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In 2009 I was living in Providence in an alliance called Libertas Fidelitas Holdings under the umbrella of CVA. Living in Null-Sec is often a group activity and sometimes when you log-in to play, there just aren't any group activities planned. Back then, if I couldn't pull together a small group of players to do something together - I would wander off on my own. I did a lot of crazy things back then. I had no idea what I was doing and had no fear to try new things. If it sounded interesting, chances are I tried it.
One thing I discovered was that I had a knack for breaking into POS shields, guessing the passwords, and stealing goods from the hangars. There were a lot of POSes up in those days, as holding Sov meant having them. And a lot of them. So it wasn't hard to travel into enemy territory and find plenty of opportunities to keep myself busy.
It is hard to imagine now, but back then seeing a Titan was a rare event. I remember a time when there were seventeen Titans in all of New Eden. In fact, at one point, there used to be a website that tracked them all. The image at the top of this article is of an Avatar Titan inside a POS from August 2009. This was a POS that I had broken into with my Manticore and I tried to get as close to the Titan as I could without breaking cloak. And take pictures. So proof of concept.
One day, traveling far from home, I found another POS with an Erebus inside. I freely admit that my memories of this incident have been clouded by time, this was sixteen years ago. But I managed to sit there and crack the POS code. Unlike the Avatar incident, the Erebus was all alone with me in local.
I was obviously yelling in Alliance chat by this time. The problem was this was an off-time for everyone else. The other problem was that there was a limited number of Titans in Eve, which also meant a limited number of Titan pilots. I was in a real pickle. I had a Titan!! But no way to do anything with it.
By this time I had a crowd of about 5-6 other pilots with me. We tried bumping the Titan. We tried rousing our friends in other Alliances. Word spread quickly and eventually we found someone who could do it. Maybe. He hadn't actually done it yet. And he was far away. And local was starting to get busy again. The clock was ticking.
I had no idea how Titans worked back then. I figured he'd just jump in and we'd fly it home. But while the owners should have picked a better password, they did leave us with one major problem. Fuel. We didn't have any.
With time running out on us we decided on the next best thing. We jumped the Titan a few jumps away into the middle of nowhere. And left it there. I imagine somewhere in the world is a former Titan pilot who logged back into Eve one day and discovered his Erebus wasn't where he left it. I never heard another word, so I can only assume he managed to get it back safely. Or was too embarrassed to mention it to anyone.
I freely admit that parts of this story are hazy now. This happened almost a decade ago, so forgive me my memory of the details. But this is essentially what happened. For a brief moment in time I had stolen an Erebus. Much, much more than I could handle.
I guess I've been a Pirate for longer than I give myself credit for.
My friend Perceus Finch and Trent Chillen have 'bought' a c5 from a local c5 conglomerate and we were making a ton of isk. Which is fantastic! All was going well until Percy decided to join a LS pirate group. With his eyes on becoming more engaged in leadership activities, he became co-CEO of this small group of miscreants and put the structure we had in our c5 wormhole under this group. The c5 wormhole was still only set up for our small group to make isk, and do higher end wormhole content.
A month or two goes by and Percy decided he was ready to move up in the world and decided to split ways with the LS pirate corp and join PH. The other CEO, Aleks, promised to join PH and leave LS with Percy. Percy mistakenly forgot to swap the stations over to a holding corp before leaving his CEO duties, but he thought it would not have been such a big deal since the other CEO was a trusted friend.
No sooner than Percy left the corp, Aleks had a change of heart and kept the c5 stations to himself and refused to give them back to Percy. He messaged my group of friends informing that we are able to stay in the wormhole under certain 'conditions' (increased taxes, me promoting his corp to the stream, etc). Me and my friends decided that we had to come up with a plan to prevent Aleks from entering the c5, entrenching him into our home all the while without him removing our docking rights.
With a month of subterfuge, lies, building trust with Aleks, we managed to troll him out of billions of isk, waste hours and hours of his time, and ultimately destroyed the stations he put down (using the character that I had in his corp) while maintaining control of our c5. The amount of people we had involved was insane for such a silly accident. I made a longish video while we were finishing bashing the final timer <3
