Please do not disclose the email address nor the name of the alt. Other than that, do as you like. I cannot prove that I am in ASCN, nor can anyone prove that you didn't write this yourself, but that doesn't make the contents of this any less true. 


Let me start by saying that I am a member of ASCN, in one of the top corps and have been for just about 6 months now. Needless to say I cannot say which corp or who exactly I am.

Now you might be confused by why I am writing to you, certainly I have never met you – but I have seen your posts on EVE forums, and reading one of them has forced me to respond. I am referring to this: http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=418483&page=8#217 The reason I'm writing to you is because I just have to get a few things of my chest. I can't tell my corp mates because I don't want to shatter their morale, I can't post on the ASCN forums for the same reason, nor do I want to be attacked by those too delusional, blind or dumb to see the reality. I don't care if you read this or not, I'll feel better just having written this. 

The thing is – you're right. ASCN is lead by 3 people, Cyvok, John McCreedy and Drakma. That's it. Nobody else has any control of the alliance as a whole. This would not be an issue if Cyvok had shown up online since he crawled into the Titan – he hasn't. The ship we have all struggled to build is in the hands of a player who cannot be bothered to log in nor will not pass the account or ship to somebody who can. If there is nobody but Cyvok who can be trusted with the Titan in all of ASCN, then the alliance is doomed. But I think it's simply that the Titan has become an inseparable part of Cyvok's ego. 

You can say that the Titan isn't that great and really wouldn't make much difference from a tactical perspective – and I agree. But it's a symbol. It's presence on the battlefield would show that high command is there and that they care – right now we feel the exact opposite. 

John McCreedy is woefully incompetent as a tactician, he makes up for this by giving vague and unrealistic orders – then claims that the failures are a result of them not being followed. Moreover, he is hardly ever there to see that his orders are carried out, nor does he have any tactical awareness of the situation at the front. He is by far the worst of the HC, while others in HC have the decency to blame "lag", "node instability" and "exploits" John McCreedy blames the ASCN members for his failures. 

Drakma is also incompetent and delusional. One of the reasons the ASCN assault on Period Basis failed is because the stations that Drakma had put up were put up without guns and in general poorly fitted. The reason we lost 7 dreads is because Drakma decided that we'd be able to hold the BoB fleet out of the system with inferior numbers, a feat which ASCN has never been able to accomplish even with superior numbers. Drakma had more than enough time to bring the dreads out of siege mode and warp them out. Instead of accepting the blame for these failures he just made a long post citing at best half the issues with the overall tone being that since the dreads are already almost all replaced it's not a big deal. 

Well, it is a big deal. It's a very big deal to me and it's a very big deal to most ASCN pilots who are running lower and lower on ISK every day as they get ripped off on the ASCN market trying to fit another BS for this war. It's a very big deal to the ASCN members who had to sell GTCs to finance their ships. (Here's something funny, one of them was selling codes and noticed that he sold both his codes to BoB members. I guess BoB isn't having ISK issues.) So it's a big deal to us that HC dismisses a loss of 14B so easily. Just because you can replace it doesn't mean it's not lost. But all that aside, at least Drakma is online, now and then anyway, which is a lot more than I can say about the rest of HC. 

I have been at the front lines since the start of the war either in a covops, a bs or an inty. I watched the numbers of people at the front shrink, in part due to boredom in part due to incompetent FCing. Whenever there was a call to the front lines, I and a few others answered it. But we would never be reinforced, nobody was ever online ordering reinforcements to the initial force. Time and time again we'd head out from AZN with 100+ and a few hours later we would be down to 60 with no reinforcements coming, another two hours and we got 40 left. Where is HC? Where are the orders for reinforcement? Our FC can yell and beg for them in Alliance chat all day but he's a nobody. He has no authority over the alliance as a whole and nobody comes. In the end, we get outnumbered and either retreat or die. It's been the exact same scenario every time since the start of this war. Even the massive assault on Period Basis, the gang of over 200 BS turned into 40 by the morning, yet over 300 were online in ASCN at the time. 

You being on the other side of this war must be amused by all this – maybe you already knew this, maybe not. I don't care - it gets better. You might be confused by just how it is that you managed to take GQ2 and H8 with virtually no resistance – did we not know that you are coming? Did we have nothing to fight back with? Were we running missions in empire? Were we all at some party that you weren't invited to? 

Sadly the real reason for why you managed to take GQ2 and H8 easily is a lot less exciting than the possibilities. We knew you were coming, we knew about your freighter traffic, we knew about your capital movements, we knew where you were going. It was all over alliance channel, and nobody gave a damn. There were random people yelling for gangs to form, for defense of this and assault of that, but they weren't HC and nobody listened. Where was HC while you were launching the biggest assault on our space since the start of the war? I wish I knew. 

The attempt to retake the systems has been pathetic. You are wondering why we showed up to GQ2 in frigs and cruisers. Well, it's because HC told us to! That's right. We were told to come in small fast ships. We were supposed to have massive carrier support – except we didn't. So we sat around like idiots who brought knives to a gunfight. 

So this is where we are today; my pilots are still at the front lines, but my resolve to fight has been weakening as has the loyalty I once felt towards ASCN. No, it's not that I am feeling that ASCN doesn't care enough about me and my concerns. I just don't see why I should care about the alliance if the alliance doesn't care about itself? Why should I log in if HC won't? Why should I fight if HC won't? 

But I will anyway, I'll be at the frontlines today, and tomorrow, and the day after; because if I don't fight for this alliance, I'd be as bad as the HC, and I refuse to sink to their level.

- Anonymous