Editor Note: Shorter one today, hopefully tomorrow will be epic.

Wow, all I can really say is wow. For the first time in a long time I felt completely immersed in a games universe that I lost track of time. It was almost like a large breakthrough that, almost relief that I finally understand what I am working towards in EVE as an experience, and its crazy.

Like yesterday I continued my quest line where I chased after a pirate by the name of Wolf. One thing that I really enjoy about EVE Online is the immersion within the world that theses quest lines seem to have. For instance one of the missions within the quest was to chase down a narcotics factory that was nearby. By destroying the factory the mission giver informed you that the overall access to narcotics within the area would decrease.

So I took the mission, warped to the first location and fought my way through the first wave of enemies.   After finishing them off I noticed a sudden tutorial come up to inform me about narcotics and noticed something rather interesting. The explanation they gave was rather explicit in what it usage and carrying penalty was however it did note the market value of the items. I realized for the first time that the game was giving me a choice that was not clear in its intent.

Piracy has always been noted as evil within the game and something that is not tolerated by anyone, other then pirates themselves. However these narcotics seemed to have ambiguity to them, they were bad, but they could bring you quite a good profit for smuggling. This idea intrigued me greatly, to the point of making quite an interesting decision.

After jumping through the final section and finishing off the guards I destroyed the factory and look through the wreckage. It was there I noticed that in the wreck were ten hits of Mindflood, one of the many illegal drugs. Again a tutorial came up reminding me of the illegality of trade and the penalty it carries. However I decided to take the narcotics and proceed to transport them back to my station that I working out of.

When I returned I realized how profitable this trade really was, ten of these hits in a high demand area (which I guess I was in) were worth almost 10,000 ISK. If I transported 10,000 of theses items I would make 100,000 ISK, ten times that of any mining operation that was not large scale (which I am no where close to getting). So it got me thinking, maybe I should explore the darker side of EVE Online.