The Reason I chose this topic is because it's what I am passionate about. Gaming plays a giant role in my life, it makes me part of who I am. I started playing Eve when I was stationed in South Korea, when I first arrived to my new unit. I didn't know anyone and it was hard to make friends. I spent about two weeks just sitting in my Barracks room after the day was complete playing anything from Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Fable, I even stooped so low that I attempted to play the game the 'Peasants' were playing (Call of Duty). One day in formation at 5:00am, I overhear a fellow soldier in my unit talking about how he was warping to a planet and a pirate chased him down and destroyed his Rifter. At the time I had no idea what a Rifter was, but I soon found out that it was a spaceship. I freaking love spaceships...
I inquired about the game and he was taken aback, he was not aware that I too was a fellow gamer. Asking him about the game was probably one of the best things I could have done. After spending the whole day discussing this awesome new game with my new-found best friend, I finally get out of work and get to trek up the five flights of stairs to my barracks room to download the game. After only five minutes the game was done downloading (Thank you sweet sweet Korean Internet) I make an account and log into the game.
After all day of researching and talking to my new friend I had an idea of what I should expect. From the moment I logged on, I was hooked. The graphics, community, gameplay, the spaceships! I couldn't get enough, and I have been hooked ever since. Eventually I had to leave Korea and my friend behind, and head back to the States. When I was all settled at my new unit stateside, I started up my computer and began to play after a couple months of away from my beloved Eve. This is the point in time when the game really started to get interesting. I met some people that were like minded and wanted to start a Corporation (it's like a guild from World of Warcraft but with more numbers). So we talked it over and decided to call our Corporation 'The Helghan Administration' (HELA) it sounded professional and somewhat dangerous. At the time I was just a director of the Corp with limited ability to make decisions, but we made important decisions together regardless. Our CEO at the time decided that we should set up shop in a system that was quiet and rarely traversed... Little did we know, the system we picked (Kemerk) was right next to a large trading system (that pirates liked to skulk around). After a month of being in the system, and being harassed by a pirate corp that declared war on us our corp slowly started to fall apart and people stopped playing... Everyone but me.
More on what happened after that next time.
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