Triumvirate is going to be okay.

What happened between Pat and Quam is unfortunate, it was awful timing, and it ruined relationships that had been built over years. There are a ton of lessons that leaders in this game can learn from what happened in that corp, but I don't think this is the arena to make posts about it. I am not in Quam, I only have relationships with the leaders within the corp, and it is not on me to weigh in on what happened. What Garst and I did, however, was completely different.

Mikeh, Kodiz, and Afrohorse approached me with concerns that Patrick had essentially drained Quam of all of its isk. For years, Patrick was the only director in Quam. He had complete control over a corporation created in 2003 by a guy that has been playing EVE since the beta release. Pat went afk recently for a new job and had stopped FCing and stopped logging in. This caused Mikeh to promote a new director (Kodiz who was in Quam previously in 2008 and an old friend) who promptly did an audit of corp funds. He found that there weren't any corp funds, and over a few days realized everything was on personal Pat alts. He brought this up to us, and we discussed it for days. However, their concerns about Pat's embezzlement and his dishonesty raised our own concerns between myself and Garst. We decided, last night, to take Pat's director roles in the TRI holding corp and confront Pat about what happened. The decision was a preemptive safety measure to protect the alliance in the event of an emotional reaction or in the event that he lashed out from having his roles in Quam removed. Pat honestly agreed with this decision, and stated he would have done the same thing if he were in our shoes. It created a time out where we could all get together and talk about what was going on in Quam, what had happened to the corp's isk, and move forward from there. I have told pat time and time again that there is no love lost between Garst, Patrick, and Myself and that things can move forward separated from the Quam drama. It created a buffer in the event that there were deeper issues I was not aware of. Unfortunately, that was the case.

Understandably, Patrick is emotional about this and hurt that he had lost relationships with guys he spent a lot of time with in game. I believe this decision was made quickly, emotionally, and irrationally. I think that Pat should have taken some time to think about what he should do in this situation, but instead made a rash and hurried move to leave and make a public statement on the way out. Protecting this alliance comes before anything else, and Pat understands that. He feels as though the trust has been violated despite me telling him it has not. He feels hurt that his credibility was questioned despite not providing ways to maintain his credibility in his own corporation. Pat could have survived here, he could have made another corp and stayed, he could have stayed as alliance leadership, he could have remained a friend and ally of Triumvirate, but he decided today that he did not want that.

I know this is a shock to many of you, and I know this may be concerning moving forward. I am telling you that things are going to be ok. Garst, Fred, and I have run this alliance over the past two months as Pat got his new job and went more and more afk. Things will continue to run without Pat, although I did lose a good friend in this game today. TRI lost a leader and a great FC. I wish that hadn't happened.

You can DM me on discord if you have any questions.