Greetings capsuleers and those with access to the IGS,
It’s a fact that the Caldari State has suffered the most from the Triglavian invasion and is still suffering from the aftermath. ARC believes that the Caldari State and its citizens are capable to and will overcome the current troubles that plague them, but they can use support. As such, ARC proposes the ‘Octavia-initiative’ as a public effort to assist the Caldari State and the people living within its borders.
The objective of the Octavia-initiative is to support the defense of the Caldari territory and citizens against the Triglavian threat as well as against the numerous pirate factions operating within Caldari territory. This will help bring more stability to the Caldari State in particular and Empire controlled space in general. The Octavia-initiative aims to achieve this objective by doing the following:
Work with security agents to combat pirate and rogue drone threats within Caldari State Space;
Scrap and recycle recovered materials from combating pirate and rogue drone threats within Caldari Space;
Reprocess mined and/or collected ore at a Caldari owned station, within Caldari State space;
Use the minerals and agent (loyalty) rewards to build multiple squadrons of ships based on the template of the current 37th Octopus Squadron. When possible, construction should take place in a Caldari owned station, within Caldari State space;
Reinvest ISK from agent rewards and sold excess materials into buying ship hulls from the Jita market in situations where the building cost are higher than the market prices for these ships. At this time that applies to tech 2 ship hulls , battleship hulls and several Navy Issue ship hulls.
The initiative aims to build and provide multiple squadrons to the Caldari State, consisting of the following flights and ship hulls:
Green flight: 5 Griffin, 5 Griffin Navy Issue and 5 Kirin
Blue flight: 5 Hookbill
Red flight: 5 Caracal
Orange flight: 5 Cerberus
Weird flight: 3 Kitsune and 3 Blackbird
Silver flight: 5 Raven, 5 Raven Navy Issue
Gold flight: 5 Rokh, 5 Scorpion and 5 Scorpion Navy Issue
Completed squadrons will be presented to the Caldari State, at the end of the Initiative. The current end date will be the last day of the 9th month of this year. Final transfer will take place with the stipulation that the use and deployment of the completed squadrons is for the defense of the Caldari territory and citizens against the Triglavian threat as well as against the numerous pirate factions operating within Caldari territory. They are not to be used and deployed within the Militia warzones.
If capsuleers and/or organisations wish to contribute to the ‘Octavia-initiative’, please contact me as I will coordinate the efforts for the initiative. ARC will keep track and publish contributions and donations in support of the initiative. If people wish to contribute but remain anonymous, ARC will respect their wishes.
The final completed squadron will be made available for capsuleer use. This means that depending on the number of participants, ships or complete flights will be awarded to the top contributors on a individual, corporation and maybe even alliance level. As ARC is a scientific organisation and wishes to remain so, it’s leadership is excluded from the ranking and ARC will not keep any ISK, ships or materials related to this initiative. There will be regular updates to provide full transparency on the state of the Octavia-Initiative and the collected/donated materials.
In order to facilitate a ranking for top contributors; ships and materials will be given an ISK value. This will allow for a clear way to rank the contributions. The ISK values are as such:
The month has ended and that means that the Octavia-initiative has come to a close. The intial scope turned out to be too ambitious as we did not succeed in including both tech 1 and Navy Issue variants for the battleships. The initiative did succeed in providing tech 1 battleships in sufficient numbers to present at least 1 complete squadron and multiple supporting Flights.
All constructed ships and remaining materials have been moved to the CEP headquarters and contracted towards the current head of the CEP: Akimaka Saraki.
Below are the two contracts; one for the ships and one for the remaining materials.
I wish to repeat that this transfer takes place with the stipulation that the use and deployment of the ships and materials is for the defense of the Caldari territory and citizens against the Triglavian threat as well as against the numerous pirate factions operating within Caldari territory. The ships and materials are not to be used with regards to the Militia warzones.
