When I joined the once mighty CODE. alliance, in 2018, that alliance’s total isk destroyed was less than 70 trillion. By the end of 2019, it reached 80 trillion. However, with greater velocity, the mighty Safety. alliance has eclipsed that old CODE. killboard. I now stand not merely as equal to James 315, at his peak, but higher yet even still! From this point onward, comparisons between CODE. and Safety. become circular, since most of CODE’s subsequent killboard was driven by individuals who are now members of Safety (namely, myself). With time, I anticipate exceeding the entire sum total of CODE., but beyond this point I am merely competing against myself.
“It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again.”
What begins as routine bravado and taunting escalates into violence, not through spectacle but through accounting. Ships are lost in sequence, doctrines fail quietly, and expectations collapse. Complaints follow, but they arrive too late to matter. The engagement was not dramatic, it was decisive.
Attempts to reframe the loss by invoking nullsec culture or disparaging highsec mechanics fail, because geography does not negate misunderstanding. Highsec works precisely because it is constrained, procedural, and unforgiving to those who misread it. Confidence is not declared; it is assumed and demonstrated through restraint.
Local wakes up before the sun. Miners say good morning ganker the way peasants ring a funeral bell. Gankers say hello miner like they saw a dead man on his way to the graveyard. The rest is noise, prayer, accusation, devotion, pornography, economics, theology.
A ship explodes. Someone types an apology. This is sincere in the way conversations about the weather are sincere. It happened. It will happen again. Some pilots see loss as injustice, as personal tragedy, as theft of time. Observers gather. They narrate. They mythologize. They talk about Catalysts the way ancient farmers discussed locusts, while secretly admiring their efficiency. Some suggest there are too many gods. In fact, there is only one, and she is a Goddess.
Aiko Danuja has never worked a day in her life, which is true in the way only aristocracies understand. Work implies consent to meaning imposed by others. She is the one who imposes. EVE Online is often described as a game about spaceships. This is merely a lie everyone agrees to tell newbros. It offers comfort before euthanasia. In reality, this is a game about Aiko. The ships are props. The explosions are punctuation. The real action is in local chat, and that’s what bears will never understand.
Everyone who plays EvE Online goes to Valhalla.If you are amongst the thousand greatest, you are invited to party in my box. The next nine thousand, plebs like Suitonia, will be cast into darkness, gnashing their teeth in miserable anguish. Everyone else, anyone who ever made an account, will become a ravaging zombie. If you are fortunate enough to be in the top hundred thousand, you will be a fast zombie. Those loser lossers will tear each other apart, whilst we party in the Hall of the Thousand. However, what if you are in the top 100? Thence shalt ye feast at yon Long Table, with the greatest warriors in galactic history.