Yes, this is an old topic. But one that has never truly been closed. I am very pleased to see clanners condemming the Sentinels.
I have no doubt it will come to armed conflict between Omni-tek forces and the Sentinels sooner or later.
However, I hope that it will be after they have been evicted from Tir as to avoid collatoral damage to innocent clanners. And I hope that the Clans will be able to see it, not as an attack on a fellow clan, but as the removal of a cancer tumor that has tarnished your reputation and care little about the true ideals the Clans believe in.
To those that claim this is internal clan business and Omni-tek should stay out of it; Omni-tek has let the Clans govern the north for a long time now. If it is at all possible, no Omni-tek rule will be forced upon the people living there. In fact, the motivation for bringing up this subject now is to allow the Clans to deal with this issue so Omni-tek does not have to.
And by the way Cyani, it is true that it was the ICC who deregulated notum mining, thus opening up for the possibility of private organisations mining notum. However, the "tower mining technology" was pioneered by the Sentinels (though how much if it they actually developed and how much of it they simply stole is highly debateable), thus making small scale notum mining practical as opposed to simply legal