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EVE-Online RP Discussion and Resources => EVE Character Development => Topic started by: Aria Jenneth on 01 May 2012, 01:03
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Me:
Experienced pilot, Achura, F, 4'10", 92 lbs.. Specialist in covert ops and related craft, but qualified to fly most sub-capital warships. Extensive exploration plus minor mining and industrial experience. Strong background in cultural, political, and philosophical analysis. Some emotional issues + criminal history. Minimal sense of fair play. Strong State-oriented loyalty arising from recently recovered sense of identity and self-worth. Likes new experiences, b-lining, hiking, wildflowers, explosions "that set the universe on fire," and hiding behind intellectual walls. Body count a non-issue, but seeks to kick personal murder habit.
You:
Active, stable, capsuleer corporation loyal to the Caldari State. FW involvement optional, but regular combat activities a must. "Patriot" State faction loyalty a plus, but not required. No current collaboration with Federation loyalist elements, please. Practical outlook desirable, but underworld ties not preferred. American peak hours a major plus.
I look forward to meeting you. Please respond below!
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No current collaboration with Federation loyalist elements, please.
So close, yet just out of reach.
Happens every time, I swear.
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No current collaboration with Federation loyalist elements, please.
So close, yet just out of reach.
Happens every time, I swear.
Aww.
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You could try 4TH.
In addition, I would venture to guess Inferno will really kick FW back into gear. You could wait for the results of that.
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Keep in mind that if any supposedly anti-piratical corp recruits Aria, for whatever reason, that corp will have betrayed it's principles and the deaths Aria has caused simply by virtue of ignoring her history and granting her pardon for her past.
Happens everywhere, all the time however, so this is not a major issue ;)
If Aria comes back however and Alex does the same at some point and sees her in a supposedly-loyal Caldari corp, things will get... interesting :D
I however would like to see Aria back in whatever form that would take, so someone kindly recruit this woman, ASAP!
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Come join the Anti-pirate pirates! Us! :D
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Keep in mind that if any supposedly anti-piratical corp recruits Aria, for whatever reason, that corp will have betrayed it's principles and the deaths Aria has caused simply by virtue of ignoring her history and granting her pardon for her past.
But seen from an only slightly different angle, retribution does not bring back the dead, shooting most pirates barely slows them down, and so persuading them to join your cause is literally the largest single stride you can make towards actually reducing piracy.
So it really rather depends on the actual principles of the corp in question.
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No current collaboration with Federation loyalist elements, please.
I didn't do it.. I swear!
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Keep in mind that if any supposedly anti-piratical corp recruits Aria, for whatever reason, that corp will have betrayed it's principles and the deaths Aria has caused simply by virtue of ignoring her history and granting her pardon for her past.
But seen from an only slightly different angle, retribution does not bring back the dead, shooting most pirates barely slows them down, and so persuading them to join your cause is literally the largest single stride you can make towards actually reducing piracy.
So it really rather depends on the actual principles of the corp in question.
That is funny actually, Lyn being herself a fanatical vigilante, she would not take this the same way Bloodbird's char does, at all.
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Such a shame. C0URT could have used a lowsec specialist on the payroll. :eek:
Though I doubt current policies are anything Aria would have intrest in (IC) supporting. :P
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Damn, and here I was hoping youd returned to help us solve mysteries, dive into the unkown and such :P
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Heh-- I think Aria's always going to have an interest in exploring the unknown. That's a permanent state of affairs. Depending on circumstances, she may even be somewhat open-minded about "who with."
Thing is, her patriotism and loyalty is deeply tied into her sense of self. Ironically, her core politics are (and long have been) those of a die-hard Patriot, but her doubts about her own nature and role have often encouraged her to look at things from a more holistic, abstracted perspective. Consequently, a happier, healthier (and thus less abstracted) Aria is not so much more narrow-minded as more comfortably dedicated to acting from one particular perspective-- her own.
This, as opposed to, say, the perspective of a technological shadow/echo/ghost/demon formed in the image of a dead Patriot loyalist.
Aria had a very good vacation, and is now much more comfortable in her own skin-- enough so that she can now admit that she is, to all intents and purposes, herself. What's more, she can can face the implications without feeling duty-bound to slit her own throat.
Ergo....
Mind you, she's still neither impractical nor entirely inflexible. We'll have to see what happens.
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You could try 4TH.
American peak hours a major plus.
4TH's day-to-day leadership has little interest in RP. There is some interest, but it is not a primary concern of the majority of the alliance. Building the alliance's story and place in the large eve-verse is not something that has been done (yet).
If you are interested in 4TH, hit me up in game for some more info. There are a few "exec" level folks active during US hours.
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Oh god.
First things first, I can never recommend Aria enough. RP elements aside, Aria is the most effective scan prober I've seen. He can walk into a system and should there be targets, sniff them out. Every. Single. Time.
Aria, considering your gameplay requirements of US timezone activity and frequent combat ops, IRED is going to be for you. We sit in the middle of Syndicate where very juicy rats live, and there are Russians living next door just begging to be killed and messed with.
Granted, while IRED's premise as an alliance is RP-related, not everyone in the alliance roleplays, due to gameplay considerations. However, there are a couple of us within RDC who do RP, as evidenced by the whole Matari Investment Initiative thingy. In terms of IC ideology it's not going to be perfect for Aria, with IRED being an Ishukone subsidiary trying to make do without Heth and most of the State. But, it's exciting in its own right in the same vein as Omerta Syndicate was (without the emo), striking out on its own and trying to figure out its identity while still remaining very pro-Caldari.
Besides, it should be interesting in terms of being an ex-OSYN. I personally found it interesting, being the ex-OSYN guy who used to bring all the IC hate on Ishukone until that Aurora event happened. Davlos ICly still thinks it pretty damn surreal to be wearing the Ishukone uniform every day.
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There's not much going on the patriot side of things, especially in State-near space.
I know that Commissar Veldt wanted to restart Progressive State and Caldari Colonial Defense Ministry as an RP-FW alliance (UK/US), but I haven't been able to get in touch with him on any updates. I'd like to have a place for Des in a non liberal State RP corporation, preferably with PvP ( not necessarily FW, although that depends on the Inferno changes ), too, but two efforts at building a small corporation have more or less failed, so W-74 is dormant at the moment, too. But even if I'd make a new effort to relaunch it properly it'd be late EU TZ and a stability that might not be what you had in mind.
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Would you perhaps have a vague interest in a pan-national (though Amarrian-based) group of noble capsuleer warriors with an interest in diciplining capsuleer-kind in kinky ways?
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orange:
The 4th is what grew out of CAIN, etc., yes? ... Yeah, I'd be more enthusiastic if the alliance were more, ah, RP-dedicated. I've worked with the other kind before, but it's never very ... satisfying, y'know?
Davlos:
Ah, my time as Omerta's primary covops scout. Heh-- that was in an earlier, more innocent day. These days, people quite justifiably sleep with one eye on their d-scanners and a finger going click, click, click. I never have gotten quite good enough with the latest version of probes to be able to often overcome that paranoia.
... Course, I haven't often had reason to try all that hard. There's a fun trick you can play with combined D-scanner and probe cloud that, handled properly, should score a 100% on the first try without exposing the probes for more than a few seconds. I look forward to getting back in practice.
I-RED is of interest, as long as it remains State-loyal. Loyalty to Tibus Heth = strictly optional; Aria regards him as a temporary, but useful, figure of the sort that makes his mark on the history books and is then disposed of. Collaboration with the enemy is more of a potential sticking point; Aria regards Gallentean influence as culturally toxic. Efforts to persuade her otherwise are best handled IC.
Des:
Eh-- there's never been all that much happening on the Patriot side. CAIN was ... kinda that way for a while, IIRC, but it sounds like the 4th has gone the way of CVA (power seen as inconsistent with RP). I'll be content with playing the Patriot voice in a Liberal entity, if it comes to that; the Practicals are the only State faction Aria actively won't work for (she doesn't regard their good as consistent with the good of the State; the Liberals, at least, tend to be the loyal opposition).
Aldrith:
That depends greatly. Aria has always been highly suspicious of Amarrian intentions towards the State, and is unwilling to wander too far, geographically or politically, from home. You'd need to make a strong IC pitch.
Also, Aria is under no illusions as to her own nobility-- and is deeply cynical about anyone else's.
IE, possible, maybe even OOC kinda attractive, but you'd need to do a lot of persuading, and, even then, you'd probably have acquired a suspicious soul who would take any opportunity she got to cast doubt on any noble pretensions the Knighthood might have.
Of course, there should be at least one of those in any good organization....
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That depends greatly. Aria has always been highly suspicious of Amarrian intentions towards the State, and is unwilling to wander too far, geographically or politically, from home. You'd need to make a strong IC pitch.
That sounds so damn familiar. ;)
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Davlos:
Ah, my time as Omerta's primary covops scout. Heh-- that was in an earlier, more innocent day. These days, people quite justifiably sleep with one eye on their d-scanners and a finger going click, click, click. I never have gotten quite good enough with the latest version of probes to be able to often overcome that paranoia.
... Course, I haven't often had reason to try all that hard. There's a fun trick you can play with combined D-scanner and probe cloud that, handled properly, should score a 100% on the first try without exposing the probes for more than a few seconds. I look forward to getting back in practice.
I-RED is of interest, as long as it remains State-loyal. Loyalty to Tibus Heth = strictly optional; Aria regards him as a temporary, but useful, figure of the sort that makes his mark on the history books and is then disposed of. Collaboration with the enemy is more of a potential sticking point; Aria regards Gallentean influence as culturally toxic. Efforts to persuade her otherwise are best handled IC.
Yeah, I-RED is pretty much State-loyal and pro-Caldari based on what I've been seeing so far. As for ties with the Gallente my interpretation is that it's strictly business, which is not so different from the commercial proposals it's trying to pitch to the Minmatar.
Best to ask John Revenant about details though. He's the big boss; I'm just the tiny recruit who cackles hysterically on Mumble while flying interceptors.
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... Course, I haven't often had reason to try all that hard. There's a fun trick you can play with combined D-scanner and probe cloud that, handled properly, should score a 100% on the first try without exposing the probes for more than a few seconds. I look forward to getting back in practice.
Oh, yes, it's very nice. Not foolproof, but I managed to score a few kills that way. The best part is imagining the deer-in-headlights look.
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Yeah, I-RED is pretty much State-loyal and pro-Caldari based on what I've been seeing so far. As for ties with the Gallente my interpretation is that it's strictly business, which is not so different from the commercial proposals it's trying to pitch to the Minmatar.
Best to ask John Revenant about details though. He's the big boss; I'm just the tiny recruit who cackles hysterically on Mumble while flying interceptors.
I'm certainly game for a chat, at the least.
The best part is imagining the deer-in-headlights look.
Supposedly that technique produced a carebear urban legend about pirate haxxors that let them (us) zero in on a mission site the instant they (we) enter the system.
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I'd obviously be keen for you to join I-RED. It would be cool to RP with you more, though my I-RED character is less the philosopher and more the ladies man.
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Just a note, it would be incorrect to assume that CAIN was/is patriotic. Plenty of its higher ranking members were Ishukonites.
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He's the big boss.
I also smell like cheese.. really its true.
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Supposedly that technique produced a carebear urban legend about pirate haxxors that let them (us) zero in on a mission site the instant they (we) enter the system.
That's no urban legend - the Safespot Buster 2000 is very real (http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&feature=related&hl=fr&v=ov5o57knDdk).
I also smell like cheese.. really its true.
Gouda, Brie or Limburger?
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Just a note, it would be incorrect to assume that CAIN was/is patriotic. Plenty of its higher ranking members were Ishukonites.
I was referring to its days with the Kimotoro Directive, circa early 2007. Though things may or may not have changed since, bear in mind that my point of reference was Apex Unlimited; CAIN was far the more ... aggressively dedicated entity.
I also smell like cheese.. really its true.
As implied by Matthieu, that may or may not be a good thing.
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Hey, as cheese-lovers know, the smell just adds character. It's the taste that's important.
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I-RED is of interest, as long as it remains State-loyal.
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I'll be content with playing the Patriot voice in a Liberal entity.
Well I-RED will always remain State Loyal so long as I am in charge. Also this month is odd.. we have recruited several Patriotic loyalists. It should prove to be interesting to see how this affects us internally.
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Confirming that I-RED is co-opting Patriots. :E
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Amongst others.
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Well, I look forward to seeing you back ingame on a hopefully semi-regular occasion. Sad to see Aria 'reformed' to her State roots though; wish you luck finding what you're looking for.
If you're not 100% dedicated to the State angle... Inara is starting (and it's a slow process due to RL) to see if she can stir up an opposition to the Demented with her new corp. Just sayin'.
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Inara:
Well-- my return is likely to be delayed a little, regardless, unless and until I can acquire a computer upgrade.
Can anybody recommend a good line of laptops for Eve, if not other types of gaming? I realize its requirements aren't horrible, but I've also had lousy experiences getting it to run on "business" machines (like the one I'm typing on now) and gaming laptops are, as a category, right out of my price range.
The thing with Aria and the State is a matter, partly, of getting her character dredged out of the uncaring abyss she's been slowly sinking into. Her insistence on her own inhumanity has always been a method of hiding from herself, and from the fact that she is one seriously emotionally scarred/disturbed little Achur. Unfortunately for her, the more she has reinforced that barrier and distanced herself from the person she was "in life," the less reason she has had to involve herself in the affairs of others in any way.
This was gradually making the character unplayable. This would make her an interesting, hermit-ish NPC, but not a good PC-- and what's more, Aria is too compulsively self-aware to remain wholly blind to what she's been doing to herself.
She first tried going to one extreme, spending months in a sensory deprivation tank so as to navel-gaze more effectively. Having thereby nearly driven herself crazy, or crazier, she tried the other extreme and went baselining planetside, an extended vacation from which she has yet to return.
To paraphrase Heinlein, Aria is not and never has been a rational animal. She is a rationalizing animal. She has been reluctant to face this fact because to do so is to come nose to nose with her guilt, but her own logic has been painting her into a narrower and narrower corner.
A couple realizations on her part are necessary to crack that shell, which are pretty readily available upon extended experience of reality from the viewpoint of only one body:
1) There is, in fact, a distinction between the capsuleer's existence piloting a ship and "piloting" a clone: while all sensory input from a ship "body" is intended to convey information in a usable form, the clone's experience of life is not purely functional: it can experience non-"functional" extremes that can debilitate or incapacitate. Aria might have been able to dismiss such experience such a distinction as "vestigial" while isolated from much of human experience, but that becomes much more difficult after multiple months of interacting with the world "as a human."
This is an insight that kicks the legs out from under Aria's sense of herself as something removed, something alien. The capsuleer's existence is still not purely utilitarian-- a capsuleer is more than a tool, and is not so different from a human as to justify full isolation.
2) Although she's cloaked her rhetoric in the language of equivalent "difference," she's demonized the capsuleer and idealized human society, particularly the Caldari State. In her eyes, she was corrupt and it was pure, something that should be protected but which she would sully by involving herself with. She's concluded that she's really not much worse than the average Caldari murderer-- of which there are many, and many of which are quite useful to the State.
Aria has always been loyal to the State. Her willingness to wander is a product of her perceived unfitness to participate in Caldari society: she has been an outcast in her own mind. To her, you have to be human to be a participant in a human nation-state. Being a monster meant being unfit for service, but also not responsible for choices made. Such actions can be explained as "just my nature."
Being human, in her case, means facing having failed to live up to what is expected of humans. Of course, that becomes a much more comfortable prospect if nobody else has been living up to their responsibilities as human beings, either.
This shift in perspective will likely flip her understanding of capsuleer dementia from a sign of "difference in kind" to a sort of workplace hazard. It's unlikely that Aria will see the Demented as worthy of pursuit: to her, it's like declaring war on PTSD, or carpal tunnel.
It also shifts her perspective on the State, from something ultimately pure and protective to something very "human" in the sense that it is abusive and corrupt-- but then, so is everything else. And the State is the corruption she calls home....
One very jaded, cold-blooded, somewhat fragile Caldari loyalist, comin' up (as soon as I can acquire better hardware).
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Can anybody recommend a good line of laptops for Eve, if not other types of gaming? realize its requirements aren't horrible, but I've also had lousy experiences getting it to run on "business" machines (like the one I'm typing on now) and gaming laptops are, as a category, right out of my price range.
I ran EVE on a VAIO VPCEE2S1E (http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vn-e-series/vpcee2s1e-bq) (With all the packaged bloatware removed) for about a year and a half, and everything ran pretty smoothly in moderate-to-large fleet situations with most of the settings on high. If you can get something with similar specs, you'll probably be alright.
Ninja Edit: Oh, and if you want fast, non-gaming performance out of it, the VPC runs like a dream with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on a second partition.
If you're not mobile though, a Desktop is often a cheaper and more powerful option. I'm not sure about pricing in the states, but you can get a solid machine and peripherals for about £450 here if you know where to look, which is around the same price as the VPC.
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Toshiba, Sony, and Alienware are typically the winners of any "laptop resilience" or "build quality" reviews you can find on the Internet. You can get by with a sub-$1000 laptop these days, although for poor EVE's sake I'd make sure the laptop ran an nVidia 600M series GPU instead of running solely on the Intel integrated graphics.