Every veteran EVE pilot knows the feeling. The alliance announces a move, and suddenly you are staring at years of ships, modules and minerals scattered across half the map. In June 2025, Sigma Grindset announced it was relocating to Catch. What follows is the move as it looked from inside the corp, entry by entry.
The moving diary
June 15: the calm before
The word was out that a move was coming, and some members were already eyeing their hangars with dread. Odysemus got ahead of the panic with a reminder that set the tone for the whole fortnight.
Remember folks, YOU HAVE TIME. We are not moving under fire.
Old Sigma space would stay friendly. Nobody needed to dump a hangar at a loss or haul in a hurry. The instruction was simple: get organised, prioritise what you actually use, and ask for help.
It is hard to overstate how much that one line helped. A move under fire is a scramble. A move with time is a project, and projects can be shared out.
June 17: the official word
CEO Harrat sent the announcement to the whole corp. Sigma Grindset was moving, move operations would begin that weekend, and everyone should start consolidating assets straight away. Years of accumulated stuff had to travel, so this was no small job, but the message was practical rather than frantic.
June 19: the corp picks up the bill
This is the entry that makes TNF what it is. Kloria announced that the corporation would cover moving costs for its members, with leadership organising the logistics. Members could create a zero collateral courier contract1 to The New Federation for whatever they needed moved. No reward was required, though tips were welcome "to show your respect of the fellow corpies time."
Fitted ships went the old-fashioned way: pilots arranged with a corpmate to carry them, swapped them over, and picked them up at the other end.
The week after: contracts, contracts, contracts
The logistics channel that week reads like an air traffic control log. Kloria posted that he still had room and a few hours before the next run. Later the same day he confirmed that if your contract had been accepted, your stuff had been delivered. Pilots compared notes on move ops and on who was heading which way, while Motty 007 and the rest of the leadership answered the same questions for the fifth time without complaint.
For newer members it was a crash course in how nullsec logistics really works: contracts, patience, and a lot of trust. For older members it was a familiar ritual, the kind of thing TNF has done more than once since 2005, with the comforting addition of a corp that pays the bill.
Many hands
The volunteers were not only leadership. A few names from the logistics channel that week:
- Killjoy Ender offered to carry things for anyone who needed it, and reported happily that hardly anyone had taken him up: "I guess we are doing pretty well." His summary of the corp: "all a bunch of movers and shakers."
- Aralo Meza checked in on progress and offered to bring extra hauling capacity along "if we need them."
- Jekktarr offered to fit corp hauling in around his alliance contracts.
- Maggy Lee had her contracts carried and thanked Kloria by name: "Thank you!!"
- Xander Ryn learned the ropes of moving fitted ships, and SadisticSloth picked up his contract along with everyone else's.
- GSCyber, asked to chip in for the new facilities, gave the most relatable answer of the month: "i would donate, but i'm space poor after the move."
Somewhere in there: a holiday well spent
Some members gave up serious playtime to make it happen. SadisticSloth mentioned, almost in passing, that he had spent his holidays "moving everyones stuff to the new home." Nobody asked him to. That is rather the point.
End of June: keys in the door
By the end of the month TNF had planted its flag in Catch. Within weeks the corp had made it a real home, which is told in Building a Home in Catch.
Diary, closing note
Alliance moves break corps all the time. People get tired, lose track of their assets and quietly stop logging in. This one went the other way, and the reason fits in a single sentence: leadership answered every question, the corp paid for the hauling, and volunteers carried what the contracts could not.
Families move house together. Ours just did it with more spreadsheets.
Notes
A courier contract asks another pilot to carry your goods from A to B. Zero collateral means you are trusting them completely, which is a bold thing to do in EVE and a perfectly normal thing to do in TNF.↩
