From Rookie Chat to Wormhole Space: The Beginning of My EVE Online Journey
I cannot remember exactly how I first came across EVE Online. What I do remember, very clearly, is watching a YouTube video about the Battle of Asakai. I was completely fascinated. Thousands of players. Massive fleets. Real losses. Real consequences. It did not feel like just another game. It felt like history being written by the players themselves, one explosion at a time. At that moment, I knew I had to try it. After that, I started consuming every EVE trailer, battle report, and player story I could find. The more I learned about New Eden, the more I wanted to become part of it. Unfortunately, real life had other plans. I was still in training, and after that, I had to complete my mandatory military service. So EVE became something I postponed, a reward I promised myself for later. Looking back, it was a reward worth waiting for. On December 13th, 2014, my first character was born, thanks to a buddy code I had found on the official EVE forums. My first few days were, to put it mild...
