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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. | 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 | Among the people who left were Dee Carson, then the Uni's Director of Operations, 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 | At this time, within the Uni, Silentbrick took over as Fleet Admiral, and 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.) | (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.) | ||