Cpt Patrick Archer – 06/05/2017 im not this isnt about hurting hades at all it’s about getting rid of useless blues like drones and igc
Over the last few weeks Eve News 24 has been following and investigating the diplomatic tensions surrounding Triumvirate. <TRI> and it’s allies. Rumors surfaced, through the leaks obtained by kugutsumen.org and, written about by Seraph IX Basarab, detailing embarrassing command chat logs within Triumvirate/Vanguard’s directorship that seemed to indicate their (Tri’s) desire to set their allies blue and potentially attack DRF/Gemico or FCON. This article was followed up by one by one of mine detailing some of the history, political layout, and specific situations that continued to destabilize the south and spark a war between allied alliances. I also covered the ejection of Manifesto. from Vanguard Coalition. Shortly after the article was published, streamer Manny Bothans hosted several major null-sec players on his show and the situation surrounding Triumvirate was one of the major topics discussed. The panel included UaXDeath (Exec of DRF/Gemico) and Tarkinius (Exec of FCON) and confirmed the bulk of the articles and reached a consensus that Triumvirate. was taking these actions to get ‘content’, and a win, after their failed deployment north against Guardians of the Galaxy. While no one faulted them for looking for content the heavy handed treatment of not only allies but coalition members by Triumvirate./Vanguard High Command, repeated violation of Non-Invasion or Non-Aggression Pacts (NIP/NAP), as well as their (Tri’s) desire to launch an attack against DRF or FCON led most to feel that they were burning bridges and breaking trusts that would likely impede future diplomatic negotiations from ever being reached with Triumvirate.
After our initial articles, Triumvirate. leaders denied any desire or plans to attack the Drone Region Federation/Gemico and that the logs had been faked. However, multiple parties involved and present in the channels have since verified the information. Furthermore, the direct messages between Cpt Patrick Archer and Marrowbone (see below) further confirm the discussion of these plans. The desire to, or even consideration, by Triumvirate. to even consider attacking DRF/Gemico is significant. Triumvirate. holds its current space through agreements with and at the invitation of DRF/Gemico.
Eve News 24 interviewed a former long time member of Vanguard Coalition Leadership and were provided with direct chats between Hell’s Pirates Alliance leader Marrowbone and Cpt Patrick Archer (Vanguard Coalition XO/Acting Coalition Leader during Garst’s absence). Now it should be noted that Marrowbone came to us after her alliance was ejected from Vanguard Coalition for ‘low participation’. We realize this could bias her as a source and maybe not present a full picture of both sides of the story. However, EN24 was provided with multiple verified logs and independent sources that have confirmed and validated Marrowbone’s information.
Marrowbone said she planned to “stay quiet” until several incidents occurred. Triumvirate. Exec Garst Tyrell posted a secretly recorded conversation between him and Manifesto co-executor Piotr Engels to Reddit in a heavy handed attempt to control the narrative. I won’t rehash that but if you want to read about it you can do it here. While Marrowbone holds no hard feelings towards Garst, she did feel the attempt to use the recording to falsely slant the narrative with Manifesto. and comments made by Triumvirate. leadership about HADES pushed Marrowbone to come forward and make sure that Hell’s Pirates’ side of the story was public, before similar methods were utilized by Triumvirate. leadership. She holds no hard feelings but, since her previous steadfast and deep support for Vanguard, she found her motives moving her alliance were doubted. She felt it was important to make sure accurate facts were public about what happened both with her, her alliance, and the breakdown of trust within Vanguard as a whole. Hell’s Pirates had a long relationship with both as a ally of Triumvirate. and a founding member of the Vanguard Coalition. Much like the diplomatic drama surrounding Manifesto., FCON, and other allies, things seemed to ratchet up when Garst went AFK for real life reasons and left Cpt Patrick Archer in charge of both Triumvirate and the coalition. When he (Patrick) announced a deployment north to attack the Guardians of the Galaxy Coalition he only took Triumvirate and left the rest of the coalition. Marrowbone as a alliance exec and informal leader inside of Vanguard picked up the reigns and worked with the coalition and FCON to protect Triumvirate.’s sovereignty and keep the remaining coalition members active and defending their space. Multiple line members from all the involved credit Marrowbone with taking a bad situation and keeping the coalition together while Triumvirate was off in the north.
Due to Triumvirate.’s absence and lack of concern at what was happening ‘back home’ Marrowbone had to create an infrastructure and communication system to coordinate between the remaining Vanguard members and other blues (FCON, TBC, ect). This became handy as Marrowbone also had to spend considerable time patching up diplomatic incidents caused by Patrick, his heavy handed approach, and violating multiple diplomatic agreements, with FCON and other allies. After Triumvirate.’s deployment failed and they returned home Cpt Patrick Archer recalled the entire coalition to a central location to “make ISK and ‘krab’ to support an upcoming war’. He also called a coalition leadership meeting with the following:
It was at this point, that command chats and private messages show that Triumvirate was eyeing a reset of the Drone Region Federation/Gemico allies in the north and considered them ‘Useless blues’.
Below is a series of DMs between Marrowbone and Patrick discussing the reset. We have not edited any of them except to add a few words in parenthesis for clarification:
