Financial Adviser Position Open?

..Since my last post, I found an industrial corp who was looking to add more members to their machine.  Pretty fortunate for both parties, as I was, and always am, looking to fill unique roles within any aspiring corporation!

During the interview with Lan Mo, I talked about my hard skills in Eve, such as being a Logi pilot, great mining skills, etc.  But since the AWOX nerf, those skills don't put me in the right position for maximum chaos.  So I had to talk about my other set of skills, trading.

More on these insane profits later...

 At this point in the infiltration, I just wanted to plant the seed, not overwhelm Lan.  I didn't tell him my exact trading procedure or profits, but I did tell him that I had no problem acquiring ISK via the market.  I let that sink in for a few days.

Lan sent out a mail, informing every corp member that they were handing out roles for various positions within the corp.  Obviously, this fit right in to my narrative.  There was only one hiccup, everyone who wished to apply for a position had to submit their full API.  Crap.

That's just the way it goes sometimes with HighSec corps, some want API's, other don't.  Either way there is nothing to lose, as most pilots who audit API's just gloss over the details, as Lan did.  Even though my Kill Log is full of very successful Code Enforcement from within various illegal mining operations, Lan didn't seem to notice or care.

Well, do you?

During my post audit interview, I let Lan know that I was very interested and capable at the Trading Officer position.  Let me explain my angle here:

I played into Lan's desire to run a fully functional HighSec industry corp, detailing a plan to make billions of ISK  when the structure changes go live. The only hangup, I advised, was the capital to start the manufacturing machine.

But fear not Lan!  I can multiply the corps coffers by market trading!  And thus:

Yep, sounds great.

Now that I had some of the rolls I wanted, I could do a few things.  Run off with whatever ISK the corp had, which would be just fine.  But I had another idea, become a legit trader for the corp, and show the awesome profits that I was making for them, then segue that into managing the personal ISK for any corp member that wanted my services.

At this point in the infiltration, everything was going great.  I made sure that everyone in the corp was well aware of the amount of ISK I was making on the market, and I even offered to teach the trade game to any corp member who wanted to learn.  And a few members took me up on that offer.  Which leads to the worst part of this infiltration.  

THEY HAD NO MONEY!

The corp and the members I talked to were flat broke.  I guess mining just does not lead to the rich and famous lifestyle.  Again, that's the way it goes.  Sometimes you stumble onto a few dudes who has a PLEX'd up wallet, and other times all you get is a group of folks who really just want to mine and be broke.  Barf.

So long story short (too late), I decided to WarDec them with my other pilot, to hopefully squeeze out some content for myself with the time that I had invested.  And as expected, because my WarDec pilot is quite tied to Syds Sinclair on the interwebs, they found me out and kicked me pretty quick.  Ah well.  

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that they formed a plan to get even with me before they kicked me out, involving switching to a different corp, with friendly fire enabled! to evade the WarDec.  But alas, it turns out that most of the miners had no interest in any interaction with any entity besides rocks in space, so the friendly fire ambush was abandoned.  A corp member by the name of Kloric Atir did the snooping and uncovered the connecting between me and the WarDec.

I came to realize a few things during this infiltration.  First, I can talk my way into just about anything.  Second, with the amount of profit I make from simple trading, it's not worth it to me to spend the time and effort trying to gain a corps trust.  I mean, even if I could have rallied them into raising their ISK and giving it to me, how much could I have made?  2b ISK?  That's an hour on the market, over about 3 days.  

I'm moving on from the HighSec corp shenanigans for a while.  I'll probably work a Reverse Safari here and there, but for now, I have a few other things in mind.  

-Fly it like it's a broke down HighSec corp!