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First time I joined a corporation I was actually living in Amarr space near the Amarr tradehub. A week or so into starting the game I was approached via EVE Mail by some Roxxen Norato directing a small High Sec corporation in Minmatar space called BCS. I didn't do much during my time there. Lasted a month or so before the CEO (Roxxen) decided do take all of the corp asssets in the corporation and ghost the leadership. He had basically scammed his small industrial corp and that was my first experience into the game XD. later I would learn that this is what he does. Recruits people into BCS, with staff and recruits, new people to after a while pull the plug and steal all of the corp's assets.

I started playing EVE in Summer 2004. I did the usual ratting, mining, missioning, and treated the game as a relatively solitary game. I played with my girlfriend (now wife) at the time, and we mined, and did some missions. All really simple.

Anyhow, I got chatting to a guy at work, who had an interest in the MMO genre, and he eventually got into EVE. We played EVE together a bit, not hugely, and he kind of split off an did his own thing, and I my own - tbh EVE back then was quite dull as i hadnt found the community aspect of it, and only played it collaboratively with a few people.

Anyhow - roll on a6 months, and my mate at work tells me about this corp that he had helped form and it sounded quite interesting. They were setup to teach new players, and to roam with them and kill stuff. That corporation was Agony Unleashed. Agony Unleashed (for the uninitiated) was a small gang corporation and nullsec group that also had a PVP teaching university where they ran a PVP Basic, Intermeidte and Advanced class, who over the years had helped more than 10,000 people graduate from.... yes 10,000 people!

This piqued my interest and so i went along with Rasql - who was actually now a PVP instructor - and went for a roam.

ZOMG.

This completely changed EVE for me.

Anyhow - as my mate had spent so much time building Agony Unleashed up, he very soon burnt out along with other leaders in Agony Unleashed so a few of them splintered off and formed a cloaky weasel corp called Ghost in the Machine. I had gotten on so well with some of their members on comms that I got a personal initiation to the corp from the CEO, and never looked back. I was completely green - only a few PVP basic class roams under my belt. I was a 100% project for Tiaan Strauss (who sadly passed away two years agon in RL), but i never looked back.

Ghost in the Machine was the start for me, and through them and Agony Unleashed, they defined what I am as a pilot in EVE to this day.

The leadership of FUN INC is made up of Agony Unleashed members, and through GIM and AU, they have basically created the corp that i run today.

I owe everything to them both.

2009 - I begin EVE, I'm going to shoot rocks and play for FREE! :D I joined a corp solely based on their name including the name Quicksilver which I associated with my X-Men fandom, and their willingness to buy all my ore to simplify my session.

Eventually they started co-op mining fleets with another group, that were far more personable and TZ overlapping with my playtime so I made the jump! Flew with them for a couple years before going on EVE-break until 2013.

When I started playing, I was determined to be a solo player. I had watched my husband in his null corp have to fleet up, then stand down without ever undocking and shooting anything. This didn't sound fun, so I decided I'd stay a solo player.

To be honest, with the NPSI community alone I probably could have achieved this goal. But you know what they say, Eve is Better with Friends. It took about 4 months of flying with the good folks at FUN Inc to finally convince me to just join. And, I've never left. No matter what I'm CEO of or what grand scheme I get convinced to take part in, FUN will always be home.

What truly happened is fading in the folds of time... what I say could be fiction or could be reality... but, one way or another, it happened.

At the time, Alexylva Paradox, was one of the best small-sized corps in lower WH space. They were quite active in all aspect of the game, from pve to pvp (they had some of the highest rates of kills-losses) to rp and writing. I had been fascinated by the lore even before the game so, as I dipped into the rp side of EvE, I met with Xepharious Wrym, writer and recruiter for Alexylva. There was chemistry right there and then and in a matter of days, I was the resident Alpha player of the corp which I remained till the corp was evicted and met its ultimate demise.