Good day,
For those that know me already from within Eve, hi!
For those that don't, hi also! and an introduction. I have no idea how to make these things interesting really, but one is probably due anyway, interesting or no. So you unlucky sods get to read it, or click on, as you desire.
I've been playing Eve off and on since 2006, most of that time with the Star Fraction. I have spent minor amounts of time elsewhere in what I consider to be my "walk-about" periods but mostly, I consider SF my Eve-home and have become rather attached to it and the guys that made/make it up over the years. Most of the people that will know me from in-game will know me as a rather brash forum poster on SF's forums. Typically, if you haven't been in SF, you probably don't know me as I try to keep in the shadows.
Away from the game, I'm a 43 year old network engineer that is in the process of retirement due to medical reasons. I'm also a seperately-disabled former Marine grunt. I tend to be a bit gruff when I speak. Formally divorced once. Practically divorced twice. Currently happily attached. I live in the deep south US (y'all *is* a proper conjuction, thank you very much). I have one son, one grandson, and two granddaughters. I've lived in, passed through, worked in or spit on nearly every state west of the Mississippi, and quite a few east of it. I've never been to Europe, though I used to entertain a daydream of going to Scotland someday. I have seen a small amount of the Pacific Rim curtesy of the Uncle Sam tour package.
I smoke too much. Don't drink at all much anymore. Drive a tiny car (who enjoys paying money to oil companies after all) and train dogs as a hobby (currently 4 onhand). I live in the sticks, and when I say in the sticks, it's because that's what my neighbors consist of typically. I subscribe to the theory of coming into town once a month to buy 10 lbs of flour, 5 of sugar, 2 lbs of coffee and 50 lb sack of dog food. I do not own a mule though most people that actually do know me in 3-d probably would say that I wouldn't be out of place with one.
If I have a failing in Eve, with this community at least, it's that I tend to figure that my concept is RP is pretty thin. It's difficult to think of Sven as a seperate individual from myself, beyond the simplistic notions that in reality I'm sitting at a computer desk playing a game. I appreciate the others that do that and in my time with SF, have tried to foster a community that's RP-positive for those that want to play their game this way.
Anyway, that's a brief snapshot of me both inside and outside of the game.
