I have many good memories with Khell. He was a hidden treasure for his corporation, his alliance and anybody over the years with the pleasure to fly with him.
When I came back to eve I sought PvP more than anything else and that brought me to the endless slaughter of Factional Warfare. He was one of the most brash and confident and 0 fucks given person I have come across in Eve.
The first and most poignant memory I have of him was something I’ll never forget in the 7 or so years I have been playing the game. I found a DED site in lowsec, the super difficult ones that has the DPS to kill a supercarrier. Some edencom site or something. I found the decryption key and just said it to the people in Teamspeak who wants to do it? Khell pipes up saying its super hard and impossible for basically anything we had except maybe just maybe a T3C that he had. So we start researching, watching youtube videos calculating DPS and tank we would Ideally need. After all this he says to me to go and Dock in Vlirier he was going to trade me a ship! So I am thinking okay cool maybe a super niche fit Tengu or loki. This motherfucker handed me a tengu worth 24 Billion ISK. Abyssal modules in every slot except the subsystems one of them was a mutated officer BCS. So I tell him I am after drinking alcohol and I am not accepting this to go and do a site I have never ran before. He said and I quote “Cmon you Irish Pussy I thought you drink so you can function!!” So we undocked. The first warp in was going well, good DPS good damage mitigation. We navigate the minefield on the outer gate and jump. I have never encountered a wave of rats as big as what was waiting for us on the gate. The two of us instantly just evaporated in the ships. My heart drops out of my arse and I think, ” How the fuck am I going to replace this???” then after what felt like a 10 minute silence, in reality a couple of seconds I hear this roaring laughing. We sat in the call laughing for a solid five minutes about how Naive and misinformed we were. So I bring it up about how I am going to pay him back?? his response was something along the lines of “motherfucker your shipwas the Cheap one!!” his legion was 36Billion isk, a tengu worth 24Billion and he had absolutely no qualms about handing it out to me and expected not a red cent back in payment.
This was Khells character, that’s who he was. Enjoying himself in the company of others no matter the personal cost. He did it so well he injected the fun and nothing was going to stop him doing so.
He was brilliance. Arguably one the most crazy intelligent pilots I have flown with. Built an empire for himself but had no reservations sharing with others.
I helped him with orders and fulfilling alliance contracts and gating freighters through the shadiest lowsec systems imaginable for Trit that he purchased for sweet fuck all. So we could fund alliance SRP. Khell is an inspiration to all to be as selfless as possible and the memory of him will live on I am sure.
Khell, you will be sorely missed.
Fly safe Bud. o7
