Three Hundred Sixty Five Days and Counting....

I've been pillaging and plundering, or attempting to, the skies of New Eden for a little over a year now. The following is a short summary of my first year as a Minmatar pirate.

As previously stated in my first entry in these memoirs, Minmatar pilots have the harshest and most intensive course load. As a result, I've become adept at many many skills and techniques. This includes shield tanking, shield compensation skills, armor tanking, armor compensation skills, manipulating drones, projectile skills, navigation skills, rigging skills, electronics skills, etc. The list of skills that I have trained and that I need to train is long and extensive but I am in fact getting there and becoming a highly proficient Minmatar pilot. I was once told by one of my mentors, it takes about two years for a minmatar pilot to become highly competent whereas other pilots can become very competent in half a year to a year. It seems to me that my mentor may have been correct.

I've limited myself to flying Minmatar frigates, T1 crusiers and battlecruisers thus far so that I could train the aforementioned support skills and weapons skills. In short, I do not have the training to fly interceptors (a very popular ship class), destroyers (the Minmatar Thrasher can be lethal), assault frigates (the Minmatar Jaguar and Wolf are arguably the best assault frigates in New Eden), battleships, heavy assault cruisers, stealh bombers, etc. As a result my choice of ships is limited but I have trained enough to fly the ships in my hangar very well (Hurricanes, Ruptures, Rifters and Stabbers).

I have been priviliged enough to fly with some exceptional pilots, in my opinion. This includes Malicious Wraith and Blotvard, of Dark Side of the Moon, who were the first pirates I flew with. This also includes all members of the Tuskers whom I presently fly with on a day to day basis. I've found flying with the Tusker's to be a great experience in that the corp. places a higher value on competence and personality and a lower value on the mere accumulation of skill points. Furthermore, the corp. consists of some damn good pilots!

In regards to combat, my logs show that I have a total of 97 kills and 21 losses. It's pretty safe to say that I am a risk adverse pilot who only engages on terms that I find desirable. My logs also indicate that I have destroyed isk totaling $3,265,320,003 and loss isk totaling $578,985,276.

As I proceed through my second year of piracy I look forward to much more success, much much more yarr-age and many many more entries in these memoirs as to my search for fortune and glory.