Benke

Benke is a Fleet Officer and profiteer of the crew The Fearless Rebels on the Emerald Ocean (ex Sage) and a Prince of the flag Spanking Alley. He has shown much commitment to game and has organized several puzzling competitions for his crews, donated numerous sloops for crew CI trips, sponsored crew and flag tournaments and helped less experienced pirates to find their way through the murky waters of pirate life.

Origins
Born on Caravanserai island at unknown year, he is a son of a Caravanserai Navy sailor and a gypsy prostitute. As a boy growing up in the hostille neighborhood, Benke encounters with all roughness of life and how people can be cruel. At the young adultery he loses first mother and then father so he was forced to take care of himself, at the beginning by working at dockside hard manual works and then jobbing for crews and expeditions that are sailing accross the ocean. While docktart helped Benke to learn more about mentality of pirates, time spent on ships gave him opportunity to improve his skills on main ship duties such sailing, bilging and carpentry. One day, while he was jobbing for crew Glimmer of Light by leadership of Thewandererr, Frame, a senior officer of this crew approached Benke and asked him to join the crew permanently. The rest is history.

The Glimmers
Like any other new member of crew Glimmer of Light, Benke too started as pirate. Not after long time, Thewandererr, captain of the crew at this time, recognized his potential and ranked him as officer of crew. When Piratus take over the control of the crew, he continued to respect Benke's efforts regarding crew so soon Benke became fleet officer and then finally senior officer. Benke was never strategic oriented person, neither in his private life, neither in crew assignments, so his skills in battle navigation were never been great. He never made really good pillages but his commitment to the crew was the main reason why he stayed high officer of the crew for so long time.

Somewhere around period when Benke became senior officer, he started to regularly organize so called puzzling weeks, a crew competitions in which prizes are getting crew mates which improves their piracy and crafting skills more than other mates during one week. Direct result of such boost of crew activity is crew ranking among crews with eminent fame. After Piratus' first ever crew CI trip, Benke donated numerous slops for new crew CI trips. The main reason for such donations he sees in giving opportunity to less experienced crew mates to feel how it looks going into cursed isles. Benke was involved into organization of first crew grand frigate pillage (navigator was Gallo) and was executive officer of first crew sea monster hunt and MAA on second, both lead by LJL. He also organized crew tournaments for various reasons such crew birthday or Christmas, or for no reason at all, just for having fun with his mates.

Benke was regulary taking participation in flag activities such flag pillaging, flag competitions and was active on flag forum. Benke made crew portrait while crew still didn't had official portrait and Ascalon flag mobile phone theme.

He showed much commitment to his crew and organized several puzzling competitions for it, donated numerous sloops for crew CI trips, sponsored crew and flag tournaments and helped less experienced pirates to find their way through the murky waters of pirate life. After king Pishkirlin's and captain Piratus' attempt to take control over the crew, Benke and his fellow mates left Glimmers and formed crew The Fearless Rebels.

The Rebels
"Rebelled together, united we fear nothing!" is motto of pirates that represented the active part of the crew Glimmer of Light. The very next day after the crew is founded, Benke and his fellow mates joined flag Good Grief.

Benke is currently occupied by crew activities such as foraging, managing crew stalls and building the strongest crew on the whole ocean. His future plans regarding crew and flag involves Benke in organizing multiship battles such attacking a flotilla and blockades.

Where did you get all that money?
...is the question that inexperienced pirates often ask Benke and it's related to his generosity and donations. The truth is that he never was rich; the rough life taught him to be economical with what he have. During early days of his career he was often seen on sea monster hunts and on those trips he earned enough poe for good start. Later he discovered blockades and he managed to earn decent money while carefully choosing for who he is jobbing. You can see Benke on other oceans too such Hunter, Viridian and Malachite, offering his services in good paying blockades. Benke has a distilling stall at Caravanserai Island but being so bad at strategic tasks he is capable to provide only basic labor. Knowing his limitations, Benke focused on producing only hemp oil in large volumes and selling it dockside. Recently he got connected with big traders from other archipelago that are will to buy hemp oil produced at his distillery providing him steady future...

Benke also from time to time joins tournaments, especially in treasure drop but he won only one tournament so far and as first prize he has received a harpsichord.

Home is where the heart is
It was a cold December night when Benke decided to leave everything and set sails accross Sage ocean. The goal is to visit all islands of the ocean with own sloop and to meet friends, visit interesting places, do exciting things and most of all have fun with mates. The trip started at January 2nd 2010 and will end... well, it will end when it comes to the end. Deport was at Caravanserai island, the birth place of Benke. Porting is also at Caravanserai island but in the meantime forty-eight islands divided into eight archipelagos need to be visited. The diary of this trip around ocean can be found at http://diaryofpirate.blogspot.com.