Everything has to start somewhere
In Eve, I don't tend to roleplay, I try to present myself honestly as I actually am, to how I run my corporation, as well as how I interact with the challenges put before us, be it situations or people. I think the majority of the time it has been a benefit, but then there are those other times.
I try to live up to fairly high standards in how I conduct myself, and I'm not particularily slow to make stands in issues based upon simple morals and values that I hold myself too. This has ended up bringing me into conflict with people on more occasions than I can honestly recall over the past three years. I think my mindset has been referred to in turn as a relic, worthless, a holier-than-thou attitude, etc etc etc.
The short of it is, once I have thought over the issues at hand, and come to a stance, it's pretty damn hard to waver my mind unless some very good arguements to the contrary are brought to me. Man... does that ever have a habit of pissing people off. I call it sticking to my guns, others just call me a stubborn son of bitch. Oddly, it's the very rare occasion that those people will say that I won't listen to reason; perhaps it's because I try to base my own arguements on reason, and not so much on emotion, and that's where problems start. I'm not a cold asshole, but emotional arguements towards going in a direction I don't like, don't move me very far.
I've been accused of having a big ego, quite a few times come to think of it, and I don't think it's that unaccurate either. I'm very confident in my abilities, and I put a lot of effort into seeing that my plans and desires turn into a reality. Many of those plans centre around the alliance I've been proud to be a part of since it's inception, Firmus Ixion, called FIX for short. We've had more up's and down's than I think any other group of players in Eve, in the course of our existance, I think we've had a whopping turnover to the likes of 90% of our memberbase. In all honesty, that's nuts. My own corporation is a bit of a blip in the statistics, we have a solid chunk of the original guys we came into FIX with; I imagine it's the same with the other two remaining founding corporations as well. I think I'll leave my own view on the history of FIX for another blog though.
Blogs are an extension of our egos, a little bit of ourselves presented for public discussion and criticism. I claim to hold to high standards, but that doesn't mean I'm a single faceted do-gooder paladin-like schmuck. I also like playing for high stakes, and I have a definate mean streak that can occasionally service to strike out towards people I don't particularily like, I can be cutting, and I can be pretty damn accurate with the shots I take as well. My friends see me as the guy they can count on, because I believe that a word given is something to hold to even if the result can hurt your own interests. You can already guess how those who don't like me, have come to view my personality.
In the FIX forums, we have a nice little section called Battlefield Stories. I throughly enjoy the material put up there, but I'm a rare poster in that section... I am often the person who ends up in a safespot, or sitting in a station, juggling 10 conversations and overhearing the details of how battle progresses. Once in a while though, I do get to tell a story of my own, and last week, I ended up telling one that is most definately a reflection of myself.
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Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:27 am
Yesterday was a very odd day for me.
I don't even know if this belongs here, because it's not exactly your usual battlefield story. It started out pretty simply, with me logging on and doing my usual routine of checking my evemails to see what is new.
Once again, as per usual, there were a few new DED mails. I and my directors get an abundance of these as POS run low on fuel, I almost deleted them without looking... but I took a quick glance first.
Your POS in Alachene is under attack... 98% shields
Your POS in Alachene is under attack... 86% shields
Your POS in Alachene is under attack... 60% shields
Your POS in Alachene is under attack... 56% shields
Your POS in Alachene is under attack... 54% shields
urm.... HOLY CRAP!
Silinary logs in. 'Sil, check your DED mail quick!'
'Who's POS is that?' Turns out is belongs to Dark Shikari, a part of his empire operations. Sil begins to prep his carrier, other IT members start to fit up and get ready. I jump in my Helios and take off for a 30 jump trip to Alachene so I know what we're jumping into before I authorise anything... I hope that thing has Stront, looks like it's going down fast... must have dreads I think to myself.
As I've been flying up, I've gone over the mails, there are at least 4 corps involved.
I talk to one of the CEO's of the people on those mails:
[ 2006.10.23 00:22:54 ] Avernus > is our POS in reinforced yet?
[ 2006.10.23 00:23:02 ] sonicram > hi
[ 2006.10.23 00:23:17 ] sonicram > not mine
[ 2006.10.23 00:23:51 ] Avernus > I'm talking about my pos, that your corpmates, along with two other corps are shooting
[ 2006.10.23 00:24:26 ] Avernus > pull in syberbolt
[ 2006.10.23 00:24:54 ] sonicram > huh?
[ 2006.10.23 00:25:15 ] Avernus > 2006.10.22 23:33 Attacked object: Gallente Control Tower Current Shield Level: 56% Current Armor Integrity: 100% Current Hull Integrity: 100%Aggressing Pilot: Syberbolt8 Aggressing Pilot's Corporation: soni Corp Aggressing ...
[ 2006.10.23 00:25:27 ] Avernus > Syberbolt8
[ 2006.10.23 00:25:43 ] Avernus > you seem to be acting unaware of the situation, perhaps you want him in here for this
[ 2006.10.23 00:26:09 ] sonicram > enlighten me
[ 2006.10.23 00:26:28 ] sonicram > no i know what he is upto
[ 2006.10.23 00:26:29 ] Avernus > as I said, your corpmates are shooting at my POS
[ 2006.10.23 00:26:45 ] Avernus > then you are fully aware correct?
[ 2006.10.23 00:26:48 ] sonicram > yes i know
[ 2006.10.23 00:27:01 ] sonicram > what am i not aware of?
[ 2006.10.23 00:27:17 ] Avernus > good to know. shall we pull in corp rep's for the other two corps involved, it will save time.
[ 2006.10.23 00:27:35 ] sonicram > u where offered to join the unofficial allaince
[ 2006.10.23 00:27:47 ] sonicram > no responce was made
[ 2006.10.23 00:27:59 ] Avernus > no information was sent to me on any such thing
[ 2006.10.23 00:28:36 ] Avernus > at least, if it was, it got lost in my mass of mail. I can say with 100% certainty, nobody has convo'd me
[ 2006.10.23 00:28:41 ] sonicram > ok pull in erasor and testywolf
[ 2006.10.23 00:30:21 ] Avernus > erasor is in CAS?
[ 2006.10.23 00:30:30 ] sonicram > erasor spells it funny
[ 2006.10.23 00:30:47 ] Avernus > testy is in UTTF?
[ 2006.10.23 00:31:15 ] sonicram > u cuaght me in the midst of a corp meeting
[ 2006.10.23 00:31:35 ] Avernus > trust me, unless you want some serious trouble coming your and your friends way, you'll make time for this.
[ 2006.10.23 00:32:12 ] sonicram > hold 2
[ 2006.10.23 00:32:14 ] Avernus > I'm not going to waste time doing the leg work to pull you and your allies into this convo
Sil is talking to me as I'm flying up, it's fairly obvious we aren't dealing with dreads after all.
I arrive on the scene.... where the hell is the POS I wonder... it doesn't say in the damn mail! I check and see that there are a ton of moons as well. Quick scan.... everybody has Gallente POS up, same as our own in this system.. doh. Time to do it the hard way, fortunately I completely luck out and on my 3rd try I find our POS as I warp right into the shields and get uncloaked.
Right... 30 ships attacking... no dreads... POS lasers are firing, but they appear to be tanking them... even the frigates! (Turned out there were no crystals in the damn lasers) They have 1 carrier in system.
Once I get there, I find out it's actually 5 corps immediately involved.
I speak in local:
[ 2006.10.23 01:04:20 ] Avernus > get out your shield rechargers folks.
In the space of 5 minutes, I'm in a channel with their leadership. Turns out I'm dealing with an unofficial alliance based around Alachene for common defense against pirates. At least 6 corps. This is their leadership channel, they have their friendly list in the motd... over 30 corps I notice. I copy down the list.
The attackers scatter from the POS. I'm a little peeved... fucking empire noobie pukes shooting at my corps POS!! FUCK THAT!
Conversation starts off a little belligerent on both sides for the first couple of minutes... time to get this shit moving. Turns out they had some incredibly ass intel on my corp, that FIX are pirates, and a hostile entity to them. That since we're friends with BoB, we must be evil. Just before I lay into them I lay down some cards.
Bouncing between a few different conversations, a message to the gist of the below was delievered.
'Let's cut to the chase shall we?'
'This gets sorted now. I have 7 Dreads, 4 Carriers and 25 support ready to jump in 30 minutes. When they get here question and answer time is over. We will lay waste to everything in system, and then we'll get serious and start putting down war dec's. That is my corp alone, my alliance will have numberous volunteers who get their jollies from the slaughter of those who offend them.'
'I can muster over 100 experienced pvp pilots from my own alliance on short notice. I can further muster an additional 50 pilots from immediate friends that we work with closely. I can then see fit to call in some favors and increase my total force by 50% beyond that if I feel it is justified. If I went all out and called in every favor owed me, I have the ability to bring over 250 pilots down on you with a few days notice. I figure my corp alone will be sufficient for the task.'
'You have two options:''
1. You keep shooting our POS, you put it into reinforced and have your fun. You'll be meeting us real soon.''
2. You start recharging our POS shields. I may forget this incident.'
two. we'll take two.
'Option 2 then?'
yes.
Man... somebody was getting a total ass reaming on their end for screwing up.
Best part of the whole convo....
'Avernus - are you a dev?'
Oh yes... and they also asked us to join their alliance (common defense for the area).
Turns out they are alright people, just a little green. I may just go back for visits once in a while (perhaps scoop a few of the brighter stars for my corp), I ended being in chat with them all night, while we got the shields charged (I ended up helping them, along with Alain who flew up in an Osprey to join in on the fun).
Best person in their alliance....
Their diplomat... 18 yr old female from Tennessee... and oh so dirty
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Turned out I did end up grabbing at least one of their members, their diplomat will be joining my corp this weekend. Man I'm gonna get an earful from her on this as well ;) For the record, I bluffed in the above encounter. I only had 10 guys online at the time, and it was a very odd hour for us. We'd have carried out my threats the following day of course, but the situation called for something a little more sudden in order to impact things in the manner I intended. It was just one of those days.
posted by Avernus @ 5:24 PM
1 Comments:
Hi there,
I bet you dont even look at this, but throw it out there:
I remember that night, that was funny listening to my corp mates in Soni-Corp freak!!!
lol.
Well thanks for bringing back old memories : )
-Opiboble Inte
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