EVE Online - Cloudy with a Chance of Veldspar

I'm going to take a step away from reporting the action on the shifting battlefields of null-sec or elsewhere this evening, and sit down with you in what I'd like to imagine is a finely upholstered room and discuss some of the more civil elements of EVE Online. Of course, naturally I use the term civil with some degree of liberty - as very little is ever civil in EVE. One area of the game where men and women gather in finely cut suits to exchange cloak-and-dagger deals is, of course, EVE's monstrous juggernaut economy.