Work and stuff at home have kept me rather busy this week, but I did find a few gems in the rough.

• “The Sky is falling….” For those of you who do not know, Godlesswanderer runs a great blog over at Articulated Sky (http://articulatedsky.com).  He’s a decent writer and a whiz with graphic design.  He’s made signatures and posters for many people in the EVE Community.  Recently he announced that he will be closing his site down on the 12th of December (http://articulatedsky.com/2009/11/05/shutting-down-soon) as things are a bit tough on the financial front.  He’s a bit down in the dumps about the whole thing, why not stop by and try to cheer him up.
• CCP Games put a new marketing website for EVE Online.  Head over to http://getaclone.com.  It’s a decent Flash based site, brings the immersion factor up a notch.  It was inspiration for a quick episode of The Bleeding Rose, http://www.eve-druid.com/on-the-wings-of-angels.
• Over at The EVE Online Portal we added 5 new blogs to the OPML Download bringing the total of blogs to 458!  Head over and bookmark the Latest Blogs! page (http://www.evebloggers.com/latest-blogs) to keep to date on our new members of the EVE Blogging Community.
• For those of you who do not know, Godlesswanderer runs a great blog over at Articulated Sky (http://articulatedsky.com).  He’s a decent writer and a whiz with graphic design.  He’s made signatures and posters for many people in the EVE Community.  Recently he announced that he will be closing his site down on the 12th of December (http://articulatedsky.com/2009/11/05/shutting-down-soon) as things are a bit tough on the financial front.  He’s a bit down in the dumps about the whole thing, why not stop by and try to cheer him up.
• The Planet Risk show had a nice episode with a few of the hopefuls for the next CSM debating on various topics, head over to (http://www.planetriskshow.com/episode-9) and have a listen.
• While reading old posts on the EVE forums, I came across this small collection of EVE related themes for Windows 7.  I found this high on the cool factor as I’ve recently upgraded my laptop and reloaded my desktop with Windows 7  Home Premium. (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=967784)
• The latest EVE novel, EVE:  The Burning Life is available for preorder on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/EVE-Burning-Life-Hjalti-Danielsson/dp/0765325292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257517238&sr=1-1).
• Remember that wonderful backdrop on the main stage at Fanfest that everyone wants as a screensaver?  Well, it’s supposed to be out after Dominion. Keep an eye on this thread on the EVE forums for updates, http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1193324&page=3#69.
• CCP released new details on the upcoming Sovereignty System changes.  You can read the Dev Blog and the Responses. Just initially going over the numbers, a developed system will cost roughly 2 billion isk a month to maintain.  Please point out a small alliance that is trying to get into 0.0 that can afford 2 billion isk a month.  There aren’t any.  I simply don’t see how this is going to make people want to go to 0.0 space when they can earn the same amount of isk in Empire space with less effort.  Go read the forums on this as the responses are very interesting and mostly against the upcoming changes.

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Silence.

The dark silence was deafening, eternal, whole.  There was nothing, just the dark.

Movement did not seem to register, sound did not pervade consciousness, there was simply nothing.

This was not right.  There was never nothing there, there was always something there.  Something, something was missing.

Ga’len began to think that the nothing would remain.  This was it, this was the end.  His ship did not respond his thoughts.  No systems status, no movement, not even a response to the pod interface.  Nothing was working.

Silence, utter and complete lack of anything.

Then, in the distance a sound.  A high pitched tone, very barley audible.  Yes, it was there.  Sound was registering, barely, but it was registering.

Finaly, something was piercing the void.  The nothing gave way to sound, louder and louder the sound grew.  It was becoming the focus of Ga’len’s consciousness.

In the darkness, the sound grew and grew until it was everything.  There nothing was gone, everything was around him now.  He could feel his body now, the sound pervaded ever fiber of his being.

Was this the end?  Was this the song of the angels to take him into the next life?

Slowly, his eyes opened.  Above him was a bright light.  It was blinding like standing on the surface of a star.  There was sound and light and everything was there now.  He could feel his arms and legs.  He could feel his toes wiggle and his fingers move slightly.

Then, a voice flowed into his ears.

“Sir, the cloning process is complete, you can get up now.”

Ga’len slowly sat up on the bed bewildered, “Huh?  What….I thought….ahem.  I heard angels singing.”

The nurse looked at Ga’len with a puzzled look, “Angels?”

“Yes”, Ga’len replied, “In fact I can still hear the music.  Yes, I still hear it, don’t you?”

The nurse looked around and then faced Ga’len smiling.  She spoke with a joking tone in her voice, “Ah, no worries love, it’s not angels.  Look behind you, the music you are hearing is from our new marketing kiosk here in station.”

Ga’len slowly turned around and look where the nurse was pointing.  A brand new Duvolle Laboratories sales kiosk was standing near the entrance to the cloning facility.

As Ga’len’s slowly turned back around, an expression of understanding and disappointment filled his face.  There were no angels to take him to paradise.

“No worries love”, the nurse said to Ga’len as she patted him on the apologetically shoulder, “it happens all the time.”

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