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To Seleene, Mittani and all the CCP staff,

How very proud I am right now to be part of a community with all of you in it. My heart goes to you all at this time, I know how hard it is to lose a friend that was not only part of your eve online family, but one you considered friend irl.

I have posted in the other thread but I remembered this poem and felt that it summed up V.R quite well..

Quote:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

R.I.P "Vile Rat" Sean Smith

I heard of the attack separately from the news that one of the victims was Vile Rat.

Continue your great work wherever you may be and rest in piece.

Cody.

I never knew you. But my heart felt condolences go out to your family at this time. Taken from the world by hatred and ignorance.
Just goes to show the community we have here.
RvB will be flying in his name tonight.
R.I.P Vile Rat

RIP Vile Rat

" Your ships will traverse the spaceway On Eternal Patrol." You will not be forgotten..

RIP Vile Rat.

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well
-Henry Scott Holland

RIP VR

On the 13th of this month, I took my car into the dealership for it's 22,500 mile maintenance. The service guy in the office noticed my "EvE" sticker on the back of my car and ask if I played. I told him that I in fact did play and proceeded to tell him how incredible the game is. He patiently waited for my rant to end and then asked me if I had heard the news about an Eve player dying in the embassy attack. I was dumbfounded by the question and couldn't believe that it was true.

I rushed home and a quick search confirmed the terrible news. I never knew Sean but his death hurt me as if I had known him for years. He died in a senseless act of violence trying to help a country him and his fellow coworkers loved. He died for his country like the other three men that day and for that I will never forget them. I'm just so sorry I never got the chance to meet him in RL.

Rest well, Sean. You've made us all proud.

My condoleances to all who knew him.

I'd like to propose, for keeping the memory alive and to immortalize his name, to give his name to a fitting NPC..

Edit: Not sure if its the right place to suggest such a thing otherwise will place it in a petition.

In 7 hours a total of $27,000 has been raised already and this lasts for 72 days I am absolutely staggered at the response. Whoever set the target at $50,000 may want to revise it I think.

Though I didn't know him, I share his passion for EVE and IT. R.I.P. Sean.