But, until I hear otherwise, I still believe that the attack was not paranoia, but an effort to establish a fuel monopoly and I was in their way.
if you read my post correctly, I said ALL are welcome to set up beside me. did Monopoly get redefined while i slept.
I have even asked JamJul if he could set up a joint operation at Jupiter to keep out the criminal element. He has his (very valid) reasons for rejecting my request to do so.
We didnt attack you station. We went in there pointing guns. Ever heard of a mexican standoff? I have stated often an inquisition is coming to town to hunt down criminal elements. Did you think we were coming in with our lawyers and a Councillor? haha. Current actions and activities that have been conducted lately in game and forums couldnt rule you out as a suspect. So by "getting the jump on you" lets everyone know we are pretty darn serious about having to come back to this cesspit to straighten out things, including pushing raphael back under his rock.
Jupiter was relinquished by PMI some time ago as being too hard to hold, or more to the point, not worth the expenditure and loss of income to hold it.
Its funny when Raphael set up 3 of his stations here you did not jump on the forums asking him to remove them under galactic law claim. I wonder why that is hmmmm?
Why would i even want to waste my time, resources and efforts owning the only other fuel store in Sol? There is no profit in it since pilots have no control over pricing. The fuel costs me as much to make as i can sell it for. More so, in fact, since the fuel needs to be transported in from outlying mining outposts and converted to a more usable energy source. The main reasons for me setting up a fuel station are
1. to help provide new players with a stable safe place to by alternate fuel at a 20% discount
2. in direct challenge to SSS claim to destroy any station set up in 0,0 (it saves me having to go looking for him if he is going to be here targeting me) and;
3. At Jupiter in particular because of the recent strategic deployments of assets by SSS
IMG will remain at Jupiter for as long as it takes to bring criminals to justice and to break up any alliances that are being made here in an attempt to disrupt the current GC alliance.
You can either be part of the solution, or part of the problem.