Where I'm from and where I'm going

I started Eve with no idea of what I was getting into.  I first started considering it when I read about The Guiding Hand Social Club and one of their master operations.  When I was younger my favorite PC game was Starflight and Starflight II. I loved the open universe and have always been on the lookout for something similar. After I read the GHSC article, I knew I had found it.  Then I looked up the Butterfly Effect video and I signed up that day.

Like most Eve players, I didn't really know what I wanted to do in the game.  I joined up with a mission running corp but I didn't really enjoy it.  I tried another mission runner/mining corp and had the same problem.  After scanning the recruitment threads, I located the Somali Coastguard Authority.  That was a fun griefer corp.  I learned a lot about high sec PVP (and talking smack) from them.  Unfortunately I was too new at the time and could only really fly a pathetically fit rifter or merlin.  I decided to move on with the intention of rejoining once I learned more about the game.  Unfortunately internal politics popped up and the corp fell apart soon after I left.

I signed up with a 0.0 corp that was part of Tactical Narcotics Team.  The ratting was excellent but the fights were very few and far between.  We were allied with TCU and everyone seemed pretty content to stay in their little area of space.  I wasn't learning very much about 0.0 but then I saw an advertisment for a a new training corp called Open University of Celestial Hardship (OUCH).  I joined that crew and started learning about surviving in null sec.  I went on a lot of roams and even FCed a few.  Some were successful and some weren't .  We are all pretty new and we died a lot.  It was great to finally be improving my skills with no pressure about the killboard.

I was really enjoying OUCH and planned on staying with them for a long time.  Then it all few apart.  One of our other corps in the alliance, White Talon Enterprises (WTE) had begun recruiting some of the more talented PVPers from OUCH with the intention of being the PVP arm of the New Bastion alliance.  The idea was as people progressed in OUCH, they would move into WTE and continue their association.  Great idea but the CEO of WTE, Calculon, decided he wanted to move the alliance from the Berta region to another part of New Eden.  The OUCH CEO, Black Claw, didn't agree.  What followed was a painful rift in the alliance and some (IMHO) pretty bad leadership decisions on the part of Black Claw.

I got invited to join WTE and since most the guys I roamed with had gone over, I did too.  In hindsight, I probably should have just stayed with OUCH.  We moved to another region on the edge of low sec and 0.0.  What followed was some great roams.  We got into some wars and started making a name for ourselves. Then it all fell apart.  Our CEO just disappeared without a word.  Several weeks went by before we got word that he had been given the ban hammer by his wife and just dropped Eve like a bad habit.  We tried to recover by making another corp, Semper Liber, but we could never recover our momentum or sense of direction and the corp went inactive.  It's kinda tragic because I really thought WTE was going places.

So then it was time to figure out where to go from there...  Where did I have the most fun?  Was it 0.0?  High Sec wars?  Or Low Sec piracy?

Yep.  Piracy!!

I looked at all the major pirate corps, Python, Bastards, United, Black Rabbits, ect, ect...  Then I came across The Tuskers.  They had a great reputation.  They don't act like jerkwads in local.  They honor ransoms.  Most importantly, they seemed very stable.  I put in my app.  They screwed up and accepted me and the rest is history.  \o/

Stay tuned for daring tales of yarr and epic failures!!