A Pirate's Life For Me

About a week ago, I came to the realization that I needed a change of pace in EVE. There were quite a few reasons for my decision, stemming from both my own preferences in the game and the environment that seems to have taken hold in Caldari-Gallente factional warfare. (The explanation of the whole thing is long and relies on people having knowledge of the current FW scene, so I'll leave it out.) Eventually, I decided that I'd hang up my State Protectorate badge for the third time and look for other opportunities.

Huo and I talked about our next steps at length; I mentioned not too long ago that he'd joined the pirate corp Meatshield Bastards, and while he was enjoying the PVP, the inconsistency of being a US time zone player in primarily EU-based corp was starting to take its toll. He wanted to continue lowsec piracy-style PVP, and I've been more and more interested in the field myself of late. The decision wasn't without its hiccups - we had a couple of significant differences of opinion on exactly how we'd go about the next chapter of our lives in EVE, but eventually, we came to an agreement.

Welcome to Molden Heath

So, last night Huo and I were bored. (That isn't a new occurrence.) We fiddled around with ideas about various things that we could try doing, but nothing seemed particularly appealing - I was in a pewpew mood, instead of a bearing mood, but there didn't seem to be any non-FW blob fights to be had in the combined area of Black Rise, Placid and Essence that we currently live in. Aria was a sweetheart and mentioned that some corpies of hers from Gunpoint Diplomacy were off ganking Hulks in Molden Heath highsec. Huo was slightly less enthusiastic about the prospect than I was (as he'd participated in Hulkageddon and I hadn't), but I decided to set off for Bosena to meet Huo and see what kind of trouble we could get into.

Following a fairly amusing escape from a Minmatar militia gang in the market hub in Rens (I could've taken the Sentinel and Thrasher, maybe, but the Myrm would've broken the balance), I arrived in Teonusude bearing Huo's nano Drake. It turns out he opted to fly a Jaguar instead, while I fitted up an autocannon Hurricane. Emboldened by confidence and boredom, we set out for the lowsec portion of MH (i.e. the majority of it) to see if we could get ourselves some action.

Broadening Horizons

Looking back over the past ten days, I'm not sure which has surprised me more - how much my perspective on PVP has opened, or how it took me this long to really realize things that people have been telling me forever. The previous week and a half has been a collection of events that have ended up meshing in my head - not terribly coherently, at first, but hopefully I'll be able to sort them out enough that they make sense to read!

As we often do, my fiancé and I have decided that in addition to the prospects we're already waist-deep in, we wanted to try something different. A friend and former corpmate of mine is a member of Fiskl Guards, a corp which fairly recently left the blue-to-IT Black Star Alliance and decided to join up with Red Overlord in Feythabolis. Huo and I agreed that it seems like an interesting place to be, between their PVP fleets and the opportunity to do some carebearing away from prying eyes. So, I've packed up my alt and am currently waiting to get her and her things moved down to the middle of nowhere. I can't really offer much more on that at the moment, since I've only been a member of the corp for a few hours, but I'm looking forward to seeing what comes.