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Sneaky pew pew: tell us a true tale of espionage, stealth, or subterfuge

Posted by Alex Sinclair in EVE Online

Whether it's the infiltration of a rival corp or a stealth bomber causing mayhem behind enemy lines, we want to hear about the sneakiest moments and manoeuvres in New Eden. The tales, which get bonus points for storytelling flair, must be true. However, it's up to you whether you tell your own story or whether you retell one of EVE's most iconic.

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Created at 9:00am, 30th January, 2025. Page last updated at 12:03pm, 21st March, 2025.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 24th April, 2025.

Schadsquatch 1/31/2025, 3:52:59 PM

This is my favorite EVE story to date:

My friend Perceus Finch and Trent Chillen have 'bought' a c5 from a local c5 conglomerate and we were making a ton of isk. Which is fantastic! All was going well until Percy decided to join a LS pirate group. With his eyes on becoming more engaged in leadership activities, he became co-CEO of this small group of miscreants and put the structure we had in our c5 wormhole under this group. The c5 wormhole was still only set up for our small group to make isk, and do higher end wormhole content.

A month or two goes by and Percy decided he was ready to move up in the world and decided to split ways with the LS pirate corp and join PH. The other CEO, Aleks, promised to join PH and leave LS with Percy. Percy mistakenly forgot to swap the stations over to a holding corp before leaving his CEO duties, but he thought it would not have been such a big deal since the other CEO was a trusted friend.

No sooner than Percy left the corp, Aleks had a change of heart and kept the c5 stations to himself and refused to give them back to Percy. He messaged my group of friends informing that we are able to stay in the wormhole under certain 'conditions' (increased taxes, me promoting his corp to the stream, etc). Me and my friends decided that we had to come up with a plan to prevent Aleks from entering the c5, entrenching him into our home all the while without him removing our docking rights.

With a month of subterfuge, lies, building trust with Aleks, we managed to troll him out of billions of isk, waste hours and hours of his time, and ultimately destroyed the stations he put down (using the character that I had in his corp) while maintaining control of our c5. The amount of people we had involved was insane for such a silly accident. I made a longish video while we were finishing bashing the final timer <3

https://www.youtube.com/embed/77iLQ5EEw8A?feature=oembed

Duraj 3/21/2025, 1:46:32 AM

Alright! This story is a REALLY recent one. It happened literally few days ago, deep in the Delve region within the BRAVE allianace.

Me and some other friends from other game decided to hop on EVE and make a corp. Some of us were experienced, others - not at all. This created some funny situations and lots of blown up ships.

After the newbros of ours learned the ropes of the game, we decided to join the BRAVE alliance. All was good, we were slowly learning how to live in Null Sec, survive ganks etc. Life was peaceful.

That is until we recieved an offer from one of the higher ups in the Pandemonium Horde. We were supposed to sneak some cyno alts into our corp, which also meant sneaking them into an alliance. Our CEO accepted the offer without giving it much thought, which made everyone really excited and anxious at the same time - feelings I bet everyone feels when doing such things.

Well, let's just say a bunch of accounts named "Suddenly a cyno alt" etc. joining REALLY wasn't what we expected when we accepted the offer and within a span of few hours we were already kicked out and blown up. Lesson learned..

Alex SinclairMod3/21/2025, 12:03:33 PM

Duraj

Who planned this?! 😂

FUN INC 3/20/2025, 3:00:58 PM

Here is the kill Thanatos | Seven0f Nine | Killmail | zKillboard

Nice little corp op that took - oooh - 4 months planning maybe? (mainly trying to get everyone online at the same time)

Anyhow - the story.

During the course of the newbro roams that we run, we often ran into this guy who had a pipe all but hell cmaped - eyes up and eyse down - he was very very risk averse, and very astute as to his surroundings only engaging stuff that he could kill, gank, with very little risk.

That said, we also had noticed that he often brought in a carrier to aggress lone targets - really small things, like battleships (which he could easily dispatch in the ships that his many alts were in).

Anyhow, that said - after some awesome deep space recon and intel gathering, we hatched a workable plan.

Bring lone battleship into sendaya, and into doril, avoid utopia and head to hemin - where he will have already seen us on scan as we entered doril, and will be setting up on the out gate.

The plan worked a treat and exactly as we expected.

We landed in a bubble in our max tank domi, lit the cyno, and brought in our bomber fleet and destroyed the Thanny!

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Excellent fun with mates!

CommanderA9 2/4/2025, 6:19:08 AM

I turned an assassination attempt on my life and a war-dec against my new corps around into a player-run event which shattered an opposing alliance.

My first major deep-dive into joining and involving myself with corporations and alliances took me out to Khanid space in 2013. I rose to the level of Director and the number-two-man of a particular corporation run by a CEO who I had befriended for a few years. Over time, as membership participation in operations declined, I lost interest in flying with the corporation and left. A few days later, while mining in Gallente space, my former CEO showed up in a Maelstrom and attempted to assassinate me by firing on my Hulk. Luckily, I survived.

When I docked and repaired, I made calls to all of my former corporation’s system-wide business partners, which were associations and relationships I had established throughout my time in the corporation, and informed them of my CEO’s treachery. Business dealings and partnerships collapsed overnight, and the corporation found itself without friends. I joined a new alliance (in the very same system), and three months later, disgruntled members of my former corporation destroyed the corporation's player-owned starbase, demonstrating their disdain for the CEO. Ever since that moment, my former CEO took it upon himself to harass and try to intimidate my corporations, alliances, and friends by sending spiteful EVEmails or performing aggressive maneuvers near their operations.

Three years later, I found myself and my new private corporation of myself and a friend under a war declaration from none other than my former CEO. At the time, I had decided to give player-run corporations another chance, and had likewise been running player-driven events throughout EVE Online for three years. Upon the recommendation of a friend, I decided to use those skills to my advantage.

I hosted and sponsored a “hunt event:” players would be rewarded with ISK bounties for scoring kills against ships and pods of my former corporation and its tyrannical CEO, with PLEX prizes being awarded to those who killed the CEO first, as well as those who scored the highest number of ship kills, pod kills, and kills on the CEO. Friends donated PLEX to the cause.

Within hours of the event’s official start, the CEO himself and his entire gang fleet were assassinated in a wormhole. Within the week of the war-dec, my former CEO’s current alliance was shattered, with one corporation deserting from the alliance due to the pressure of so many fighters participating in the event. This corporation offered to surrender to us.

We refused.

The event continued.

At the end of the event and the week-long war-dec, 35 ships and 18 pods were destroyed by participants, including 9 ship and pod losses on the CEO personally, racking up a total of $980,000,000 in bounty and PLEX prizes awarded to participants.

My CEO never bothered me again.

At the time, I had little PvP experience, but given my business contacts and my ability to bring people together, I knew plenty of people who could!

Fly safe, everyone!

Alex SinclairMod2/4/2025, 2:02:35 PM

CommanderA9

Ha! I believe that's what they call creative problem solving.

FirestormGamingTeam 2/3/2025, 10:25:35 PM

And here is my submission to this bounty :)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VtKPodRUh2Y?feature=oembed

Alex SinclairMod2/4/2025, 2:00:42 PM

FirestormGamingTeam

Cheers! And thanks for the JA shoutout! A tip, if I may: these sorts of storytelling videos nearly always perform better over the top of in-game visuals of some kind, even if they're not directly relevant to the subject matter o7

FirestormGamingTeam 2/4/2025, 2:07:34 PM

Alex Sinclair

I will Roger that for future videos, I have plenty of footage I can use

Alex SinclairMod2/4/2025, 2:22:07 PM

FirestormGamingTeam

Awesome, looking forward to it!

Rixx Javix 1/31/2025, 2:41:56 PM

The Stolen Titan

In 2009 I was living in Providence in an alliance called Libertas Fidelitas Holdings under the umbrella of CVA. Living in Null-Sec is often a group activity and sometimes when you log-in to play, there just aren't any group activities planned. Back then, if I couldn't pull together a small group of players to do something together - I would wander off on my own. I did a lot of crazy things back then. I had no idea what I was doing and had no fear to try new things. If it sounded interesting, chances are I tried it.

One thing I discovered was that I had a knack for breaking into POS shields, guessing the passwords, and stealing goods from the hangars. There were a lot of POSes up in those days, as holding Sov meant having them. And a lot of them. So it wasn't hard to travel into enemy territory and find plenty of opportunities to keep myself busy.

It is hard to imagine now, but back then seeing a Titan was a rare event. I remember a time when there were seventeen Titans in all of New Eden. In fact, at one point, there used to be a website that tracked them all. The image at the top of this article is of an Avatar Titan inside a POS from August 2009. This was a POS that I had broken into with my Manticore and I tried to get as close to the Titan as I could without breaking cloak. And take pictures. So proof of concept.

One day, traveling far from home, I found another POS with an Erebus inside. I freely admit that my memories of this incident have been clouded by time, this was sixteen years ago. But I managed to sit there and crack the POS code. Unlike the Avatar incident, the Erebus was all alone with me in local.

I was obviously yelling in Alliance chat by this time. The problem was this was an off-time for everyone else. The other problem was that there was a limited number of Titans in Eve, which also meant a limited number of Titan pilots. I was in a real pickle. I had a Titan!! But no way to do anything with it.

By this time I had a crowd of about 5-6 other pilots with me. We tried bumping the Titan. We tried rousing our friends in other Alliances. Word spread quickly and eventually we found someone who could do it. Maybe. He hadn't actually done it yet. And he was far away. And local was starting to get busy again. The clock was ticking.

I had no idea how Titans worked back then. I figured he'd just jump in and we'd fly it home. But while the owners should have picked a better password, they did leave us with one major problem. Fuel. We didn't have any.

With time running out on us we decided on the next best thing. We jumped the Titan a few jumps away into the middle of nowhere. And left it there. I imagine somewhere in the world is a former Titan pilot who logged back into Eve one day and discovered his Erebus wasn't where he left it. I never heard another word, so I can only assume he managed to get it back safely. Or was too embarrassed to mention it to anyone.

I freely admit that parts of this story are hazy now. This happened almost a decade ago, so forgive me my memory of the details. But this is essentially what happened. For a brief moment in time I had stolen an Erebus. Much, much more than I could handle.

I guess I've been a Pirate for longer than I give myself credit for.

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