As a member of The Code, I'd like to congratulate all members who participated in expelling us from the above mentioned systems. The Code as of today holds a fraction of presence within ED then we used to. The Lave/Leesti cluster will always remind us of what we call "The Golden Days". The pirating was exceptional in this area, being in the heart of the rare trade routes. The competition to hold the area as well as the continuous stream of groups traveling to the cluster to stop our reign of terror seemed endless.
We had stopped operating in the Lave/Leesti cluster with the launch of Power Play and moved our operations, under contract, to assist Archon Delaine. After figuring out that our relationship with Archon Delaine was exponentially more beneficial to Archon Delaine we ceased our relationship with The Pirate Lord and continued on to operate in Imperial Territory in order to exploit the slave routes.
As time continued we found ourselves pirating less and participating more in combat with old and new enemies who wished to cut their teeth on a group who had a history of Wing Warfare. Unfortunately, pirating for us became obsolete, as we needed to field more combat fit ships to defend ourselves from constant attacks of other PvP groups, as well as needing a larger purse to support these wars which could not be supported by pirating trade routes alone. Simply put, the state of piracy at the time was not able to support our growing operations.
Pirating as a whole eventually died off with multiple changes within the game as it evolved. We had no reason to pirate and frankly, found it not as fun as it was during "The Golden Days". The Code still operates in small cells through out the galaxy. Most of them have given up piracy and are supporting other groups close to The Code, with their combat experience.
I'm not that great with RP, but with all of that out of the way I would like to say that it has been a blast flying with this group. As much as we were the boogie man to many CMDRs in the galaxy, they were a surprisingly friendly and great group of people. Strong friendships have been created while playing ED and many have moved on to playing other video games together. They remain active as an organization, but have chosen to not to focus soley on ED anymore. Through the ED group many other groups have been formed for other games.
It was fun playing the villain and even more fun to read about the horror stories about The Code. If only most of the CMDRs knew that the Boogie Man was actually a Teddy Bear. It's a dirty job, but someone has to play the antagonist in order for the protagonists to exist. We are more than happy to give groups of CMDRs something to band together against.
Although The Code shows less presence within ED than it used to, do not get too comfortable. The TS is indeed active and sooner or later we will be itching to get our space sea legs back.
Great job, CMDRs. I compliment you on your combined efforts to stop the expansion of our evil empire. Keep your eyes open though, It was only natural that a presence such as The Code would not last long in such important systems. The shadows is where we belong and the shadows is where we will make our new home.
With The Code washed out from The Old Worlds, which "evil" power do you plan on organizing against next?
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Administrators??? Losing control of the systems has nothing to do with administration. I always thought that keeping control of a system involves political war, economic war, enforcement (i.e. bounty hunting), and oppression of rebellious factions. And from what I understood, The Code didn't actually conquer any system - they were granted a system upon request. Hardly what I'd call a "conquest".
We actually had to run a lot of missions in order to take Orerre as well as expand. We managed to do so in conjunction with other groups grinding against us. It was a lot of PvE grinding for a group that mostly enjoyed PvP. That being said, we are very surprised it took this long as we haven't run missions or done anything in those systems for the last 5 months.
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