Recently the former member of RSI and blogger, and my good friend Marcus Dreddlin, entered the Pod and Planet EVE Fan Fiction contest with his two stories, "The Icy Dancer" and "The Price of Learning." He was up against some serious competition, including entries by Kirith Kodachi and former winner of the contest, Sugar Kyle. He and all of us here at RSI were very floored and quite proud to see that Marcus' story "The Price of Learning" has won the second prize in the 6000 Suns of New Eden category! Before we at RSI retired to the officer's lounge aboard Marcus' carrier, "Pandora", stashed somewhere deep in lowsec, for a well-earned few bottles of champagne by way of celebration, I caught up with Marcus sitting in his captain's quarters with a big goofy grin on his face. "I feel honored to have placed second, especially considering the quality of the authors I was up against," Marcus said. "I'd like to thank Telegram Sam and the rest of the judges, sponsors, and organizers. As well congratulations to the other winners, and thanks to all of the entrants, very interesting stories about this weird and wonderful galaxy we have gotten ourselves so caught up in, EVE online. See you again next year hopefully!"