Contest Submissions - Name Our Meeting Rooms – Round Two!

Vexor
When I undocked my first Gallente Vexor in June of YC110, with a full drone bay and those expensive Gauss guns loaded on the top rack, I immediately went out looking for a fight. I felt strong, and I wanted to test this new instrument of destruction which I had spent a rather uncomfortable amount of my mission rewards on. My first engagement was a humbling experience to say the least, but as my capsule entered warp and I left the scene of my Vexor’s annihilation a flame was kindled in my heart, and from that moment on I have been a helpless slave to the amazing thrill of space warfare.

I’d like to submit “the cofferdam” :face_with_monocle:

If you have a hallway with three rooms? Sin, Damnation, Hel

If you want to be nice to the locals have the names that they are familiar with Sleipnir, Ragnarok, Loki

If you want to make it more . . . community driven for gods sake have at least one room with a piece of art from Rixx in lieu of a quote.

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ATRON

The Atron deserves to have its name on a room - probably a small one because it’s a small ship.
With its comparatively low inertia modifier and 3 low slots it’s easy to bring its align time under 2 secs. The competition isn’t as good. A reasonably sized cargo hold makes it an ideal and cheap ship for fast and secure lowsec travel.
I have flown countless trade and courrier contract runs in hi and low on Atrons. Most of my wallet was earned in an Atron :slight_smile:
Sure, it doesn’t have the swagger of a Condor or a Slasher and it even looks a bit clumsy with its asymmetrical design and soft bulges, but that makes it all the more endearing to me.

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Tengu

Because this ship was the mainstay ship that got me from doing trial runs with different characters to finally, after about 4 months of paid game time, to be able to purchase my own 30 day plexes reliably. Afterward with improvements and refinements in fit and farming of missions I expanded and extended my repertoire finally moving into wormholes. I’ve since moved onto other ships for my activities, Stratios and Gila, but still remember fondly the old bird now ensconced in my hangar. I hear I am not the only one with fond memories of her either from PVE and PVP communities.

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APOSTLE (The Church)

"My Apostle, my bastion, my church.

It gives me fortitude so that I may continue this inquisition. Like a banner of old, it feeds the empires fleet strength against the heresy so present and infested in this place. This… New Eden.

So fitting that they call it thus, the place of original sin.

Through sacrifice, devotion and blood we will one day give rebirth to the Amarr. So that our lord will see that we are faithful, cleaned of sin and worthy once again to deliver us to EVE.

I do tire of these worlds, these heathens… but I will do the work."

Zosis, High Inquisitor of the Amarr Empire. excerpt of a discovered relic site datacore in the Genisis region.

(entry is the above quote, not including this blurb)
I just love the look of the Apostle especially with the True Amarr background and religious fanaticism. I hope one day to be able to make this a reality and have based my character to live this doctrine, cleansing New Eden one capsule at a time :blush:

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Drake - This was my dream ship back when I started playing in 2006 with trial accounts. When I finally paid up in Feb. of 2007 I was finally set to get one. It was more than worth it and many, many missions were flown throughout EVE solo, hanging out in our C3 wormhole and with my corpmates in AONE.
It was and is totally a delight to fly and fight. I still own several, it’s been downgraded and surpassed long ago by T3 cruisers, and other blingy things and I don’t care, I still love flying it.

Tempest

The first battleship I learned to fly and the first to do Level 4 PVE with. Amazingly agile, in both form and functions. After years of serving faithfully as the workhorse in Metropolis, I retired it to a low-sec system in Molden Heath, near the border to the Great Wildlands. Having ratted a heartful, one evening I scouted the way through B-VIP9 and further. The old lady followed, only to be met by a bubble camp at N-DQ0D! Tempest! I aligned to the Trust Partners Trading Post and took the bounding of the surrounding frigate herd. Just at the edge of the bubble, a mere second before the interdictor deployed another, I hit the warp button and she flew as free as ever to safety! The old faithful served well and true until her late demise in another combat.

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LEOPARD

“Risk vs Reward. Triumph vs Despair. This is new Eden where time is ISK.

I’m not one of these booster dosing flyboys or moon grinding lemmings. I have my fingers in a lot of pies to survive and when you’re not one to get your hands dirty you need to be agile and fast. This, is why the Leopard is my ship of choice.

I have investments all over the region and one needs to be personally seen to make sure investments continue to grow. I do have a certain lifestyle to uphold here you know.

Do I get hit sometimes? Suuure, but what’s a few ISK for being the fastest out there!”

Zero Gayne, man of many pies and few scruples.

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“Pnyx” could be a good name for a meeting room

The Pnyx, [ ( Πνύξ ) in ancient Greek language ] is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC, the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy

So by naming meeting rooms after ships, you are also naming them after animals, a software testing site, adjectives, the undead, and a couple of transitive verbs. Blimey, did you think this through?

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Merlin

The Merlin is great in a toe to toe fight. Get up in the enemies face and beat them down. When I first joined Pandemic Horde, I was given a Merlin, pointed at the enemy and told to get em’ tiger. This ship was my first PVP ship. I immediately lost it. I learned not to charge straight at an enemy, got a new Merlin and went back for more. Next time I was able to get a scram on the enemy and got on my first Killmail. I have loved PVP ever since. While Duncan has gone on to be a Logi pilot, my PVP main still occasionally grabs a Merlin and takes it for a spin.

She is a little slow, but if you underestimate her and let me get in range, you will die to my Merlin.

Svipul
Valkyries are women warriors, perhaps daughters of Odin. Valkyries choose who will die in battle, Valkyries bear the glorious to Valhalla. Svipul is a famous Valkrie, a powerful woman, a hand of fate. The amazing little Svipul destroyer finds opportunity with it’s powerful probes. With speed, agility, pilot skill and powerful cannons, the Svipul sweeps all of space reaping bounties, loot and the salty tears of opposing pilots. Larger ships may fall, smaller ships are snacks. Svipul: she fights hard to the very end even drained of capacitor. Some will go to Valhalla, after all. She is a woman, she is the way to Valhalla, she is Svipul.

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@Katia- Your feats are truly awe-inspiring, well worthy of the statue commemorating what you’ve accomplished.

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I think “The Phobos” is an ideal name.
Also the red colour. Red is used in many high profile, important, restricted and confidential areas.

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Charon
Large meeting venue for Human Resources compliance training exercises. The original Charon, Hades’ ferryman charged with carrying souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx, is an apt name for both the ponderous Caldari freighter and a room for conducting seemingly interminable, HR-mandated “training”.

Freighter’s unwieldy handling and glacial locomotion pace resulting in indescribably tedious journeys is a near-perfect metaphor for the mind-numbing marathons of mandatory employee training, where time elongates into geological periods of suffocating boredom and maddening frustration.

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Revelation (The Veldnaught)
From the idea to prove that even a solo player could pilot and mine in one of the (at the time) biggest of warships in New Eden. During YC107 I set out on the mission to get a Revelation built. During November in Amarr VIII (Oris) - Emperor Family Academy, component by component, the ship started to take form until its completion. On November 27th YC107 at 04:38 the alarm was set and the skill ‘Amarr Dreadnought Lv1’ completed, seconds later, the Revelation was piloted for the first time. The ship officially turned into ‘The Veldnaught’ around 04:55 as its first Modulated Deep Core Miner II’s and accompanying Veldspar crystals were fitted. Thus completing my goal and making history.

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Tengu
It’s a beautiful ship and I’ve owned the same one for over a decade. I got it all the way back when I was around 11 and would run L5 missions with my dad. It’s been a hair’s breath from exploding more times than I can count, especially when I came back to EVE last year and took some shots at Circadian Seekers. I escaped that fight with only a shred of hull left! Now adays the ship doesn’t see much use but it serves as a living time capsule of good times when I actually had a dad and all the events and fights it served in.

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Mor Rixx art is good for the soul!

In fact, I’d be willing to make custom art for each room! How cool would that be?

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