Transmission Lost

I suppose writing about the disfunction of a major wormhole alliance is just as worthy as anything else. Certainly better than recounting stories of almost catching a hole-closing Dominix this morning.

As a lowly grunt in Transmission Lost my perspective is far from unique. Still, I'm going to vomit up my two cents because that's how wormholers take care of business - spewing out vitriol like a giant diarrhea volcano.

The first thing I heard about all this recent unpleasantness was that KAIRS wanted to leave the alliance and take the alliance name with it. That by itself was annoying because the alliance didn't belong to any one corp. It wasn't and still isn't a piece of property. In my eyes KAIRS wanting to leave the alliance and keep the alliance name was equivalent to wanting to eat their cake and keep it as well.

Now I understand that KAIRS was a founding member of TL. I appreciate their emotional attachment to the name and respect all the work that it took to build such a powerful organization. Ultimately it appears that they lost sight of the fact that despite their having been in TL since the beginning the alliance was still made up of and sustained by other corporations. It wasn't being propped in any sense by KAIRS.

So when they said "we want to leave and take the alliance name with us, do our own thing and anyone who wants to follow us may do so" what they actually communicated was "we want everyone who won't conform to our vision to get out." They managed to frame it very nicely and caked it up with plenty of icing and sprinkles. Well played.

But icing on a turd does not a cupcake make.

As it stands, parties on both sides have been vilified as being responsible for creating this schism. Soon enough LOST and ANGST will meet up and get to settle anything thats been left on the table with fisticuffs. I suspect both sides look forward to that engagement. I know I do.

May the best wormholers win.