History of EVE University: Difference between revisions

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===Seppuku Warriors===

At the end of 2008, 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 senior director of the Uni, and Sabre A, then ILN Fleet Admiral. 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.

Relations between [TANTO] and the Uni soured quickly, with a barrage of smack-talk coming from TANTO. It's not clear precisely what they would do differently, or why they didn't implement their ideas when they were running the Uni. 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.

=== Destruction of the Uni POS ===

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 ===Seppuku Warriors===
+At the end of 2008, 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 senior director of the Uni, and Sabre A, then ILN Fleet Admiral.  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.
+Relations between [TANTO] and the Uni soured quickly, with a barrage of smack-talk coming from TANTO.  It's not clear precisely what they would do differently, or why they didn't implement their ideas when they were running the Uni.  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.
 === Destruction of the Uni POS ===