At first there was the Miner.
As the Creator wished, he was in a cheerful team. He rode a mining frigate, then barge, then Exhumer eating asteroids after asteroids. He had Orca boost, a dedicated refiner, hauler, trader. He was happy.
But the mining beams found other than veldspar in the eons old asteroids. The Machine was awakened. Some believe it was the same entity that spawned the Rogue Drones. This timeless evil spirit started to whisper to their ears during the long strip miner cycles. It started to corrupt the miners to its own ways. The lone, dumb, endlessly repeating way of the machines. One by one they fell. They stopped mining in gangs despite its efficiency and turned to AFK mining. They countered the lost efficiency with increased time. They started to mine all day. "hey, it's AFK, it's not like I'm a no-lifer for mining 10 hours a day" they told themselves.
The belts became void of human presence, despite the number of barges increased. No one talked, no one hauled, no one boosted, there was nothing but the barges filling their hold, docking up to unload and return. Again and again, in endless repetition. New capsuleers who tried mining were both turned down by its machine-likeness and by the low prices caused by the endless stream of unpiloted barges. Mining got a bad name.
But then - like usually in times of need - a Savior arrived!
James 315, the Savior of Highsec proclaimed The Code to reclaim the belts for humanity from the minions of The Machine. They - like machines do - ignored it and kept on with their endless mine-redock cycles. But then James bumped them out of mining range with his Stabber. He started to write about his adventures and humans with compassion to the miners joined him. They became the Agents. They - as James taught them - bumped the corrupted miners out of range.
When they returned from AFK they found their hold empty. They knew that by failing to complete the cycle, they failed to operate within parameters, therefore they failed The Machine. They then experienced something that machines don't, only humans: rage. In their rage they spilled insults on their saviors. To help Agents properly examine this phenomena, James created the Miner Bingo:
It's important that the New Order has no anger towards these misguided people. We know that their nonsense is only coming from the corruption. The poor souls just reiterate the lies of The Machine, like "the fleet" that will come from some dark corner and gank the agents, or the powerful "lowsec friends" who will take revenge on those who violate the followers of The Machine. They also file countless petitions to the Creator, as The Machine misguided them into believing that they are invincible in Highsec as long as they are away from keyboard.
While lot of miners still suffer from these delusions, some found a way back to their former human selves. These gallant miners pledged their allegiance to the New Order in their Bio and paid the 10M support to the movement. Many of them - still remembering the darkness that held them until recently - became Agents themselves to save their still enslaved brethren. The Agents cleansed whole belts from the mindless zombies that were once our brothers.
But it was early to celebrate. While dozens were saved by the New Order, in others the corruption of The Machine ran deeper. They completed the Dark Ascension and turned into a Bot. The Bot has no humanity left in it at all. It is equal to the rats it shares the belt with. It never rages when bumped. It just reappears the asteroid and continues mining. It is a machine. And like all machines it is mass produced. Look at this, fellow humans and despair at the soulless legion that fell on the asteroid belts:
But even against this army of machines, the mankind of New Eden is not lost. The Knights of the New Order, riding on shiny Catalysts exorcise these abominations with Holy Antimatter:
Watch how the Knights strike down the slave army of The Machine! These ... drones - unlike the bumped miners - rarely rage. Do they just walk from the clone station with a blank stare on their face to their next barge and warp to the belt to continue? Or do they wake up, not remembering anything and live as cleansed humans? We can only hope.
The story of the New Order doesn't end here. You can be part of it too, cleansing the belts from this menace. Time is short. In every hour a human being turns into a Bot, losing everything that was good in him. Can you just walk over this tragedy? You can become an Agent or a Knight. The story will end as it began:
"there was the Miner. As the Creator wished, he was in a cheerful team. He rode a mining frigate, then barge, then Exhumer eating asteroids after asteroids. He had Orca boost, a dedicated refiner, hauler, trader. He was happy."
As the Creator wished, he was in a cheerful team. He rode a mining frigate, then barge, then Exhumer eating asteroids after asteroids. He had Orca boost, a dedicated refiner, hauler, trader. He was happy.
But the mining beams found other than veldspar in the eons old asteroids. The Machine was awakened. Some believe it was the same entity that spawned the Rogue Drones. This timeless evil spirit started to whisper to their ears during the long strip miner cycles. It started to corrupt the miners to its own ways. The lone, dumb, endlessly repeating way of the machines. One by one they fell. They stopped mining in gangs despite its efficiency and turned to AFK mining. They countered the lost efficiency with increased time. They started to mine all day. "hey, it's AFK, it's not like I'm a no-lifer for mining 10 hours a day" they told themselves.
The belts became void of human presence, despite the number of barges increased. No one talked, no one hauled, no one boosted, there was nothing but the barges filling their hold, docking up to unload and return. Again and again, in endless repetition. New capsuleers who tried mining were both turned down by its machine-likeness and by the low prices caused by the endless stream of unpiloted barges. Mining got a bad name.
But then - like usually in times of need - a Savior arrived!
James 315, the Savior of Highsec proclaimed The Code to reclaim the belts for humanity from the minions of The Machine. They - like machines do - ignored it and kept on with their endless mine-redock cycles. But then James bumped them out of mining range with his Stabber. He started to write about his adventures and humans with compassion to the miners joined him. They became the Agents. They - as James taught them - bumped the corrupted miners out of range.
When they returned from AFK they found their hold empty. They knew that by failing to complete the cycle, they failed to operate within parameters, therefore they failed The Machine. They then experienced something that machines don't, only humans: rage. In their rage they spilled insults on their saviors. To help Agents properly examine this phenomena, James created the Miner Bingo:
It's important that the New Order has no anger towards these misguided people. We know that their nonsense is only coming from the corruption. The poor souls just reiterate the lies of The Machine, like "the fleet" that will come from some dark corner and gank the agents, or the powerful "lowsec friends" who will take revenge on those who violate the followers of The Machine. They also file countless petitions to the Creator, as The Machine misguided them into believing that they are invincible in Highsec as long as they are away from keyboard.
While lot of miners still suffer from these delusions, some found a way back to their former human selves. These gallant miners pledged their allegiance to the New Order in their Bio and paid the 10M support to the movement. Many of them - still remembering the darkness that held them until recently - became Agents themselves to save their still enslaved brethren. The Agents cleansed whole belts from the mindless zombies that were once our brothers.
But it was early to celebrate. While dozens were saved by the New Order, in others the corruption of The Machine ran deeper. They completed the Dark Ascension and turned into a Bot. The Bot has no humanity left in it at all. It is equal to the rats it shares the belt with. It never rages when bumped. It just reappears the asteroid and continues mining. It is a machine. And like all machines it is mass produced. Look at this, fellow humans and despair at the soulless legion that fell on the asteroid belts:
But even against this army of machines, the mankind of New Eden is not lost. The Knights of the New Order, riding on shiny Catalysts exorcise these abominations with Holy Antimatter:
Watch how the Knights strike down the slave army of The Machine! These ... drones - unlike the bumped miners - rarely rage. Do they just walk from the clone station with a blank stare on their face to their next barge and warp to the belt to continue? Or do they wake up, not remembering anything and live as cleansed humans? We can only hope.
The story of the New Order doesn't end here. You can be part of it too, cleansing the belts from this menace. Time is short. In every hour a human being turns into a Bot, losing everything that was good in him. Can you just walk over this tragedy? You can become an Agent or a Knight. The story will end as it began:
"there was the Miner. As the Creator wished, he was in a cheerful team. He rode a mining frigate, then barge, then Exhumer eating asteroids after asteroids. He had Orca boost, a dedicated refiner, hauler, trader. He was happy."
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