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Telling the story of life as a starship pilot in New Eden.
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- Name: Rask Treve
- Public Email: rasktreve@gmail.com
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Eve Online
A Holiday in Pochven
The Labor Day sun streamed in the window as I squinted at my monitor, twiddling with the menus to turn the brightness up as I couldn’t see a dang thing in this new place I’d filamented into. After 13 months…
Analysis
What Monster Did China See in Gaming?
I don’t pretend to be an expert on China, but I do know that country values social coherence. When I look at the effects of big tech on my own society, the benefits of free and unfettered access to information…
Op-Ed
From the Ashes of M2
As I jump my Hel into M2, I am ready to stare death in the eye. My supercarrier is ready, and I’m also ready to fight to the death. Any fear of losing my largest asset has been extinguished during…
Eve Online
Amber Alert! Legacy’s Report Premature
I pre-lock the logi pilots above and below my name and anchor on Asher. This time another pilot flies the entosis ship we are covering, rather than me. We are in the thick of the fight, with target names called out…
Eve Online
Fueling the War Machine: Mining
Editor’s note: This article is part three of a continuing series on fueling the war machine. See additional articles on Fueling the War Machine with logistics and entosis careers within nullsec alliances. Most pilots in EVE must farm the funds…
Eve Online
Fueling the War Machine: Logistics
Editor’s note: This article is part one of a continuing series on fueling the war machine. Stay tuned for additional articles on mining and production careers within nullsec alliances. A pilot from empire jumping into a nullsec region like Delve…
Eve Online
The Butterfly Effect
In EVE, the choices you make shape the outcome of events. So goes a video released by CCP over a decade ago. But out of the 20,000-30,000 players online at any one time, is it really true that a single…
Editorial
Witness Me!
October 10, 2020. My Naglfar is off tether and aligned to the enemy keepstar in FWST, as it had been for five hours. I cycle my smartbomb and kill another bubble as I wait for my name to be called…
Op-Ed
A War of Accretion
Celestial bodies form through accretion and die from entropy. And wars are not always won or lost in a major battle; after losses soldiers don’t always give in to attrition. Sun Tzu said in The Art of War that “the…
Eve Online
How I Got the Hel out of Deklein – A Retvet Story
All art by Redline XIII. For the better part of a decade since I last played EVE Online, one of my pilots lay in cryosleep aboard a Hel supercarrier where she had logged off at a POS in a northern…
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