Newbro Story: Xeron Vann

This post is for new players as part of a campaign on the part of the Concordiat corporation to bring new people into EVE. If you are intrigued by the game but do not play yet, refer to this post and then start a free trial here.

I originally started on a different account as a high sec miner. I wanted to get a feel for the game and not dive straight into pvp without having isk to support my rampant losses and overall bad-ness. Xeron Vann was initially created to haul ore as well as defend my mining barge from gankers and NPC's, but eventually I got the itch to shoot things. With absolutely zero pvp experience and terrible, terrible mismatched skills I joined up with another newbro eager to gank miners in lowsec. We started talking about forming a corp together and planned to set out together the next day. That would not happen.

I got impatient, headed out that night, and once again having --zero knowledge of pvp-- decided to fit a monstrosity that I'm ashamed to have ever conceived: an Armageddon battleship with small lasers. This is the result. http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=16462899

I realized I knew nothing about pvp and was about to swear off it forever and return to mining when I received a recruitment mail. A few days later I was podding down to Z-H2MA to truly start playing the game (despite the prior 7 months of mining).

When I arrived, I found teamspeak abuzz as everyone was preparing for a roam. Sec was yelling for more to join the fleet, and I was eager to shoot stuff, so I hopped in. I was adamant not to make the same mistake I had just days before made, and went in the complete opposite direction of my abomination battleship. We flew out to Utopia (a fitting name for my first real null-sec pvp experience) and brawled with Brave Newbies, a corp we were actually trying to bring into the alliance at the time. It was glorious, and despite it ending with this lossmail (http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=16723460) I knew I was hooked.

Now I'm dropping my dread with the Kinky Flotilla as Spaceship Samurai takes moons.

About 3 weeks ago I received a conversation invite from the guy I originally wanted to form a corp with. We chatted for awhile, he asked what I've been doing, and I realized how lucky I am to have been invited into such an awesome corp and alliance. While I was hunting and murdering supposed awoxers (who were actually supposed to have us set to blue, thanks to Cpt's fuck up <3) he was still in highsec mining and fighting the occasional can-flipper.

Since I left the dreary, boring life of high-sec, I've learned and earned so much. I've had the time of my Eve life flying with the HONOR bros, and I look forward to continuing on that path.

P.S. I still remember Tilio shouting for a break in comms to ask "Do we have a fucking Imparior in fleet?" and then everyone proceeding to laugh their asses off. Good times.