Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

Autarky is an EU time-zone corporation. While we welcome members from other time-zones, most of our members are EU. The corporation is a part of the alliance The Autonomy, because we're free. Free of the blocks of the blue or the red doughnuts of k-space.

Our hole is a C4, and it is home, and it is awesome, and we want more people in there! We have the opportunity to do everything: PI, Mining (yeuch! :) ), sites, and anomalies. We have a static C3 and we want to visit the neighbours, and help them out with clearing sites... or helping them improve their PVP.

We are looking for:

You're a bit of an all-rounder who like to tinker with a lot of things in eve. Wormholespace require a generalist approach, and there's no room for airs. If we need you in a barge, you have to get into a barge. If we need you to do PI, you have to do PI. And of course, everyone will be expected to fight. That said, you enjoy pvp, because our focus is pvp. Our other activities serve to blow off steam while we wait for the opportunity to pew; or to replace losses.

You are:
A 'glass is half-full'-kind of person
EU TZ
Eager and willing to use voice comms!
Not a Neanderthal whose humour consist of jokes about blondes, women, Muslims, or gay people.
One who has a relaxed sense of humour
One who has played this game for a while
One who speaks fluent English. Or Swedish. Or Norwegian. Or Danish. But English, mostly.
Organised and know how to follow a plan
Eager to live in wormholes

You will be required to give a full API.
You will be interviewed on our comms before acceptance.
There will always be a trial, to see how you fit in with the rest of us.

Join "Autarky Pub" in-game if you want to have a chat with us. In fact, it's probably best to drop into the chat rather than convoing me. Your questions will be answered much quicker as this character might be AFK, or I'm busy on my main. Or I'm in a deep convo.

A question, not relating to the Alliance or Corporation, has been removed. The response to the question was also removed. May I suggest a review of the Bumping Rules.

Bumping rule 3. Carrying on a conversation on the forums is discouraged, answering someone's request for a GTC by saying "sent" still bumps your thread to the front of the queue and gives you an advantage, please use EVE mail or a personal convo if you wish to converse with a purchaser. Please use the Market Discussion forum section if you wish to have a conversation on any items.

Thus a reply to such a conversation or post by the original poster would constitute an illegal bump.

Off peak post, but I won't be in "tomorrow", which means later today since it's nearly two AM here...

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Tennyson, "Ulysses"

The warrior was always a poet. It was only after the industrialised slaughter of the twentieth century that aesthetics and art and poetry became something to be disdained.

Even as the waves lapped against the boards of the long-boats of those most famous of urban terrors, the Vikings, as they journeyed from the farms and fields of frosty Scandinavia toward loot and plunder on the continent, they pored over the sagas and their meanings.

Their descendents, once they managed to cajole and threaten and harass the kingdoms of England and France into first granting them a foothold and then later the very keys to the kingdoms themselves, would in time create the ideal of chivalry where knights would be both adept at poetry and at war.

And did not the greatest generation of poets rise as the dawn of industrialised slaughter descended upon man in the trenches of Somme and Verdun? There men like Erich Maria Remarque, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon would emerge and give voice to the agony of their misspent generation.

The poet, the aesthetic, the warrior, and the thinker – the ideal for most of human history. That's the person we want in Autarky, and that's why I write these long posts in a recruitment thread. It tends to sort out the twitch-people whose eyes will blur at the sight of more than three sentences. This in answer to a question I received in-game about why I write “so weirdly” here when just trying to reach a bunch of guys in an internet spaceship game.

If you've come this far, what are you waiting for? Join us! After all, once you have hacked and hewn your way through a horde of drooling Neanderthals, is that not the time to arrange the bodies into a warm soft recliner so that you can catch up on your Ovid?

What drove explorers from China's Wang Dayuan to travel to Sri Lanka and India or Erik the Red to settle in Greenland was often a combination of curiosity and a desire for material wealth.

The Spanish and Portuguese explorers who started the Age of Exploration in Europe wanted trade routes and wealth as much as they wanted to see the world. In competition, Britain and France struck out as well so as not to be left behind the growing Latin empires.

In cultures defined as stale and dogmatic, the explorers would open boundaries and borders, and place themselves on the edge, drawing more people who would look for a new life. Exploration was often as much about getting away as it was about searching for the new.

In Eve where much of null-sec is every bit as stale and stagnant as the old courts of Europe and China, there is an outlet for the intrepid. While small corporations and alliances are barred from the great swathes of nullsec, there is still wormholespace. And this is where Autarky is going.

Yes, just like Cristopher Colombo, we must prepare and just like Vasco da Gama we must risk it all. But that's just part of the fun, and if you think so too, join Autarky!

Let's get this back to the front page.

The American novelist Anna Quindlan once wrote “Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.” A sentiment I profoundly disagree with.

The beginnings set the path, and set the nature of the path. Do we walk on a forest trail, or an urban boulevard? Which it is, will determine everything.

That's why it's necessary to get an Eve corporation on the right path, at the beginning. It has nothing to do with 'muddling through'. It has everything to do with the beginning.

So, why not share our new beginning? Join Autarky!

The business of the hairless great ape which is known specifically as Homo Sapiens Sapiens is a constant source of bemusement and befuddlement, and that's a reason as good as any to bring this to the front page again, with the usual admonition that you should, indeed, join us.

So Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" came on, and I thought I should bring this to the front page as I wait for the day's first coffe to percolate down into a sizeable mug, together with some cream. And the toast looks crisp, and the marmalade looks delicious.

My internet died because there was something wrong with the base station, or summat like that, and for two days I chewed my nails and tried to read the entire catalogue of Kierkegard but only got to page one because I found a new shiney in Unreal Engine 4, and then for a bit I stopped chewing my nails from the withdrawal and was productive. Then I got my internet back, and therefore it's time to bring this to the front page again.

It is that time again when I try to think of something remotely clever to say, but fails to do so, and then just think 'to heck with it' and warp this back to the front page.