The year is 2014, after a mid-summer campaign the grand CVA alliance has finally secured its hegemony over all of nullsec. Enforcing a strict NRDS policy across all regions, many vassal empires chafe under CVA's mandatory civility. Among the many alliances that compose the patchwork of CVA's empire, is a much reduced Goonswarm Federation which is composed only of Bat Country, Goonwaffe, Wildy Inappropiate, and recently re-admitted Battlestars.

Goonswarm's representative to the CVA senate has unsuccessfully pleaded the Federation's case for more space. CVA's High Senator has rated Goonswarm's honour points too low for more space, and insists that they are close to losing the small portions of Cobalt's Edge that they share with IRC. CVA is not pleased with a recent scandal that has rocked Goonswarm to its core, after a member stole a hulk and 50 million ISK during a recruitment scam. The offending member was kicked from Goonswarm, but it came 5 months after the CVA senate passed the Galactic Honour Act.

Jade Constantine moves forward with the great mining op, getting support from OWN's and IRC's senators to make it a galaxy wide red-pen CTA. The goal of the op is to mine all the ice out of Deklein, OWN's home region, in a single day and it forces CCP to reinforce all ice systems in the region. Hundreds of Orcas and thousands of Mackinaws undock from Torrinos and take EC- pipe up to Deklein, guarded from the few pirates by the honour geddons of the recently restored Majesta Empire.