Started my first character a month or two before I created this account and named the account after it.
Started doing missions in my Defender and realized that it's no way to make money so I saved for a while and bought a Humpback. The best trade ship ever.
Earliest influences were the huge ships the SA had patroling around, Yoda, The NPG and Bushido.
NPG and Bushido for all the wrong reasons (heart in mouth stuff so great fun non-the-less).
Yoda for some of the more obscure routes and the SA for showing me what I could aspire to (they were the first piloted caps I saw).
The character still exists but he's grown up now and while his ship is a little more substantial, he's semi-retired.