This story was written at the end of 2004 and portrays the first two years of my time playing Eve-Online. Over the course of a few weeks, I intend to post the story in its entirety, as well as expand and write more.

Since I started playing this game back in May 2003 I've gone through a lot. I have met hundreds of memorable people, I have visited most of the regions, flown nearly all the ships and been in so many unpredictable situations that it is almost unthinkable. The odds of me being able to remember everything I've done since I started playing are about the same as me winning the lottery, and I never buy a ticket.


Part 1: Myself

My character, Vegeta, was created on the second day of Eve. I created my first character but didn't much like the Icelandic corporation RaiD Enterprises that she was a part of. I wanted to explore on my own, be my own boss and go my own ways. I'm not going to go much into the history of RaiD but their success after release was, well, limited.

Vegetas name came from the Japanese anime series Dragonball Z. Some might think it a childish name, I wont argue with you there. The character was created after watching all 266 episodes of Dragonball Z over a period of 8 days. Each episode is 20 minutes, I'll let you do the math on how many hours I spent infront of my computer. The character Vegeta is a strong, ruthless person who doesn't care much for others, as you read further you will see that I have played my character not much different from that, mostly looking out for my best interests.

Some take me as a pirate, others as an ******* but most as a griefer. That's what I am, I'm a griefer. My goal has always been to get richer, better and more powerful, I strife to be the best. I will go to any lengths to achieve my goals. I want to be at the top of the food chain.

Part 2: My beginning

Date of Birth: 2003.05.07 23:18:00

That's what my member details tell me, that's when my character was created and for me, where this whole experience began. Had my character been created a minute earlier or a minute later, I probably wouldn't be here today, had you convo'd or sent me an Eve-Mail yesterday I might not be here either.

I finished the tutorial in Ammold, I did a couple of agent missions for my starting agents, mined some scordite and refined it. It was immediately clear to me that this was not for me. I was bored out of my wits almost right away, there had to be more to this game than these extremely dull activities, back then I had no idea about what I was in for.

My first days were spent flying with a few real-life friends, we flew around, we explored, we mined and we did missions. We bought lots of modules to test them out, just to see what they did. This didn't last long, soon I was the only one left. My friends had all quit the game within their first week out of sheer boredom, I must say there wasn't really much to do for an Eve player in the first weeks of the game. We had no idea you could mine Arkonor and Bistot almost anywhere. No idea you could run trade runs and make millions in a few days, we were complete and utter newbies, we knew nothing and nobody.

This all changed when I found my first corporation, Massi (not MASS). Ninja mining was a skill that I learned quickly, in my Probe I could pull in several refines of Arkonor per day. Massi had mostly Icelanders in it, we worked together, mined Arkanor for a week or so and it was quite fun. This didn't last long though, the leaders got greedy and tried to take my profits, they would all be in for a shock when they would log on the next day.

The corporation had just recently gotten a Rifter original blueprint, I took it along with all the megacyte, all the zydrine and everything I could fit in my Hoarder. Then I set the course for Ammold, my starting system.

It felt so good, I was rich and I barely even had to lift a finger, I had a Rifter original blueprint, worth a lot of money this early into the game. I had enough megacyte and zydrine to build anything I wanted. It didn't take me long to decide what my next move would be.

Rifters don't take a lot of minerals to create. I had enough megacyte and zydrine to make about 30. I would AFK-Mine during night, sometimes setting my clock to wake up every 2 hours or so, just so I could haul it back to the station and start again, then go back to sleep. After doing this for about 3-4 days I had quite a nice sum of money in my wallet. I decided to move on and change directions.