Over a year ago I wrote what is my favorite blog post about EVE: “That refreshing waking-up-in-goo feeling.” A simple and relatively short in-character tale of a firefight my main character had in low-sec while participating in factional warfare:
Gate flash. Kamela, lowsec space and definitely front lines. Silence. Local comm net indicated an even mix of Amarr and Minmatar capsuleers, but oddly none at the entrance gate to secure Amarr space – a natural killing ground most days.
Let’s go hunting, screw waiting to find a fleet to join up with.
10 minutes. Nothing aside from a friendly waggle of an allied Megathron-class battleship as it warped off the 24th’s station in system. Let’s take this a step deeper – warp right on the gate to Kourmonen, a major staging ground for rebel fleets. I was sure to find a fight there.
The flashing red radar signature that greeted as my warp bubble collapsed was the reward for my effort. A Thrasher-class destroyer – an excellent frigate killer but by itself no match for my cruiser. So of course, it wasn’t by itself. Two more Thrashers warped in from deep space to join the fray. All worked for something (someone?) named Huang Yinglong. Whatever – their autocannons ranging on my hull, followed quickly by EMP rounds ripping into my shields, proved their loyalties.
I stumbled back across that for some reason this morning, and discovered to my dismay that it’s the only in-character fiction post I’ve written.
Such grand plans. Such lack of follow through.
My goal then is simple – I don’t have much time to play EVE right now, but I am looking for outlets to flex my writing skills and see what happens. This blog is one spot for that, on a subject I know pretty well. I even have a moderately disjointed tale with a twisted cast of characters in mind (“The Taru Chronicles”).
We’ll see what comes of it.
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