Recently, I read an outstanding story of one of the alliance pilots. A Caldari by the name of Vasco Lokarn. A well written story which he hopefully will share with people oustside the Ushra’Khan alliance one day. He spoke of his immortality and how he came to become a Warrior of the Ushra’khan.
On the anniversary of our alliance we sit among the festivities and ponder our existence and whether or not we have done any good. Have we merely gone out and become terrorists as some people claim or have we remained true to our roots and to those who have died before us? The billions destroyed in ISK, were they better spent in ships or in farm implements so that others may eat? Are we Gods?
I can’t help but laugh when I hear that. The image that many have of immortals are of naked men and women feasting on fruits and meats while washing it down with large volumes of an alcoholic ambrosia of some sort. I wish that were the case as I sit in a ship, held together but bailing wire and duct tape. I subsist off the meagre rewards offered up by Concord for hunting pirates and make enough to pay for ships that I destroy in order to beat back the ever increasing multitude of corporations that take up the lucrative slave trade. Relatively speaking, we are richer than any “mortal”, but I know of no one warrior that exemplifies this image that most beings in New Eden have of the Capsuleer class.
My “ambrosia” is, more often than not, a home made distillate of something that was either too old to eat or a random vegetable or fruit picked up by the last trading caravan that came through. Don’t get me wrong, our station has an excellent public house, but how often do we really sit in station? Fighting for the freedom of so many has it’s rewards, but they aren’t of the physical kind. My station bunk is hard, the food edible, the drink alcoholic. The air scrubbers in the stations are decent, but it’s been too long since I have actually breathed anything that closely resembled “fresh air”.
In short, immortality ain’t all it is cracked up to be. But I digress.
5 years…
Ushra’Khan has been fighting for freedom of the Minmatar people for Five years… Much has happened since then. I took up the banner nearly a year ago and have not looked back. Being a fledgling militia pilot I was in awe of the warriors whose names were whispered among the pilots in the Republic. Karn Mithralia, Lord Makk, Sapphrine, Lilan Khan, Wotlankor, Kerth Gersen, Zoolkahn, Ugleb and so many others too numerous to mention but all deserving more than praise. Their names will forever be in the history books of the Minmatar people. Their deeds forever spoken of in tales told around the family hearth. The loss of UNITY station so many years ago, a tragic day and tragic times and yet we have risen once again like some mythic creature and are stronger now.
Our resolve tempered by the fires of adversity. Our strength more than doubled. We have a new home but our goal is as it has always been:
We are The USHRA ‘KHAN
and
WE COME FOR OUR PEOPLE.
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