Within a day of Zack Parsons, assistant editor of Something Awful, creating a fundraising page for Sean "Vilerat" Smith's family, friends of his from EVE and SA
have donated over $50,000. Sean was an instrumental player in EVE who went by the name of Vile Rat and was recently killed during an attack in Benghazi where he was working as Foreign Service Officer for the US State Department
Above all things, EVE is a community. Eve players are all in the same boat, held together by a common space and a common interest; while they fight and they bicker, and tensions can run high at points, they’re still part of the same universe, and when a tragedy rocks that universe, they all respond. Yesterday, Sean Smith, AKA Vile Rat, in the real world an IT consultant working out of the US embassy in Libya, in the Eve world, a senior member of Goonswarm and part of Eve’s Council of Stellar Management, was killed in Libya. Overnight, EVE paid tribute to him.
Early this morning, the BBC reported that a US State Department Official had been killed during riots in Benghazi in Libya. The US State Department Official that was killed was also known as Vile Rat within EVE circles, one of the most influential and powerful diplomats that the Goonswarm has ever had.
