Chal0ner
Coreli Corporation The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2015.01.08 07:12:23 -
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I started as a miner/mission runner as "everyone else". It was back in 2008, just after Christmas after I've read about Goons take down of BoB. I think it was. Then I thought, this sounds really cool. Or, maybe it was after looking at MMORPG for a sci-fi game to try out and EVE was the only one that stood out and only then did Goons take down BoB. Or a combination of both. Either way, I started out as a miner/mission runner. After a nomadic life where I settled on a mission hub close to low sec. And fairly soon got a drone mission into Aunennen low sec (which unbeknowst to me was some kind of reloading system for a null sec alliance).
Anyway, I fitted my little Kestrel with light missiles, loaded with autos and a smart bomb in case the drones got to nasty - and promptly got my arse handed to me. After failing miserably I flew past the gate camp that had gathered on the high sec gate in my pod - luckily from the "wrong" direction. After that I decided to avoid low sec missions for a while and moved camp again.
My next home system was Jita, which back then wasn't as crowded as now - back then it wasn't on it's own data node either. So when Jita ground to a halt due to all the trade, surrounding systems also ground to a halt. What made me move to another system was a few days into my experience when the Jita node crashed. For days Jita, and my ship in there was unavailable. For smarter people not having the largest trade hub in game as home it wasn't a problem - just take your trade somewhere else ... for me on the other hand ...
Anyway I set up shop in Poinen after that, sucker for punishment probably. Poinen was - back then - the main mission hub in the area. Complete with ninjas, war deccers and can flippers. I soon experienced all that. And grinded my way to my first Drake. Excitedly I grabbed it, moved all my gear from my Caracal and applied it to the Drake, unfortunately I didn't have isk to fill the missing slots but - hey! it was a battle cruiser. It had a tank. Surely it would survive my lowly mssions?
Then I was back at square one ... Looking at the wreck of my new ex-Drake hurt, a lot, then the grind started again. And I fit the next Drake properly (or at least more properly than an oversized Caracal).
My first high sec war was spent a day in station listening to our corp members discussing how to take these guys on, what they were in (expensive frightening T2 cruisers) and how to continue doing the thing we did (missions and mining). We decided to fight and I was so nervous I was shaking, risking a third of my entire fleet (or a third of my useful fleet) but I hoped that having people around me in more valueble ships they would be targeted first. Eventually we managed to hunt one of the war targets down to a station in Perimeter. After a him being camped in for a while he clone jumped to another station somewhere. Later on I think we used his corp to hunt to down war deccers that we didn't have a chance of fighting.
I March wormholes were released, and we heard of people already living in them by april. It wasn't supposed to be used possible due to logistical problems. CCP was wrong ... We went to one of them, jumped in and my overview was a confused mess of read crosses everywhere (someone must have fleet warped us immediately) and later on the wallet was filled to new levels but we never did that again. A couple of corp down the road I actually did live in a C3 wormhole then a C5 wormhole where we were ransomed of our POS by a fleet of russian mercs with capitals. The only cap we had was a Rorqual ... The most people that were on at the same time to defend the POS was ... 5 ...
From then on I've lived in 0.0 but that is another story. |