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This is something very simple. A little bit of history on me, my beginings, and everything up to this point so that, if you want to understand me, the way I am or the reasons behind the way I act, you will be able to figure it out.
═►My beginings were humble. I started out as an industrial character, mining, building, selling and generally trying to build my wealth with my first corporation called Infinity Aeronautics. IAN was a small, out of the way corp. There weren't very many members and not much in the realm of combat but it was a good start. I found out many things. I was able to learn the basics of one of the more important aspects of the game Eve-Online and that is, you will never be able to live and grow without the all mighty dollar. In Eve it's known as ISK but it means the same thing.
═►After a while of spending some significant time in a nice array of mining fitted ships including battle cruisers fitted to mine while towing a "Jet Can" behind me with a tractor beam, as well as everything from mining barges and the tech 2 versions, the Exhumer, IAN joined an alliance, the Entropraetorian Aegis, that was a bit more in to the role playing aspect of Eve than I prefer, even to the extent of creating a font and a language based on the Eve back story. I even joined one of their corps thinking that I might be able to integrate the role playing in to my game play, but couldn't. To be completely honest, that alliance was a bit too in to role playing for my liking but I put up with it for a while. Then, CCP opened up the "Drone Regions" and the Entros, much like every other Tom, Dick, and Harriets brothers sister and 2nd cousins pet rat, went for a piece of it. One thing I learned as a result of this is that nearly every alloance or group that makes a play for a new area is going to be what is comonly known as Steam-Rolled by those that have lived and known 0.0 life with even moderate success. Those that are successful at claiming a piece of 0.0 space and holding it for a sizable amount of time, usually greater than six months, usually deserve a bit more respect than they get from a lot of the people in high security space. Especially those unfortunate pilots that have had to retreat back there because of a more powerfull group. The Entros, unfortunately suffered such a fate and were "Steam-Roled" by a coilition of forces intent on eliminating the weaker groups and taking the space for themselves.
═►One thing I had done before the attempt to take some space was protest the attempt. My view was that the alliance was not yet ready for such a move. That we didn't have the numbers or a build up of needed ships and fittings nessesary. The Entros had a moderately small amount of allies near the end of their occupation
and, if Ii remember
correctly, they only had 3 capital pilots with only one of them willing to take his carrier in to battle. It was very sad really. The leader of the alliance kept giving the same orders, defend our space at all costs. A lot of us did at great cost and did everything we could but lost nearly everything we put up against the enemy
but kept going. Finally the leader of the alliance ordered the retreat to low sec space to regroup. Most of the pilots that stayed in the alliance were trying to talk some sence in to the alliance leader, asking him to give it up while we still had some dignity but he seemed dedicated to the recapture of the systems lost at all costs even though we were outnumbered 10-1. So I decided to leave the corp and alliance as a statement to try to knock some sence in to the alliance CEO. Although it was a dramatic move on my part, I used my influence that I had gained in the alliance and with the CEO as a tool for the good of the pilots in the alliance as a whole. After I left the alliance, they retreated back to the safety of the area they started in and to avoid the political problems they encountered with the member corps, the alliance CEO made it nessesary for any corp that wishes to join the Entros must merge their corp in to one of the existing member corps. Not one of the best decisions in my book.
═►After going solo for about a week or so I decided to try and create a corp, The Telchorian High Command, but forgot about one very important problem, I had absolutely no skill in recruiting anyone so I just did my own thing for a while to try to prepair for the next group I found that I could join.
═►I then found out that my old CEO had put more of his time in to studying in college and left Infinity Aeronautics in the hands of some one who aparently actually ran a business in real life and used that to his advantage in the game. I got invited to join them repeatedly. I eventually gave in ofcourse, knowing that on my own I would have no chance of gaining what I needed for finances, so I left my own corp and rejoined IAN again. Spending some time with others and gaining the benefits of the combined efforts of a group project I started to build a small fortune.........very small. Some time later I had a stroke of luck that doesn't happen very often. A person that I had known for a while, and who aparently had a measure of respect for me, decided to quit the game and gave me his account with his Amarr Carrier capable character on it but with out any assets or money. The character itself wasn't even very well trained for using a carrier, in regards to it's Jump Drive related skills or lack of sufficient training in it, and needed everything related to it's capabilities trained up a great deal, or atleast I thought, and I decided to trade the character for another better focused character in the realm of industry. The character I traded was CPhil which was traded for Xinchen. Eventually I made a very bad decision and sold Xinchen for 3 billion ISK, which is the in game currency, and went on a spending spree. Some people can't seem to grasp what some one who is NOT a capital capable pilot could spend all that isk on, but I did. I spent all but around 250 million in a matter of a few hours on ships.
....more to come soon....
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