My EVE Story
I started playing EVE Online 20 years ago when I was 15 years old. I took a break during college, came back about 12 years ago, and eventually joined a corp that found its way into nullsec with Brotherhood of Spacers Alliance.
Even when I was a noob, I loved PvP. I quickly became an FC, and that was really where I started learning what makes EVE work.
Good FCs create content. Good leadership keeps people together. And when you have both, you create a community that gives people a reason to log in every night. That’s still one of the biggest draws of EVE to me.
As my story continued, BOSS eventually moved from Tenal to the Drone Regions before folding back into one corp and joining TEST Alliance.
I ended up in the leadership of Star Frontiers, my corp, while we were part of TEST. I also got the opportunity to FC at a much larger scale and experience life in a major nullsec bloc as part of Legacy Coalition.
I enjoyed that part of my EVE career, and I learned a lot from it. But it was also my first real experience with the blue donut. There were times when we were traveling 30+ jumps just to find neutral players to shoot.
Eventually, some of us in my corp looked at that and said: this isn’t how we want to play EVE.
So we re-formed Brotherhood of Spacers. The idea was pretty simple. We wanted to be an independent, PvP-focused group that could create our own content. So, we moved to Venal. That’s where BOSS really became BOSS.
We focused heavily on BLOPs and medium-sized PvP. We fought people much larger than us, learned how to survive in NPC nullsec, and became a thorn in the side of quite a few large alliances and coalitions. And we had a hell of a lot of fun doing it.
That was really when my EVE career took off. BOSS became my home, and eventually I took over running the alliance. I’ve now had the privilege of leading BOSS for about a decade.
I’ve seen pretty much every side of running an alliance at this point. Recruiting people, losing people, building FC teams, diplomacy, logistics, wars, rebuilding after wars (being glassed), keeping people motivated, dealing with burnout, and trying to make sure that when people log in there is actually something fun to do.
But the biggest thing I’ve gotten out of it is the community. The friendships I’ve made through BOSS have gone way beyond internet spaceships. We’ve gone to EVE Vegas, EVE North, and we’ve been going to Fanfest for as long as I’ve been part of BOSS.
Some of the people I met because of EVE more than a decade ago are still people I talk to almost every day. That’s what makes EVE different from every other game I’ve played. And that’s a big reason why I’m running for CSM.
Areas of Expertise
My biggest area of expertise is obviously nullsec. But I’ve experienced nullsec in a lot of different ways.
I’ve lived in sov null. I’ve lived in NPC null. I’ve been part of one of the largest coalitions in the game. I’ve led an independent alliance living next door to those coalitions.
I’ve FC’d everything from small and medium-sized fleets to large coalition fleets.
I’ve spent years doing BLOPs, fighting outnumbered, dealing with diplomacy, building an alliance, recruiting, developing FCs, taking sov, losing space, moving regions, and figuring out how to keep a PvP alliance alive.
I think that gives me a perspective that is sometimes missing when we talk about nullsec. I understand why blocs exist. I’ve been in one. But I also know what EVE looks like when you’re the group trying to survive next door to one.
Why I’m Running
Recently an opportunity opened up in the Drone Regions and BOSS decided to take it. We moved in and started taking sov, and honestly, some of the medium-sized fighting we’ve had in Drones has been peak EVE for me.
Different alliances competing for space. People fighting over objectives. Diplomacy happening in the background. Deals being made. Deals falling apart. People escalating fights.
You start recognizing the FCs and groups you’re fighting every week. You develop actual neighbors—and sometimes you hate your neighbors. That’s EVE.
I want more groups to be able to experience that.
Right now I think there is a part of the nullsec ecosystem that has been missing for a long time. There needs to be something between being a small roaming PvP group and joining one of the major powers in the game.
I don’t have a problem with large blocs existing. Building organizations that large takes an insane amount of work, organization, logistics, and leadership. They’ve earned the advantages that come with that.
But joining one of those organizations shouldn’t feel like the only realistic path for a group that wants to live in sov nullsec.
I want more alliances to look at the map and think:
“We could actually go take that.”
Maybe they succeed. Maybe they get their asses kicked. That’s EVE. But trying should feel possible and I believe right now in the current climate it is not possible.
That’s the perspective I want to bring to CSM 21.
Power Projection
One of the biggest things I want to talk about is power projection. This is also something I don’t think has an easy answer.
Large alliances should be able to use their numbers. If you have thousands of players, hundreds of capitals, established infrastructure, and years of organization behind you, that should matter.
At the same time, geography needs to matter too.
If an organization can project overwhelming force across huge areas of nullsec too easily, every regional conflict has the potential to become a coalition-level conflict. A fight between two 500-person alliances suddenly isn’t really a fight between two 500-person alliances anymore.
I don’t want the solution to just be making travel miserable. Nobody wants to spend their night staring at jump fatigue timers or taking 50 gates because we decided that inconvenience equals balance.
What I want to look at is how we make location and commitment matter.
Where you stage should matter. Where you put your capitals should matter. What space you decide to defend should matter. And how far away you are from a fight should matter.
EVE is a massive universe. I want it to feel massive.
Resources and Reasons to Fight
Resources are another huge part of this.
When I talk about balancing resources, I don’t mean simply adding more ore, increasing bounties, or giving smaller alliances free stuff. I’m talking about what makes space worth owning.
Different parts of nullsec should have things that make people want to live there, defend them, invade their neighbors, or take risks to get access to them.
Resources can be one of the best natural conflict drivers in EVE.
If my neighbor has something I want, that’s interesting. If I can get everything I need while sitting safely in the same handful of systems, that’s less interesting.
I want CCP and the CSM to keep looking at how resources are distributed, how concentrated wealth can become, and whether those systems encourage people to spread out and interact with their neighbors.
And we have to recognize that resource changes affect a 300-person alliance very differently than they affect a coalition with tens of thousands of characters.
There isn’t going to be one magic number that fixes that. But it’s a conversation I want to be part of.
Conflict Drivers
More than anything, EVE needs reasons to fight.
CCP doesn’t need to tell us who to fight. Players are pretty good at figuring that part out ourselves.
Give us something worth fighting over. Resources. Space. Infrastructure. Strategic locations. Objectives.
Some of the best conflicts in EVE start over something relatively small and spiral completely out of control because players make them personal. That’s part of the magic of the game.
But not every meaningful objective needs to end with 5,000 characters in local. There should be objectives worth fighting over with 20 people, 50 people, 100 people, 500 people, and yes, thousands of people.
That creates opportunities for new FCs. It creates opportunities for smaller alliances. And it gives people reasons to undock.
Creating Space for the Middle
This is really what connects everything I’m talking about. I want there to be a healthy middle class in nullsec.
I want alliances to be able to grow from 50 people, to 100, to 500, to 1,000 and beyond without the obvious next step always being to join the nearest superpower.
That doesn’t mean protecting smaller alliances from PvP. Quite the opposite.
They should get attacked. They should lose ships. They should lose structures. They should lose wars. Some of them should lose their space. BOSS certainly has.
Failure is part of EVE.
But there needs to be enough opportunity that when one alliance gets knocked down, somebody else looks at that space and says:
“■■■■ it. Let’s try.”
That’s the EVE I want.
My goal isn’t to make nullsec hostile to large alliances.
My goal is to help make nullsec viable for more alliances.
What Players Can Expect From Me
I’m not running because I think I have all the answers. I don’t.
I’ve been playing this game for 20 years and EVE still regularly reminds me that I don’t know everything.
What I do have is a lot of experience. I’ve been a line member, an FC, a corp leader, and an alliance leader. I’ve lived inside a major coalition and spent years fighting against them. I’ve watched groups grow, collapse, rebuild, and disappear completely.
I’ve also spent enough time running an alliance to know that sometimes the person disagreeing with you has a point.
Players can expect me to listen.
I’ll talk to line members. I’ll talk to FCs. I’ll talk to alliance leaders. I’ll talk to bloc leaders. I’ll talk to the people we’re currently shooting.
And then I’ll bring that experience and those conversations with me when talking to CCP and the rest of the CSM.
I’m obviously going to have opinions. Anyone who has flown with me probably knows that already.
EVE has been part of my life since I was 15 years old. Twenty years later, I’m still here.
I’m still FCing (okay I still feed). I’m still running BOSS (or at least I think I am). I’m still getting excited about stupid spaceship fights that probably shouldn’t matter as much as they do.
And I’m still here because of the people I’ve met along the way.
That’s what I want to bring to CSM 21.
More reasons to fight. More opportunities to build something. And more groups willing to look at the map and say, “■■■■ it. Let’s try.”