Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
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Posted - 2014.04.06 22:07:00 -
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Started in 2011, first thing I did was a courier contract a friend of mine had set up for me. It was a little daunting as I had to scan for bubbles, look for the right station where I actually had docking rights, etc etc... but it was fun to be thrown for the wolves. My buddies were all in null / WH and their corps didn't have much use for a Rifter, so I set up a tax haven corp and started messing around. I think I left the game after half a year for a while, but the space drama seed was already sown, and I found myself resubbing after 3 months to look for a lowsec PVP corp. Been subbed ever since.
At some point things went awry in that corp so I decided to give my own a try. Looking back now I have to say, I'm proof myself you can start a corp as a relative newb a few months old and still succeed, although we have had our fair share of misery and grie... *ahem* challenges to overcome when initially setting out in lowsec.  Off course we died like flies and we also made the mistake of joining with an alliance that was already rusting beneath the hood.
Eventually we ended up hooking up with a local lowsec alliance. We basicly occupied a bunch of stationless systems and played there as if it was wspace with local. With this alliance we also occupied a wormhole at some point, but we never gave up our old assets untill the alliance leadership had to deal with some IRL stuff. We parted ways respectfully and inherited a bunch of assets. This time in Eve was very defining for our corporation and saw the first members attending fleets that were more organized then your average frig roam.
Eventually Titans dropped in fleets. Things were on fire. 48 hours later, our cosy little pirate den was pretty much wiped. We tried rebuilding one in a calmer corner of space, but a group of local outlaws decided to keep putting this in RF which caused certain alts to pop up in local... but only we knew these belonged to the group that had previously wiped our POCO's. We had a civil chat with said invaders and organized to have them kill their shiny fleet in exchange for a good price on some assets they obviously desired and reaped glorious outlaw tears in the process.
We continue to thrive in lowsec until this day. We're not the biggest, not the baddest, and definately not the wisest group around, but we've been active in this state for almost 2 consecutive years. Just scraping a buck, buying ammo to throw in peoples faces and having a laugh. |