Ardagan Fatal

Before TNF

Ardagan Fatal has been in New Eden since December 2018, starting in the Science and Trade Institute, the Caldari starter school. The first player corp was Real One Corp in 2019, followed by Unity of Suns from October 2019, with Caldari Provisions as the NPC home between moves.

In 2021 Ardagan joined Ducks Corporation and then Les Eclaireurs de Tau-Ceti, followed by Empress’s Cohort in 2022 and Grey Templars in 2023. In May 2024 came a return to Ducks Corporation, the last stop before TNF.

Joining TNF

Ardagan first flew with TNF in September 2026. Harrat’s welcome, “Let’s teach him the ways of murder,” is told in Welcome to the Salt Mines.

Ardagan settled in quickly: “good morning corpi” in chat, and “I had so much fun flying that fleet” after an op. In corp mining came the most TNF line of the year, quoted at the top of this page (Builders and Miners). When Harrat took the CEO chair back, Ardagan’s reply was “welcome on board, captain.”

In the fleet

Six days after joining, Ardagan was on a killmail: an Apostle force auxiliary worth about 6.7 billion ISK on 12 September 2026, shared with Meowlicious, who had been helping the newcomer find their feet (Faces of TNF: Kittens, Kings and Icelandic Meistarar). Not a bad first entry.

The ducks

Let’s be clear about the most important fact on this page: Ardagan loves ducks. Not a little. Two separate tours with Ducks Corporation is not a career path, it is a calling. Sources close to the pilot report rubber ducks in the cargo hold, duck names on bookmarks and at least one fleet warp delayed by a duck-related conversation in comms. TNF neither confirms nor denies that two Kirins were lost in one September week because their pilot was busy scanning local for waterfowl. Hostiles in local should know one thing: the duck does not flinch, and neither does Ardagan.

Where they shine

Ardagan is studying too, with 7 Academy answers right so far and a best streak of four. And the questions keep coming: the first reply to Malcolm Galora’s anniversary post came from Ardagan, whose questions about clones Malcolm was answering the next day.