EVE Journey

Finally! We have moved towards an achievable goal of producing capital ships for the Alliance. Our very first investments get us enough capital to invest in some Capital Ship Component BPOs.

Revelation produced by TGIND, it was a proud moment to know it would later go on to take down a few RED POS.

It has been two months since we moved to Sylph. While things have gone smoothly in some areas, we have also seen lesser activity in the corporation as people adapt to 0.0 life. Our CEO is finally able to join us in a more active role which helps a lot in recruiting new members.

The high-sec sister corporation is also getting some good pilots who will eventually be able to join us in 0.0 to help with the fight against pirates who constantly roam our skies.

I’ve been recently promoted as a Director within the corp and since I’m very interested in the industry side of things have volunteered to help out with taking care of production matters. This entails organizing ops to help produce modules and ships for us to use or sell on the market.

Another interesting project which we manage to get running is having a second Sylramic Fiber chain installed in the moons around Sylph. This provides us with the much needed income to keep things running and having some liquidity towards our own capital ship program (ever since seeing my first capital, I have vowed to be able to build one).

A piece of goods news is that Mica finally joins us on in 4 days! He has thought things over and will be flying down with his battle-cruiser straight into fleets here. This gives me some relief as my own fleet efforts has been less than desirable with frequent losses of Tech 1 frigates in tackling.

I think I will concentrate more on industrial skills to help supply Mica with pvp ships.

Mica writes to me today from his new Myrmidon battle-cruiser in Empire. He is quickly growing weary of running missions with his Federation Navy agent, they no longer present a challenge to him even as he moves from Level 3 agents to Level 4 agents. I’m amazed at how far he has progressed while I’m still slogging away on Exhumer training to be able to solo-mine in 0.0.

The days here have been long and weary with corporation mates getting tired and some choosing to remain in Empire. Those remaining soldier on in fleets but some of us are miners who can’t wield a proper PvP ship against the hardened pirates around us. I urge Mica to join us so that he might take up the fight against the pirates. He says he will consider and get back to me soon.

Graduating from the small time pirates on my home systems, I now find myself in the midst of my new corporation being war dec’d by a pirate corporation. Apparently, these pilots prey on small corporations like ours to disrupt our activities and also like to hunt down our industrial ships whenever possible.

Being a relatively new pilot with little in way of combat skills and ships, I find myself quickly constrained to watching as our hired mercenaries attempt to repel these offenders. We are given quick tips on survival and are herded towards a safer haven near to Jita (The Forge) where our hired guns are based. This proves to be an interesting experience as I’ve long heard of Jita as THE trade hub of New Eden. Local proves to be full of pilots hawking their wares from obvious scams to faction items and ships.

During this period of time, I managed to get in contact with a long lost cousin, Mica Breeze who had joined the Gallente Military instead of following my industrial career after we graduated. I had gone to the Center for Advanced Studies where I honed skills in all things industrial while he has chosen Federal Navy Academy to get experience in combat/gunnery and pvp ships.

Our agents that we had chose to work for couldn’t be more different. Mine was in relative ease ferrying goods and mining for Chemal Tech and Sisters of EVE while he had quickly risen through the ranks to help the Gallente Federation combat some of their worst enemies, the Serpentis and Angel Cartel. Unfortunately, he was still deep in his training and was unable to join us to help with the war declarations upon us.

After a few weeks as a freelance pilot in Verge Vendor enjoying some peace and quiet mining, I get a conversation request as I make my way through one of the trade hubs. By this time, I have also picked up on the great habit of putting buy and sell orders on the open market to get items I need while using the buy low / sell high principle to earn some more ISK (EVE’s currency) to keep up with my growing ship collection.

TransGalactic Industries is apparently recruiting and wanted to know if I would be interested to join them. Declining politely, I told the recruiter that I would consider his offer but thought that it would probably be easier to solo out here for awhile skilling up before I considered joining them.

An incident soon after with a pirate in my home system causes me to re-think this. Using a well known technque of can-flipping, the pirate steals from my can of ore and places it into his own can. Hoping that I will make a fatal mistake of taking back my ore, he hopes to get aggression and thereby allowing him free rights to shoot me. Luckily I was already wise to this tactic and decide to let the local pilots know and dock up. This however ruins a good night of mining and I thought that maybe a group of people would have better luck.

I’m soon talking to the recruiter who spoke to me earlier who turns out to the CEO of the corp! After letting him know my intentions to join them, I start packing my few ships together to make way for a new base near Genesis region.