This is fairly hot off the presses but it would seem that one of the longest standing alliances in EVE has been disbanded. No Statement from CVA command at this time, pretty much all we have to go on is a forum thread, which as you might expect is beginning to fill with rumour and tinfoil hattery.
CVA are almost as old as EVE itself and have made a name for themselves through the defence of the 0.0 region of Providence. Their patrols and policy of NRDS (Not Red Don’t Shoot) made it one of the few places in 0.0 a neutral character could rat/mine/ do other stuff in relative safety. The status of Providence is no known at this time and it is advised that all neutral characters either get the hell out or dock up until the dust settles.
Update: It would seem someone with a grudge has been planning this for some time:
BULLETPROOF 50CENT
Greetings, star pilots.
I am known as bullet, just a small, relatively unknown member of a covert organization, created by and dedicated to the taking down of what we saw as the single largest evil in eve – CVA.
The plan was hatched well over 2 years ago. Our group of RL friends was backstabbed by a high ranking CVA official, whose name I decline to mention but many of you may already be guessing (if you know, you know. Our group, by nature a very wealthy group of industrialists, was going to help fund a mass CVA invasion of nearby areas. Of course, they would do it in the name of the Amarr Empire, and we were in it to gain a large amount of wealth. However, as talks continued, it was apparent that we were the fools in this barter. CVA had no plans of invading any region, and we were being strung along, by a few high ranking individuals. The rest of the Providence coalition knew nothing about it, I suspect even the CVA officials mostly were in the shadow. Our funds dissappeared into thin air, and our contacts simply would not so much as speak to us.
We thought for a moment to make this public, but what could we do? Nobody would believe a small, relatively unknown group of empire industrialists, over a trusted, powerful, well-known and seemingly well-liked coalition. If I said to you before this, that CVA would disband, would anyone have believed me? I think not. That is when we made our pledge. We would take down CVA. We lacked firepower, so we pledged that we would do it covertly, utilizing an advantage we had – we were all owners of multiple accounts, multiple alts, and our group was bound by what most pilots in eve do not have – RL friendship that goes back for years.
You will never be able to get back at us, as we have no corporate or alliance affiliation. You do not know who we are, or where we are. Any problems I caused with this character, with an aptly ridiculous name, to fit in with the “crowd”, I apologize, I decided to use this “face” as it is nearly impossible to connect with anyone. You would be surprised how valuable we found connections to seemingly small, un-notable groups are.
So for 2 years, we worked various channels, various alliances, to come to today. Today, you see our product. Enjoy.
Quoted from a quote in the above linked forum thread, looking for direct link to source for confirmation.
More as I get it.
Update 2:
CVA have released an official statement regarding the disbanding of their alliance:
OFFICIAL CVA STATEMENT
I can confirm that CVA was folded and yes we are almost 100% sure it is an account hack for a variety of reasons:
1) We have contacted the relevant player out of game (we have ‘real life’ contact with him) and he is denying that he did this.
2) The account owner is late US TZ – the disbandment and robbery occurred in early Euro-TZ
3) When the ‘hacker’ logged in he was only in the basic channels and none of the usual channels that this member is in, indicating that he logged in from a different EVE client.
Of course he could be lieing to us but the member in question is, as far as we were aware, a loyal member of the executor corp and the CVA for over three years. There was no indication what-so-ever that he was in any way disillusioned with our mission and is indeed one of our more active and effective PvPers.
We do not believe that he would have done this. However, as with Haargoth – you can never be definitively sure – so yes – at this stage it is possible that it is simply a betrayal.
Nevertheless we are of the firm belief that this has to be a hack and we have asked CCP to investigate. No doubt all will be revealed in due course.
Obviously it sucks to be us right now and there is no doubt that this is going to cause disruption. However CVA is nothing if not resilient and we will prevail despite the obstacles that will probably be thrown in our way…
Amarr Victor
That and I tracked down the original claim of responsibility, which would seem to be a load of bull but here it is anyway.
