Geiss

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Geiss

Pilots Information
Name:	Geiss
Race:	Caldari
Bloodline:	Deteis
Gender:	Male
Pilots License:	2005-04-19
Starter Corp:	State War Academy
Current Corp:	AWE Corporation [AWECO]
Position:	Member

The Beginning

Geiss started playing Eve in April of 2005. The appeal of missiles that always hit, and shields being one further layer away from certain death, the Caldari race seemed appealing.

Starting in the Kisogo system, Geiss quickly got into ratting in the nearby systems as a form of income. A few weeks later, he'd trained the required skills and saved up enough ISK to buy his first Cruiser, a Caracal, and set out to Hagilur on 2005-05-11 as a first venture into 0.4 space. Within minutes of finding an asteroid belt spawn, a pirate Eve Warrior from the Choronzon Tribe warped into the belt in a Tempest and promptly destroyed Geiss' new Caracal. This single event was the seed that would start Geiss on an anti-pirate campaign for years to come and the creation of an anti-pirate corporation.

Zeta Aquilae

On 2005-05-13, two days after his encounter with Eve Warrior, Geiss founded the corporation Zeta Aquilae. It's mission was to counter the large pirate presence in the Heimatar region, around Rens where the corporation was based.

Geiss often organised regular "Frigate-athons" where corp members would all fight each other at an arena in Rokofur using a Frigate of their choice and a 1M ISK cap on spending. This proved very popular, with pilots from other nearby corporations also entering at times.

Geiss also spent a lot of time doing mission running based out of Rens, specialising in Security missions.

Eventually, after around 8 months, life in Empire felt too routine, and it was mutually agreed by the core corporation members that the corporation would disband and the pilots would go their separate ways. Some started their own corps, some quit the game, and some waited to see where others ended up.

One member, Amanda Cunningham set her eyes on joining Celestial Horizon, and spent several hours travelling to their nearest office. Unfortunately, her application was immediately refused by Rudedog on the basis that she was coming from a "mercenary corp". As Zeta Aquilae had never engaged in, nor advertised, any mercenary work whatsoever, it is still a puzzle where the basis of this inaccurate assumption originated.

Geiss, as a director of Zeta Aquilae, contacted Rudedog directly, and explained that he was wanting to move three corp members (including two real life girls) over to Celestial Horizon. This seemed to win his approval, to the point that instead of being offered a place in Celestial Horizon, he logged on an alt, Pikalex and offered all three members - Amanda Cunningham, Geiss, and Teresa Moonglow, a place in another corp he was closer to, Dragon's Rage.

Dragon's Rage

Geiss joined Dragon's Rage on 2006-01-19 with almost no 0.0 experience. He brought with him two members from his old corp. His first venture onto TeamSpeak hooked him up with the CEO, iqplayer, and they travelled down together from Esa to ZS-2LT in Ravens - some 50 jumps, stopping off at an outpost in VNGJ-U on the way. On arriving at ZS-2LT he got introduced to life living out of a POS. A project to build an Outpost had just started, and so he did the best that he could to collect loot from the Angel rats and donating it to the corp.

Geiss was an advocate of studying and understanding the physics and mathematics of Eve, and as such Geiss became notable for being a being a "forum whore" on the Dragon's Rage forums, frequently helping people out and posting over 300 posts with fittings advice, explanations of how new and old items in Eve work, in-depth analysis of items, tricks, tips, etc.

Geiss chose to specialise in Electronic Warfare and was often seen flying a Rook. He eventually boasted he had completed Level 5 skills in every skill that affected the Rook, its fittings, and it's operation in any way, available in the game. Geiss also became well known and respected in other corporations, both hostile and friendly, and was often greeted in Local by people all over the Eve universe.

Geiss founded a group called Crimson Blade which had the aim of bringing dedicated PvPers from the corp together to have organised regular roaming gangs, relying on experience, instinct, and intuition in combat rather than a chain of command and a cluttered TeamSpeak that inevitably broke down and failed.

False accusation of pirating

Geiss left Dragon's Rage 2008-02-06, after being falsely accused of pirating, despite killmail evidence and a security status of +5 that proved otherwise.

The official basis of the evidence was that a new member of the Crimson Blade group, Redclaws noticed that one of the other members had suggested pirating as something fun to do in a group email. At this time, it should be noted, Dragon's Rage was in a state of disarray after the CEO left, and most core members had only been logging on to skill swap for months. Many good players felt life in Dragon's Rage was extremely boring. Dragon's Rage had a strict non-piracy rule, but as Crimson Blade had a policy of hearing every member's voice, the email was there for all to see.

Of course, it was just a suggestion by one member, not a decision to go pirating by anybody's standards. However, Redclaws, in his typical arrogant way, passed on this out of context information to the directors, and as a result, Geiss, along with three other members, were removed from the corp, two of which had never pirated in their life and had in fact been wholly anti-pirate.

Ironically, it was admitted by Redclaws on the corp forums that he knew Geiss and Teresa Moonglow had never been pirating. It also became apparent later that Redclaws had himself been on a number of pirating expeditions with an ex-Dragon's Rage member belonging to a -10 standing corp Infinitus Odium. Yet, despite Dragon's Rage's strict rule of not pirating, and the admission of his lie about other people pirating, which resulted in 4 members being kicked, Redclaws remains a director.

Despite supposedly always discussing any reasons to remove corp members with all directors, other directors gave entirely different reasons as to why people were removed. Kroolish, for example, stated that the corp was downsizing considerably, and reverting back to a state where they could act as a small group again. However, this was proved to be entirely untrue as the same day a recruitment post appeared on the Eve Online forums for Dragon's Rage looking for new members. Two other directors, on being asked, had no idea why these people were being kicked out at all other than what was stated in a corp-mail about them supposedly pirating.

Based on the above evidence, it became clear that the pirating reason given was nothing more than a poor cover story, or an excuse, to remove certain corp members. Until 2008-06-28, no true, verifiable, or justifiable reason has ever been given as to why Geiss or Teresa Moonglow were kicked out of the corp. To this day, the only person that has expressed any direct and original wish to remove these people from the corp has been Redclaws. Everyone else have seemingly only acted upon the information Redclaws gave them, which in every case has either been completely wrong or made up, or a highly distorted and ignorant personal view of events.

On 2008-02-19 18:28:23, RedClaws then removed all record of these events from the Dragon's Rage page as, obviously, they painted the corporation in a bad light. These edits were later undone by an administrator. As a compromise, on 2008-05-19 13:59:46, Geiss removed two sections from the corporation page that RedClaws had previously tried to remove creating this version, but this was not enough for him, as on 2008-05-27 12:24 he eve-mailed Geiss threatening Geiss' real life partner, Teresa Moonglow. As a result, Geiss felt that for the sake of his partner's well-being, to revert back to a previous version.

On 2008-06-28, RedClaws admitted on the Kugutsumen forum that "You were allowed to stay cause of iq, once he was gone we felt we needed to get rid of you.".

To put this in context, back in 2006, Dragon's Rage had (or still has) a corp thief. Some ships had gone missing from the Ship Maintenance Array at a POS.

Geiss' partner, Teresa Moonglow, would help new corp members by fitting up Raven's for them with high-end rat loot she had collected herself. This involved people trading her their Raven's for a short time while they were fitted. In one case, a new corp member had traded her a Raven for fitting on the understanding she could return it to him when he next logged on in a few days. This Raven had been previously stolen from the Ship Maintenance Array by someone.

For a few days, Teresa was in possession of the ship. During that time, the insurance on the ship expired, and the original owner of the ship, who had taken out the insurance, received an email that contained the current ship's name. The corp member's hangers were searched and, of course, the ship with that name was found in Teresa's hanger.

"iq" refers to iqplayer, who was the CEO of Dragon's Rage at the time. He had his suspicions of who the corp thief was based on a list of who had the skills required to fly the various types of stolen ships from the Ship Maintenance Array. As the new corp member who supplied Teresa with the Raven did not have these skills, and when questioned stated that he was traded the Raven by one of the directors (who did have all of the skills), iqplayer made a decision to not inform the other directors of his knowledge of the full circumstances as to how the ship ended up in Teresa's hanger in order to see what further details would come to light. As he knew Teresa was not the thief, he also indicated to them that while the ship was found in her hanger, she was not to be removed from the corp and that was to be the end of it.

Unfortunately for Teresa, iqplayer's decision did not hold after he stopped playing the game. While it may be argued that RedClaws did not know these details at the time, and hence thought he had good reason to remove Teresa from the corp, there has still been no reason given as to why Geiss was removed.

Logistical Anomaly

Geiss joined Logistical Anomaly on 2008-02-07, following several ex-members of Dragon's Rage that had left the corporation looking to find fun in the game again, but due to real life constraints wasn't playing Eve much throughout this time.

AWE Corporation

On 2008-06-27, Geiss joined AWE Corporation. Geiss did not immediately join AWE Corporation after leaving Dragon's Rage because he had highly negative beliefs about AWE Corporation, which were repeatedly drilled into him by various members of Dragon's Rage.

After Geiss' partner, Teresa Moonglow, joined AWE Corporation, it became readily apparent how ignorant his beliefs about AWE Corporation were.

Also, Geiss felt it would cause friction due to Dragon's Rage being in the same alliance as AWE Corporation, and the assumption that AWE Corporation would be aware of the fallacious information (see above) surrounding the reasons for Geiss being removed from Dragon's Rage.

However, Dragon's Rage chose to leave the Intrepid Crossing alliance after tensions between them and AWE Corporation, that had been going on for years, escalated to breaking point.

By this time, Geiss' opinion of AWE Corporation had changed completely, and he applied to join AWE Corporation and was immediately accepted.

The end, and beyond

Geiss continued to be active in AWE Corporation for several months, but life in Eve was never quite the same as it was during his time in ZS-2LT during 2006, when Dragon's Rage was, in his opinion, the best corp in Eve.

The greatness of Dragon's Rage was in no small part down to the corp having a great leader, player, and friend, known as iqplayer, the efforts of some of the many members of Ascendant Frontier creating a great 0.0 market and infrastructure, and of course the close-knit group of friends that Geiss had within Dragon's Rage and AWE Corporation during that time.

Geiss liked to remind people that "all things end", and unfortunately things did. ZS-2LT was lost, Ascendant Frontier fell, leaders changed, and perhaps in time things might have recovered after moving to Drone Space. However, the despicable actions of RedClaws permanently shattered what little remained of the "good old times" and manipulated people into taking the wrong side for the wrong reasons.

As time went on, Geiss realised things would never be the same again, or as fun as they used to be, because the fun was with those people, at that time, in that place, and too many things had changed. The ashes of what remained just served as a saddening reminder to Geiss of what once was...

Geiss left the colony for a better life - free at last from the horrors of his youth. But he never forgot the ones they called "The Dragons".