You have always spoken in favour of EFA, always used EFA and in fact know all the details about the Kronan/Varyag conflict while they were in EFA - what you display here is 'hippocrazy' at its best assuming you can bash every 'other' service for behaving badly while the whole thing started in the service that you favour and which 'offcially' stands aside 'neutral' hopeing that passengers choose the 'neutral' one.
I got news for you - this conflict no longer allows to be 'neutral' for your service, because Varyag is now officially a pirate ship operating a public transport channel - your 'favoured' service was asked to not support a channel hosted by pirates but refused to take action.
Therefor KISS and ToS have agreed that the main transport channel in future will be an exclusive channel and other transport providers will be given the choice to advertise either in the main channel or in the pirate channel - advertising in the pirate channel (and therefor supporting it) will result in getting muted in the main channel until an agreement of support is reached.
To whom it may concern:
I do know the circumstances of this conflict, which is why I try to inform the masses of the truth of the situation. It is a personal conflict which is being escalated to a witch hunt. The Normandie and the Kronan are trying to sway public opinion for no good reason against the Varyag and NVE and other Freelancer Pirates.
I do support the EFA, however
it isn't my service. It is an alliance that chooses to stay out of the Space Drama. They don't brag about SI, or safe passenger percentages, and they don't hate on pirates if they do attack, because it is a reality of space PVP in this game. They advise people to log out if they have loot. In short,
they do their JOB. Because that is what it is - a business with people working it.
I am not EFA, just occasional crew. I do not own a ship, and even if I did I can say what I want - just like people can choose to participate in PVP or not.
You state above that if EFA used the wrong channel to advertise they would be muted (and probably declared pirate supporters if the past holds true). What a load of horse crap! Again, trying to DICK-tate what other players do, over and over again. From what I have been told, the EFA chooses not to bother with your "mandates".
I also use other services, I am on the passenger list of no less than 8 warp-capable, log-out capable ships. I need to be able to travel because I am a shop owner trying to make a living in EU.
I am a shop owner who was "Red Listed" by the owner of the Kronan, her society (at the time), and her crew because I did not agree with their agenda and I spoke out against their double standards in regards to what constitutes piracy.
One of the Kronan crew PM'd me in game and
threatened me in REAL LIFE. He told me
I better shut up or he would show up at my home
and teach me a lesson.
That is the quality of people you are aligning yourself with John. I think you should rethink what you are doing here.
The ONE TIME I tried to pay for a KISS flight the owner of the Kronan made a snide comment (I still have the chat somewhere) and tried to get me
banned from SPACE (by running to you, because you think you control space and have created that dumb "space council" private chat) because I spoke out against them not letting me be a paying customer. Of course, that is their right and I have never tried to use their service again.
Feel free to attack me all you like and try to poke holes in this. The fact of the matter is
1) that the Normandie and the Kronan are not the police of space
2) the Normandie and the Kronan are not the boss of space
3) everyone knows and
hardly anyone cares (just the two dozen or so of us really)
4) space will continue on as it has been
Mind Ark loves this only because of the amount of PED everyone involved in this "war" is spending blowing each other's ships up, and frankly I don't blame them.