“I want those who get to know me to become admirers or my enemies.” – “Friend or Foe”, Adam Ant

18.05.yc116 Nuzair < Emsek Constellation < Tash-Murkon

OOC: This week I’d like to share some updates on my pirate alt, favorite images from Tash-Murkon so far, and a couple of community highlights.

Stray

For those that don’t know or haven’t figured it out yet, my alt Stray has become a noob pirate. I’ve joined the ranks of Stay Frosty and have to say I’m enjoying the experience so far. The corp contains a great group of folks, helpful, patient, and understanding of my silly questions. Kind of the opposite of what you’d expect from a group of pirates, huh? Yulp. To help you get into the spirit of things, this You Tube video was linked for our message of the day this last week. Alestorm – You Are a Pirate!

It’ll be eleven years of playing EVE Online next month and would you believe I’ve never once PvP’d? Only once was blown-up and podded and that was by choice nearly six years ago, I think it was. (That’s a funny story I’ll have to share some time.) Yes, that’s right, HighSec carebear all of those years dabbling in just about everything except PvP. Granted, I’ve never been fearful of traveling into LowSec, but NullSec I’ve rarely jumped into. That’ll be changing soon too as Katia’s exploration will be done with Empire space as she continues her journey exploring New Eden one system at a time.

Azerakish XII, Yeder Gate

Now, I have a -0.1 security status for the first time ever and Stray is on a killboard. Yarr! The negative status actually came about from my first Stay Frosty fleet as we shot up a POCO’s (Player Owned Customs Office) in our home system on our Corp birthday. I really wasn’t ready yet as I had just started training on the character, but how could I resist beginning my pirate career on the corp birthday. Afterwards, we went out on a romp in newbie ships for fun, but didn’t catch anything. Switched up to frigates and only had one catch for the day, which by the time I could even target them, they were destroyed. I’ve not had a chance to get back into action since, so I’ve mainly been skilling up, getting my overview setup, and acquiring/fitting 50 Tristans. Yesterday, Crossing Zebra’s was hosting a FFA (Free For All) in Hysera so I got 12 of my ships over there and had my first real PvP fun.

Kibursha I, Ministry of Assessment Information Center

And fun it was, lol. Learned a great deal. Like it’s a good idea to launch your drones for more damage. I forgot a couple of times! Also, I learned real quick that “Escape” tab I setup was very useful for getting my pod out quickly. Only lost one pod out of the 12 ships I lost. Got down to 12 structure on another pod, but got out just in time. Whew! Not that it really hurt losing the pod, as I’m still under 900,000 skill points. All in all, I learned how to read my overview, find targets, and I did get better and faster targeting, launching drones, pod escaping, etc. In particular, this fight was my favorite, because it started 1 on 1, was fun, I was losing but that was alright, then the destroyer came in and popped both of us. 🙁 Still, I got top damage dealer and it was a blast. No pun intended.

Motoko Rei

Alright, enough pirate talk, so let’s move onto a couple of community spotlights. First up, I’d like to introduce “Into the Ether – The many lives of Motoko Rei”. Motoko has been blogging for almost a year now and was recently inspired by my New Eden Cemetery post. He’s gone and explored the site as well and posted about his experience. Check it out, I think there’s an explorer’s heart there for sure and look forward to reading more about his journey through the cluster.

Mynxee

Also recently returned to New Eden and someone who’s taken a turn to exploration is Mynxee and her blog, “Outlaw Insouciant”. I was just starting to follow her blog several years ago when she was a pirate, shortly before she took an extended break from EVE. Now she’s returned and has taken up exploration and is sharing her talent to document the experience via a Moleskine journal using pencil, ultra-fine Sharpie, and watercolors. Absolutely amazing and a talent that I wish I shared. I think this is going to be an excellent exploration blog with some pirating on the side. 😉

Goram IX, Ahrosseas Gate

Coming up, next week I hope to post my first in a series entitled, “The Regions” where I will share favorite images, lore, stats, sites to see, and anything else I can come up with on each region I’ve explored so far in New Eden. That means The Forge will be highlighted first. I’ve also got 7 other New Eden Explorer interviews lined up, including myself (I guess, lol).

Until then, fly smart, fly safe!
Katia

Shousran VII, Imperial Shipment Storage