Friday 31 October 2014

Day 2 - A career, new ship and making friends

Day 2 

Aura had now passed me onto some career agents.




As exploration has always intrigued me I chose to first speak with Raish Okarema who is the exploration career agent.  There is so many things to explore in New Eden already although I was to discover that within universe there was even more to discover.

Mission 1 of 5

After undocking my trusty Impairor, Raish showed me how to use the Sensor Overlay on my ship.  I was consumed with awe at the sheer number of anomalies that resided in space that hadn't even noticed until this point...  Awe turned to terror, excitement and confusion, what were these anomalies? were they filled with treasure or were they filled with hostile entities that would try to destroy me. 

Well I guess I was about to find out...

I warped to a training signature as instructed.  The objective was to find some documents in a training container.  Unfortunately the container took quite a bit of time to find in space.  I eventually found it and transferred the documents to my cargo hold.  

From here I remember Aura mentioning a rookie communications channel earlier in my training.  So I asked if there was a way I could add containers to my overview.  I got 2 prompt replies from Tulia Madeveda and Kirra Evingod who advised I can select an item in space (by right clicking) and adding it to overview.  This helped a lot.  Thank you for your assistance,

Upon arriving back at station and handing in the documents I was presented with the second mission.

Mission 2 of 5

At the start of second mission I was rewarded with a Tormentor class frigate.  I accepted the mission and undocked in the Impairor, only to be greeted with Aura giving me guidance on reshipping to my new and improved Tormentor.  I promptly docked up and followed her instructions.  




Aura also explained the ship insurance system unfortunately at this stage I only had enough isk to my name to afford the most basic of cover which still used MOST of my funds.  I although, thought it best to at least get something for my ship if it was to be destroyed.

The mission took me to meet to Rulie Isoryn from the Sisters Of EVE Corporation.  The sisterhood are the residents experts on exploration in New Eden and are the main advisor's to all 4 races in regards to all that is strange and mysterious.

During the mission I was given some supplies that would allow me to scan down sites and also some other items I was told would help me later.  Rulie told me about the 3 different types of cosmic signatures and showed me what each of them (data, relic and gas) looked like.  Gas sites are one I'm interested in, but noticed a skill I needed to inject, Gas Cloud Harvesting.  Unfortunately I looked at the cost of this skill and realised it is well out of my reach for now.  My wallet is at 285,000 and the skill book costs about 26 million isk...  Are well maybe someday...

Well I think that's enough for this journal now...

Materia Out.

Hitchhiker's Guide to New Eden - Prologue

'Twas an evening to remember.  An aquatance offered me a chance to become immortal and fly with the gods known as capsulee's.  The stories of the adventures of the famous capsulees have been told for hundreds of years.  The famous and INFAMOUS alike.  I was now to become one of them.  

I lay down on the medics table as they hooked me up to a machine that would allow my consciousness to be transferred instantaneously should my body die.  I gave one final approval to continue with the procedure and...

I awoke to a strange but still quietly familiar hum of a holographic system and the voice that would now guide through limitless possibilities within New Eden, Aura. My consciousness had also been transferred to a new system and station, Emrayur III - Moon 1 - Royal Amarr Institute.  This school would teach me how live my new life as a capsulee with Aura to guide me...  Well at least for while as I found out later...  it was only to be for a small amount of time.


Being access to a capsule was strange and Aura asked me to undock in it.  I warily did as instructed and warped to destination in system... There at my destination was my first ship.  An Impairor class rookie ship.  The basic ship in the Amarrian fleet.  Although quite beautiful and sleek but yet a ship that I found out later that could be quite deadly.  On my second outing to space I was asked to take out a couple of pirates that I dispatched without challenge.  Almost too easy...  Maybe Aura had set it up and they were just training drones?  I could never figure it out...

After that mission I was ordered to go to the training academy where I saw a glorious golden yellow fleet of ships Amarrian Frigates, Cruisers and Battleships shimming with the stars.  I picked up my clearance papers and headed back to base where I was asked to set a new destination, Pasha VII - Moon 3 - Royal Amarr Institute School.

While travelling Aura showed me how to find capsulee run corporations.  I had a brief look at this stage but noticed the largest that showed first was EVE University with 1900+ members.  I decided to look into that further the next morning...

Goodnight New Eden

Materia Signing Off!