The Volition Cult
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| Alliance Name | The Volition Cult |
| Alliance Ticker | VOLT |
| Executor Corp | Volition Cult Holdings |
| Created By | Sirlana |
| Created On | 2006.09.22 |
| Disbanded On | 2008.06.18 |
| Alliance Heads | Lord Matrix, Agent Stone, Sothis Antares, Rhaegor Stormborn, PBA Lunax, Alpha Orion, DraLaFi |
| Old Killboard | Volt Killboard |
The Volition Cult [VOLT] was established as a official alliance by Volition Cult Holdings [VOLTH] on the 22nd September 2006. Three founding corporations were involved in the alliance formation, Ascendant Stratagies Inc. [ASSTI], Back Home in Time for Tea and Medals [BHTM], PBA Corporation [.PBA.].
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Background
Alliance Description
"When people are pure, laws are useless; when people are corrupt, laws are broken. We have but one aim; to eradicate the corrupt from New Eden. The Volition Cult has chosen purity. The only choice you need to make is whether to stand with us, or against us."
Definition of Volition
(noun) volition, will (the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention) "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith
(noun) volition, willing (the act of making a choice) "followed my father of my own volition"
History
Background to Alliance Formation
PBA Corporation [.PBA.] was the first corporation out of the three to be formed. Founded on the 7th December 2004 by PBA Lunax [.PBA.]. Growing in size within empire space, PBA Corporation joined Huzzah Federation after a empire war. They then set up their first 0.0 POS.
In August 2005, The Priory, and The Short Bus Squad declared war on Huzzah Federation. After many battles, PBA Lunax took a break from Eve Online, giving CEO position to Ian Cormack. On his return the war was still going on, and PBA Corporation had lost members. So plans were made to move to Immensea as a corporation.
One month after that, a PBA Corporation POS destroyed a shuttle belonging to shadowandlight of Hammer of Light [HROLT].
Red Alliance, then gave Southern Border Alliance the 3 Outposts in Immensea, due to Red Alliance being busy with the wars and being pushed out of the area. Pantheros of Southern Border Alliance made an offer to PBA Corporation, which was accepted, to join the alliance. shadowandlight of Hammer of Light [HROLT] also accepted a similar offer.
Just over a week later, Red Alliance were pushed back. Chimaera Pact and Lotka Volterra launched an attack on the three Immensea Outposts taking them from Southern Border Alliance just as quickly as they had gained them.
PBA Corporation then left the collapsing Southern Border Alliance and carried on living in Immensea, running gate camps, generally hindering Chimaera Pact and Lotka Volterra logistics and travel through Immensea.
Back Home in Time for Tea and Medals [BHTM] was founded on the 25th October 2005, by Egai [BHTM]. After growing in empire and assisting Curatores Veritatis Alliance in Providence with Anti Pirate efforts, BHTM and PBA became friends. A friendly frigate war between the corporations further improved relations.
shadowandlight and PBA Lunax started serious plans to form an alliance. PBA Corporation of course suggested [BHTM] should join the nascent alliance.
Ascendant Strategies Inc. [ASSTI], was founded on the 09th April 2006, by Arilanus Doshenko [ASSTI]. Shortly after June 2006, while Agent Stone was heading to Amarr from Charra, he bumped into ShadowandLight in Sarum Prime. An offer to move to Immensea was given if [ASSTI] were interested in joining the, at the time unformed, Alliance Astral Wolves [WOLF].
ASSTI were told that we were prefered to grow in size. At this point Arilanus Doschenko went recruiting, and most of the ASSTI members and leadership are from this recruiting. ASSTI increased quickly in speed, offering training in Charra. ASSTI were also told that thay needed Capital Ships, so some started training towards such a goal. It took 8 months of training for the first members to be getting to the stage of being able to fly them.
Being a small corporation, full of young members, and never having deployed a tower before, leadership changes were made. On the 10th June 2006 an email essay regarding the planned move to E1F-LK was drafted with Summary, Background, Region Benefits, Recommendation of Aims, Implementation Plan, Jobs Available, and Review sections was sent to the ASSTI Leadership.
Cornhole Inc. [CORNI] choose this time to War Dec ASSTI. There intentions were to get ASSTI to pay 200M isk to end the war, thinking ASSTI were a small empire based mission running corporation. ASSTI choose to fight regardless, and the battles quickly turned in favor of ASSTI. A week into the war dec, BHTM had finished votes and wanted in on the fun, so War Dec'ed CORNI. After another week of fighting, Cornhole Inc. relised that ASSTI were not as easy pickings as they had relised and cancelled the War Dec. This belief of never paying ransoms, or rent by ASSTI, BHTM, and PBA was something that kept us close, and something that would only next come into use a year down the line, when G.U.A.R.D. tried extorting us for 8bil for one of our systems.
Later ASSTI finally deployed a Medium Control Tower in E1F-LK, however one evening later. CHIMP Alliance moved a 30 man gang to camp the gates, while 3 Dreads were jumped into the system next door to remove HROLT's POS, and later PBA's POS.
Shortly after that, ASSTI, BHTM and PBA later moved away from the direction Astral Wolves were taking, and decided to form The Volition Cult.
The Beginning
The Volition Cult was formed with a great idea behind it. The Cult was never meant to grow as
immense as Band of Brothers nor become an oversized industrial empire
like Ascendant Frontier. The cult just wanted to provide a home for it's members
members where never kicked due to ruleviolations nor where
corporations forced to join by means of military or economic extortion.
Thats why the meaning of "volition" is important to the alliance.
To ensure the wealth of the alliance, ASSTI, PBA and BHTM agreed to raise the 350.000.000 ISK required to create the alliance. Once the money had been raised these three corporations formed The Volition Cult on the 22nd September 2006.
To ensure safe operations outside empire space the first Non-Agression Pacts were created with the United Legion and the Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate. Acting in the Immensea region saw The Volition Cult receiving applications from a number of small corporations. Kyromek Industries joined the alliance and was able to provide an industrial support for it.
The siege of the Chimaera Pact was not forgotten and revenge was bourne in mind for the future. The Volition Cult finally claimed a system in the middle of Immensea which was considered as CHIMP space. The aim was to ruin their logistics, lower their morale and later claim sovereignity to see how they would react.
Back in those days, The Volition Cult grew when Smokin' Hillbillys joined. They were a very experienced corp and were able to help the alliance with combat knowledge.
Finally the day of revenge seemed to come. Lotka Volterra decided to intervene in Immensea, which caused United Legion to get ally with [VOLT] as well.
In the end it all comes down to the fight for 2O-EEW where The Volition Cult and allies could bring up almost 100 pilots fighting against nearly 150 pilots from Chimaera Pact, Lotka Volterra, Myriad and Maelstrom. In the end The Volition Cult took heavy losses had to admit losing this battle.
Through Smokin' Hillbillys the information leaked through that the Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate planned an engagement of the whole Immensea region including the Volition Cult as well. Not able to take more losses, the Voltion Cult took this as a chance to settle down in the new explored Drone Regions.
The Voltion Cult never managed to get revenge on the battlefield. But at least the Chimaera Pact died through a circumstance, which was introduced by Agent Stone as the "Curse of Volt".
The New Regions
Settling down in the Drone Regions gave The Volition Cult a massive industrial
boost. However, there were many disadvantages. For example, getting the alloys to empire required many members time, which caused a loss of motivation over the period [VOLT] were in the regions.
The Volition Cult claimed a few systems in the S-I6VU region, mainly operating from K-3PQW. [VOLT] found allies there quickly and were friends of the MAD-Pact (although not official members).
It was not long being confronted with a new imminence. On the 09th March 2007 Warspite Developments anchored a small POS in K-3PQW while [VOLT] were relatively inactive. Warspite used it as a support structure to get Dreadnaughts into the system and anchored a large POS shortly after that.
The siege was planned well from their side, but The Volition Cult managed it to set up a fleet with around 50 pilots heading from empire to the Drone Regions in a really short amount of time. While the POS of PBA Corporation was under siege with 6 Dreadnaughts from Warspite Developments, FREGE Alliance assembled a fleet of nearly 100 pilots to assist us. In peak we had nearly 150 active pilots in K-3PQW. [VOLT] managed to destroy their POSes causing Warspite Developments to leave the region and joining the Rule of Three alliance, which were an ally of [VOLT].
Caius Tacticus wrote a blog at the time about those incidents.
The Volition Cult alliance had claimed AK-L0Z sovereignty with a tower as it was next door. The sovereignty was lost when the corporation who owned the tower left the alliance. A few months later, at the end of May 2007, PBA Corporation anchored a POS reclaiming this system again but GUARD, who had sovereignty of a system at the other end of the constellation, had issues with this. The G.U.A.R.D. alliance asked [VOLT] to remove this POS or pay 8.000.000.000 ISK for this system. [VOLT] declined this offer, as it was borderline extortion. Afterwards mails were sent to G.U.A.R.D. to open talks but there were no replies after a number of peaceful resolutions were offered.
At the same time, G.U.A.R.D. lost confidence of the MAD-Pact by starting a small conflict with Red Alliance which resulted in the loss of several G.U.A.R.D. capital ships. Also G.U.A.R.D. pilots ratted in INVICTUS space and failed to listen to Invictus raising the issue.
All of these issues resulted in a well planned siege with the aim to destroy the whole G.U.A.R.D. alliance and remove them from the Drone Regions altogether. MAD Pact moved to take the G.U.A.R.D core outpost system, and keep it locked down for over 5 days.
The Volition Cult during this time, destroyed 18 [G.U.A.R.D.] sovereignty claiming POSes in 18 different systems over a 3 day period while G.U.A.R.D. itself was held in one system by [VOLT] allies in MAD Pact. This did however cost the alliance a Moros Dreadnought. G.U.A.R.D, with the support of The Pentigram, managed to get their fleet into the system [VOLT] were siegeing, and caught a Dread before [VOLT] could pull it out. The Pentigram had [VOLT] blue at the time so engaged [VOLT] without warning. After one week G.U.A.R.D. and The Pentigram surrendered and accepted terms made by the MAD Pact. They left the Drone Regions. Shortly after that they both announced their disbandment.
After the G.U.A.R.D conflict, Proper Responce and Stella Polar started causing problems by engaging members of the MAD Pact. While The Volition Cult were not members they got involved when both Proper Responce and Stella Polar engaged some [VOLT] pilots without warning that they had set [VOLT] to red.
The first instance was when a Stella Polar pilot engaged one of [VOLT]'s pilots Beowulf Scot while ratting. and as we had them showing as blue, was unprepared for the ganking. The second incident was a few days later when Graham Johnstone was engaged by Proper Responce on a gate. Graham simply tanked the 3 hostiles for just over 10 minutes until downtime to escape, by jumping back through the gate, being warp jammed, etc. After over 10 minutes of being shot at by blues and not returning fire, downtime accured, and servers shut down, which allowed Graham to escape Proper Responces gank squad.
[VOLT] reset standings with both Proper Responce and Stella Polar after they broke the terms of NAP without warning.
After the Era of Drone Regions
Areas to work out...
- Regrouping in Empire
- Merging of PBA and BHTM
- Darkside Industries joined VOLT
- Naps with RA, GoonSwarm, KOS, TCF and taking a firm stand on where VOLT sees itself in EVE's political situation
- Urban Mining Corp joined VOLT
- Getting the spaff knocked out of us by Al Hacko
- FFALL left VOLT
- Internal problems and the hard decision to return to NPC space
- ASSTI left VOLT
- KI left VOLT
- Phonix Tribe left VOLT
- Unholy Crusader Mining Corp joined VOLT
- a new Era is about to be induced
Other Information
Misspellings of Volition
Over the time The Volition Cult has been formed, we have seen many creative spellings for the word Volition. Possibly due to the fact that many might not be aware of what the word means, and thus use a word they know if its close enough looking.
Volution Cult by Kagura Nikon in FREGE Alliance at the time. Ref: Eve-Online Forum Post
Voltarian Cult by Jem'Hadar WarlockBlade in The Dominion Empire at the time. Ref: Confidential Ingame Channel
Voltron Cult by Voltron. Actually not a misspelling, but a funny association. Ref: Eve-Online Forum Post
