-Author: Rinas Rylos
-Rank: CEO
-Corporation: Rinas' Raiders (R.R.A.S.)
-Date: 115.05.20
So...uh....things have changed a bit since my last entry. Just a tad, but as it happens I am now the CEO of my own corporation.
....Yeah.
Truth be told, I'd had it in my head that HAI wasn't really the corp I was looking for in the first place. Don't get me wrong, they've got good people in there, and they're decent on the battlefield, they just didn't really seem to have much drive outside of the same old bullshit contracts. I'm all for taking money from idiot factions that can't be bothered to actually fight their own battles, but ever since Kaz asked me about why I fight, it's been nagging at me more than a single piece of spam in my inbox. Seeing the Doc with his family just made me question it all the more; All the blood and war that I'm now dedicated to...what's it supposed to mean? Not just for Eden, but for me personally? I started pondering it in my offtime, and I still have a hard time occasionally remembering that I'm more than the sum of my experience on the battlefield and the ISK cost of my weapons. I have family, even if we barely talk anymore, and I have Kaz and other friends, and the Doc, and...well, I have this diary. I'm not just a warm body that can shoot a weapon.
But I'm not stupid, either. I'm only one gal in the whole of New Eden, so I'm not about to start suddenly conquering planets and shit all by my lonesome. So after the initial paperwork cleared, on 115.05.18 Rinas' Raiders were born...which at the time was pretty much just Kaz and I since he was kind enough to hop ship with me. We've doubled our numbers since then (for all that good that does me) though I've set about advertising for more. So you're probably wondering what's the purpose of our corporation? World conquest? To stick it to the empires, or even the other corps?
ISK. It's...as simple as it sounds. We're mercs already, but why limit ourselves to the four empires and all their little proxy factions? At this point the bigger merc corporations are swinging around more ISK in a few days than I could make in a month, so why not profit off them? It lets me have an impact on the world without completely fucking me over if I lose, and on top of it I get a nice fat paycheck. In return, these corps gain the ability to call upon my considerable skills on the battlefield to bear against their enemies. Will I always win? Probably not, but if we lose than I can be damn sure it won't be because I fucked up. I'm good, but I'm not one-woman-army-against-a-trained-corp good.
With that said....most of the past few days have been negotiating the terms for such a thing with various corps. Naturally, they want reassurance that they'll be both getting the bang worth their buck, and that said bang won't be against them because their enemies offered. For the former, they've wanted me to put -a lot- of cash down before even going out on trials. Cash that I neither have, nor would give them if I could. There's cheaper ways of showing my skill, and while I'm all for creating an amicable relationship between these people and myself, I'm not about to prostrate myself just so that there'll be a -chance- they'll hire us. I might be a mercenary but I've still got my dignity, for fuck's sake.
As for the latter, given the reports I've had coming in about spies and betrayals all over the board, I can't say I'm exactly surprised that they want some kind of proof I won't just screw them over the second a better deal comes along. I admitted they had a point, when Kaz replied that that would create the shittiest business for us ever. Who would hire mercs that would just turn on you the second someone offered a bigger paycheck? No, I'm all for getting paid, but not at the expense of trust. If this corp is going to succeed, then it will have to show that it's a force to be reckoned with, and that we can be trusted not to turn on our employers. We might be deadly, but we will be honest.
Heh. I think I might've underestimated what I've started here.
-End Log.
....Yeah.
Truth be told, I'd had it in my head that HAI wasn't really the corp I was looking for in the first place. Don't get me wrong, they've got good people in there, and they're decent on the battlefield, they just didn't really seem to have much drive outside of the same old bullshit contracts. I'm all for taking money from idiot factions that can't be bothered to actually fight their own battles, but ever since Kaz asked me about why I fight, it's been nagging at me more than a single piece of spam in my inbox. Seeing the Doc with his family just made me question it all the more; All the blood and war that I'm now dedicated to...what's it supposed to mean? Not just for Eden, but for me personally? I started pondering it in my offtime, and I still have a hard time occasionally remembering that I'm more than the sum of my experience on the battlefield and the ISK cost of my weapons. I have family, even if we barely talk anymore, and I have Kaz and other friends, and the Doc, and...well, I have this diary. I'm not just a warm body that can shoot a weapon.
But I'm not stupid, either. I'm only one gal in the whole of New Eden, so I'm not about to start suddenly conquering planets and shit all by my lonesome. So after the initial paperwork cleared, on 115.05.18 Rinas' Raiders were born...which at the time was pretty much just Kaz and I since he was kind enough to hop ship with me. We've doubled our numbers since then (for all that good that does me) though I've set about advertising for more. So you're probably wondering what's the purpose of our corporation? World conquest? To stick it to the empires, or even the other corps?
ISK. It's...as simple as it sounds. We're mercs already, but why limit ourselves to the four empires and all their little proxy factions? At this point the bigger merc corporations are swinging around more ISK in a few days than I could make in a month, so why not profit off them? It lets me have an impact on the world without completely fucking me over if I lose, and on top of it I get a nice fat paycheck. In return, these corps gain the ability to call upon my considerable skills on the battlefield to bear against their enemies. Will I always win? Probably not, but if we lose than I can be damn sure it won't be because I fucked up. I'm good, but I'm not one-woman-army-against-a-trained-corp good.
With that said....most of the past few days have been negotiating the terms for such a thing with various corps. Naturally, they want reassurance that they'll be both getting the bang worth their buck, and that said bang won't be against them because their enemies offered. For the former, they've wanted me to put -a lot- of cash down before even going out on trials. Cash that I neither have, nor would give them if I could. There's cheaper ways of showing my skill, and while I'm all for creating an amicable relationship between these people and myself, I'm not about to prostrate myself just so that there'll be a -chance- they'll hire us. I might be a mercenary but I've still got my dignity, for fuck's sake.
As for the latter, given the reports I've had coming in about spies and betrayals all over the board, I can't say I'm exactly surprised that they want some kind of proof I won't just screw them over the second a better deal comes along. I admitted they had a point, when Kaz replied that that would create the shittiest business for us ever. Who would hire mercs that would just turn on you the second someone offered a bigger paycheck? No, I'm all for getting paid, but not at the expense of trust. If this corp is going to succeed, then it will have to show that it's a force to be reckoned with, and that we can be trusted not to turn on our employers. We might be deadly, but we will be honest.
Heh. I think I might've underestimated what I've started here.
-End Log.
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