I'll try to sum up where we've been and what we've done so far.

Tactical Enterprise Group Ltd. (TEGL) was formed last December by Apophis and immediately attracted a number of TG members who wanted to try out Eve. A few of us had played for some time and joined up.

In Eve, space is divided into three different zones based around security, and multiple regions band systems based around faction ownership.

High Security (hisec) is owned generally by a Non Player Faction and this forms the backdrop and storyline of the Eve universe. Hisec is aggressively patrolled by the Universal peace keeping force (CONCORD) who will attack any player that commits an aggresive act against another player or property (i.e. some badass ships appear and work you over).

Low Security Space (losec) is also controlled by the NPC factions but is not patrolled by CONCORD. This is a zone of danger, as pirates and other malcontents lurk here, preying on the unwary. In losec, players can attack each other, although they can suffer a hit to their security status as a result.

0.0 Space (0.0) is beyond the territorial control of the NPC factions and essentially here, it is the frontier, players can and do carve their own empires out of the anarchy and lawlessness.

With that little primer out of the way, TEGL started in hisec space and the first couple of weeks were fun with everyone learning the game and getting used to how things worked. We had a fairly regular stream of new TGers who wanted to try Eve out and our little corp grew pretty rapidly to 20-30 people. We spent this time flying together in patrols, with some of us older players showing the new guys the ropes. Not long after this, we apparently threatened one of the local powers and a small time mercenary corporation declared war on us. In Eve, if a corporation pays a small fee to concord, they can declare war on another corporation and fight anywhere. The authorities turn a blind eye as long as there is no collateral damage. In no real position to fight (both skill, experience and money wise), we ran.

We relocated quite literally to the other side of empire, and regrouped in a system in hisec that bordered on some good losec hunting grounds, and more operations took place. We slowly started to build some assets due to friendly contact with some of the locals, and settled in. There was a "golden period" of a couple of months where we got friendly with a bunch of other players in the losec area of the region we were operating in, and helped these people fight some wars, all the time, our players gained experience and learned new and interesting aspects of the game.

The second phase of TEGLs development came when the corporations we were operating with decided to form an alliance. An alliance is an in game mechanic in eve, allowing multiple corporations to form a single political entity. We joined the Assembly of Ancients alliance as a director corporation, along side some of the other locals (which included the Eve branch of The Older Gamers, who are pretty aligned to TG thinking). Very quickly this alliance numbered 700 strong. At this point, TEGL was accruing assets in the form of blueprints, which in Eve allows you to manufacture items (like ships and equipment) to sell on the markets or use, and growing wealth. We purchased and erected our first player owned station, a small one, that we used as a forward base in a neighboring losec system that we mined and patrolled a lot. Things were good and although some of the people playing had left and new faces had joined, we had a pretty stable thing going and participated mainly in anti-piracy efforts in the local area, as well as the aforementioned economic activites.

This attracted unwanted attention and we very quickly found ourselves in war after war with increasingly competant mercenary organizations. At first this was fun (I think the war part of it has always been fun for the TGers) but a lot of people in the alliance did not share this mindset and as we came under siege for the third time, cracks in the alliance began to show. Internal strife and politics reached desperate proportions and came to a head when we came under attack from one of Eves top mercenary outfits, Contraband Inc.

TG members played a vital role in this war, because, although we got thumped soundly by these mercs, there were several important (for morale, if nothing else) victories that were lead by TEGL members, including the downing of a Navy Issue Megathron battleship (Navy Issue ships in eve are hyper-rare versions of ships that are very, very expensive). Increasingly, strife with one of the other corps in the alliance got to much and a decision was taken to boot them from the alliance. The war ended, but tensions in the area were high. Eventually, this other corporation turned on us and destroyed two POS that we had put up to harvest industrial resources.

The key point to take from this was that Eve is a harsh universe, full of treachery and backstabbing and this is what makes it a lot of fun, and unlike almost any other game I've played.

Now we are in the third phase of TEGL. We have accrued quite a lot of assets and are a budding industrial powerhouse, and although still small, have been recruiting players from Eve to join us. Some have stayed on and show a good TG mindset. We have cornered several markets through research and production, and keen market manipulation. Recently, we joined another alliance, who, whilst smaller than the now dead Assembly of Ancients, has much less melodrama and some strong ambitions. We have been involved in a bitter fight against pirate types to secure a corner of 0.0 space and an important 0.0 chokepoint that provides entry and exit from empire space. That provides the backdrop to Turbos video and is currently where we find ourselves. We have just gotten into a new war with a fairly significant enemy and are preparing for an interesting weekend of combat alongside our alliance against these new enemies.

Thanks for taking the time to read. Obviously, I glossed over a lot of stuff that has occured in the 8 months since the corp was born but that should give you a general feeling for what we've done.

Remember that if any TG member wants to try out eve, there is a link to a 14 day free trial in the Eve-Online section of the TG forums. We will be there to help and get you into the game, and TEGL will always be open for TG members to join, even on a trial basis (if we recruit in Eve, we generally require a longer term commitment). Feel free to post any other questions you have about Eve, TEGL or other things that you may want to know about what TGers are doing in this great game in the Eve Forum.