Saturday Coffee Reads
Every Saturday, if life permits, I spend the morning scouring forums, catching up on longer blog reading, and researching various aspects of EVE while I sip on some coffee and throw down a bagel. Here’s where I share the more interesting findings.
I made a point this week to spend my morning catching up on a certain piece of fan-fiction I’ve been putting off for too long, and as such I’m dedicating this post entirely to Kirith Kodachi’s Fiction Friday series. If you haven’t read it already, its a first-person narrative that seems to be an account of Kirith’s origin story (I say “seems to be” only because the story is still in progress). Each entry is chronological, so in order to grasp it, you have to start from the beginning—but after doing just that this morning, I can say it’s well worth the time.
Aside from the insight we get into Kirith’s character, fiction writing like this truly colors the world of New Eden for me, revealing all the planetary and station-side sights and situations we only imagine while saddled in our pods.
Below are each of the chapters so far. Catch up, and you’ll be as ready to get to next Friday as I am:
- Chapter One - Kirith and his brother, Korannon, prepare to leave a station hangar en route to Hollis for a new business opportunity.
- Chapter Two - The opportunities and realities of a metropolis give the budding business men new perspective.
- Chapter Three - Kirith’s first encounter with a capsuleer, and business propositions discussed.
- Chapter Four - The true scale of a space station.
- Chapter Five - The brother’s get their first glimpse at the underbelly of illegal trading and the moral sacrifices it harbors.
- Chapter Six - Kirith gets an unexpected business inspection.
- Chapter Seven - Oops.
