Ecliptic Rift

Myarr!

I will admit that the idea of highsec piracy occasionally appeals to me. Hitting miners and traders to see what they’ve got? Salvaging and looting in deadspace? Shooting down overly confident agency contractors? Delicious. Sure, you have to go out and rebuild your trust with CONCORD by shooting down some NPC pirates, too, but that pays decently well on its own.

One of my associates tried it in the past, but then she disappeared for a bit on some classified assignment for the militia. I may need to find another associate to sponsor for spreading mayhem in the right places. Don’t tell the Coalition.

After weeks of discussions (sorry Milo!), I’ve joined Anshar Incorporated. Casiella will move to the background for now, focusing on planetary management and trading, etc., plus providing fodder for fiction. In her stead, I intend to focus more on combat via another character I’ve brought back, Joron Darkdust. I played a version of this character in Star Wars Galaxies for years (to the extent that friends of mine still call me “Joron”), and I really liked him for roleplay and such. I may start an alternate blog just for journaling his adventures, but I’d rather not host yet another WP blog. Either I’ll use WP 3.0’s multisite features or I’ll find another free blog host, not necessarily using Wordpress since I won’t need all the stuff to support my general blogging. (Suggestions welcome!)

So now I’ve moved out to the ass-end of Amarr space and I’ve started building up the wallet. I don’t want to twink too much, so I prefer him to earn his own ISK via the usual methods in lowsec (ratting, anomalies, etc.) and perhaps a bit of salvaging in mission hubs.

I look forward to seeing the other side of things: combat and actual criminal activity of various sorts (not necessarily pure piracy). We’ve got some excellent campaign plans and I really like where we’ve started to head with the corp. I’ll talk more about those things after Milo announces them and when appropriate, rather than upstage my CEO or compromise operational security…

I haven’t done one of these in quite some time.

Science skills continue to comprise a huge chunk of my abilities, as they have in the past. Industry and Mechanics look fairly solid. That last will continue to increase, in part due to working on skills for armor tanking (Hull Upgrades V should finish this weekend).

In 2010, part of my goals involve continuing to turn up the combat abilities, so Gunnery, Missiles, and Drones will expand somewhat, and I will keep refocusing on Minmatar ships. In particular, I want to fly a Claw soon, and maybe a bit of ratting in a Jaguar or Wolf (more research required on this). T3 strategic cruisers will hopefully also come into the mix sometime this calendar year. And of course, I want to finish out the Core Elite certificate (52 days left with my current attributes, including a full set of +5 implants).