Some father-son time

So my son, Ceribus, has finished his training for the Retriever. A mid-grade mining barge for new miners. At the beginning we had my newest Corp mate (name withheld), and he was mining alongside Ceribus as I flew the Orca. I have a few mining bonus modules on my ship and a fair amount of training in Mining Operations Leadership. Ceribus is doing very well for first time ever mining. I am very proud of him. Once his training is complete he will be flying my Hulk. At that point, our profits should have a dramatic improvement. I hope to see him become a great Miner someday. Maybe even take my place standing on the Bridge of the Orca as its Captain. I know my wife is very proud of him.

The Sansha Slayer

So in doing missions for the State, I get a lot of Counter-Sansha operations. These are usually battleship infested war zones. Due to my excessive training and a 1.5 billion ISK ship, they don't stand a chance. Lately though, I have been getting more than the usual amount of missions against the Sansha. I don't know why. Intel I get from my Agent says that the Sansha are building their ranks and preparing for something big. Let's hope they aren't going to do something wild. Anyway, one particular mission, I had to use one warp gate after another. But the gates always seem to to leave me a few, more like 50, kilometers away from the next gate. As I puts along at 104 m/s, I kick on my armor tank and prep for the assault from the assorted Sansha ships guarding the next gate. About 20km out they finally realize I'm there. They begin firing everything they have at me. Being an armor tank, my shields drop almost instantly. My armor on the other hand, doesn't even notice the assault. Shame I don't have a paint repper. It gets torched off my ship and then I have to take my ugly but perfect armor Apocalypse Navy Issue back to HQ. Back to the story, Kreatus. So as they attempt to siege my ship, I casually slow-boat to the gate. Once there, I search my target list for Cruiser/Battlecruiser sized ships. There is only 40 of those flying around. I open fire and begin to take them out one by one. They explode and I move on to the Battleship class ships. Only half as many of those around. Once I fight them down to the last two, I kick out the drones and order them after the battleship I was targeting next. The ship explodes and the drones get hungry for the Frigate/Destroyer sized ships. They munch away and the little ships die one by one. As my drones do that, I kill the last battleship and wait for my drones to finish. When everything is dead i recall my drones and move on. About three "rooms" just like this. The last room though is a mess. Hundreds of ships of varying ships to fight through. Agent says kill them all or I don't get paid. So I take aim and land the first shots on select ships to irritate the whole lot of them. (I love a challenge.) I use the same method of Medium/Large/Small kill order with drones sprinkled in there. Once everything is dead I salvage all the wrecks. Can't let all that money go to waste. Salvage is a story for another day. I return to my Agent and say "I'm done!" To which he replies "Good. Here's your pay. Now either ask for another mission or go away." I'm not a fan of the guy but the job pays so I'll deal with him. And that's the story of killing Sansha just because the State said so.

Rock Collecting

So today I took my Corpie mining. He in his new Osprey and myself in my Orca. We began in Muvolailen belt 5 - 1. Common ores in large quantities.  We had a few pirate attacks but those were stopped through the use of combat drones. I don't plan to make any profit here but its good for my Corpie. He gets experience, ore, and some fleet bonuses. Fairly simple day in all. More will follow but each one with its own story. Had some good conversations about ship fits with the rest of the Alliance. Mostly Tengu and Drake fits but always good info. My Abaddon needs a new fit.....

The Crowd gathers...

Why, hello there! I'm Kreatus Lucina. I am here to tell the tales of myself, my corporation, and my family and friends. A synopsis of the events leading to this are rather to many to number so as I find myself in a slump for adventure I may regale you with adventure and excitement. I have a beautiful wife, Jessitell Lucina, who gave birth to my son, Ceribus. Jessitell has a sister Amanda Halsley, who I've worked with to start a corporation for new capsuleers in New Eden. Firestorm Mining Division, a small corp with myself, family, and a few friends. I have a close friend, Artemiz Enteri, who works with another corp but he has a life debt to pay to me so there are some things he will owe me for a long time. He has a wife but she doesn't do much from what I can tell. I have specialities in many areas, mining, Amarr ships and weapons, armor tanking, some shield tanking, can fly just about any standard ship, and assorted weapon types. I've been hard at work making money for some new implants and ship modifications but soon, my son and I will be mining the Muvolailen system until there isn't an asteroid in sight. I do on occasion fight for my home stations Super Corporation, Spacelane Patrol. The money is good and the enemies easy to defeat, but they tend to make a mess of my ship. Blasting my paint and custom designs into black char and bubbled ooze. Thank goodness I have the hook-up at my home station to get repainted every time I come back. As far as I'm concerned, life is good and the times are better. Here's to many a wonderful tale!