0.0 the new dimension

In autumn, I came to the conclusion that empire, be it high- or lowsec doesn't offer the income we needed to grow and prosper as we planned.
Thus came the decision to rent us some 0.0 space for a reasonable price.
We saw -A- folding then and immediately got into contact with The Initiative whom gave us XUDX-A for 1bil ISK/Month.
Equipped with only one Jumpfreighter then, we moved about 25 loads of freight in there and started to harvest that system up to its limits. One month later, with the help of GIS/Grunts. we managed to get some freighters in with the 5er pirate upgrade.
Since then our players income went up to the roof and they felt so comfortable, they began to move in their uttermost expensive luxury ratkilling ships, although there were explicit warnings not to do so. Our system got quite crowded and we had to introduce some disciplinary rules so noone blocked havens or sanctums from spawning.
Somehow I didn't feel too comfortable with the political situation and although my people cried for more systems, I tried to gain some time. Somehow I had the feeling The Initiative alone without IT/XIX/PL isn't strong enough to keep that area so I warned my people again not to bring in ships they cannot write off. Secretly I ordered CEOs to bring their BPOs valuing about 50bil ISK altogether out. An empire Corporation was founded with sole purpose to create BPCs and do the necessary inventions.
Then day X came and The Initiative folded. 3 1/2 months after we have moved in, The Initiative was suddenly gone. Completely gone. Well, there were some marauding Initiative Associates-Renters and some Initiative Mercenaries, but only some lonely and left behind guys. The Initiative was out and gone because they obviously just were fed up fighting ROL/-A-/... . So we started an evacuation operation. With 3 Jumpfreighters and several Carriers now in service, we packed all we could and moved it out into the empire. I was quite shocked, what values my guys just secretly have brought in. There were marauders, faction ships, some even with unpayable luxury fittings of the finest. 100bil ISK couldn't buy all that stuff.
3 1/2 months earlier my guys were dried out, bankrupt, fed up with our war campaigns against Focused Intentions and Scum. whom we taught a lesson. Now my guys have their pockets filled with ISK, can field whatever we want in PvP fleets, have high morale, so I guess, our first 0.0 adventure was a success, a huge one.

When I tried to get into contact with -A-(Against All Authorities) I realised 2 facts. 1 they are a bit more greedy than The Initiative, but we could have afforded it. 2 they don't want to control the area we want to live in and I was told that area was now business of White Noise.
As I somehow had the impression -A- just threw the whole area at the feet of WN because they had learned their lesson and didn't want to control too much 0.0 space anymore.
I took the chance, formed up a fleet of about 40 guys, brought in some SBUs and an Impel to a meeting point with a Jumpfreighter and then we rolled into southeast Tenerifis, placed SBUs there, told everyone that we will take over control of the area and then I sent a letter to WN that I want to get into business with them and thus we have started to help them.
Some leftover IA(Initiative Associates)-Corporations were so impressed and we learned that they speak german, so we assimilated them into our alliance.
With their help and approval from Init. we cleaned up our pocket and on demand of WN (finally we managed to get a deal with them) we started to clean up the rest of southeastern Tenerifis, too.
Much was gained by diplomacy and we chose to treat all remains of IA and IM with respect.

We are thankful to The Initiative they didn't immediately reset their renters when they left the area. Although I don't understand why they reset my PvP alliance, when only one of my guys was involved in an incident between Grunts. and them and when we were told that the whole story was resolved.

Talks with WhiteNoise were very positive but somehow I have the feeling they are overstretched at the moment, so I have decided we will organize ourselves in the EIX-HK pocket in a way we could defend it eventually. That means, we put up defenses so huge that any agressor would prefer to get into a deal with us as our new home is strategically unimportant.

Backstabbing or not ?

Some would say our actions of tearing down and taking over stations from Init. was backstabbing. Nope. This ain't no backstabbing. Init was long gone even before we thought about placing SBUs and firing at those stations. If there had been any sign of Init. keeping up any kind of military strength, we would eventually have fought on their side.

Now WN is the new boss in the area. We have our deal with them and we will support them as long as they want us to. But when the day comes at whom they are just gone, we will have to look for ourselves the same way as we had to do now.

As our military strength grows with every day, we eventually will get into a position, where any conqueror ist best advised to leave us alone and save himself a few unnecessary losses by keeping his resources up focused on his strategical goals.
EIX-HK shall be our new home, our property, and we will keep it until we find ourselves a better place.