An Eve Online conference was saved by a participant’s contact at Homeland Security

Eve Vegas 2018 happened this weekend, nevertheless it wasn’t with out incident. A customs hold-up saved the occasion’s gear in processing for a lot longer than the organizers anticipated. But a sure participant occurred to have contacts on the US Department of Homeland Security – and a fast name appears to have been all it took to get the Eve Online conference again on monitor.

On October 18, Eve’s CCP Guard tweeted “if anybody knows someone who works at customs in Long Beach California… let me know. We have some stuff there that we kiiiinda need for the live stream tomorrow.”

Eve participant Commander Aze took discover of that tweet. “I know some people that work in the right places that were part of the process and stated the urgency that CCP needed the equipment quickly to make their event work,” Aze says on Reddit. “I made some calls. Yes, the volume of equipment took customs a while to process via additional screening, but [it] was released to CCP several hours later after [it] finishing processing.”

Community supervisor CCP Falcon tells MassivelyOP that Aze “got in contact with a guy at Homeland Security at CBP and the guy was just like ‘Yep,’ the forms got stamped, and the stuff got shipped. It arrived here with hours to spare and everything got set up, Streamfleet and our technical guys worked super hard all through the night to get everything running and we were streaming on time. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!”

But Aze needs to clarify he wasn’t making an attempt to get round any vital safety measures. “I want to be clear this was not bypassing any required checks or removing any level of scrutiny on the contents; nor was I asking or implying for preferential treatment in the queue of processing. I asked about the status (received a we will look into it) and got a healthy laugh when I told them what it was all for.”


 
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