So it was created.
Fast forward a few years or so, and then rewind one, and we have our Sadye market, now known as Market Best Market (MBM), plugging away as our own personal market, and a burgeoning marketplace for the surrounding systems.
Little did we know a terrible time bomb had been unwittingly set.
One day, I noticed some folks were buying and selling PLEX in MBM and I thought that was cool.
“That’s cool”, I said.
Over time, and not much time, the PLEX market grew, and grew, and grew. It became so big that others noticed, others who didn’t like what it had become.
The “terrible” time bomb that had been set long ago was a brokerage tax rate set so low, that it became an affront to The Others.
Little did we know, The Others had set their rate at about 2.0%, ours was at 0.2%, this was fine for us as we needed very little ISK, but The Others needed ever more ISK, and soon they plotted against MBM.
One day we received a war dec, then another, then another, and some more. Soon we were marvelling at the amount of war decs, but having weathered a few wars before, we were confident in our ability to defend what was ours.
The Others didn’t have numbers, they had ISK, mountains of ISK. The Others paid others to fight for them, and they paid large amounts of ISK, and large amounts of others came.
The Others, and the others, put MBM on the brink of being lost.
So, the alliance members decided to move, as an alliance is the people and not the things.
They moved into a bigger home, one that is stronger, one that a new market can be established in, and protected, as this home cannot be destroyed.
The alliance set up their new home, and then looked outwards, towards other systems, some far away, some closer, and planned the retaliation.
For the alliance had kept everything that was important.
- Yosagi Yojimbo
- L0G0F CEO
