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Article says they were both CSM members and that the turning happened due to face to face conversations while they were in Iceland on CCP's dime.

Would they have been on friendly enough terms to pull this off if they weren't meeting regularly due to being on the CSM? I don't think so...

The text added is, of course, a joke, but the image is real:

This is Judge posing for a picture with Aryth's alliance leader, The Mittani, at Fanfest.

Every major alliance leader has been to the pubcrawl that CCP puts together, for each fanfest. 99% of attendees pay their own way.

Fanfest is one thing, regular meetings in a small group that not any player can get on is another...

Welcome to politics! This story is as old as time.

Any player can get on CSM. It's not easy, of course.