Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”

–Charles Dickens

[REPO.] is currently in the midst of its first ever recruitment drive. As a budding pirate corporation, we are sometimes faced with the dilemma of attitude and enthusiasm versus experience and skill. More often than not it is the intangibles (attitude and enthusiasm) that trump the more real-word attributes (experience and skill) of an applicant. The reason being, you can teach the latter, whereas personality is generally something much more ingrained.

A recent applicant to [REPO.], who had a very lengthy and impressive combat record, challenged our assertions of being Gentlemen Pirates by proclaiming that they do not exist. “I’m not looking to be a Gentleman Pirate.There’s no such thing. For as long as I’ve been flashy red I’ve never chosen ransom… I don’t ransom, and I probably never will” he wrote. Further, his outright declaration that TRUE pirates are simply “ruthless, cutthroat, individuals, who just don’t give a **** about the laws or the people” got me thinking. Is it possible that we at [REPO.] are deluding ourselves into believing that we’re an overly romanticized version of our true selves?



When I first began my quest to join a pirate corporation, and become a nefarious outlaw of the cosmos, I was inspired by a passage written by a renowned pirate named Skira Ranos. To paraphrase:

“I realized then that the Pirate Hunter, in his bloated Raven, was a conceited, self-righteous and unskilled windbag. Meanwhile his quarry, the pirates, roared deftly through space in their nimble frigates – cunning, colorful and cruelly proficient. My mind was made up in that instant; I wanted to be a pirate.”

I suppose there is a little poetry in the fact that Skira’s recounting of the moment which inspired him to become a pirate would be the very same thing that would inspire me (and countless others, I imagine) to become a pirate as well.

What struck me most about Skira’s tale was the implication that being a pirate could mean more than simply griefing or making others’ lives miserable – the implication that piracy wasn’t simply a way of flying your ship, but a way of living your life in New Eden.

Attempting to live a life of piracy suddenly meant that your word and your reputation were actually worth something, and they became a commodity on which you could make a living. Should the value of that commodity begin to erode through duplicity and dishonor, then so to would your way of earning erode, eventually leaving you to seek out other methods for generating income, or ways of rebuilding your reputation.

Now, to be truthful, I have yet to achieve a level of skill which allows me to fully fund my criminal exploits in New Eden through the acquisition of ransoms, yet it remains my ultimate goal and one which I believe is eventually attainable. It is only attainable though, through the careful creation of a reputation as a Gentleman Pirate, who can be trusted to honor his word whenever a ransom is offered.



Do other forms of piracy exist? Of course, and I’m sure that they each have their particular allure. However, I object wholeheartedly to the claim that Gentlemen Pirates do not exist. They most certainly do exist and you need look no further than the ranks of [REPO.] to find them.

Post by our fearless English Major - Xedam Praxis

Sounded interesting....



then you let the monkey speak

I hope you have a passenger manifest for those ladies of the night Darmwand. I would hate to have to confiscate them.

Editing because I got excited by the exotic dancers and missed the monkey comment.
Polly was trained in pirate speak and is mostly house broken. One must excuse his random commenting and poo flinging. You pick up the strangest things in ship wrecks.

Why the name Repo?

No relation to REPO industries then. I was just wondering if you were a returning blast from the past.

Couple of folks were very dismayed about the length of the application/process and I'd like to address their concerns.

Our group is small right now, and I don't expect it will ever be very large. I think everyone in Repo agrees that this is a good thing. We want to be a group of pirates who really know each other, enjoy flying together, and compliment each other's weaknesses and strengths.

Having a demanding application process ensures that we know who we are going to be potentially flying with, and we can give them the great EVE experience we are all experiencing.

The application will not take up a significant chunk of time, just sit down, fill it out, and you will be done before you know it. You might even enjoy filling it out, I did. We do NOT look at these like a RL employer would, these applications are for your enjoyment and ours. EVE is a game and I promise that no one in Repo is looking to extend their workday into internet space pirate land.

Thanks!

So, Agent Praxis, mind telling us how that night ended?

Bumping for posterity.

We only bite a little.

The missles were ruthlessly pounding my armor, the alarms going off throughout the ship let me know that my poor Iron Pig was not long for this world. I pounced on a nearby roll of duct tape, snatched up the power lines to the shields and the autocannons and taped them together. The whole ship lurched as the guns started wildly firing....and then the first missle punched through my hull.

Pirate life = Best life

Edited the top post with a nice piece by our in house poet, Xedam Praxis.