IL crew looking for occasional online co-op/PVP

My friends and I have recently been given command of an ARTEMIS class vessel based out of the Central Illinois region. We're all off in different parts of the country learning various skills (i.e. college), but enough of us gather to form a workable bridge crew frequently enough that we're serious about playing.

While we certainly enjoy being deployed in a highly advanced warship to help our poor, outclassed line ships alone, a lot of us long for the challenges of being sent on group missions (co-op) and facing seasoned enemy crews (PVP).

We are the only active ARTEMIS crew in the Peoria area, to my understanding, and even if we weren't we don't have the space to host multiple bridges. What we're proposing is a working relationship with crews from the Midwest in the form of online games - both cooperative and competitive, with communication facilitated by our mutual Comms officers running Mumble or Teamspeak (or an equivalent program) - and, possibly the seeking or development of custom scenarios that making cooperative play or PVP play more interesting.

Number of groups is not a factor. We would enjoy flying alongside/against one other ship or in a small fleet. If you'd like to talk more about this, clearly, reply here. Or you could find me on Facebook. Or, if you really want, you can email me.