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Diehard Si
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Posted - 2008.04.05 10:32:00 -
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If youÆve never heard of us then you prob wonÆt be interested in this, but for those small number of you that have, here is a little bit about UK1.
2 years ago tomorrow, a few battlefield 2 buddies from the clan UK1, would decide to start using a different channel on teamspeak from the rest of us. Strange we thought, but the corporation of UK1 was being born, and Tryfanman, Umberto, Ream and Robber together founded the corporation, none of them with any Eve experience, other than what theyÆd learnt in their few days to date.
Gradually more of us got intrigued with this 'new' game people were playing and started to experiment as well. Before we knew it, half of the clan were playing Eve.
This gave UK1 a boost in numbers, and helped us in our early days. None of us really knew much of what we were doing as we were all brand new, but that added to the interest of doing it for ourselves!
Early Days
Our early days were spent in the system of Amygnone in Gallente space, and here we followed what the founders had started to do and mine. For a few months we sat there together, talking and mining. Until one day...
While busy mining in high sec, Warlord ( our famous BF2 Dolphin diver, bunny hopper and general trouble maker ) suggested we all go and mine in low sec. So we kitted out our cruisers with our miners, and went in, mined for about 2 hours and then 3 flashy reds appeared on the overview and killed us all ( thanks Ewokpoacher and co ).
From here on things were different. I personnally never trained another mining or industry related skill EVER again. I swore revenge, and started focusing on fighting. Many of the corp did too.
Our background really helped us too ( considering we were all new ). We had one thing many other corps didnÆt, proper team work and the wish to make things work. This has stayed with us to this day.
Low Sec
With Tryfan deciding he no longer wanted to be CEO, the role was passed to me. Now we were getting more used to combat, we entered some low sec systems. With some fights with the locals, but also made some friends along the way. Masmi were the first to offer us help, along with RAGEX.
Learning from our new friends, we were now getting better at figthing, but this was causing some internal trouble as the industrialists didn't like us 'causing trouble for them'. At one point we managed to get 5 war decs against us. To a corp full of 6 month olds this seemed like the end, but instead everyone chipped in, everyone fought and we held our own with the help of our friends.
Alliances
We then decided to join Myriad alliance through our UK1 BF2 member Stevil, who was in it. Based in Immensea they offered something new and exciting. Unfortunately the weekend we joined was the weekend they were forced out by a looming war between Goons, RA & UNL against LV. Myriad were a great bunch, but we joined them at the wrong time! Our time in the alliance was a learning curve, but many corps were leaving and the alliance only lasted a few months more. The wars against the Privateers and the Ronin, finally finished them off.
Then we joined Red Moon Federation, again one of our BF2 players used to be in CoRM so we went down there. Now we were sprung into the war between BOB and the Goons, fighting on the side we wanted to be. The laggy fleet fights and capital engagements were fun for a while, but most of our members were longing to be able to fight lag free, and in small sharp gangs again. RMF were eventually overrun by 400 odd Goon, TCF, UNL fleets and the support from the allies wasn't exactly quick enough. By the time BOB came back to help, the balance of control had shifted.
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Diehard Si
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Posted - 2008.04.05 10:32:00 -
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This time was also UK1Æs darkest hour, we came within the brink of disbanding, due to internal quarrels. I spend about a week not undocking, just sorting things out and trying to smooth things over. We managed it, and forged a new path, a pure PVP path. Those that didnÆt like it left and we wished most of them well, those that were left just wanted to fight! Perhaps we should of done this all along, everyone together with a common goal! The PVP vrs Industrialist politics always seemed to pull the corp in 2 different directions, no-ones fault just how people want to play the game!
Where we are now
After we left the war, we merged with a new friendly corp, the Horse Killers. We acquired a great bunch of lads, and some very effective fighters. We complimented each others skills quite well. Most people could field Hacs, command ships and recons. We set about a few empire wars, some against giant alliances, others against other PVP corps and some against some juicy looking industrial corps. WeÆve spent the last few months wandering around, looking for fights. WeÆve been to Solitude, Syndicate, Outer Ring. WeÆve joined an alliance with our old friends Master Miners and Deep Impact. WeÆre now pretty much all flashy red pirates and kill everything we see thatÆs not blue on sight. It was last night in fact when we warped into a belt and blew up a low sec mining operation, that I thought back to our first PVP experience. I realised now weÆd gone full circle! And we loved it!
WeÆve made some good friends, weÆve made plenty of enemies too. For the amount of people that respect us, thereÆs probably an equal number that smack us. ThatÆs just life though. WeÆve met some good people, and plenty of complete idiots.
But weÆve come a long way from scratch in our 2 years, and have genuinely built up the corp from nothing into a very small but effective fighting force. We may only have ever had 30 to 40 members for our entire 2 years, but in all 3 alliances weÆve been in I think our kills per member ratio has been the best in all of them. On average weÆve got an 80% kill efficiency for our entire 2 years. We go for quality over quantity everytime.
So hereÆs to our happy birthday, and our next 2 years!. Oh and IÆm still waiting for revenge on Ewokpoacher ;)
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UK1 Zero
Intruders.
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Posted - 2008.04.05 11:05:00 -
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 Happy Birthday boys
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Alfragide
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Posted - 2008.04.05 11:23:00 -
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U were Not Forgotten. A Great Bday Boys and Girls 
Am proud to have fought with u lot.
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Coup DeGrace
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Posted - 2008.04.05 11:36:00 -
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I'm glad you didn't disband. Hope you are having fun in what your doing now.
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stormyfs911
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Posted - 2008.04.05 12:41:00 -
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happy birthday UK1 :D
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Dr Trust
Honour Bound
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Posted - 2008.04.05 14:15:00 -
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it was always a plesure to fly with UK1 and i wish u the best of luck in the next 2 years
Bound to Honour till Death
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EX- CLS
EX- CORM
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Andrachim Tar'nar
The first genesis
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2008.04.05 14:18:00 -
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Greetings and happy birthday ;)
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Deschenus Maximus
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.04.05 14:42:00 -
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I remember you guys from the battles in Feyth. Glad to see you're still around.
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DudTrap
Wreckless Abandon
Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.04.05 15:10:00 -
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Happy Birthday :)
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paracidic
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Posted - 2008.04.05 17:14:00 -
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It was a blast flying with you in feyth, you are a good bunch of lads and I am glad that the knobblob didn't take your game away from you.
Much respect and may the next 2 years find you in even better spirits and form.
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TryfanMan
Cevelo
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Posted - 2008.04.05 18:00:00 -
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Edited by: TryfanMan on 05/04/2008 18:01:12
Nice recount of history m8, couldn't do it better myself (at least the early days).
I remember you lot feeling the sharp end of Ewokpaocher's and Kinike's (can't remember how it's spelt) anti-carebear wrath. Not sure which one of them it was, but one of them decided to make your local channel retaliation immortal for a short while in their bio. Of course you couldn't do much else being only a few weeks old, but you cut them down to size with the cutting remark "and you killed warlord while he was putting his kids to bed...", as much to say, you heartless b*stards... Kill a father while he's looking after his kids...!
And now, you would do the same... Not a bad thing, just life in EVE. Gawd bless her.
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Splash Whale
Ctrl-Q Inc.
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Posted - 2008.04.05 20:59:00 -
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Hope you guy's get atleast another 2 years of fun!
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DRAFUS
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Posted - 2008.04.05 22:31:00 -
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Happy Birthday
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Galor Cracken
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Posted - 2008.04.06 07:15:00 -
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happy birthday \0/
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Firey Inferno
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Posted - 2008.04.06 10:48:00 -
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Edited by: Firey Inferno on 06/04/2008 10:48:30
Happy birthday guys, doesn't seem like 2 years since we were chasing pirates out of groothese lmao. Let the good times roll!
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Syrin
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Posted - 2008.04.06 13:21:00 -
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Happy Bday Si and Co. Cant remember where I fought you but you were all gentlemen
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Vertex Eisenstein
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Posted - 2008.04.06 13:37:00 -
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Congratulations on your birthday!
I played a few matches against you guys in BF2 as an [Ew] member. Good times.
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Elmicker
Wreckless Abandon
Un-Natural Selection
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Posted - 2008.04.06 15:07:00 -
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Happy Birthday.
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crouchy
UK1 Zero
Intruders.
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Posted - 2008.04.06 18:01:00 -
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Happy Birthday guys . syrin your ex error 666 thats where you know us from oursulaert
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killerco
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Posted - 2008.04.06 19:18:00 -
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Happy Birthday
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dopesuxx
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Posted - 2008.04.06 19:31:00 -
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Happy Birthday UK1 Zero
It's been a blast to fly with you buddies.
May a lot of good years still be ahead of you.
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Daka Daka
Omega Fleet Enterprises
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2008.04.06 19:42:00 -
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Grats lads.
keep up the good work. as always its a pleasure to fly with you lot.
Daka
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Chilled G
The Graduates
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.04.07 05:21:00 -
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Hi Lads
Congrats on 2 years and good luck for the next 2 or more. Well done on finding a path i'm glad your still around and enjoying yourselves.
Chilled
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Antibac
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Posted - 2008.04.07 13:07:00 -
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Cool, congratulations on making 2 years, I know how tough it's been in some patches :)
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Urgomar
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Posted - 2008.04.07 14:48:00 -
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Happy Birthday !
(damn, lots of ex MAD members in that thread :p )
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HitmanUK1
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Posted - 2008.04.07 15:34:00 -
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Happy Birthday Guys!!!
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TheLast0ne
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Posted - 2008.04.07 18:32:00 -
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only got to fly with you a bit, but you were good guys.
Happy Bday!
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iNsAn3
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Posted - 2008.04.07 21:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Diehard Si
If youÆve never heard of us then you prob wonÆt be interested in this, but for those small number of you that have, here is a little bit about UK1.
2 years ago tomorrow, a few battlefield 2 buddies from the clan UK1, would decide to start using a different channel on teamspeak from the rest of us. Strange we thought, but the corporation of UK1 was being born, and Tryfanman, Umberto, Ream and Robber together founded the corporation, none of them with any Eve experience, other than what theyÆd learnt in their few days to date.
Gradually more of us got intrigued with this 'new' game people were playing and started to experiment as well. Before we knew it, half of the clan were playing Eve.
This gave UK1 a boost in numbers, and helped us in our early days. None of us really knew much of what we were doing as we were all brand new, but that added to the interest of doing it for ourselves!
Early Days
Our early days were spent in the system of Amygnone in Gallente space, and here we followed what the founders had started to do and mine. For a few months we sat there together, talking and mining. Until one day...
While busy mining in high sec, Warlord ( our famous BF2 Dolphin diver, bunny hopper and general trouble maker ) suggested we all go and mine in low sec. So we kitted out our cruisers with our miners, and went in, mined for about 2 hours and then 3 flashy reds appeared on the overview and killed us all ( thanks Ewokpoacher and co ).
From here on things were different. I personnally never trained another mining or industry related skill EVER again. I swore revenge, and started focusing on fighting. Many of the corp did too.
Our background really helped us too ( considering we were all new ). We had one thing many other corps didnÆt, proper team work and the wish to make things work. This has stayed with us to this day.
Low Sec
With Tryfan deciding he no longer wanted to be CEO, the role was passed to me. Now we were getting more used to combat, we entered some low sec systems. With some fights with the locals, but also made some friends along the way. Masmi were the first to offer us help, along with RAGEX.
Learning from our new friends, we were now getting better at figthing, but this was causing some internal trouble as the industrialists didn't like us 'causing trouble for them'. At one point we managed to get 5 war decs against us. To a corp full of 6 month olds this seemed like the end, but instead everyone chipped in, everyone fought and we held our own with the help of our friends.
Alliances
We then decided to join Myriad alliance through our UK1 BF2 member Stevil, who was in it. Based in Immensea they offered something new and exciting. Unfortunately the weekend we joined was the weekend they were forced out by a looming war between Goons, RA & UNL against LV. Myriad were a great bunch, but we joined them at the wrong time! Our time in the alliance was a learning curve, but many corps were leaving and the alliance only lasted a few months more. The wars against the Privateers and the Ronin, finally finished them off.
Then we joined Red Moon Federation, again one of our BF2 players used to be in CoRM so we went down there. Now we were sprung into the war between BOB and the Goons, fighting on the side we wanted to be. The laggy fleet fights and capital engagements were fun for a while, but most of our members were longing to be able to fight lag free, and in small sharp gangs again. RMF were eventually overrun by 400 odd Goon, TCF, UNL fleets and the support from the allies wasn't exactly quick enough. By the time BOB came back to help, the balance of control had shifted.
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Diehard Si
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Posted - 2008.04.08 08:10:00 -
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Thanks everyone for all your kind words, lots of old faces from our past.
We are actually in the process of finding/joining a new alliance so who knows where we will end up soon. Spoke to a very good one last night, so things looking good!
We may be back in some space near you very soon!
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G'Odas D'Ed
Honour Bound
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Posted - 2008.04.08 11:59:00 -
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Happy B-Day. It was an honour to fly with you guys shooting Goons and friends. I wish you all well, and continued success. Fly safe, and we'll see you in space.
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The Lordship
Team Rocket.
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Posted - 2008.04.08 16:47:00 -
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Yeah i hope u all loose all your ships and now maybe get decent "blues" *COUGH [MASMI].
So i wish all you guys hardcore failure, and to not fall in any snake pits.
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Diehard Si
UK1 Zero
Intruders.
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Posted - 2008.04.08 21:14:00 -
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Originally by: Diehard Si
WeÆve met plenty of complete idiots.
Originally by: The Lordship
Yeah i hope u all loose all your ships and now maybe get decent "blues" *COUGH [MASMI].
So i wish all you guys hardcore failure, and to not fall in any snake pits.
and just to proove a point, one pops up!
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Filthy Pierre
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Posted - 2008.04.09 08:55:00 -
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Happy Birthday to the corp, Si. I remember you guys well from Groothese and Elarel a couple of years back when I was in Blueprint Haus.
Did you ever manage to pop Kairn Sin?
FP
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Luso
Caldari
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.04.09 11:24:00 -
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Happy Birthday UK1
Feyth was your growing ground as our was. Fighting Goons in sometimes 10:1 was not easy, also the K9 months-long-sieging wasnt, but you guys have hold strong.
May the next 2 years let you grow as the last 2.
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