against us, where they got quite a good start by being able to kill some more expensive ships of ours, we changed tactics.
Now we have the numbers to field several teams at the same time from small to huge size adapting to the situation. If needed, these teams join together when one of them encounters a valuable target.
Thus our customers can be sure we have several teams attacking enemies we're paid for fighting. For any unexperienced enemy of ours this will reveal as pure horror, because there is no safe place for them except in stations or by staying logged off.
Even for experienced enemies we deliver highly uncomfortable situations. They may be able to grieve some of our less experienced members through expert maneuvers but in the end they'll suffer heavy losses nevertheless and won't be able to proceed with their Business (e.g. Highsec-Harrassment) whilst being at war with us.

GIS is a corporation with short rules and an open philosophy. We take Pilots barely able to fly a T2 Ship (e.g. an Interceptor), T2 fitted Battlecruisers or Battleships up to the fully skilled Titan-Expert in our ranks as long as he shares our ideals and fits into our family.
If you speak german (No need to be native German, though !) and you feel you'd like to become an expert PVP-Player, you're wellcome as long as you can live with and adapt to our rules.

Having said enough about our corporation we will post official announcements as well as some RP Stories about us in this blog.