What begins as routine bravado and taunting escalates into violence, not through spectacle but through accounting. Ships are lost in sequence, doctrines fail quietly, and expectations collapse. Complaints follow, but they arrive too late to matter. The engagement was not dramatic, it was decisive.
Attempts to reframe the loss by invoking nullsec culture or disparaging highsec mechanics fail, because geography does not negate misunderstanding. Highsec works precisely because it is constrained, procedural, and unforgiving to those who misread it. Confidence is not declared; it is assumed and demonstrated through restraint.
“This message in the local chat is seen by every player of the safe solar system I fly into. Following this message, he sees this: Victory: SDENSK (Praxis*) to back up my words. The players thank me. Amarr, Zhita are no exception. Everywhere I fly, in every solar system where there are players, this message pops up. This will continue daily until you reimburse me for my tractors and my Praxis, which were destroyed by you. Something tells me that in a couple of months, all players who play in safe solar systems will have your gang marked with a red flag. Each of you. When you appear in the locale, everyone will know that freaks have flown into the solar system. I have been doing this for the third day. The more you delay with payment, the more people will put jackals like you on their blacklists. You pay 500,000,000 (five hundred million isk).”
I tried to negotiate.
However, he wants to punish me.
That’s the last thing I want!
This is blackmail and extortion…
I just want an apology.
No deal!
Everybody must know about the jackal.
He plans to tell everyone about my targeted assassinations.
Please don’t throw me in that briar patch!
He’s a professional antiadvertiser…
Now I’m starting to cry.
In EvE Online, reputation is everything.
Weak minds are susceptible to reverse psychology witchcraft.
He has the upper hand.
The entire playerbase will hear of me.
Then he found the other Aikos.
This is just sadistic!
What a game.
He soon found support in Zhita local.
I create fun content for Highsec miners.
I am Princess Aiko Tabaqui of Danera, the High Witch Danuja of Agilborne.
