Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2014.07.04 20:10:00 -
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Back in '06 not a lot of us had a clue. The whole concept of fitting was something reserved for the elite, and the minmaxers.. Most of us were left fumbling around in the dark.
After a few months break I re-joined to find my corp had moved from highsec to the mostly empty region of Paragon Soul, and was working the CDC alliance to establish one of the first outposts in the area.
Many weeks of mining and running supplies into the area occured. As a new, inexperienced player I had little. My pride and joy, a shiny Gallente Brutix, a ratting thorax, a mining barge and a hanful of modules represented the whole of my wordly posessions. They somehow were transported to null for me.. I brought myself down with my lone shuttle.
I would toil endlessly mining the null belts with buddy in a domi tanking the rats for me. When he was not availalbe I would make region go region 'warp to zero' bookmark sets and sell them to people for some ok money.
This was the days before jump freighters, so one day a friend issued a call in our intel channel: "Gang support needed to escort a freighter in from highsec". Well this sounded like a dangerous mission, so I joined the fleet (we called them gangs back then)..
I offered up my missioning thorax. he asked 'do you have anything better?' .. 'well I have a Brutix I replied' -- nervous to commit my pride and joy which I had sunk most of my savings into 'but it's not fit and there's nothing on market here'..
"That's OK", he replied. "We're mostly there to look scary. Just put a gun on it." Having little to no understanding of fitting anything other than a mining barge, I did as he commanded and hastily bolted on a few more mods that seemed like they could probably help.
We rolled out, met the jump freighter 25 jumps away and started escorting it back to null. about half way through a pirate gang started hunting us. Being new and inexperienced, I lost tactical awareness quickly and got pounced on by the gang. Most of our fleet, and the freighter was lost.
Ultimately the outpost got built, and we had great fun in null for several weeks, before BoB decided to end our fun once and for all. 'The Fall of Paragon Soul' disheartened most of us -- I quit the game for several years before returning and turning to piracy myself. Luckily I met up with some friendly Germans who taught me how to fit things properly, and ultimately landed in Shadow Cartel who've taken my game to a much higher level.
But I'll never for get my little Brutix, with it's lone artillery cannon. 'Paragon's Pride' was her name. R.I.P :)
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