Our task was to carry out that which the GHSC has now become known for - to utterly demolish Mirial and bring all who followed her to their knees in one fell swoop. Our target was assigned to us many months ago - Mirial of Ubiqua Seraph. The reason I stand here before you is to announce that my mercenary outfit, the Guiding Hand Social Club, has completed its most ambitious contract to date. Greetings, everyone - it has been some time since I last stood behind a podium and made a public announcement, so you'll have to forgive me if I'm somewhat out of form. That afternoon, Istvaan Shogaatsu posted on the Intergalactic Summit - a section of the official Eve forums in which posters are required to stay in-character, and content is monitored by CONCORD, the in-game police. Istvaan Shogaatsu, CEO of the Guiding Hand Social Club assassins. The assets were replaced by a note in each, stating simply that this was an act of the Guiding Hand Social Club. The moment the go-code was uttered, every Guiding Hand double-agent within Ubiqua Seraph unloaded the contents of their assigned Corp hangar - a communal storage area for trusted corporation members - into their own cargo holds and left. Successful podding was the only way to attain the physical body of the victim, however, and Arenis pulled it off. For this reason some players log out on ship-death in an attempt to avoid being podded - Mirial included, the Guiding Hand say. The pod is no threat, and if it's destroyed the victim has to revert to an earlier clone of themselves - sometimes losing skills that take weeks to learn, and in this case losing an incredibly valuable set of cybernetic implants. Podding is the usually spiteful, some say dishonourable act of destroying a victim's escape pod when you've already destroyed their ship. It's also typical of the Guiding Hand's flair for theatrical excess.īut the hard part, according to Shogaatsu, was to then 'pod' Mirial.
To use an even more valuable ship was an act of absurd bravado, and one with enormous risks. A Navy Apocalypse is one of the most powerful and valuable ships in the galaxy, but even so, an Imperial Apocalypse is overkill - a few cheap Battleships would suffice. The ambush was an unprecedented clash of the titans. These events spooked the objective, who made a short jump before being set upon by Uuve and - in a moment of 'Et tu, Brute' if ever there was one - Arenis Xemdal's Imperial Apocalypse." Another came soon after, when Guiding Hand operative Uuve Savisaalo - tasked with assisting the kill on Mirial - was spotted arriving in system by an Ubiqua Seraph pilot. "One tense moment occurred when a pilot belonging to an unaffiliated third party hostile to UQS entered the system where our operatives' trap for Mirial lay. "The early-morning strike against Mirial's battleship was fraught with concern." Shogaatsu recalls. Xemdal had convinced Mirial - referred to as 'the objective' by Guiding Hand operatives - to fly her ridiculously valuable Navy Apocalypse alongside his even more ridiculously valuable Imperial Apocalypse "as a show of UQS (Ubiqua Seraph) might". It took extraordinary effort, meticulous planning, and one moment of spectacularly orchestrated treachery. "Multiple vector infiltration is a trademark of GHSC," Shogaatsu adds. Several were on the board of directors, and primary agent Arenis Xemdal "rose to a rank sufficient to challenge the CEO's decisions."
"The financial compensation becomes secondary to the recognition we garnered for our strike." Et Tu, Arenisīy April 18th, the Guiding Hand had operatives in every level of Ubiqua Seraph's organisation. "The contract above all" is their philosophy.
Not that there was any question of the spoils distracting Guiding Hand's operatives from their objective. we found ourselves staring at Fort Knox with the key in our hands." We could never have foreseen, however, the gains upon its execution. "At the time of the contract's signing, we requested one billion ISK," says Guiding Hand CEO Istvaan Shogaatsu, "which was quite a sum so many months ago.
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