Denak Kalamari
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
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Posted - 2014.01.23 16:59:00 -
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I have been around for well over a year, I officially downloaded DUST on December 1st 2012, but my decision to purchase DUST goes back a little farther.
During the 2010 - 2012 period, I played a ton of different PC FPS and racing games. But with the low budget and less-than-ideal PC a kid could have, I mostly stuck to F2P shooters and other semi-graphics intensive games. I remember playing a ton of Team Fortress 2 and various Battlefield titles, including Bad Company 2, Heroes and Play4Free. I also played many games from the Need For Speed franchise, and remains my favorite racing franchise to date, regardless of its missteps.
But anyway, in 2010 I started looking into MMORPGs, and my first kind-of MMORPG was Need For Speed World, just after it had launched. I played it for about a year before I gave up, but I found an awesome community in it that I stuck around to for years to come. From this community and a few purchases by my brother, I started dabbing into other MMORPGs, Guild Wars being my first actual one. Then at the spring of 2011 I joined Star Trek Online, where my interest in sci-fi really sparked to life. A few months before that I also joined a roleplaying group within the World community I joined, and by the time I began playing STO I was seriously hooked to doing more. In the summer of 2012 I joined the Star Wars The Old Republic closed beta, so I ended up juggling my time with that and STO for the entire summer.
So soon afterwards I entered STO, I joined a fleet with an active roleplaying group, and most of 2011 was spent with roleplaying in STO. Come 2012, and I found myself a tiny indie MMO by the name of Face of Mankind, based in a cyberpunk future which I played heavily for a while. By this time I had already found EVE Online, and even downloaded the trial to try it out a bit. I had no clue what I was doing though, so I tried it for a week and then went back to FoM. But when schools ended and the summer holiday began, my PC broke down and I was cut off from gaming for the entire summer. That is until my summer job ended and I got my pay. With that I bought my PS3.
My brother already owned one previously, and I often used it to play my first console shooter Battlefield 3 until I got my own copy of the game and the PS3 at the end of August in 2012. The rest of autumn I played BF3 together with my brother, and occasionally browsing the PS Store for games to buy. I noticed this weird DUST 514 game there which was apparently in closed beta, so I looked it up from the internet. Since it was linked to the MMO EVE Online, I decided to sign up for the closed beta and continue honing my console FPS skills with BF3. Come December 1st 2012 and I finally decided to buy the merc pack and join the closed beta. A few days later I also got an invitation to the beta, so I decided to give to my brother(he never really used it though). I used a name that I had used before in another community and the race from my very brief time in the EVE online trial. That's when my mercenary career started.
The very first moments after logging in was spent exploring the quarters and looking through all the menus, before I joined my first battle. Back in my PC FPS times, I had excelled at generally using sniper rifles, so I instantly spawned in with a sniper rifle and tried shooting a few people. Didn't end so successfully. But I kept playing and trying out different things from the market, I finally decided to use the HK4M shotguns and Dragonfly suit I got from the merc pack. Just after 2013 hit, I began talking to DCY4 in my NPC corp chat, which happened to be Squagga's alt. Before that I had been in this random corp called Skynet Mercs which was very short-lived before I left it. Squagga got me into joining CrimeWave Syndicate since from the few times we squadded we did quite well.
So with all the aurum I had I bought UVTs and SP boosters, and I was nudged towards skilling into scout shotgunner suits, which I already had some experience of from using dragonfly suits and HK4M shotguns. I trained myself with the people in CrimeWave and gained many good friends from there. Then Fanfest came and Uprising was getting close, and suddenly all the guys from CrimeWave were being moved to another corp in the EoN alliance, which was just starting at the time. Drama happened, but I stuck around for a while.
This was when I rediscovered EVE Online as well. I created a new character and named it Denak Calamari, and began my industry career. The disputes within CrimeWave members got worse, until I finally left and joined the mining corp I found in EVE. My DUST character's stay in this mining corp was short lived before I joined Burgezz. With them I seriously looked into the more competitive side of EVE, and through the days upon days or practicing with shotgun scouts, I got into their PC team, just weeks before Uprising launched.
By this point I had really started looking into EVE RP, and I dug around a bit. Eventually I found The Summit and its forum Intergalactic Summit. I honed my character's Intaki background a bit and began roleplaying. As Uprising launched, I was getting more and more interested in the RP scene. From this I eventually came to the decision of leaving Buegezz and join an RP corp, the Intaki Liberation Front. I've been stuck in that road ever since.
Fast forward to now, I'm a dedicated scout, a well known figure within EVE RP and one of the founding members of the DUST RP scene, and an active member of the Intaki Liberation Front. A lot of things have happened, both good and bad, but I am very happy what what I am right now. I'll continue playing DUST, and I hope that I'll get to see its vision fully realized some time, some day.
Grahisha of ILF // Writer of Thoughts of a Clone Soldier // Latest entry published Jan. 14th
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