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Axalon
Vice Admiral
Joined: June 15, 2003
Posts: 442
From: East Windsor, NJ, USA
|  Posted: 2006-06-15 19:01
Well, after consistently forgetting my past two DS birthdays, I finally remembered one!
***WARNING: Long-ass reminiscence ahead. If your attention span is equal to AdmBito's ability to miss planets, I suggest you just hit reply and post "Happy 3rd!" and pretend you read it all.***
I remember when I joined. It was in the 1.480 days, back when you didn't have these pesky shipyards, having stations in Admiral was actually plausible, an Fleet Admiral was as high as you can go.
I remember when I first discovered the jump key, and I was like "ZOMG WARPSPEED!" like the rest of the n00bs. I played a bunch, and was a happy camper, until I subscribed and found out that selling your ship parts for credits was bad and I ended up with -700 pres. I was too stubborn to reset my account, so I just worked my way out of that hole.
Warp a little later, it was 1.481, and I had gotten to the rank of captain and already had an affinity of getting pres SLOWLY. I finally got to the rank of 2RA and was like "OMG LIEK CARRIERDREADZ0RZ!" and basically used the Carrier Dread forever and ever.
1.482 came along and this was what I considered a high point for UGTO in the MV. This was when UEPG was, like, active and we actually had, you know, action. I contributed the way I could (by lagging out the enemy! Hooray for antiquated 3D engines!) and got up to 1RA, where I was like "OMG BATTLEDREADZ0RZ!" and started using the BD. I by then was semi-well known and, you know, people would say "hi". My favorite memory was that someone (the name escapes me) asked me to go get in my station. I had said that I was only a 1RA, and the person was shocked, because I was apparently good at combat. Go figure.
I then one day found a group of three guys off in the corner of the map with the clan tag "[BK]" and I whispered to them something along the lines of "Doing some clan ops?  ". They then invited me to join in and help and together we sigle-handedly took back the entire Struve system. Good times. The clan [BK] has since disbanded, though it is back now as [ICARUS], with about 6 times as many members.
I guess sometime between 1.482 and 1.483 I bagan to get bored of the game seeing as the MV was devoid of action. I could have gone the route of many and just mirved the whole thing and make FA, but bombing was never very exciting to me and I wanted to get the rank fair and square. This has caused me to stagnate at my current if-I-was-subbed rank of VA, but I was content like this (scratch that. BDs are now Admiral. Must resub.).
Nowadays I just lurk around the forums, occasionally inserting a witty remark here and there and advocating NVidia and alternative OS's. Oh, bashing Backy and his, ahem, "liberal" computer budget is fun too (I'm just jealous here with my circa 2001 computer  ).
And that's my story. If you actually read all that, I suggest you go outside, because if you have nothing better to do than read this, you need some hobbies. Actually, scratch that. Stay inside. Go into the MV. It wants you.
[ This Message was edited by: Axalon on 2006-06-15 19:02 ]
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2006-06-15 19:12
Circa 2020 bish!
Glad I could take the trip with you!
Here's to seeing 3 years of you 
*raises a graphics ca...
*raises a glass*
- Jack
p.s. Nvidia suck!
[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash *SL3* on 2006-06-15 19:13 ]
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Lacrosseian
Fleet Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: October 01, 2004
Posts: 1254
| Posted: 2006-06-15 19:14
Happy 1st 2nd and 3rd, and heres to a 4th
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
| Posted: 2006-06-15 19:29
Cheers mate!
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Ramius
Fleet Admiral
Agents
Joined: January 12, 2002
Posts: 894
From: Ramius
| Posted: 2006-06-15 20:41
Get to 4 years, noob.
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Jammy Pajamies
Admiral
Joined: October 08, 2004
Posts: 121
From: See Occupation
| Posted: 2006-06-15 21:04
happy happy birthday,to you! XD
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GothThug {C?}
Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 29, 2005
Posts: 2932
| Posted: 2006-06-15 21:47
happy birthday Axeh! oh by the way dont waste yer time with the battle dread its just gigantic floating target box ^^
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-RevenG-
Raven Warriors
Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 2673
| Posted: 2006-06-15 23:45
Happy 3rd mate!
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Seamus Rooke
Vice Admiral
Joined: July 02, 2005
Posts: 21
| Posted: 2006-06-16 00:02
happy 3rd!
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Maskerade
Grand Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 21, 2002
Posts: 638
From: Canada
| Posted: 2006-06-16 00:15
here's to 3 more *cheers*
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