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In his latest "One Jump Home" column, MMORPG.com's Ross McDermott, also a member of the Council of Stellar Management, has penned a new article about the adventure of finding war….and having a hard time doing it. Check out One Jump Home and then add your thoughts to the mix in the comments.

The technetium oligarchs built their shining homes on the backs of the humming plates of an orbital moon extractor. When the mineral shift came and the desire for technetium increased dramatically, they found their empires enriched even more than they were previously. In their grotesque arrogance they set about shaping the market to suit their own desires, controlling a precious resource that only they had access to. These were the economic foundations of the Northern Coalition. These were the minerals and resources that allowed them to grow fat, docile and indifferent to the threats at their doorstep.

Read more of Ross McDermott's One Jump Home: Finding a War in EVE Online.

In the latest developer blog on the EVE Online site, CCP Greyscale continues the discussion of how the team is going about redesigning Nullsec. As the discussions got underway, the dev team met with the CSM to discuss exactly what the goals were for nullsec redevelopment.

The bulk of that blog was about defining things that should be true – in an ideal world – for everything that goes on in nullsec. That gives us a general framework to work within, but doesn't do a lot to explain where we're going with the different parts that make up nullsec today, and the things we'll be adding in the near future.

For this next bit, we had several brainstorming sessions, both internally and with the CSM, to define both what major areas of gameplay should exist in nullsec, and what the guiding principles for those individual areas or features should be. Again, we harvested the results, analyzed them, broke them down, built them up, and tried to pull them together into a unified vision of where we want to go. This all coalesced into a whiteboard covered in text, which I have reproduced below for your viewing pleasure.

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"Phaser Inc.", a small, four member corporation in EVE Online pulled off the largest ever Ponzi Scheme yesterday, netting the corporation, and its two primary members, Eddie Lampert and Mordur Exuel, a staggering 1.8 Trillion ISK (which translates to about $50,000 real-world USD).

Many of you high sec dwellers may have heard of the small four member corporation “Phaser Inc.” It’s two main members, Eddie Lampert and Mordor Exuel, could, up until today, be seen routinely in Jita and other high sec market hubs touting their immensely profitable investment bank in local (“Deposit an investment at Phaser Inc and receive 5% interest on weekly basis. Check www.phaserinc.com for all the details and to register for an account!”). Those days, however, have ended:

Haters gonna hate Today is the day many expected to come. Today, the 12th of August 2011, is the day where it all comes together. Phaser Inc. is done, over, finished.

After a stunning period of eight months, we decided it’s enough.

No more new accounts. No more mails. No more payout days. No more ISK.

No more Phaser Inc.

Most likely, this will cause a lot of questions. The most important question will be answered right here, right now. The ISK is gone; you More >