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My name is Aphiel Nightwood, and I'm a New Eden Capsuleer. Sit down and let's drink a cold Quafe while I tell you my story!

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> This is a roleplaying post as a character from the game [EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/signup?invc=b7017d12-5540-4175-aa58-370c16203192), a sci-fi/space MMORPG in which several thousands players play on a single-shard server and can choose their own in-game path, including PvP, PvE, Mining, Exploration, Industry, Hauling and Trading.
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### **The Birth of an Industrialist**

My family isn't rich. When I was young, I never imagined that I would become an almost-immortal Capsuleer, able to reincarnate on clones if I end up dying while I pilot a ship.

**I wanted to be a baker.** I didn't even wanted to space travel, I liked my life in the Assembly Plant.

But my parents sent me to the **School of Applied Knowledge**, considered the best school for aspiring engineers, so I could work directly with the major Caldari corporations.

After my gradutation, I had no other choice than became a full-time Industrialist. I set up my operations in the largest market hub of the galaxy: **Jita**.

**What's Industry in EVE Online?**
> *The industrial forces which form New Eden's markets, trade routes, and manufacturing structures are far more than meets the eye.
Every ship, module, and station available is a product of a series of events from the mining of ore to the reprocessing into minerals, through to construction as a usable product to be sold.
For every component of this journey, there are buyers, sellers, and those willing to make some cash by spinning the market in their favor.*

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### **The One who Paid for the Studies**

My cousin, **Luizeba Athens**, isn't like me. She was born into wealth and was trained, since a small child, to become a Capsuleer.

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And, while I enjoy the safety of the Jita Trading Hub, **she's avid for adventures**. She joined the ranks of a huge, powerful corporation called **Brave Collective**, and is a full-time explorer and combat pilot. She lives in the dangerous "**nullsec**" space, the lawless systems where there is no government and the CONCORD Police doesn't have jurisdiction: if you get attacked by a pirate or scammed by a con artist, **no one will come to help you**.

She's the one who paid for my studies, and also gave me a substantial loan to start my enterprise.

"*Loan*", if you know what I mean.

She's my de-facto boss: Mrs. Athens sends me the money and the richness she's able to amass while killing hundreds of pirates and exploring forbidden ancient ruins, and I reprocess it into useful ships and modules.

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### **I May Have Done a Small Mistake**

But **I've screwed things up**. I've spent a huge part of the money to discover blueprints of a very specific mining module... And I was going to corner the market and become rich! Filthy rich! It should have been profitable, I ran all the calculations! **And my spreadsheets never lie!**

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But several other industrialists had the exact same idea, and now **the market is flooded with this stupid product**. What I will be doing with several thousands of them? The market doesn't move this volume even in a whole month!

I'm not sure how I'm going to pull this one out. My cousin will literally kill me outside a capsule so I can't come back to life in a clone.

**This will be my end.**

I'm already imagining my tombstone: Aphiel Nightwood. Newcomer Industrialist. Honest Merchant. Assassinated by her own cousin due transforming all her fortune into useless mining equipment.

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Thanks for reading this roleplaying post, and until next time!

> *Unless stated otherwise, all images are 1) created and owned by me; 2) from the game featured in the post; or 3) royalty-free and usable for both personal/commercial usage from Pexels, Pixabay or Unsplash.
Thumbnail Background and "What's Industry" from EVE Marketing Material ([1](https://www.eveonline.com/now/eve-academy-industrialist))*

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