“And this is Xious, our most insane member yet…”

I shook my hand with this funny looking Caldari as we walked, we were in a hurry.

“So here are details for the alliance coms for you to get hooked up, also subscribe to these channels on your datapad for intelligence reports.” Xi said to me over fleet communications after we split up to get into our respective ships.

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Apocrypha intro.  I find it a little lacking, but enjoy!

A deadspace that seemed to be a hideout for the local Guristas.  A broken Quafe sign hung broken.  None of them were around at the entrance gate, and in an instant my cruiser was slung into the complex.

Now within, and before I came to my senses, more than 3 dozens of Gurista cruisers surrounded me.  In less than 5 minutes my cruiser had became nothing more than a pitiful wreck the wild pirates were scrambling towards.

I was the sole survivor

Hurriedly I brought my escape pod to align to a moon and warped off, unknowingly what was going to meet me there.

Ah!  A shuttle of the Gallentean.  I approached as fast as I could and entered codes to try to make it accept my pod.  A few minutes of tinkering and hacking solved the problem and I was in.

Salvation.

I must admit, over the last few days, I have committed some questionable crimes.

Mostly it was just scanning down mission runners and etcetera in my home system, but doing so led me to a few other fun opportunities.

One example, was when I probed down a Hulk running a mining mission.  He had to mine a certain amount of a special kind of “Dark Ochre” from this single asteroid in his mission deadspace.  I thought maybe I can have some fun with this guy.  When I first arrived on the scene, his Hulk sat motionless close to some hallowed out asteroids.  I quickly pulled out my mining Rokh, thank goodness it was fitted and ready to go, and flew back to the rock.  The Hulk pilot still remained motionless where he had been.  So I turned all 8 of my Miner II’s on this asteroid and began jettisoning it out.

About five minutes later the pilot finally starts to approach the asteroid and by that time about 1/4 of it had been mined out, by me!  The brave guy messaged me telling me its mission ore and I play it off innocently.  So at that time, I had mined about 1/4 of his stuff for him and its all sitting in a jetcan.  By the way, you couldn’t sell this stuff out on the open market.  I tried to make him pay me for the stuff, about 1 million ISK.  He disagreed and so I went back to station to grab my Blarpy (blaster Harpy) and quickly got back to my can of ore.

Just as you know it, he began to align to a station while his approach vector would pass him by the can… I had no choice but to lock, scram, web, and terminate that poor can.

When the deed was done, I left.

The second thing that happened to me was my agent told me of a mission called “Lights Out”.  In a very subtle way she told me to pay a “visit” to a “friend” and see if that certain “friend” wanted to negotiate a “deal”.  When I got to the meeting place, this “friend” brought more “friends” and I was “forced” to “defend” myself.  Seeing what was round me, I noticed there was a Gallentean Starbase and decided to do some “cleaning up” for my Caldari friends.  When the structure was “removed” I scooped up the “garbage” left behind and left on my merry way!

What I got from the “wrecks” were lots of good salvage, a Caldari Shuttle blueprint copy, POS fuels, and some charters.  Good rewards for keeping space “clean” eh?

That’s all I’ve been really up to Santa.

Oh and I would wish for a brand new ship this Christmas!  I didn’t like the 10 Carbon you dropped off for me last year mkay?