This was a beast, over 50GB of captured video and hours and hours of editing and listening to music tracks to find the perfect combination of sounds - as well as try to build in some allegorical threads and unique perspective. Sometime on Saturday it all started to make sense and the rest of it just flowed out of me. I didn't want to create a travel video, or a highlight reel - we've seen those before. I wanted to capture something unique and different, from my own personal perspective. If I succeeded or not, I'll leave for others to decide.

Here is my submission. I hope you enjoy it.

You can't make a list of great Eve songs and leave out this Dumb Ways to Die parody song I wrote with the legendary Sindel Pellion. Even though it is 11 years old now and I seriously rushed the animation (which sort of made it work) it remains a classic and captures the humor and frustration of Eve Online in so many ways.

For most of my professional career, I worked in advertising, marketing, and graphic design. In fact, when I first started playing EVE Online back in 2008, I owned a creative agency called Giant Ideas—employing over 40 people and even pitching CCP Games to run their social media. Back then, EVE was just a weekend hobby, a way to spend time with my son. Until 2015, I had never even met another EVE player in person.

The closure of my agency and a legendarily horrific divorce forced me to rethink everything—my career, my passions, and what truly mattered to me. I shifted into consulting, but more importantly, I started focusing on my own creative work, exploring my artistic side in ways I hadn’t before. EVE became a foundation of support for that journey, with the community offering overwhelming encouragement along the way.

Between 2013 and 2014, I began creating a series of EVE-inspired art posters as practice. What started as a creative exercise soon gained traction, both within the EVE community and beyond. Before long, CCP reached out to explore selling some of my work as part of the grand re-opening of the EVE Store—expanding the project to include posters, t-shirts, and more. And in early 2015, I attended my first Fanfest in Reykjavik. (Fun fact: Rixx Javix is named after Iceland’s capital, in case you didn’t know.) That trip was a turning point—not only did I finally meet fellow players in person, but I also had the chance to showcase my work publicly for the first time. More than that, I saw an opportunity to open doors for other creatives in the EVE community.

A decade later, multiple artists now have official partnerships with CCP to create EVE-based work. Andrew, whom I sat alongside during that first Fanfest roundtable, has since published two books on the history of EVE. And I recently spent two years working with a company in Poland—alongside CCP—on a massive EVE-based board game, which will soon be shipping to players.

Back in 2008, I never could have imagined that this internet spaceship game would become such an integral part of my life. That it would take me around the world, introduce me to thousands of incredible people, and allow me to share my art with such an amazing community. EVE didn’t just change my life—it completely transformed it.

All these kind of rewards do is make me feel old. So I hope you are all proud of yourselves.

One of my first screen crushes was Susan Day who played Laurie in the Partridge Family series. If you don't know it, and why would you, it was about a single Mother who took her kids around the country solving problems with the power of music. Generic family music was extremely powerful medicine in the early '70s. Do not mock what you do not understand. It was a weird time.

This one is a few years old but I believe it is still valid and helps pilots better understand the ammunition choices they have for the four major empires.

I disagree with the reward conditions a little. I think it's pointless to include "unsuitable" ships for solo PvP for several reasons. First, there are few unsuitable solo PvP ships given the right circumstances. Secondly that overly complicates the list, since there is no space for long explanations. So I organized my list in a different way. All the ships on my list are good at Solo PvP - for different reasons. I would feel confident taking any of these out to hunt my fellow players, but my goals would be different depending on the ship I was flying.

And then I ranked them each within each tier as well.

After decades of relentless research the Sisters of Eve have achieved the impossible - a massive, mobile stargate embedded in their new SuperCapital the "Gaivota". I named the ship after former CCP Seagull and her dream of one day allowing Capsuleer's the opportunity to build their own stargates. Beyond that, I really gave this absolutely no thought whatsoever, so it might be dumb, might be impossible, might be crazy - but it sounds awesome. So I drew it.

I like it.

Dad Lost The Keys

Almost ten years ago, back in the Summer of 2015, one of our pilots was flying around in Cache and noticed that several star systems were vulnerable. Curious he decided to fit his trusty interceptor with an Entosis and see what would happen. What happened was that suddenly our low-sec based Pirate Alliance found itself the owner of three star-systems way down in Cache.

We decided amongst ourselves to just go with it. And over the course of a few days we moved a lot of assets down to the station there. We managed to get a nice Jump Freighter chain up and running and generally moved some ships and supplies down to ensure we had enough on hand to have some fun. We had no idea what we were doing and that would become extremely obvious pretty quickly.

While we owned the station in our new system, no one could dock in it! The alt I was using to move assets and set-up the station was the Alliance Executor - but we couldn't find the management window anywhere. We spent a hilarious amount of time using Google to try and figure out how that worked. One of our guys even went onto the Singularity test server to try and help. Thing was - the expected station management system just wasn't there.

Someone suggested I try and re-start the station. That did give me an idea, so I undocked and docked back up - and sure enough the window finally appeared.

So I decided to immediately transfer the station to Stay Frosty - which seemed to make sense. But no, that didn't make any sense and only made things much, much worse. I no longer had access to the window. Which meant that I had to log into Rixx and get him the 40+ jumps down to Cache safely. Because you can't manage the station remotely 25,000 years from now.

I will never forget arriving in local and seeing all of our pilots sitting outside the station waiting to dock. Which is why someone renamed the station, "Dad Lost The Keys".

We lasted about a week.