The Deadbeats have taken the war against the Amarr to a new level. The maverick Minmatar corporation has established industrial colonies on worlds in Amarr sovereign regions, extracting and processing the planetary materials on the ground, and then selling the finished products back to the Amarr inside their own stations in space. The proceeds from the sales are used to buy ships and weapons which target the Amarr.
Code-named 'Operation Ground Hog', the program was conceived by Deadbeat industrialist Hacker Jones when he discovered that the new Tyrannis colonies could not be attacked by the Amarr - and there were no sovereignty restrictions. In other words, The Deadbeats could plant industrial colonies on Amarr worlds and there was nothing the wretched slavers could do to stop them.
"This is a beautiful thing," said Jones. "It's like the Amarr are paying us to fight them. It doesn't get much better than that."
To make the point, the first colony was set up on Kamela V, an Amarr storm planet just 3000 km off the 24th Imperial Crusade station - a key base of the Amarr Militia. The planet has abundant noble gases which convert easily to oxygen for use in POS. The colony's command center and industrial buildings were all set up while the operating pilot was cloaked. The pilot is exposed only for a few minutes every day while the processed planetary products are loaded onto his ship.
The project is not without controversy. And some Amarr are crying foul.
"It looks like an exploit to me," said Amarr industrialist Doctor Scarblood. "I am sure when DED or Concord learn of this, they will add sovereignty restrictions, barring Minmatar terrorists from establishing colonies on our home worlds. This is a total outrage."
Other critics point out that The Deadbeats - who are members of the Minmatar Militia - cannot enter Amarr high-sec without drawing fire from Imperial forces, and must be using third parties to operate the colonies.
"It is true we are using neutral pilots to operate some colonies," declared Deadbeat CEO Lao Zuki. "This is war. Slavery is wrong. Amarrian aggression and expansion must be stopped. If we can legally take their planetary materials and sell the products on the open market, we will. And if we can smuggle some slaves and virgins off the Amarr planets as well, all the better."
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For more information about industrial colonization, visit Eve University's Planetary Interaction Guide or check out EVElopedia's Planetary Interaction 101.If you are interested in joining the fight against the Amarr, visit our recruiting center, or eve-mail Spike Diesel.
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Deadbeat ships ferry precious resources off an Amarr planet
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