Pod Pilot Generosity Alive and Well in Arnon

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Pod Pilot Generosity Alive and Well in Arnon
19 June 2009, 8:28 pm



Arnon - When a friend of Maruu Navorra, of Superior Mining  and Logistics [HMMR], decided to retire from capsuleering, he gave Maruu an  unexpected gift; three thousand assorted ships. As he had no immediate use for  so many hulls, he could have sold them for a tidy profit. Instead, he decided to  give back to the community of New Eden by donating almost all of them. As he  tells us, "well, I was feeling kind of generous, so I felt people could use the  ships more than I could."

After filling his Orca class vessel with ships, he undocks from the Sister's  of EVE station in Arnon and launches the ships. "People have to come out in  their pod or a shuttle to get them", Marruu stated. "Ships being given out are:  Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, Battle Cruisers, Mining barges, and at the end I  launch a single shuttle, the one who boards it first, gets a battleship of their  choice."

Marruu states that there are no preconditions to receiving a ship, other than  "to have the skill needed for the ship and be at the event." To date six hundred  ships have been given out to New Eden's capsuleers, according to Maruu, with an  estimated two thousand remaining to be distributed. Additionally, he estimates  the isk value of the ships donated so far to be around two and a half billion  with a total nearing ten billion including the ships he still has left to give  away.

Contralto of GCHQ [GCH] states that he "witnessed Maruu in action, in Arnon,  loads of ships from shuttles up to cruisers flying in all directions from the  Orca" adding that "there was confusion in local channel, as skeptics tried in  vain to work out what the scam was; no scam just loads of free ships."

Marru says that after these events he is "hoping people will look at  this and learn that people don't have to scam to have fun in New Eden."

The next scheduled event will be will be held at Arnon, Sister's of EVE  Station on Saturday the 20th of June.

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