I had the joy of having Eran Mintor as Gottii's personal nemesis, though Im certain he would have only named Gottii an antagonist, not his main rival.
But man, he was a great nemesis.
First off, even before I RPed in EVE, I was aware of the guy as an amazing pilot when I was just a nubbin in the TLF. It helped that he has the RL voice of a war god.
Then, I joined EM, and just added that Gottii looked up to Eran IC, namely because he was a big name, and a great pilot, and a good guy, and it made a lot of sense.
Then, he joined the Crusade, and all the sudden he was a war target. Drama! Angst! Must shoot him! It was great.
We shot at each other a few times, though rarely as much as I wanted. We chased each other around the war zone a few times, but I never got the one-on-one I was hoping for. Its a huge EVE regret actually. He was a great pilot and FC.
Moreover, he was a great guy to RP with. I hammered him IC (while trying to make clear I held him in the utmost OOC regard, I think I might have sent him an EVE mail stating that OOC). He always took it in stride.
In fact, one of the few times I really enjoyed RPing on the IGS was with him. Gottii and Eran had a long drawn up arguments about the war, about why we fought it the way we did. And it was great, oddly enough. Both characters admitted that they were haunted by the possibility that the other was right, but that the only choice they had as Brutor warriors was to fight an ugly dirty war the only way they could.
It was great.
AND THEN, to save the universe from some kind of apocalyptic paradox caused by really enjoyable RP on the IGS, the CCP servers went down, and that entire f*****g thread chain was lost when they set the forums back three hours or so. Im not making that up. I was furious.
Eran asked for the posts to be recovered, but it never happened. I growl thinking about it to this day really.
Anyway, if he ever reads this, dude was a great, really added to my game, and to Gottii's IC life.
EDIT: Also a shout out to Mitnara. For some reason we shot at each other a lot. And she was hot. So it was fun.