About

I started my journey in New Eden in April of 2018 and quickly became engrossed in the expansive universe in the game as well as the community out of the game. I cut my teeth on online MMOs with World of Warcraft in 2005, and while I had tried Eve sometime in that same era, I found the experience today to be far different than I had in either before.

I quickly found myself wanting to be part of the greater community that Eve Online has fostered. It became a wellspring of creativity for me and spurred me towards regular writing, having an online game to play with my husband, and wanting to meet others in this shared space. So, I founded this blog.

By day, I'm an IT Project Manager spending time with spreadsheets in a cubicle, holding meetings, and organizing activities. These seemed like perfect skills to translate into the game dubbed Spreadsheets in Space. So here I am.

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Annals: The Search for Home

Fatigued as a titan on roam, I returned to my quarters on Rokofur station and drop onto the sofa in the kind of heap that would have had my father sending me into parade formation drills. It's a passing thought and I smirk for it, there's not enough energy left in me to care. Besides, who's around to see me slumping? "Enter new log." I wait for the chime and continue, "Seventeen jumps from Rokofur to Yulai were shortened to twelve using the Thera wormhole connections. The Eve-Scout data proved to be accurate. Met with Ioannis Sepphires of Sapphire Interstellar Banking Solutions. Pleasant enough company even if he made me go planet-side to have our conversation. There's something to be said for meeting someone in person instead of just through relayed messages." I pause, drumming my fingers against the rugged material of my pants. "SIBS is an interesting proposition, and their Rhea Initiative deserves following. Ultimately, I believe Mr. Se...

Annals: The Search for Home Pt 3

My tongue wants to shrivel up and die; my cheeks puckering in as if to save it. The Synth Coffee I had been given as a gift for taking on a tribesman's son as an employee may be the worst tasting thing I've ever tried to drink. I'm not sure if it's a measure of the father for his son, or if this stuff is just that terrible in general. Or maybe the hydrostatic fluid of the capsule is slowly killing my taste buds. Could it be that the nanobots, the cybernetics, and the life of a capsuleer was slowly rewiring my body to taste the stars and give up terrestrial food and such delights? The faint whir of the door opening breaks my reverie and I look up to see my second in command, entering. His jacket is unbuttoned and I can see the start of white ink against bronze at his collarbone in a half-familiar image of our people, but not enough to be sure of the design. "Captain," he says in greeting before taking a seat across the table from me. "Entohk," I ...

Barriers to Entry: Where do I go Now?

If you've read my previous post on the New Player Experience , then you'll already know that I'm a huge advocate for the Career Agents in Eve Online . I think these are great intros into some of the mainstream ISK making ventures you might try out in Eve. Well, at least the non-PVP vetures. But like so many of the tutorials in Eve, they do not quite go far enough. Great, you have a Venture Mining Frigate, some mining lasers, and know how to shoot said lasers at rocks in space. But how do you actually make money at that? Oooh, look at you and your Wreathe Industrial Ship... but do you really want to use it to run low level distribution missions for a handful of ISK? Like I said, the career missions prepare you, but they're only the most basic of courses. After you complete the tracts, get the free ships, and hone a few skills, you need to work on a lot of other related aspects to really start bringing in the money. There are a number of streamers that have tried t...

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