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At the beginning of 2009, about 50 of the senior staff and students left to form Seppuku Warriors (TANTO), which they described as a PvP-oriented alternative to Eve University. Their precise motives remain unclear, since they've given a number of mutually contradictory explanations. It's quite possible that the people involved had different motivations, as well.

Among the people who left were Dee Carson, then the Uni's Director of Operations, Sabre A, then ILN Vice Admiral, and m0rd0, then Student Relations Manager. A significant number of long-term ILN members also left to join the new organization, which was pitched as a more PvP-oriented school, charging tuition and using the directors' personal connections to bring in EvE luminaries from the 0.0 alliances for guest lectures, etc. This left the Uni with a fairly small number of experienced/high-SP PvPers, compared to the height of the Privateer Wars.

~~At this time, within the Uni, Kelduum Revaan moved from Director of Diplomacy to Director of Operations.~~

Relations between [TANTO] and the Uni soured quickly, with a barrage of smack-talk coming from TANTO, primarily of the form "you're teaching the students wrong". It's not clear precisely what they would do differently, or why they didn't implement their ideas when they were running things. Ultimately, SW decided to declare war on the Uni. Again, their reasons are unclear, because they gave so many of them. Perhaps they wanted to teach the Uni a lesson; perhaps they were hired as mercenaries by a wealthy industrialist. They gave both these reasons and others at the time.

(A few months later, the members of TANTO were recruited ''en masse'' to Evolution (EVOL), the reformation of BoB under SirMolle. They moved out of Korsiki, which has kept unpleasant interactions to a minimum.)

=== Destruction of the Uni POS ===

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 '''Discussion on this article is currently happening in [http://www.eve-ivy.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26079 this forum thread.]
-At the beginning of 2009, about 50 of the senior staff and students left to form Seppuku Warriors (TANTO), which they described as a PvP-oriented alternative to Eve University.  Their precise motives remain unclear, since they've given a number of mutually contradictory explanations. It's quite possible that the people involved had different motivations, as well.
-Among the people who left were Dee Carson, then the Uni's Director of Operations, Sabre A, then ILN Vice Admiral, and m0rd0, then Student Relations Manager.  A significant number of long-term ILN members also left to join the new organization, which was pitched as a more PvP-oriented school, charging tuition and using the directors' personal connections to bring in EvE luminaries from the 0.0 alliances for guest lectures, etc.  This left the Uni with a fairly small number of experienced/high-SP PvPers, compared to the height of the Privateer Wars.
-At this time, within the Uni, Kelduum Revaan moved from Director of Diplomacy to Director of Operations.
-Relations between [TANTO] and the Uni soured quickly, with a barrage of smack-talk coming from TANTO, primarily of the form "you're teaching the students wrong".  It's not clear precisely what they would do differently, or why they didn't implement their ideas when they were running things.  Ultimately, SW decided to declare war on the Uni.  Again, their reasons are unclear, because they gave so many of them.  Perhaps they wanted to teach the Uni a lesson; perhaps they were hired as mercenaries by a wealthy industrialist.  They gave both these reasons and others at the time.
-(A few months later, the members of TANTO were recruited ''en masse'' to Evolution (EVOL), the reformation of BoB under SirMolle.  They moved out of Korsiki, which has kept unpleasant interactions to a minimum.)
 === Destruction of the Uni POS ===