Meanwhile, in Deep Space

Wow. So here we are. Deep in space. Talking about internet spaceships.


I know, I know, it's not what I was expecting out of me either. No one said to me "Hey Bernie, you should totally write a blog about what you do in EVE". I just came to a realization that everything in this game has a story, whether it be just how someone almost got into a fight but then everyone chickened out after an hour standoff with guns pointing everywhere, how a miner was sitting by their lonesome and then all of a sudden WAM! A sabre drops right on top of them and drops an interdiction probe, causing the miner to lose their ship and get a free ride to high sec to reship into whatever fancies them. A battle report on a killboard only tells so much, but it can't convey the setting, the drama, the feelings of joy as one fleet crushes another, or the sorrow of having to retreat after losing all their best fighters to FC error.

I want to bring to people the stories in EVE that they just can't find elsewhere. Sure, you can play other games, like WoW, or WoT, and pull off some pretty cool stuff, but their game mechanics aren't the best choice for doing stuff like you can do in EVE. In WoW, you can run up to somebody and gank them, but they just get right back up with no real cost to them. In EVE, you can get ganked by someone, lose a ship that had some actual value to you, and then proceed to join the group that ganked them, making their way to leadership positions, and robbing them blind. Not many other games I know of that let you do that.

So yeah! Seeing as this is an obligatory first post with no one knowing who I am, let me introduce myself.

I am Bernie Nator. I'm a pilot in a large alliance based in Wormhole space. There's a pretty good chance you've seen me before if you're a pilot living in a wormhole, and there's also a good chance we've chatted and/or shot at me before. I'm ok with both. I'm not here to focus on my alliance, although I will be spending a good amount of time talking about them and the things they do. As I said before, I'm going to be talking about the stories in wormhole space instead of just babbling statistics off at people. Mostly because I hate having to do math, I do enough of that at my day job.

With that said, I'll probably be updating every other day, mostly so I don't run out of stuff to talk about.

Oh, and as for the name of my blog, I'm gonna have to do a bit of scanning and traveling to find good stories to bring you. So if you see me in local with probes, don't hesitate to share a story. Or not pos up. Because there's always a good story to be had from that.

Blue probes, going out.