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keep it up this is good

Not even close to the first.

This guy was not even first, though probably one of the best and most famous, and certainly your creative writing needs to be good to be as funny and entertaining as his.

Eve Tourist

Though i would have a read to get some ideas, things like this can get very BIG. Fame in Eve can also, like in real life, make you rich...

Harper Hendee's travelogue is also a great one. Very entertaining, especially toward the end of the tour, when:
-His clone comes up with a plot to replace him;
-He hires a newbie to pod him, but changes his mind and blows up the noob instead;
-The noob continues to hunt him to finish the job he was paid for.

Good luck and fly safe OP!

Part 2.5: A quick thank you and comments

First of all, I'd like to thank you all for your comments! I'd like to address a couple of these now before the rumour mill goes into overdrive and we have a scandal on our hands!

So, some astute readers have pointed out that there have in fact been other 'tourists' in the past and this morning I received a message from CONCORD pointing out that impersonating the 'first tourist' when I am infact not will result in summary execution. Thus, I have an addendum.

I am now: Twoflower Octiron, New Eden's first* tourist

*first - Defined as: The first, self professed 'tourist', traveling low security and null security (though primarily null), with the stated intention of taking pictures of cool stuff, in a shuttle.

I am confident that this will please everyone. Moving on...



Well, my shuttle did get shot at recently and vanished for a few jumps, so who knows what it got up to! It did look a little different when it returned as well.



Would you mind terribly furnishing me with this list? I am not well versed in the history of New Eden and would appreciate some pointers!



This seems like an unfair way to vent your bad mood. Nonetheless, I look forward to meeting you.

Now, I would like to put something out to you, the interested public. As I said in the first post, I scoured the map and identified alliances based on two criteria 1) Size and 2) likely sounding name.

What I need from you is other historic landmarks and systems to visit, whether they be locally or universally important. Tell me them and I shall visit them. I'd like at least 100 things on this list, including the alliances (27 of these).

Thank you again and part 3 is to follow in the near future.

Edit:
I could actually use your help for something else. Below are the identified alliances, I need to know their 'home system' so that I can visit it and photograph their station. So please, divulge:

Razor Alliance
Get off My Lawn
Spacemoney's Alliance
Goonswarm federation
Venal
Fatal ascension
Executive outcomes
Northern coalition.
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
Against all Authorities
Hand of despair
Darkness of despair
Darkness.
Northern associates
Nulli Secunda
Pangu coalition
Babylon 5
Darkspawn
Legion of xXDEATHXx
The east india co.
Rebel alliance of new eden
Brothers of Tangra
Insidious empire
Why so serious
No value
Greater Western co-prosperity sphere
Gentlemen's agreement

I announced my intention to leave the New Eden system and press on with my adventure, but Cryogenic Amatin informed me that there was a wormhole right here, in New Eden. I had intended to befriend him over many months and turn up one day, a wise and seasoned traveller and have us journey majestically into a wormhole. But here he was, offering to show me the way; he invited me into my first ever fleet:
Joining a fleet

I eagerly warped to my brand new fleet mate, once more I felt as if we were two bold adventurers pushing the boundaries of known space! I was more excited than an excitable puppy on puppy Christmas day which also happened to be this particular puppies birthday. In less than one day I had seen the centre of the universe and would be swiftly following that up with the utmost uncharted edge of it. Utterly wonderous!

For those that have never seen one, this is a wormhole:
Wormhole

And this is my friend, Cryogenic Amatin in his trusty covert ops ship – this man gives me hope that there will be helpful souls no matter what path in New Eden I tread:
Cryogenic Amatin

And for those who get the same pre-jump nerves as me, Cryogenic is there to talk me through it all:
Simple instructions

This was it. My first day as a pilot in New Eden, my first day as a tourist. I was about to step off the map, go over the edge, as it were. I entered the wormhole.

I was not sure what to expect on the other side. Perhaps space would be green here? Or gravity would work upside down? Perhaps in wormhole space, the spaceship flew the pilot? I just did not know, so I warped to a planet and saw that it was indeed, orange and brown:
Mysterious wormhole planet

Woah! How different is that, eh?

It took me a minute or two to collect my senses (for the wacky wormhole gravity had sent them flying) and remember my mission - to boldly fly up to the home station, parade in front of it and take a picture. Unfortunately, there were no stations.

Cryogenic also informed me that other pilots don't show up in the local channel, this I could be in the company of a thousand pilots and never know it. I tentatively sent out a small “hello” followed by “I'm a tourist”. Silence. Complete silence. Finally, after a minute of waiting, the silence continued. Here I was, outside the known universe and I was the loneliest man alive.

Fortunately however I had learnt something about New Eden and I knew that people put something known as a POS at moons. I would daringly fly up to one of these POS's and heroically photograph myself! I craftily found one using my scanner and hit the warp button.

Somewhere between this picture:
In a shuttle

And this picture:
In a pod

I appear to have lost my shuttle.

I wouldn't have it said that losing a shuttle would stop Twoflower Octiron. I piloted my pod right up to that POS shield and defiantly took my picture:
Me at a POS

NEW EDEN TOURIST TOP TIP – If you set yourself to approach a structure within a POS shield while in your pod you can literally bounce on and off the shield. Fun for: 5 minutes. ISK cost: Free! New Eden Activity rating: 4/10

I re-contacted Cryogenic who was somewhere on the other side of the wormhole. He had noted the loss of my shuttle but I assured him this was of no consequence and had managed to get a nice shot of myself outside a POS. He mentioned that the rarest ores in the universe were in wormholes, alas that there were no asteroid belts in this one.
Conversation

It appears that much more of a wormhole will open up to me once I can scan things down and fly a different ship; I shall endeavour to return to a wormhole in the future and sample all of its delights. But for now I followed my handy bookmark and re-entered normal space, falling off the roof of my pod as normal gravity reasserted itself.

I had a lot of fun with Cryogenic Amatin and my first day has put me in a fantastic mood and on the right foot to begin this epic quest. But now the depths of null security space were calling, I had the burning desire to set a new destination and spectacularly zip off into the distance with wide eyes and abandon.

Picking a random system off the map, I entered warp for the 27 jump journey to 0.0
Journey to null sec

All that was left on arrival was to jump through that gate. I felt that once I went through that portal there would be no turning back, that the first day, the easy day, would be over and that from here on out the quest began proper and that it would be harder going – a harsher world lay out there for sure. The quest would only end when I returned to the EVE gate and placed my can alongside its brothers.
Gateway to null sec

I jumped.

Do you have an alt called Rincewind to use as a distraction?

Very nice read keep it up.

While most definitely not the 'first' nor the 'first*' (as defined by OP), interesting read with some nice screenshots.

Keep it up! o/

if you really want to meet pirates you should go in a battlecruiser :)

then come to aunenen, we will give you the tour of our professional ship disposal service and ransom program

Good tale.

Some suggestions:

If you ever get over to Syndicate there is this one system there which is unique to Syndicate, Poitot and is a must do on your tour list.

I always meant to travel to T-IPZB and view the shattered planet, these are rare and only a few in the universe exist.


UB-UQZ over in Branch is the current home system of Get Off My Lawn, if you head over that way, say hi for me.


EC-P8R this system is well known for the phrase, "GET THE POD!".

Part 4: Curatores Veritatis Alliance – Sex or death cult?

I had jumped.

I opened my eyes slowly for I was terrified of what I might see. My breath was held and my hands steadied, the slightest movement could uncloak my ship and reveal me to this
Gatecamp

Turns out that the Bestower (which according to my excellent sources is an industrial ship) had also jumped through the gate at the same time. I waved to him eagerly - a fellow adventurer. I then realised that he couldn't see me and stopped waving. There was also a casual Tengu (that's a strategic cruiser folks) sat around the gate, perhaps he was there to welcome people to null security with cookies and wine?

I was eager to make my first 0.0 docking so I warped towards the only station in the system. Just as I was about to dock I saw the pilot of the Bestower appear in his pod, apparently the Tengu wasn't there to welcome people after all. Was this going to be my experience from here on out? Heroically dodging Tengus holding explosive cookie boxes and innocents being deconstructed into matter in mere milliseconds. I filed these thoughts under 'someone else's problems, I'm sure'.

For those who have never seen the inside of a 0.0 station, here is a picture with a little bit of information about the alliance who own it
First station!

I un-docked to take my customary picture and had to quickly re-dock when I saw a ship called 'Nemesis' as I thought that perhaps it was my nemesis.
Station

I decided I would find out what it was the Tengu pilot wanted and precisely whose nemesis was floating around outside, I made contact
Conversation

So to summarise; within 3 minutes of entering 0.0 and 1 minute of initiating contact I had seen a peaceful industrialist blown to pieces, been the victim of attempted extortion for photography and been threatened with certain death. Perhaps he really was my nemesis.

From all this excitement I took two things:
1) “there is great stuff in d61a”
2) I'm sure no one will hurt an innocent tourist

Which left me with only one option, I jumped into D61A-G.
On reflection it was probably inevitable that the other side looked like this:
Gatecamp 2

Let's take a little time out here. After seeing what happened to the Bestower I had not jumped through completely unprepared. I opened with 5 choice lines that were sure to confuse, flatter, confuse and endear the pilots while at the same time ensuring my continued onward progress
Masterplan