New Eden—some wormhole or another
Today, several large Wormhole corporations announced the creation of a splinter organization: The Frighole Coalition.
This is the greatest thing ever! They literally can’t stop us!”, said FelixJarl of Ember Sands, a key alliance in the new coalition. Mr. Felix was, of course, referring to the possibilities opened up by the newly infinite nature of wormhole connections between wormhole space and nullsec.
The war room was upbeat. Almost as upbeat as the tempo of the drums. “Casus belli,” he repeated slowly. “Make sure you get that down.”
Admittedly, I didn’t quite have his full attention. He was busy refitting Entosis Link modules onto the Talwars that were available in the corporate hangars. I knew that I was watching Eve history in the making. A new kind of force, one that would use the full potential of the frighole to move massive fleets of Jackdaws and Kikimoras anywhere. Across known-space and wormhole-space, alike.
“Now, to be fair, we’d prefer to go after SYNDE, next, as they were a key player in the eviction of Solaris. But we have to go where Bob wills us—where the frigholes lead.”
I asked if he really thought that it would make much of a difference. “We’ve got half of wormhole space on our side, but we also have the full backing of the Imperium. We’re all really just primarily interested in making sure that people know that there is always a bigger fish. You can’t pull stunts like those people did, and expect to get away with it. The Mittani has spoken extensively of his desire to see wormhole space remain a place for small and medium sized corporations.”
The Mittani was away on business in Wisconsin, and could not be reached for comment. The office of The Mittani declined to comment, as well.
Pressing further, I asked if Felix thought that Fraternity. intended this to signal the beginning of an alliance with the infamous WHCFC. He reminded me that, “The WHCFC has always been aligned with PandaFam, going all the way back to 2013. Gobbins even personally apologized for the confusion created when the Horde fleet started shooting at the Inner Hell fleet.” This long standing working relationship among these unlikely allies has been corroborated by others, namely Andres M Afanador, a master strategist, with ties to both Inner Hell and Northern Coalition. (Mister Afanador is most famous for recently making the final payment on a $75,000 bounty for the successful eviction of Hard Knocks Inc.)
Cyentw of Exit-Strategy suggested that, “Whatever comes of this foray into Fraternity. space, there will be more repercussions to follow. We would very much like to see the liberation of C6 space, which has been dominated by the WHCFC, for far too long.”
