An Account of the Eviction of Innuendo
This is one account of the eviction of Innuendo (J211936 ), the then-current home the Wormhole Community. The purpose of this is mainly educational and historical. It is not meant to be definitive nor entirely objective.
Prior to the Eviction
In 2023, I (Amoni Panala) was in No Vacancies. I had my alt, Kamille Panala, living in Nullsec Community. Kamille served as my teaching, mentorship, and newbie FC character in EVE University. We were in the middle of the campaign to defend the PC9 pocket, but the fighting had lulled as we heard rumors that a couple in Cynosaural Field Theory had recently had a child and therefore real life was preventing them from engaging properly. I had chosen to live in nullsec because I knew very little about it and while my first love has and will likely always be wormhole space, I already had C5 space to play in. I had also noticed that WHC had become disproportionately represented by people who were more interested in PVE activities than PVP. I heard from people who were in WHC at that time that day after day there were fights to be had but they couldn't get enough people to undock to actually fight.
I wrote a scathing post on the now-defunct EVE University forums essentially saying that if people don't undock for PVP, they will leave themselves open to eviction. This was based on a vague and inconsistent notion that to krab in wormhole space is to take from it and to engage in PVP is to give back. If all one ever does is take, it is not only a drain on the entire wormhole ecosystem but also a sign of weakness. The idea behind calling it a sign of weakness is that if people are unwilling to undock in low stakes PVP fights, they won't be willing or able to put up much resistance when the stakes are as high as losing their home system. Most of the people who were already convinced that PVP was essential component of WHC appreciated the post. I had hoped that it would shake up what I perceived to be stagnation in WHC where too many krabs had come to believe they were safe and that they were not contributing enough to WHC unless and until they began participating in PVP.