It was back in September 2006, 2 years ago nearly to the date. I had been living happily in 0.0 for some months when the strangers appeared for the first time. Most of my alliance, Barracudas, was in Empire participating in a mercenary war against FIX, so I was one of the few left behind. As it is, my sec. status was too low for Empire war, so my orders was to go rat as much as possible, to increase my wallet and repair my sec status.
By now, I was flying a Dominix when ratting, taking advantage of my rather good drone skills. My friendship with Non Serviam had evolved fast since the night he saved me. He too was often out either ratting or ready for PVP in his Dominix.
As I entered one of the main ratting systems in the area, I noticed some strangers. From scan, I was soon aware that they were happily ratting – they had a haulerspawn and was hauling it 2 systems away to the nearest station. If I had been more experienced, this would have been an excellent time for me to get into a PVP ship and get some kills…
The strangers in local immediately started talking to me as if we were old friends. As I have always been flying NBSI (Not Blue Shoot It) , I was not really ready to make friends with just anyone in local. This Commander Nicholas kept making private convos with me even though I closed them down. He was trying to convince me that he was in the middle of negotiations with my alliance leader – Ventosus – and that I was quite safe whenever they were around. Strangely, even though I was my CEOs confidential, I had not heard anything of this and was not really ready to trust his word on it.
While this Commander Nicholas was trying to sweettalk me, Non Serviam entered local in his Dominix. Commander Nicholas once more convoed me, trying to get me to tell him what the name of my Dominix was – so he could attack the right one, and not me, whom he wanted to befriend. What he did not realize, was that I was already ganged with Non Serviam and we were making plans on what to do in case they attacked…
This was my first of many encounter with Commander Nicholas – and one of the main reasons I always fly with auto-reject on…
