Hi there, I'm XxJaNxX or Jan in real life.

I don't know where to begin but I guess I'll start from beginning. I'm afraid to admit but I broke the terms of service for the game when I started playing at only 9 years old, I'm really sorry CCP but I'm of age now! I used to watch my father play Eve Online practically everyday. One of the first memories from Eve Online was when my father yelled at me, which was actually before I started playing Eve. It was in 2008 when my dad (ingame "Deff") was doing Level 4 missions in highsec. He just recently acquired his brand new Raven Navy Issue. For him? It was a huge deal. I watched him in awe blitzing through Level 4 missions and every now and then he let me activate the missiles. What a thrill that was. Long story short because I know I'm gonna make this long, I remember specifically my dad went to the bathroom and let me finish the mission. I ended up killing all the NPC's and then got bored so I locked up a wreck and decided to shoot it. All of the sudden massive CONCORD fleet showed up and blew up the Raven Navy Issue. I immediately started crying and dad came rushing to the laptop, getting angry and yelling. Safe to say, key memory for me.

Aside from the getting yelled at, watching my dad play Eve Online is honestly what pushed me to start playing myself.

Fast forward to 2009 when I started my character. My dad was a Director in one of the oldest Eve Corporations, Eve Defence Force. Of course I joined and he helped me skill up into ships quickly. I never had to rat or mine for ISK, he always helped me out with it. So all I did was PVP, I took out ships I had skills to fly for and went into blazing fire. I died and cried to my dad for a new one. This went on and on. Of course I also did some stupid stuff. I got kicked from the corp first time because I shot a blue, and because of that I ended up joining another corp temporarily until my dad convinced the directors to allow me to return. Mind you if you look at my character's employment history you will notice I got kicked twice. Who can blame me though right? I was very young at the time. Did I forget to mention I have an older brother? Yeah, and he plays Eve too. (ingame "Bigy"). He dared me to shoot jump bridges everytime before I jumped then and after it. For those unaware as soon as a structure got damage taken back then, evemail was sent out instantly. This resulted in over 200+ evemails sent to holding corporations in Fatal Ascension at the time. And yes, you guessed it. I got kicked again and the story repeated. I joined a random corp again, constantly pvping and shooting anyone I came across until yet again my dad convinced the CEO (shoutout John McCreedy) to let me join back. My brother wasn't fan of nullsec life at the time so he wondered on his own, around wormholes and what not. One of key moments was when I told my brother where exactly our corpmates are crabbing, giving my brother bookmark for direct warpin as well. My brother and his IRL schoolmates came in quick pvp ships and blew up some of our corp members. That was awesome.

Start of Shadow Legion X. My brother (Bigy) started the corp on his own when myself and dad were still in Eve Defence Force. He did his own thing and joined a renter alliance (Gatekeepers Universe) where he and his IRL Schoolmates became a PVP powerhouse (5-10 people by the way). It was bad. Eventually Deff made the condition he will join only IF Bigy steps down from CEO and lets our dad run the corp. Obviously you figure he'd let him and that was the real start of SLX for us. We stayed in nullsec for a good while and not many stories to tell, went from the renter alliance to WHY so Seri0US which was the first major nullsec alliance for our corp. Our numbers grew and we were your standard crab/pvp corp. Although at this given time and up until now I have always preferred to do solo PVP. I am Nr. 34 in losses in all time on Eve Online so that can speak some volume. I did lose A LOT of ships, but my plans after school everyday was to just go out there and solo pvp till I die. That was the thrill for me and I loved every second of it. For anyone reading this as well, my advice is that the best way to learn how to pvp is to learn from mistakes. T1 frigates and T1 cruisers are good enough. I did this consistently, losing tens of ships each and every week. Of course I attended alliance fleets and what not but solo pvp at the time was the best for me.. From WHYSO we went to Tribal Band, to Li3 Federation where at the age of 13 I started FCing properly this time. We stayed with each alliance until the very end, loyal corp you can call. After Li3 disbanded it merged into The Bastion, an Imperium alliance (as was Li3). That's where I started my real career, FCing more and more. I was a real squeaker at the time and I did listen to some old recordings (no I am not sharing you will die from cringe) but for some reason people loved my fleets, on average I always got 30-50 people in my fleets and we went roaming. Mind you I got the corp kicked 3 times from the alliance for of course, nothing else but fucking up. Shooting blues and... scamming a blue unintentionally at the time. I was still a kid at 13-14 years old okay? Give me a break. Anyway, in The Bastion is where I found my home at the time and a lot of friends. I became competitive and continuously made fleets, making content for the alliance. I understand that some people hated me, truth be told I had a loud mouth (not in a toxic way), but just being an energized kid who spoke a lot. Whatever it was, some people didn't like my fleets whilst others did. I had little issues where I welped 50 man hurricane fleets quite often but we got past it. What I did was just kept making fleets and I became better and better at FCing. If anything I'd like to thank Carneros (The Bastion CEO at the time) for the patience and credibility.

In mid 2016 when the first World War Bee happened, I stepped up in the coalition, running up to 250 man fleets, mostly ceptors though but it was real fun. I made fleets out of Saranen on a daily basis and let me tell you that it was probably one of the most fun I've had at the time. We were able to kill capitals entosising ihubs and what not in nearby regions and in general it was just fun content. I didn't care about the politics at the time either. During that time FCON (after C02) decided to leave Imperium and go on their own. Because various corps followed them, our corp leadership decided to leave Bastion and join FCON. Again I didn't care about politics or what not. We stuck with FCON until the last bitter end, living in Immensea and Tenerifis with FCON leading the Phoenix Federation Coalition. There I grew to a full FC, even getting paid for it! And since I mentioned getting paid, did I forget to say I loved to gamble? When EOH Poker was at it's peak, me, dad and brother would play EOH Poker all the time. And of course when Somer Blink came alive, I played lots of raffles. On one sudden afternoon when I finished school I finally checked my phone. Phone was BLITZING with messages. Jan! Jan! Jan! Jan! YOU WON 50 BILLION ISK!! OH MY GOD! JAN! - - - pause - - - We will put the 50 bil ISK towards building my Leviathan and I will keep PLEXing your accounts. Yes it was my dad. Anyway, with that ISK my dad was able to build his first titan and... he let me keep 15 billion ISK. I blew all the ISK away on blingy ships (primarily Officer Vindicator that I lost in Tama 5 minutes later). Fun stories, where was I? FCON. The alliance got wrecked by Trimuvirate during the Immensea war and due to leadership being inactive, the alliance collapsed. I can't believe I almost forgot to mention this, the best moment and memory in FCON. One a casual day, PL blops hunters were spotted in intel. I knew they dropped like 20-30 black opses, so idea was simple. Go krab with carrier, have cyno ready and a fleet ready on a titan. Luckily my dad had a Leviathan! I have 100 people formed up in a Ferox fleet on titan, cyno ready, carrier ready. I was praying for hunter to find my carrier and OH-.. they did. Proteus decloacks, lights cyno. More than 30 black opses from PL drop on me. I decloacked an Arazu to tackle 5-6 blopses and lit a cyno. DAD, DAD OPEN BRIDGE ON TITAN! --- Silence. --- Silence. Oh fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Yeah, he jumped the titan instead of bridging. He starts screaming loudly, I quickly tell backup FC to take over and burn fleet. I jump from my chair, sprint to the living room and look at my dad. He was shaking and staring at screen, like really really shaking. He couldn't move. I quickly told him to move as I got on his laptop, aligned titan out and waited for bubble to go down. Quickly warped to a safespot whilst talking on comms, luckily an alliance member in system had a POS in system. Quickly typing in POS password and inviting member to fleet, I warped to him and landed in the POS (This all took 10 mintues) whilst being chased and tackled by PL Blops. Right after the PL FC opens convo with the titan pilot, saying (You're lucky we didn't have titan bridge to get a dictor in, otherwise you'd be dead). I finally exhaled sigh of relief, stood up and looked at dad. He's leaning out the window and chain smoking on his 3rd cigarette. I pat him on the back and tell him "Dad it's okay, it's saved". True story by the way. But back to FCON, they were the alliance that genuinely let me grow A LOT, it's where I started FCing my first battleship fleets, at one point even dreads. I loved Phoenix Federation and I loved FCON and I genuinely have nothing but positive mindset about them.

Anyway, FCON collapsed as I said. Let's move on. Due to the good relations we still had with The Bastion and specifically Carneros at the time, my dad secured us a spot back in the Bastion. They were situated well with the Imperium and had their own space next to INIT. We moved back and I was reinstated to a full Fleet Commander after couple months of running fleets as a Skirmish Commander. There I did a lot of fleets, both coalition and alliance wide. Fountain was an amazing home for me and I really miss it. I did so many fleets for The Bastion and still stay close to some of people I've met there. During the years in The Bastion I also grew my FCing knowledge a lot. Dropped my first dreads, supers, involved in the biggest battles in eve (such as when I flew my dad's Leviathan in X47L and got primaried. Luckily I survived in 30% shield left). Space Violence sig in GOONS was great at the time and I FC'd a lot, from killing carriers, dreads to fleet fights. Unfortunately Bastion didn't pay me as an FC so I crossed over to Kendarr's (lead guy in SV) corp, Zebra Corp to collect juicy goons paychecks. I got paid from down at 5 bil up to 15 billion ISK per month for running 30-50 fleets every month. It was best times I've had. After a year I sadly got kicked because I had all my alts still in SLX, our real corp and they weren't a fan of it. Fuck knows why. Long story short, WWB2 came. Fountain got steamrolled, we got forced into Delve. Game got really boring and we joined a goon WH sig to continue making money. This was awesome, being in a C4 WH with C3/C5 statics. ISK for everyone. Me and my brother both went there and after looooong time of convincing we convinced Deff to join us. We all got taste of wormholes, the risk and excitement. Also small scale PVP, so much more fun?

Wormholes. We ended up leaving Imperium to go live on our own. We acquired our own C4 with C3/C5 statics along with my brother and we anchored an astrahaus. This was in 2020. I was in an Orthrus and my brother in an Oracle. We waited for the citadel to anchor and the very next day, group of 15 bombers tried to blow it up. We successfully defended it and killed the bombers, securing our home. Over the span of the year we joined a WH alliance (Beyond the Breach) to have some protection and joint fleets for pew pew. ISK was great, PVP was fun. But we craved more, a lot more. At this time we decided to move into a C2 with nullsec static. Leaving BOB we started our own corporation (Seriously Suspicious) along with INOU, Inevitable Outcome who was a close ally. We got the taste of a content hole, C5 static for WH brawls and nullsec static for blopsing, brawls, solo pvp, nano roams and what not. To this day we still live in the same wormhole and I could go on to tell so many more stories which I am more than willing to, should anyone be interested, but I'll run them down short. We almost got evicted by Parabellum who brought 200 man Paladin fleet (read https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/w3fjta/wh_fortizar_final_timer_fcs_aar_200b_killed/). After this INOU parted with us to go live in a C5 whilst remaining allies. At this point we were also allied with SYNDE for protection. When SYNDE and HAWKS war started, roughly a week into the war we decided to flip sides and join HAWKS, helping out where we could and winning the war. There's multiple reasons for this flip, but at the time it seemed like the best decision. I won't go in-depth but we didn't appreciate the approach and behaviour of SYNDE at the time, combined with having IRL friends in HAWKS. At the current time of writing this, we are at the best state we have ever been ingame, owning several C5 and C6 wormholes for crabbing, daily pvp content from blackopsing to kill capitals/supers, brawling in C5 statics with Heavy Armor battleships, ganking incursion runners, nano roams, ESS fights and so much more. Seriously Suspicious has honestly been the best times of my Eve Career so far. This is where I expanded my knowledge the most, I've stepped up into "running" the corp with my brother and dad, at times on my own as well. We've grown in numbers A LOT, to a point where we can field 50-60 characters in a fleet, which is quite a lot if you imagine 60 dudes dropping on you out of a wormhole you don't see or expect at all. We get many killmails and honestly we've had the best content in the game for a while. Just recently we've expanded our doctrines to Nightmare doctrine which combined with our Nighthawk and Ikitursa doctrines are the most used doctrines we have. I cannot thank enough all the people that have contributed to Shadow Legion X in the past or currently, so much love to all the Directors and everybody involved that led us to get to the point where we are today.

We even started our own newbro corporation for people interested in wormholes! Safe to say we're glad to be where we are and playing together with my dad and brother has been more than amazing. However I've never been to Fanfest yet, nor has my brother or dad. So if I get to beat them before they do at going to fanfest (despite brother playing for 17 years, dad for 20 years) would be really, really cool. And as always, hope you enjoyed the read! Happy to answer any questions or speak more on my story as I probably missed sooooooo much. And of course, a slide note. I did copy-paste the story from my last year's submission, this year I just added onto it and... unfortunately made it quite larger for which I do apologize for the long read!

Much love.

Jan