The Beginning

I don't even know why I writing this. I mean, for Jove's sake, I'm sitting here, on my new cottage on Iges V, the lake glistening in front of me, and I'm writing a journal. I could go drinking, go visit the nearby city, go for a swim, pop in one of the many holoreels I have kicking around, but no, I feel some sudden compulsion to write down a journal. I guess it might be because I considering myself an amature Gallente historian. Maybe I feel the need to write down what I have done since I left the navy, and what impact they may have, so that future generations may learn about it. Some would argue that being a pod pilot amongst the billions out there means that I have little to no historical impact. While it is true that somedays I wonder myself on my importance, I do realize that one of the greatest tools a historian can have is the context from the ordinary every day people. Their journals, logs, ideas, dreams, memoires, perosnal tales of tragedy and triumph provide historians with the best glimpse into day to day life, and life in the time period they are studying, providing context and reasons as to why the great men and women who shape history do the actions that make them so important.

Now, fo course, why am I writing about my time as a civilian instead of my years as a fighter pilot aboard the FN Ares. Honestly? I don't know but it holds no lure to me. It's mostly boring minutae, CAP flights, the occasion minor skirmish with pirates, and only two battles which could be called major engagements in any way, and one of those is heavily classified, althought considering recent events, it may be allowed to be declassified soon.

So, I guess I should start with my career as a civilian after my leaving of the Federal Navy Academy. I've conducted activities considering to be morally questionable, I've sat in belts for hours, doing the ineviable yet necessary. I' ve continued to wage war on the Seprentis Pirates that plague space, both on my own, and in large groups. I've flown ships clumsier and weaker than my fighter aboard the Ares, and yet, I've commanded ships. Actual ships, with crew under my command. Many of them trusted their lives to me, and I have tried my best to safeguard them. I've escaped from close scraps, suffered but repaired and returned to the battle, continuing my attack. I've sent drones to destroy my enemies, much in the way I myself was used. I've felt a curious attachment to those artifical life-forms, perhaps due to our shared experiences. I've had my ship shot out from under from me, and I finally experienced what it's like to awaken in a fresh clone body. I don't know if I truly died, and I have no wish to retry to experience.

I've joined a security force, in outer empire space. I've been part of their daily corporation excursions, ranging from destroying the Serp ships in the constellation, to aquiring minerals for the growing industrial division the company maintains. I've been there when the corporation has been forced into war, both time not seeing a single enemy, and avoiding any fighting whatsoever, but whether that is a good thing or not, I do not know.

I have found a new home for myself, here on Iges V, and as I lay here, staring up the stars, wondering what future awaits me out there, in the cold depths of space, I see twinkling lights, far off in the night sky, perhaps another space battle that seems so common out here. It shocked and saddened me at first about how little value was given to life out here. Millions, perhaps billions, die in a single day, in the quest for profits, liberty, emancipation, or even religion.

The war has begun wholesale, with the Caldari retaking Caldari Prime, and my homeworld is itself at risk. I often ask myself if I should have taken the other offer presented to me, those 5 years ago. However, I do not know where I would be, or if I would be doing any good. I don't know if the militia would accept me, but even if they did, that would mean I would have to leave the company I am part of now. I took an oath to serve this company, and if there is one thing I loath to do, it's to renege on my oaths. I am hamstrung, and cannot find any reasonable way out of this dilenma whilst keeping my honour intact. Maybe if I were to preform guard duty for the Gallente Bases in Iges, it would aswage the doubts I feel in my soul, but I doubt it.


Maybe it's the booze, maybe it's just my conflicted mind, maybe it's the ennui, or perhaps something deeper, but this log openning seems to be more introspective that I was intending it to be. I think now would be a good time to end it, sign off, and go find something else to do for a while.

Davis Hmenthe.

Note.

Quick Note. I read an eve blog by somebody, and it was I.C. Now, frankly, I tend to imagine the lives of my characters in any game, and get into their mindset, so this strikes my fancy. Combined with Ennui from writing this blog as a blow by blow account of what I am doing in EVE, and I found have a creatively interesting way for me to write and blog about my adventures in New Eden. So, anyways, enough with this OOC BS, and I don't mean battleship. Next post on this blog will be an in character account of my time in Eve.

What have I been up to? (EVE edition)

Well, I decided that I was going to go with a straight run at Salvaging, which would take only a few days, then build up my scanning power. I figured while I was waiting for the scanning skills to be trained, I'd mission run, and salavage those wrecks, to build up my funds, and so I'd get an idea of how it goes to salvage. Meanwhile, to pass the time while Salavaging, I have been mining up a belt in a destroyer. Yeah, I know, it's not the most efficient way, but it's better than a frigate, and right now I don't have the skills, funds or time to train to cruiser level.

Anyways, other then 3k isk rats, and helping somebody on a mission in the system I was in, I haven't had much excitement. Sure I'm up to Science II, and Survey III, but it's been somewhat boring....


Oh wait a second. A couple days ago I tried mission running for a level I, quality -18 guy. And got my ass handed to me. I barely won it with 55% structure in the end. Ergo, that's why I'm mining now. Building up funds for gear so I don't get so badly owned again.

I also discovered that it is more profitable to sell the mins unrefined than to sell them regularly. Who knew? Guess I need to do it to get more cash.

Also, I am officially looking for a corp now! Go me!

What have I been up to? (40K edition)

Well for starters, in 40k, I have become the dominating force in the local vogen campaign. I have the most points of any single player in the game, and I have defended my territories repeatedly from attacks. In fact, last night, I had two wins back to back in the campaign, allowing me to hold onto both Sniper's alley north, and the f**king Basillica. I have fought at least 4 battles over it, and honestly? I'm getting kinda sick of it, so I fortified it with my move to keep the bastards out. Now, I haven't begun any conversioning on the nightwing yet. Instead I have been planning on adding another unit. My choices boil down to Kommandoes, Burna Boyz, and Stormboyz. Each has their own pluses and minuses, and I'm sure I'll be able to figure them out, sooner or later. Stay tuned for the EVE update.

Skill plans

So, I was looking into professional jackassery, and two distinct paths came up to me, other than my piracy. They are can flipping, and salvage ops. I ran the figures up in EVEmon and came to two paths.

The can flipping one is this.

Skill plan for Davis Hmenthe

1. Science I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
2. Science II (1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds)
3. Science III (7 hours, 41 minutes, 8 seconds)
4. Science IV (1 day, 19 hours, 28 minutes, 53 seconds)
5. Electronics I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
6. Science V (10 days, 5 hours, 58 minutes, 3 seconds)
7. Electronics II (1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds)
8. Engineering I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
9. Engineering II (1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds)
10. Electronics Upgrades I (35 minutes; 100,000 ISK)
11. Electronics Upgrades II (2 hours, 43 minutes, 5 seconds)
12. Electronics Upgrades III (15 hours, 22 minutes, 20 seconds)
13. Electronics Upgrades IV (3 days, 14 hours, 57 minutes, 47 seconds)
14. Electronics Upgrades V (20 days, 11 hours, 56 minutes, 6 seconds)
15. Hacking I (52 minutes, 31 seconds; 1,000,000 ISK)

Total time: 37 days, 12 hours, 32 minutes, 12 seconds; Cost: 1,160,000 ISK

While the Salavaging one is this.

Skill plan for Davis Hmenthe

1. Science I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
2. Science II (1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds)
3. Science III (7 hours, 41 minutes, 8 seconds)
4. Astrometrics I(52 minutes, 31 seconds; 450,000 ISK)
5. lectronics I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 20,000 ISK)
6. Survey I (17 minutes, 30 seconds; 36,000 ISK)
7. Survey II (1 hour, 21 minutes, 34 seconds)
8. Survey III (7 hours, 41 minutes, 8 seconds)
9. Salvaging I (52 minutes, 31 seconds; 1,000,000 ISK)
10. Salvaging II(4 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds)
11. Salvaging III (23 hours, 3 minutes, 32 seconds)
12. Astrometrics II (4 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds)
13. Astrometrics III (23 hours, 3 minutes, 32 seconds)
14. Astrometric Triangulation I (1 hour, 27 minutes, 32 seconds; 450,000 ISK)
15. Astrometric Triangulation II (6 hours, 47 minutes, 42 seconds)
16. Astrometric Triangulation III (1 day, 14 hours, 25 minutes, 52 seconds)
17. Signal Acquisition I(2 hours, 20 minutes, 3 seconds; 450,000 ISK)

Total time: 5 days, 4 hours, 28 seconds; Cost: 2,426,000 ISK


As you can see, the Salvaging one is more expensive, before gear, but takes alot less time. However, with Can flipping, all I really need is to get a fast ship with some decent warp stabilisers, so I can basically smash and grab, while Salvalging, I need scan probes, a ship capable of scanning, another ship good for salavaging, with enough protection when the rats show up, or the mission runner gets pissed. So, basically it boils down to


Salvaging :Done much faster, but hideously expensive
Can Flipping: will take longer, but will be cheaper.


Any ideas/suggestions?

Again with the EVE!

So, today, I had some free time, and I logged onto to switch skills training, and make some isk. I tried ratting in 0.6..... Although I was in a frigate. I learned that drones wreck havoc if used right, and if I try this crap again, I need to get a least a shield booster, and better guns. That being said, I fled to 0.7 space where I could pick on those rats.

Pick on them I did verily do! I blew up some 9k isk bounty targets, and had a jolly fun time. Then I warped to another belt.

What I found there was a freaking Battleship blowing up my rats! I don't know why! He warped out, so, in an act of pettiness, I stole the loot. Then ran. As I hit other belts in system, I found they too were picked clean, but the loot left behind. I kept stealin loot and such. It's their own damn fault for leaving it there for me to pick clean.

I grabbed some decent guns, a sensor thingy worth a good 50K, and 2 named mining lasers. Finding myself in a system with a ton of belts, decent mins, and a mining frigate for cheap. So, I sat in the belt mining up the mins, waitng for rat respawn, then when it happened, I held em off with two drones, until some overpowered guy showed up, blowed them up, and then warped out.

Then I grabbed the loot, ran off to another belt to wait out the 15 minutes, and then went back.



Next time! I try to flip cans, cause my path of jackassery is progressing greatly.

First day in Eve, again.

So, I stated up Eve with Davis Hmenthe, and decided to play around for a while. I did the two tutorial missions, and then I decided to do some light mining while waiting for my skill base to level up. It's easy cash. As I'm sitting in the belt, I'm checking local chat, and an interesting offer comes up. Somebody wanted some help with something, and was willing to pay a generous amount. After establishin that even me with my newb frigate was wanted, I signed up. I docked at the station, and found that my bank account had swelled by 2 million isk, a fleet invite, and a brand new frigate with a larger cargo hold. Now, my paranoia sense was a tingling, but I decided that I was new enough not to be a good target. So I signed up, and found out what the op was.


High Sec Piracy.

What would happen is that he'd find a hulk, hit it with his fully insured battleship, and kill it. Let Concord take him out, while I grabbed the loot, and then sell it for a large amount.

We managed to find a lone hulk in a 0.6 sec space. We got into possition, he got up right behind it. I was ready to loot, he was ready to shoot. But then, trouble arose!

I sat there, the hulk in my eyes, and a battleship hovering over my shoulder. I was wondering why he wasn't shooting, or scrambling. Sooner or later the hulk would wake up and run away....the problem was that he couldn't get a lock! I decided to try something daring. I, in my cheap frigate, without weapons, locked onto the hulk!

My bluff worked! The hulk transfered it's target scramblers to me! The battleship's systems overcame the target scramblers it had, and openned fire, utterly destroying the hulk. Concord came, I looted the wreck, and grabbed what equipement was left behind by my companions wreck, then hightailed it back to a station. Total take? 2 tech II shield extenders, 2 strip miners I, a tech II Cargohold expander, and about 20k of Omber and such. Not a bad take, especially for a noobie.

So, my bank account is, after spliting the loot, around 5 some million. I think this is a good sign. Also, I like piracy.