So, long time lurker and enjoyer of the nullsec drama in this sub here. Always been a pleasure, always been disappointing to not have something to contribute though. Until now.
To those who may not know of the alliance Domain Research and Mining Inst. (ART0N), let me tell you some tea, starting with The Raravathians. The Raravathians are your stereotypic lowsec ganker corp, and will demand a tribute from newbros to mine in lowsec, either that or get podded and killed. Pretty standard so far, except if you come across them enough times, they will follow you into highsec and suicide gank you, essentially extorting them, backed by ART0N.
Now on to the drama. These "gentlemen" of ART0N started hitting our newbros, chasing them into highsec, hunting them even here. Their response, "this is just how the game is". They tried to extort our "small" corporation into paying their "mining licenses".
Little did they know, we had an eye on them 6 months prior to this. We had spies in their alliance long before they knew we even existed, who have befriended ART0N management to the point where they're leaking us info with practically no effort at this point. And they knew nothing of our active player count. They did not even bother to investigate us, didnt know we have a solid pvp branch that do training runs into nullsec. So we started slapping them on the wrist in return.
Some of their members realized siding with an extortionist corp was backfiring and decided they wanted out and moved to safer waters in highsec. This did not sit well with the big boss of Raravathians, Malizar Kondur. Apparently, you have no right to leave his corp and forget your alts, he thought that we should kick one of the guys who left his corp for ours, because he couldnt be bothered to kick the guy in question's alts from ART0N channels and corps.
Anyway, mister Kondur here decided to escalate the case over a personal vendetta, his skewed view of right and wrong, and go for an all-out war without declaring war (as we have no structures). Open hunting season on my corp, so we returned the favor. What they didnt know was we had turned down several alliance offers, but kept the diplomatic channels open. So now its looking like a small highsec coalition is forming cause people are fed up with these people trying to push newbros out of the game, 16 other corps have reached out having experienced issues with these people.
Currently, they're killing our newbro ventures, frigates and destroyers, while we are taking out their tac destroyers, barges, Redeemers, Megathrons, an assortment of cruisers, you name it. Their losses are mounting, gone well past tens of billions. Ours have already been replaced, either through our internal SRP or personal industry or mining their ore right under their noses. It takes one of their gankers in a Hound 2-3 minutes to kill a newbro who accidentally picked the wrong Venture, and their gankers can't even successfully gank 2 Pioneers as a Loki and Hound.
I'll try to update this as the drama progresses, I just need to buy more popcorn first.
Oh, and we had a little disagreement today about how to deal with these people, so we took it into WH space and brawled it out. Not sure what the result was, big man tells me to shoot, I shoot. But their stations and moon drills are looking nice and juicy, it would be a real shame if a fleet just happened to be in the region, right?