Eve Correspondent Contest, Marc Scaurus

In Eve I am known by the name Marc Scaurus. Scaurus is a bit of a criminal, roaming the gray areas of Eve known as low security space in search of targets of opportunity and profit. He is full -10, unwelcome in high security and scorned by the righteous. Whenever I am not logged in and shooting stuff, I am writing for my blog Wanderlust, recording episodes of Ransoms and Roams (Eve Online’s only pirate-centric podcast), and keeping up with all the events of Eve on Twitter.

All of these things lead me to believe I would make for a great correspondent for Guild Launch’s Eve Online ‘bureau’. I have a proven history of writing clear, concise content. I am connected to the happenings of Eve Online and often provide my opinions on such matters as devblogs, community uprisings and the myriad silly things that happen in Eve. Most importantly, I have a real passion for Eve and love sharing the uniqueness of this game with anyone and everyone willing to give me a few moments.

I have been playing Eve Online for just over four years now, beginning as a miner and mission runner in typical newb fashion back in 2007.  Over the course of those four years, I have spent time doing everything and anything associated with shooting people: high security space wars; null security conflicts both in NPC and sovereignty space; high security ganking (a la Hulkageddon); and of course low sec piracy, which I have found to be my bread and butter over the years.  My knowledge of the game is nowhere near complete. You would have to be a fool to claim a total mastery of Eve. However, in the areas of PVP, low security space and piracy I am quite confident in my knowledge of the game.

Further, I have served as alliance executor in the past as well as corporation director for one of the longest running pirate corps in the game (Monsters, now mostly defunct unfortunately). I am currently the CEO of Sinners. and would be happy to spread the word to those wondering about corporate leadership in Eve, which as many will attest is a completely different beast in many aspects from leading guilds in WoW, Rift, etc.

Finally, I also have an extensive gaming background which would allow me to elaborate, if needed, on certain subjects in such a way that brand new Eve players would understand. While Eve is a different beast entirely from some of the more mainstream titles, certain analogies and comparisons can be made to activities and structures from more popular games, allowing those with a vague curiosity in CCP’s product to glean better insight into the machinations of Eve Online before they ever step one foot in a pod.