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Sinti Vailatti
Angelis Exploration
#61 - 2016-05-12 20:45:35 UTC
Hi gang!

I’m Sinti. I’ve been here a while, but I’ve been kinda back ‘n forth with the whole Capsuleer career path.

My story starts in Khanid space, on Khitaled II. I was born a slave under one of the Great Houses, House Mokk (yes, him). I had a twin brother, Dante and we were raised in the faith and culture of Old Khanid. When I was old enough, I was presented to my previous owner as a household worker. I was a slave, but these were good times! I didn’t want for anything. I received a great education, I had friends and a huge family. Maybe I’ve always been searching for that feeling of home, of belonging.

As teenagers, Dante and I were on a transport to visit the Khanid Prime when we were attacked by a Matari warship. The Matari boarded us and my brother and I were told that we were now “free.” We were sent to Hek, dropped at refugee center and had to fend for ourselves. I wish things had been different. We were alone, scared, poor. We were hungry all the time. We had to do things to survive that I’d rather not remember. Fast forward several bad years, and we both ended up getting into education programs that were sponsored by the Republic and the Federation. We had the aptitude to become Capsuleers! And we made it! You know that feeling the first time you undock in a pod? Bliss!

Dante, through school, had made friends in Gallente and he eventually moved there, became a citizen and joined the FDU. He died, somewhere near Intaki. This was back in 111 when Caldari was making their big push. I didn’t receive any official information, just word that he was biomass. Dante’s death was hard, and I wandered for a while.

I made my way from The Republic to Ammantar and from there into the dangerous Bleak Lands. Fate, Luck or God kept me safe and put me in the path of a very cool Caldari pilot, Gemma Naquist. She’d started a corporation called Kuomi Logistics and needed a miner. I got the job, a direction and a close friend.

The Wheel turned and one night, in a bar on the Kamela station, I ran into Boss. You call him Sinjin (among other less favorable names). He’d just entered service for the 24th IC and P.I.E.. As it turned out, he was a customer of ours, buying a frightening amount of Punishers and Slicers (tbh, he wasn’t such a great pilot back then).

And the Wheel turned again and again. Gemma was killed. Possibly by Star Fraction or U/K or TLF agents. We never did find out for sure. At the same time, Boss had been transferred to the Khanid Provincial Vanguard. I closed up shop and moved. I was going home!

These were good years. I provided logistic support and the KP-V kept watch in the Khanid Marches. This eventually lead to KP-V’s decision to try to take and hold the A2 station on the Querious border. I’ll keep it simple. We failed. Bad. After the loss of the station, KP-V kinda imploded. Silas turned on us. She joined the Sani Sabik. Boss used a connection and joined Stillwater, an Angel Cartel Corp. And almost as soon as he joined, he disappeared.

House Mokk had him declared dead and he was listed as biomass. In his will were papers that declared me a freed slave. I took what ISK I could collect from my savings and bought my way out of the life. I recloned without implants and moved to Rens. I wanted away from this. There was too much blood, too much suffering, too much trauma.

I had a comfortable life on Rens. Sometimes it was boring, but I liked the boredom. I kept tabs though. Capsuleers cause a lot of flash in the Galaxy and I watched as people came and went. Then, one day, a little over a year ago, I saw a post on IGS. Boss.

For five years Boss and I were out of the picture. But some screwhead Bloodraider wannabe had found a clone bay, deep in Khanid. Maybe Silas had kept a few extra copies of us for some reason, maybe it was Nauplius (who had been just a trader when we knew him back in the day). But the Raider (Albizu Zateki) got his life ended by Boss. Boss re-emerged, with amnesia and had to relearn a lot. I went back to Pator Tech, threw every ISK I had left at them and got back into the pod. Yeah, starting over sucked. Big time.

The rest of my (our) story has played out here. Boss reconnected with Stillwater to look for the pieces of his past that he was missing. Then, tried to reconnect with the Kingdom. I think he made a good go of it, but Khanid now isn’t like Khanid was. And when Jamyl got killed…it. Well, I’m gonna hear a lot saying this, but Sinjin isn’t the same person he once was.

So, first he took control of House Mokk. This was mentioned here. He took the title of Baron and we moved everything to Badevefi. Third time in Khanid and the wheel turned and I went from happy to things imploding. House Mokk, such as it was, ended. Every parcel of land, every person, every building was either killed, burned, sold or destroyed. No…I don’t think I’m going to discuss reasons. Some of you can figure it out. Boss needed to be elsewhere and I went along for the ride.

So me, your humble and sexy storyteller landed in Heaven. Curse. You see, the Angel Cartel has been working against the same things we’d been working against the whole time. You’ve seen our posts. You know our opinions on the Drifters, the Sansha, CONCORD, Upwell. There are secrets, deep in Heaven. Secrets that need protection, secrets that need to be uncovered. There is such a change coming!!

Maybe I should have stayed retired. Maybe I should have stayed on Rens. Knowing some of the things I know now as an Archangel...no. I don’t think I can afford the luxury of being innocent or ignorant any longer. Life in the Cartel is so different from the life, the lives I used to lead. But you know what? For the first time in a long time, I belong!

I’m moving out of Curse though. He’s staying behind. Reasons. Sorry kids, OpSec.

Find me in Jita 4-4. Buy me a drink. Take me to bed. Maybe I'll sell you something. Maybe, I'll whisper to you a secret.

Fly safe!

“Where must we go...we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves?”

Karina Ivanovich
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#62 - 2016-05-17 05:41:11 UTC
Hello guys! It has been a pleasure getting to know you all. Now that we have got some introductions down, I was wondering what everyone's fondest memory or story of your time as a capsuleer is.

I for one remember long ago, when I inhabited a different body, my time in the battle of Asakai. I was a member of a now defunct raiding corporation that happened to be a few systems over when the battle started. We were neutral to both the CFC and HBC at the time and decided to wreak as much havoc as we could. Well, as much as a 30 man corporation of pirates could do.

We flew into the midst of the battle about 45 minutes after it had begun. 25 of our 30 man group had managed to ship up in the vicinity. And so, a 15 Blackbird Cruiser wing assisted by a 9 man wolfpack and one Command Ship decided to jam anything and everything possible. We fired upon everyone without discrimination. Battleships lost lock. Logistic Cruisers were totally sidelined. We even managed to disrupt the fire of a dreadnaught for a short time.

Our glorious foolishness lasted all of 10 minutes before we were wiped out to a man. The only survivor being a lonely Wolf that warped out with 5% hull remaining. Luckily our staging system was not far off. And we repeated the process several times.

In the end we caused multiple billion ISK worth of damage and disruption. And our day was made. Alas, that old corporation has slipped into obscurity, likely never to return. But now I fly with new brethren. In a different body. Fighting for different goals. Now, as a member of Pandemic Horde Incorporated I will fly our banner high.

And hope once again that my skills will be needed.

Some call me insane. If the universe is sane, then I embrace that label.

Cain Aloga
SoE Roughriders
Electus Matari
#63 - 2016-05-17 13:22:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Cain Aloga
My name is Cain Aloga. I am born to two Brutor Parents and a member of the Aloga Clan. I am currently engaged in mining and industrial operations in the hope of one day returning to Republic space and opening my own corporation n an effort to stimulate our economy and our people.

While our warriors fight for our people's freedom, we in turn should fight for our people's prosperity.

Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#64 - 2016-05-25 22:25:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
Hello, my name is Samira Kernher. I am of sebiestor heritage, and I have two siblings. I grew up in the city of Sertene-Nauon on Thebeka III in Ardishapur Domain, Amarr. I was a slave and educated in environmental sciences for work at one of the lab facilities owned by my custodian, Adila Numayr, but my family were emancipated in early YC107. We moved to the Republic, where I lived for several years until I had earned enough money to apply for Republic University's capsuleer program. Alongside my capsule training, during my first year at RUN I also did competitive swimming at the interplanetary level. After I received my certification I moved back to Amarr and joined Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris' auxiliary corporation.

As a capsuleer I have flown as a miner and industrialist, and as combat pilot in the Amarr-Minmatar warzone. Presently, I help manage the Praetorian Temple Library and I fund several charities and churches in Ardishapur space. I also work alongside other groups as an adviser on Amarrian religion, culture, and law. I am faithful to my God and my Empire and I worship with the Salvation Church of Blessed Servitude.

I enjoy sports, interactive holonovels and VR, needlework, and I am learning to play the cello. I have two cats.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#65 - 2016-05-26 18:04:57 UTC
Samira Kernher wrote:
Hello, my name is Samira Kernher. I am of sebiestor heritage, and I have two siblings. I grew up in the city of Sertene-Nauon on Thebeka III in Ardishapur Domain, Amarr. I was a slave and educated in environmental sciences for work at one of the lab facilities owned by my custodian, Adila Numayr, but my family were emancipated in early YC107. We moved to the Republic, where I lived for several years until I had earned enough money to apply for Republic University's capsuleer program. Alongside my capsule training, during my first year at RUN I also did competitive swimming at the interplanetary level. After I received my certification I moved back to Amarr and joined Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris' auxiliary corporation.

As a capsuleer I have flown as a miner and industrialist, and as combat pilot in the Amarr-Minmatar warzone. Presently, I help manage the Praetorian Temple Library and I fund several charities and churches in Ardishapur space. I also work alongside other groups as an adviser on Amarrian religion, culture, and law. I am faithful to my God and my Empire and I worship with the Salvation Church of Blessed Servitude.

I enjoy sports, interactive holonovels and VR, needlework, and I am learning to play the cello. I have two cats.

You need more cats. Like, 10 of them.

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.

Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#66 - 2016-05-26 18:08:03 UTC
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Samira Kernher wrote:
Hello, my name is Samira Kernher. I am of sebiestor heritage, and I have two siblings. I grew up in the city of Sertene-Nauon on Thebeka III in Ardishapur Domain, Amarr. I was a slave and educated in environmental sciences for work at one of the lab facilities owned by my custodian, Adila Numayr, but my family were emancipated in early YC107. We moved to the Republic, where I lived for several years until I had earned enough money to apply for Republic University's capsuleer program. Alongside my capsule training, during my first year at RUN I also did competitive swimming at the interplanetary level. After I received my certification I moved back to Amarr and joined Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris' auxiliary corporation.

As a capsuleer I have flown as a miner and industrialist, and as combat pilot in the Amarr-Minmatar warzone. Presently, I help manage the Praetorian Temple Library and I fund several charities and churches in Ardishapur space. I also work alongside other groups as an adviser on Amarrian religion, culture, and law. I am faithful to my God and my Empire and I worship with the Salvation Church of Blessed Servitude.

I enjoy sports, interactive holonovels and VR, needlework, and I am learning to play the cello. I have two cats.

You need more cats. Like, 10 of them.


I miss my cats. I gave them to my brother a few weeks after I was first podded. They just wouldn't trust my new clone.

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Roise Sinulf
Doomheim
#67 - 2016-05-28 19:45:35 UTC
Just a lone explorer looking for something, fascinated by the Cartel to an almost sickening degree, I am Roise, pronounced ROH-shuh. 30 real years old, fresh out of RMS i joined Horde but in the back of my mind were the angels.
Sammie MacWinters
Gradient
Electus Matari
#68 - 2016-05-31 15:14:41 UTC
I'm Sammie. I fly space ships.
Qia Allos-Ryi
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#69 - 2016-06-01 18:45:18 UTC
Hello, I'm Qia Allos-Ryi, the spoiled rich kid that has nothing to complain about really...

Born an only child to the Allos-Ryi family ruling the underwater dome city 'Serenitet' on Lirsautton VIII.

Before I became a capsuleer my days were spent wasting time with holo-reels and VR-entertainment of all kinds, I could be called a nerd. Whatever time I did not waste was dedicated to studying A.I ethics, economics, and public relations.

I've spent most of my time as a capsuleer fast tracking my abilities to the point where I can now pilot capital ships, even though I rarely ever use them. One might say i have a certain addiction to the blue goo. Recently my home has been with the Brave Collective, teaching less educated Capsuleers about all activities the Alliance delves into.

Otherwise, not much to me, I value Gallentean ideals and have close friends in the Quafe Corporation, where I accure most of my extra kredits nowadays, though I dont really need it. In a way, they sponsor me (Drink Quafe)

I have three small dogs who are practically my children.

Cake is better then pie..

Drink Quafe.
Odelya d'Hanguest
Order of St. Severian
#70 - 2016-06-02 20:46:56 UTC
Hi!

I am Odelya Pari Negin Intourtsetseg of House d'Hanguest, Begum of Palas and Lustrevik, Despoina of Dorji and Chitarus, Lady of The Isles, Keeper of the Key to the Hall of the Forty Columns, Porphyrogennete, Hyperprotopansebaste, First Hierarch and Guardian of the Khanid Orthodox Church in Palas, Bishop of Lustrevik, Megas Doukissa of the Ducal Palasian Squadron, Servant of God and King. You can call me Your Grace!
Karina Ivanovich
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#71 - 2016-06-02 22:13:37 UTC
Odelya d'Hanguest wrote:
Hi!

I am Odelya Pari Negin Intourtsetseg of House d'Hanguest, Begum of Palas and Lustrevik, Despoina of Dorji and Chitarus, Lady of The Isles, Keeper of the Key to the Hall of the Forty Columns, Porphyrogennete, Hyperprotopansebaste, First Hierarch and Guardian of the Khanid Orthodox Church in Palas, Bishop of Lustrevik, Megas Doukissa of the Ducal Palasian Squadron, Servant of God and King. You can call me Your Grace!


I honestly don't know what most of that even means...

But I never have paid too much attention to Amarr titles. Care to enlighten a heathen such as myself as to what those titles mean?

Some call me insane. If the universe is sane, then I embrace that label.

Trensk Mikakka
Out of Focus
Odin's Call
#72 - 2016-06-06 01:58:57 UTC
Well, uh, hello there everyone.

Trensk, pilot for SUAD and TEST alliance, specializing in outnumbered fighting and gatecamp breaking, among other things.

I was born above Kihtaled II on my mom's ship. Mom was a Khanid Admiral, Dad was a Caldari Marine Colonel. Grew up in Khanid space, then moved to Caldari space at 1. Joined the Navy a year after as a fighter pilot, and was pretty damn good at it. Little while later the State and I figured out I was capsule-compatible after I rammed a Gallente fighterbomber and severely wounded myself. Good times.

After that, I graduated from the SWA at 21, joined the Caldari Milita, and about a year later left and kinda became the mercenary/pirate/good guy I am today. Fought with a lot of different people, and lots of different reasons. Wouldn't change a thing.
Cory Za
Republic Military School
#73 - 2016-06-07 10:33:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Cory Za
((edit: updagte))


Greetings New Eden
I am the law, I always wanted to say that.

I grew up in a station working for pilots, washing and cleaning the ships that would dock, dreaming of being a capsuleer. The day came that I was of age and I applied for the tests. After graduating from the Republic Military School and obtaining my pilot license.
The world was mine, I sat in the station in my ship with my head spinning for what seemed days.

I was employed by Dark Recovery Inc for a short time but civilian live was not for me and I felt lost. Lost until I met a senior officer from the New Eden Police Force. Now I wake up with purpose and pride. Protecting the citizens of New Eden and upholding the law with my fellow officers.

I can not think of a better career. Fly safe Fly true and don't do drugs.

"Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid to not try" - Jorym

Persephone Norman
#74 - 2016-06-10 09:34:32 UTC
Pay no heed to the fact that this is a duplicate post. I just wanted it to be in this thread, now that I know it exists, because it feels more official this way. Ahem.


I'm Persephone W. Norman, explorer, mission runner, and occasional miner when I want to lie back a bit.

I pretty much always fly solo. I've hopped around a few corps since I started capsuleering, but my inability to make myself available on a regular basis made it hard to establish myself to a great degree anywhere. Couple that with constant war declarations, and a noob like I was easily gets discouraged. After I got stranded planetside for most of the past two years and my corp kicked me, I gave up and decided to just stick with The Scope for the time being.

That said, I'm perfectly eager to make friends. In that light, when I pass through starter systems I often volunteer my spare time to help new pilots with things like beating Dagan (where does he keep getting those bricktanked Gnosises?).

At some point I have aspirations to make a name for myself as an explorer, perhaps investigating Drifter hives or something along those lines. If and when it becomes possible to build capsuleer-operated stargates and/or interstellar ships, I'd love to venture forth into uncharted space, but for now I've just been keeping myself occupied building stable income sources.

While I'm registered officially as Gallente, one might note that I'm more specifically registered under "Immigrants." It does sound a bit cliche, but I don't know for certain where I was born or even whether it was in New Eden. What I can say is that it was an underground facility, but I was never informed of its location or owners while I lived there, and afterward I was lost in space long enough to lose track of my location. Architecturally it suggested Angel Cartel ownership, but the activities more closely suggested Sansha's Nation. After I was rescued I spent several years adjusting to "normal" human culture and eventually was lucky enough to gain acceptance to the Center for Advanced Studies. Thus, while I'm grateful for what the Gallente Federation has given me, I don't personally identify as a Gallente loyalist; rather I consider myself a resident of New Eden as a whole.
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#75 - 2016-06-11 06:17:37 UTC
I am Akrasjel Lanate born and raised in Solitude from a Gallente father and a Ni-Kunni mother on Elore IV. Graduated from the University of Caille and become a capsuleer. Traveled across New Eden but always came home to place of my birth.

CEO of Lanate Industries

Citizen of Solitude

Anataine Deva
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#76 - 2016-06-13 12:18:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Anataine Deva
Hi I'm Ana, last living member of the great Taezali.

Because of an "incident" with the cloning machinery I became a capsuleer. - No they aren't that safe as they advertise it. - But... can't say more about it. I'm happy they didn't biomassed me and at the moment I prefer to stick with my life.
However, I also graduated from the University of Caille but still visit it regularly. After that "incident" they were very helpful and patient with me. Helped me to find a place in New Eden where I'm welcome. So I'm happy to support them where ever I can.

Like many I started my career in the mining industry, where cheap labour is always in demand and no questions were made but turned my attention soon to trading. Supplying my new home with all the fine goods available does satisfy me more, I also do see more from New Eden.
Just bought a severed head in a jar *yuck*, my next business partner who doesn't pay will get this as a last warning! Hehe

During my childhood I lived as a house slave on a farm. I kinda miss it. Not the slavery part! But the food, the animals and my family, my friends and my mother. RIP :(
Because of that people tend to call me a simple mind or naive, because I haven't got that high education. Well I may be not that good in rhetoric, philosophy or politics but I know when I'm right and I kick you with my boot in the ass if you disagree with me!

After 16 years in service I could flee during an attack on the farm, but lost everything. The farm was burned to the ground and all I knew were killed. What followed were years of pain, torture but also moments of happiness.

During the following years, on several occasions I was more dead than alive but bad weeds grow tall and so I survived. I found a new family and a loving husband who didn't cared about my origin but that shouldn't last long.
After he got killed I was like ... Scáthach, the warrior princess from a tale a good friend told me about. I hunted the murders down, but violence isn't the seed for something good. They paid a hundred times for his death but it didn't brought him back.

Sometimes I can't believe this past, my past. It's frightening how ordinary and normal killing can become. I can't remember how many... but I will never forget the smell of the deaths.

Now it's a sad introduction :( However, when I'm not too drunk I'm usually stubborn, moody, emotional and impatient. I don't like people who disagree with me grrr and that medical staff in the cloning facilities grrr²! But beside of that, what I'm at most is being a nice person! Don't disagree! Hehe

Oh... and usually I don't say much. I'm shy you know, like a little innocent deer...

Edit:
I also tend to forget things. Must be a side effect of the implants I have. My next clone stays implant free! I hope I'll remember that.

Give The BIG Lottery a try (it's conform with the EULA) and me your Fedos!

Haruna Hikikomori
Fabraxi Acquisition Industries Limited
#77 - 2016-06-21 05:40:07 UTC
Hi! I'm Haruna. I just became a capsuleer today in fact. I'm really new and still learning the lingo so forgive me.

I just graduated from the Federal Navy Academy but I plan on having a career as a miner. My sister used to fly an old mining frigate and I think I may follow in her footsteps. I'm technically Gallente but I don't really have a strong political opinion about the great Empires. In my eyes rocks are much more interesting.

Mining might seem boring to some of you, because from reading all of your comments it seems to me that you are almost all soldiers, but I love it. Mining is nice and relaxing, plus, what would you all do without miners?
Felise Selunix
Keyholder Investment Group
#78 - 2016-06-24 00:30:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Felise Selunix
Hi Family, my name is Felise and I’m a Vherokior gal from Magiko II. I’ve been getting my space legs in the capsule for about a month and let me tell you, it's been an education. Before entering the program, I graduated from Pator Tech with dual degrees in Advanced Business Administration and Galactic Psychosociology, the latter which I still have trouble pronouncing in casual conversation.

My twin brother Festuvar and I were the 4th and 5th children born into our family in ’96, a couple of 'happy accidents' according to my dad.. We grew up in the Selunix Family compound in the middle of the capital city surrounded by relatives. My family is part of the larger Lollore Merchant Clan which operates a number of retail and logistic-oriented businesses throughout the Cluster. Ever stopped to buy a Quafe at one of those ‘Happy Land’ convenience stores or take a quick meal at a Pasito’s or Sjora's bistro? Then congratulations, you’ve been touched by that special Lollore magic. The clan runs everything from stores and restaurants to construction businesses, small trading houses and informal banking outlets, all of which are heavily staffed and run by family members.

Festuvar and I both tested compatible at three and the Lollore machine went into action to help us succeed. The clan could easily afford to support both of our candidacies, but of course sought and received Republic grants for part of the costs through our connections in the vast bureaucracy that is the Republic Capsuleer Program. The workload and pressure were intense.

That all suited me fine as it meant a chance to get away from a life as a cog in the Lollore empire, helping to oversee our financial and government relations activities. Everyone worked for the family business in one way or another because, as my mother and aunts are fond of saying ‘where would we be without family’ to which I reply with my famous retort, ‘whatever.’ I knew that if I didn’t make it as a capsuleer, I’d spend my life keeping a handle on my business while following the lead of my aunts, my mother, and eventually, my older sister. I wanted to do something on my own and being a capsuleer was my ticket. My brother wasn't so driven, but he's good so he graduated with me, only to delay his career to 'settle down for awhile' with his latest girlfriend, whatever that means.

I did learn a lot about logistics, administration, and negotiation, which proved useful to helping me excel in the program and win a few friends, one of which lost her life during her capsuleer trials and whom I still miss from time to time. I also found out the I was better than I thought at sports and not a bad pilot. Those skills also earned me the nickname ‘sneakthief’ from some of the students, which I’ve decided to interpret as a term of endearment.

Since graduating the program, I’ve tried a lot of different things and all I know right now is that shooting things bores me, but I do like traveling, meeting people, and making money. I also like discussions about Pre-Warp Gallante History, cooking indigenous recipes, traditional Vherokior dancing, and sunbathing with a cool drink and my two cats, Dwinken and Nordji.
Darek Castigatus
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#79 - 2016-06-24 05:06:58 UTC
Hello IGS. My name is Darek Castigatus and I'm a pirate, but it didnt start that way. I dont really consider my precapsule life that important anymore, if you want to know about it its all on public record anyway. The only part I still remember now was how happy I was to be selected for capsuleer training, felt like I had the chance now to be more than just another corporate drone.

Spent the first eighteen months or so of my capsuleer life learning the ropes, training skills and doing missions in highsec, mostly for the Caldari Navy. I guess you could say at that time I was still a good little patriot, killed my share of guristas and gallente and never asked questions. Joined a corp a couple of weeks after i started out with an old school friend who passed the capsule tests about a year before I did, was pretty chilled out and as long as the taxes got paid no-one really cared what you did.

After a while though the sheen wore off and it became just like a chore, nothing ever changed and no matter how many ships I destroyed the Guristas and the Gallente would always crawl back into the cracks again. It was like I'd never escaped at all and no-one would ever know who I was or what I'd done, I'd just be another name in a ledger full of mission reports. Kinda soured me on the whole 'I live to serve my nation' thing, now I live to serve me and my corp and everyone else can go hang.

Then our CEO comes up with this plan to go to Syndicate and take some space, which was just the sort of mad scheme that made me feel alive again. So we packed our bags and said farewell to empire space, some of us very quickly unfarewelling again as we got chased all the way there by every two bit pirate from a dozen local systems. It was also out there that i learned how to fight other capsuleers, as opposed to those hopelessly outclassed idiots id been annihilating in droves up until then these guys actually knew how to fly. Lets just say it was a long and painful process and many mistakes were made and leave it at that, its not like you cant look up my combat record after all.

Anyhow to cut a long story short it eventually fell through and we had to leave, ending up in Nourvukaiken just after the militias were first created. Thus began my long and almost uninterrupted love affair with lowsec, from Black Rise to Molden Heath and a few other bits of space whose names I cant remember. Along the way our corp expanded and became an alliance, you may have heard of it, and we had another stint in nullsec down in Immensea but all that managed to do was convince me the nullsec entities are just as bad as the empires but with twice the egotism and none of the cultural history. Out here in lowsec theres plenty to keep you interested, even if its just fighting for the sake of it....especially when its fighting for the sake of it Twisted

So where are we now? Well its been almost nine years since I left my first body behind in a capsuleer training facility in Kisogo. Ive done a ton of interesting things and killed a lot of interesting people. Ive watched a corporation grow over the years from a few disorganised mission runners to one of the most powerful lowsec Alliances in New Eden, they are more than just my family now and probably the only thing I would risk my immortality to preserve.

If I ever see you I'll probably be trying to kill you so watch your back out there.

Pirates - The Invisible Fist of Darwin

you're welcome

Temba Mapindazi
#80 - 2016-06-26 07:43:49 UTC
Hello to all, I am Temba of the ancient Matari Family line Mapindazi.

Born in the Federation I enjoy the beauty and diversity of both Matari and Gallentean culture. As a capsuleer I keep my sec status high enough to operate freely throughout all of New Eden. So there is no place my adversaries can hide that I can not hunt them down.

I fly to insure the freedom of both the Matari people and the Federation, if you are enemy to either or both you have a great need to worry when I am around.

I do however put politics in second place when faced with a threat to all of humanity, the Drifters. We must solve the dire threat they represent to the future of humanity in New Eden first. They are not human, they have shown no mercy or regard for human life. I sincerely believe we must stand together to stop them or perish one by one.

I will honor a truce with any capsuleer adversary or group thereof who wants to first defeat the Drifters, our troubles are ancient and can wait a bit for us to work together for the greater good of all humanity.

I think the Empires will move too slowly and carefully to thwart the Drifter threat, it will fall to independent capsuleers to form the vanguard that protects humanity in New Eden. The empires care about territory, while we care about human lives and their possible futures.

If you are willing to die and be reborn for isk please join me in doing it not for isk but for understanding of the Drifter threat. Whatever we learn we share with every human group in New Eden, because every human group is threatened with extinction. The Drifters acknowledge no borders and operate throughout New Eden and beyond we must set aside our Empire backgrounds and divisions to fight them and drive them out, wherever they rear their ugly pale heads.

A combat pilot must have two goals to survive,  #1 get the first shot in every fight , #2 get the last shot in every fight!