EVE General Discussion

RIP brosef...

RIP Vile Rat...

My thoughts tonight are with his wife and children.

This is not The Greatest Name in the World, no.
This is just a Tribute.

In the little niche world of New Eden, we have men and women of all types. Some good, some bad, and quite frankly...some completely intolerable. I originally wanted to experience EVE as I dovetailed into the DUST aspect of our universe. But once here I became immersed by legends of old. The BoB Wars. The heists. The Swarm itself. I found lifelong friends, and have made enemies. Even diabolical rivalries that spanned multiple regions in Empire and Null. But those interactions left me better off, and have taught me things that impact my everyday scourge of real life.

In my short year playing, the one thing I had learned was that the Goonswarm Federation were invariably always labled the "bad guys." However I leapt on the chance to join TNT so that I could feel that excitement of living amongst a large alliance in the depths of null space. My only worry was the CFC, the so-called bad guys, and what that might do to my reputation in New Eden. But today I witnessed something that not only deeply effected those who knew him personally, but effected our entire coalition as a result.

I did not know Vile personally. I wish I had. People tell me stories of his enjoyment of shooting blues and such. Tonight as a member of the inner circle, the Waffe itself, snidely shot his mouth off about the death of a comrade, I came to understand something that most outsiders of the CFC would never be able to experience unless they were there. As Octavious Delance's ratting carrier was doused in the purging fire of his own hubris, I came to realize that these individuals I fly nightly with, they are not the bad guys. They are my brothers. That even in death, these men and women would stand by my spectral being and stand forward in my name.

Vile Rat, I never knew you. I never had the pleasure. But while in this life you stood and lost your life in the face of adversity, you will be remembered by all. It is the next life that awaits you now. I hope it is a life filled with drake blobs, Das Uber Boots, and grids upon grids of blues, blues to target and destroy with your never-ending cargo hold of ammunition. Shoot Blues Erryday for eternity my friend.

To your wife and children, know that the love of thousands of video game nerds, the world over, fall to your shoulders. While I know the loss of those loved, nothing will bring his love back to you, and it hurts beyond anything mankind can experience. But you have us, and as we demonstrated tonight to Mr. Delance, we fight forever in Vile's name.

To my CFC brothers, I love you all. You have shown me that living in New Eden is not as harsh as I once thought. Thank you for breathing new life into EVE for me tonight. You are not the "bad guys", but rather brother-in-arms. Brothers, who in the face of adversity, stand united. To our unity, to Vile and his family, to all those others lost in the "cliff" of EVE........I love you all. Until you jump on grid with me and are neutral. After all rules are rules and NBSI is a pretty important rule. Goodnight New Eden, and may your prayers to Vile's family never fade.

My sympathies and condolences to his family and friends. It is soo sad when someone is lost to ignorance and blind hate .

I humbly ask CCP to set up a form of memorial in game for one of the most passionate members of the EvE community that ever was .

RIP V.R

R.I.P.

My extreme condolences to VR's family and friends for their loss. Although I only spoke to him in passing as a new member of GF, he always was both amusing with his posting and full of saint-like patience for idiots like me and the rest of the newbie goons.

It's a small world, friends, and no matter what we think of each other in-game, there are real people behind the internet spaceships. This is the third time someone I've known through video games has been KIA and it doesn't hurt any less than it does for the few people I've known in RL that have shared the same fate.

I truly wish that some day the only violence we have to worry about would be in a video game.

On behalf of Rote Kapelle we express our condolences to his family and friends for this tragedy.

Vile rat put in a lot of time to help make this game enjoyable for his fellow goons and our allies, despite having a wife and kids and his job requiring him to travel quite often. Losing someone to senseless violence just sucks.

RIP.