My EVE

I'll start this by saying I am noob to the forums, and I just felt sharing this would be a way to break the boredom of mining a tad.

So! Setting the stage for this short tale; we have a nooby carebear miner, eager to please his mining corp by bringing in the ore. He's saved for weeks to afford the skills and the equipment to fit and fly a Retriever. Out of nowhere, a wardec hits the corp and the whole operation goes on lock down, no non-essential movement, no mining, and no communication in local.

Out new miner has been logged out in space in his brand new ship the entire time.

He logs in to see a flurry of Alliance mails announcing the wardec and the shutdown, and his heart sinks a little. He's still 6 jumps away from the relative safety of his home station, and his ship is much slower than he's used to.

Two jumps of no threat, and he's feeling lucky. "They've opted not to blockade the system it appears." The noob naively thinks to himself, warping to the next gate. A pop-up error windows out EVE for a moment, and the noob takes the necessary time to ensure that it will not do so again.

He jumps back into EVE to see a heart sinking sight. In the next system had been to enemy pilots, and they were bearing fast. Frantically attempting to warp does not work, and our noob is podded and then killed. His opponents taunt him with messages of "should have checked local".

The noob backs out of his corp for the duration of the wardec, grieving his lost ISK and ship. He bemoans his loss in the corp chat of the Science and Trade Institute, has some commiseration with some similarly effected persons, and logs for the night.

The next day, he wakes up and goes to school and vents to his friends about his lost ship and money. During one of these frustration sessions, he brings out his ipod to show a friend the extent of his losses via an app that helps track a capsuleer's wallet.

Opening it, he sees an unknown notification and a mysterious 30 mil in his account. He is baffled.

When he logs on that afternoon, he finds that one of the people he'd been talking with the night before had gifted him enough cash to purchase a new Retriever. His spirits lifted, the noob promptly buys one at his local station and leaves it in the hanger for a few days, just to be safe. He does not see the kind stranger again.

TL;DR I lost a ship, and a very nice stranger paid me to replace it.

Feel free to share any stories you have of a stranger's kindness, as rare as they are the universe of EVE.

need to have an income to fit those ship's in the first place :D