Morgbot

So my story is from EVE online. A little background; I was pretty young when this happened, like 12 or 13 so I'm probably gonna mis-remember things. I got roped in to EVE by my clan leader for a Day of Defeat unit, lets call him Dave. Dave was hardcore enough that he actually paid the subscriptions of me and at least 5 other guys from our unit. So I was a pretty happy kid to be able to play an MMO with all my friends, for free! Then I realized I was working for the mob. Our corp worked as muscle for a manufacturing alliance. Usually we fought wars against other alliances because of disputes over payment and contracts and stuff, sometimes there were hits on people who owed money. I was young, I flew the ships people gave me and shot at the people they told me to shoot at, I didn't think much about it. One day Dave grabs a few of us and heads in to lowsec, we found a fat mining ship, minding his own business with a few people guarding him. We didn't think twice about wiping them out. Turns out they were part of our alliance, Dave didn't pay them back and mocked them for not defending themselves. So having lost a couple hundred million isk, the rest of the alliance declared war on us. We ended up losing, but we gave that alliance a serious black eye. We had a good laugh and shacked up with another alliance who was going to pay us more. Recently I was talking to my buddy about it and he said that someone pretty high up in the alliance insulted Dave's girlfriend and he started the war on purpose because he was going to pull us from the alliance anyway and wanted to try and really hurt them. This wasn't the biggest war in EVE by any stretch, wars like that start and end every hour in EVE. In retrospect, to me at least, this blew my mind. I kinda felt like one of the random foot soldiers in game of thrones or something. I didn't know what was going on, I didn't care, I was playing a subscription based game for free. It's just weird realizing you were a pawn, ya know?