Stage 1 - Join, Meet and Learn

After getting invited, thinking about and accepting an offer to join a nice little corp, I am learning people, places, and things. For example, I lead a small mining ops for all of 10 minutes before I had to leave for work, leaving my Orca afk in system to offer bonuses to the fleet. Those didnt last long apparently as my internet had decided to turn itself off after I left. My internet knows not to be AFK in space for long periods of time better than me I suppose.

Next, I registered with the website and forum stuffs. Nifty, a working forum. And a little quest system with sponsors? Hmm...Checking this out, I found out you have to be sponsored by another member to progress the quest chain. Ok, promoting intercorp talking and communication. I like this a lil bit, but the downside is that I have done several of these already. The good thing is that it is training for nullsec and pvp anywhere in EVE. Like how to align and get your pod out safely. Very handy imo. Extra training and practice in things you already know are good things, plus revisiting certain ships is always fun.

I transported several frigate sized vessels (30+) from Amarr to Ziona, our home base. Which by the way works out amazingly. My home is only one jump over, which is only 3 jumps from Amarr. Its like a perfect storm of locations for me, it couldnt get better tbh. After getting situated with a few corpmates and corp hangar roles, I contracted a few Rifters to a person who donated quite a bit to the corp coffers. Alot of these people in corp are new, or as close to new as you can get. Knowing this, I also know funds for them are hard to come by. Me, having funds, donated 20million back to a couple members who I talked with and that I felt would make good use of the funds given. Both players were in shock at having their wallet explode. Not only did I think this was funny (because I used to feel 20misk was alot as well) but I also felt good about helping out some newbs.

And my final adventure of the night ended in helping another corpmate out in a mission he had issues doing in his Merlin, actually losing that ship. After reshipping into a Kestral, he gave me his location, 10 jumps out. Meh, w/e, Ill fly my little ship (Vengeance) to help him out. Its fast, so 10 jumps went by quicker than 4 jumps by my Orca. Warping into the mission were three frigates that were able to web and scram. Interesting, but ok. Targeting and killing all three in a couple volleys, the mission was complete. To much fanfaire in our corp channel, produced by my single fleet/corp mate that I had just assisted, I returned home and headed to bed for the night.

All in all, I think I like this new corp quite a bit. Its organized, has several short term and long term goals for its members, and the most important part is that it has the support from leadership to develope leaders from within the corp. Aside from the anti pirating, I couldnt disagree much at all with my current situation.

Im still going to sneak in some pirating, but shhh!!!