My name is Valgore Meurte.
I am a Capsuleer and a self proclaimed Pirate. I would like to tell you that I am one out of need or necessity, but that is not the case. I am because I can be, I enjoy it. It is not a simple life to lead in New Eden, but it is the one I lead none the less.
I started out like most capsuleers, lost and confused. Doing whatever it was that I could do to make isk. Just wondering through the vastness of space hoping to make something out of myself. I tried working for a few of the NPC(Non-podpilot controlled) corps. But it felt dirty, wrong some how. Me going out and destroying whole asteroid colonies of people, wiping out whole fleets of non-capsuleer ships just to make a little isk. It lead me to join The Tal'Shair, we were all about taking what we wanted and trying new things. We weren't exactly pirates, more like opportunist. It was good while it lasted. Like most capsuleer corps back then, it fail apart and I had to find a new way.
So me and a mate of mine started roaming around New Eden looking for a place to call home. One day he convoed me stating that he had been looking on the recruitment broads and found what looked like a good corp to join. After taking a look myself and needing a place to go, I signed up. It was The Ronin Syndicate, led by Graff and Ivan En'Vac. What a ragtag group of guys, they had missioners, traders, explores, miners, industrialist, you name it someone was doing it. Including combat ops through lowsec, which is what I was looking for without knowing it.
A few days after I joined, the CEO, Graff hops on coms and states they we are going on a lowsec roam to get some of the younger pilots some combat experience. That the corp was looking into taking on some merc contracts and we needed to get used to fighting as a gang. I got asked to be scout and tackler, so I hopped in a Rifter and we headed out. First into Egghelende, then to Alliette, then through Stegete, and finally into Ravarin. Thats where we found our target, a Navy issued Megathron battleship. Then everything happened, I went in and got tackle, then the rest of our fleet came, then his back up arrived. It was absolute chaos to me, then clarity hit, his back up started going down one by one, his tank was failing, we were winning this engagemnt. It donned on me then, this is what I wanted do most of all. Go out, find a target, engage and see what happens.
I finally felt alive after becoming a immortal capsuleer. After the Mega went down and we controlled the field, with my ship sitting there while I was spasming in the fluid of my pod it hit me that I didn't fell any guilt about destroying any of the ships we had just destroyed. I really cant explain how fast it happened, but my mind had processed everything and came to one conclusion, that this is what I needed to do. That the only time it was ok for me to destroy and kill to make a living was when I was destroying, killing, and taking from those that were my equals, my fellow capsuleers. Those that no matter what happened would see another day.
After that my accent in to piracy was unavoidable. Daily lowsec roams, and gate camping became second nature to me. The Ronin Syndicate and it members went criminal shortly afterwards.
Then one day, I got the word that Graff was stepping down as CEO and Ivan was taking over. It was long after that when Ivan contacted us stating that he was leaving as well to join a corp that was preparing to capture and hold sovereignty of some piece of nullsec. Most of us followed suit, myself included. But it wasn't for me, I stopped working for the factions to get away from what was going on out there, so I left that corp and went back to being a wanderer.
After a couple of months of soloing it, that old buddy of mine contacted me again to tell me about the corp he had joined. Said I should check them out and see about applying. So I did. It was The Tuskers, and they happened to have open recruitment at the time. So I at first opportunity joined them on a roam so I could get to see how they operated. It was Man Barthelme, Tressin Khyine who I hooked up with in Grateseir as they headed toward Amamake. The whole way there it seemed like nothing was going to happend. Finally we jumped into Dal which seemed lively. So we started scouting around for targets. I happened across a Thrasher and engaged it and called them over. It went down as they landed, but as we started to warp out a Cynabal landed, I got tackle and we melted it as fast as we could.
It was after the fight that Man Barthelme got on coms and told me that I should apply and that he would like to fly with me again that made up my mind. It was the casual way he did it, and the casual we had went about the roam with him FCing it that made me feel at home. So the next day I went to put my app in at their HQ when I ended up on another impromptu roam with a few Tuskers. We got a few kills in and I got my app in and became a Tusker.
