User:Sylvanium orlenard/Wormhole Campus: A History: Difference between revisions

In November 2012, Sylvanium, who was a staff member of the directorate of special operations, was given permission to start looking for a possible wormhole space system to establish a University presence. An Eve-Mail was sent, announcing a unique event: a Wormhole Hunt whose goal was to find a home for a university campus. The event lasted about a week. Hundreds of system were scanned by a small group (25 students or so) of dedicated scanners, some because they simply loved exploration and all things scanning. Others because they shared a dream of a wormhole campus for the University. On November 22nd 2012 the wormhole hunt was ended. A system was found. On November 22nd a small group of 30 dedicated University pilots logged off in W-Space. On November 22nd we had found Innuendo.

Members of Threshold, who were helping the University find a hole. Where online at the time. Knowing that it would take a few days to get a pilot with the proper roles in E-UNI to anchor a POS, they offered to anchor a POS themselves and give Unitas a safe place to log off. (There was no option to safe log-off back then, logging off in space meant that there was a thirty second window where you were not online but you could be aggressed, once agressed they could take as long as they wanted to blow you up and Citatels were not even an idea at CCP yet).

Sylvanium send a forum PM to Frood (Director of Special Operations), Azmodeus (Director of Operations), Keldum (Chief Executive Officer) and Bashir (Head Diplomat). Saying that not only had we found a suitable home, but that he had already a group of pilots logged off in the hole and that we were actively maintaining hole control of the system. Saying that there was an abandoned POS in the system and we needed the diplomats to contact the owning corp. Saying that Unistas were logging off inside the forcefield of a POS belonging to an other corp then E-UNI and told to do so by a Staff member of the special operations directorate. Saying that we had founded the University Wormhole Campus.  

Four days later, a fleet was organized and a POS was destroyed. Four days later the university received a donation from Threshold of a large Amarr Control Tower, modules, fuel and ISK. Four days later SilentBrick, the university designated POS expert and at the time, the only non-director to have the roles needed anchored a Large Amarr Control Tower at moon 7-1 in Innuendo and small towers at all the other moons. On November 26th, Frood, as a Director of the University, announced the creation of a new Campus. It was official, EVE University now had a presence in Wormhole Space. Sylvanium Orlenard was named Wormhole Campus Co-ordinator, they highest level position available within the Special Operations Directorate, equal in title and responsibilities to the Low-Sec Campus Co-ordinator and Null-Sec Campus Co-ordinator. (Campus Co-Ordinators were not named Managers until late 2013)