Lex Ashwari-Thrace

Before TNF

Lex Ashwari-Thrace is a young capsuleer by New Eden standards: in New Eden since October 2024, he started out in Republic University, the Minmatar starter school. Within the same month he had found a player corporation, Absolute Order, and that name runs right through his first year. His corp history from early 2025 reads like a shuttle timetable: back and forth between Absolute Order and its numbered sister corps (Absolute Order XIII, XIV, XVII, XVIII, XXVI and XXIX), with Republic University as the stop in between each move. There was a short spell in NecroSphere in March 2025.

In mid 2025 he moved on to Deadspace Excavations, then joined Hounds Of Haides in August 2025.

Joining TNF

Lex first flew with TNF in December 2025. The welcome went both ways almost immediately. That same December he greeted a newly arrived pilot by pointing him at the alliance freight services and adding a line the Haulers, Suitcases and Shopping Trips post said sums up the corp: “if we did leave anything behind, give me a nudge.” He also gave Odysemus a SKIN as a gift, which earned an instant “Absolutely LOVE this SKIN, Lex. Thank you!” and a hopeful “I can haz?” from Killjoy Ender (Paint Jobs and Pride).

When Harrat stepped back at the end of 2025, Odysemus wrote the handover as a naval order and gave Lex a nod along the way. His corp history since then shows a few brief hops between The New Federation and The Newb Federation in April and May 2026, each time landing back in The New Federation.

In the fleet

The killboard is the loudest part of the Lex story. Since he arrived he has been on 9,326 kills on the TNF record, on kills worth more than 7.3 trillion ISK combined. When the leadership bio was written he had the most kills of any current member.

The biggest entries on his record are hostile structures. He was on the structure kill of 13 January 2026, worth about 255 billion ISK and the January kill of the month in the first quarter roundup, alongside a long list of corpmates including Harrat, Kloria and Motty 007. He was on another on 16 April 2026, about 253 billion ISK, with Atreus Minmatarius, Killjoy Ender and Motty 007. There was one on 10 February 2026, about 223 billion ISK, and on 21 April 2026 three in a single day: one, two, three, each worth about 218 billion ISK.

The record also shows hostile structures on 10 November 2025 (about 238 billion ISK) and 6 November 2025, plus more on 14 April and 28 April 2026. Not every big kill is a structure: on 13 December 2025 he was on an Avatar titan worth about 181 billion ISK.

By the numbers

On the detailed record, which starts in October 2025, cruisers are the class he meets most often: 1,453 of them. Combat battlecruisers follow with 1,089, then 980 capsules and 849 battleships. Below that sits a long, varied tail: 328 assault frigates, 280 destroyers, 262 frigates, 261 interdictors, 192 heavy assault cruisers, 174 logistics cruisers, 146 interceptors and 131 tactical destroyers.

By individual hull the pattern is clear. After 961 pods, the Ferox is the ship he has helped kill most, 326 times. Then come 237 Maelstroms, 203 Retributions, 136 Exequror Navy Issues, 129 Hurricanes, 124 Abaddons, 121 Ravens, 119 Omen Navy Issues and 118 Drake Navy Issues. Of his kills, 56 were solo.

Milestones: three titles in seven months

Along the way he passed 100, 500, 1,000 and 5,000 kills. In March 2026 Lex was named Krabmaster Field General in the post The Ferengi and the Krabmaster, alongside Jekktarr. In April 2026 he won the monthly kill contest with Judas Aralius, with Kloria congratulating them both for “crushing the kill contest”.

In June 2026 he was promoted to Director, the most-reacted announcement of the year. Motty 007 wrote it as a roast of himself, warning that Lex would now carry duties “so demanding it has been known to require up to four minutes of effort per fortnight.” Lex took the job seriously anyway. In early July he launched monthly corp medals, for things like most kills on the TNFED killboard, and Trajon Thrax was among the first to receive one: “Proud of this.” When Harrat returned as CEO in October 2026, Lex stayed in place as a Director (The Founder Returns).

Where he shines

The mining alarm clock

For a pilot with this killboard, it is fitting that he still calls himself a crab. Lex is the one calling the corp to good ore: “if you wish to join me you are all more than welcome.” The ice fleet branding went from “Frozen North” to “Ice to see you, to see you Ice,” with a reminder sent a day early, heart emoji included, and a New Year’s Eve 2025 mining fleet description ended, naturally, with “a partridge in a pear tree” (Ice and Marbles). Mining fits go out to anyone who asks, Trajon Thrax included (Builders and Miners). When MontyGTV went chasing pyerite for a build, Lex lined up a big stack of it for him.

The small things

He offered Motty spare 3D printer build plates for the corp’s Fanfest merch “if you need more,” then watched the stream from home and found Xander Ryn in the crowd: “I see you!” He bought his ticket for 2027 almost straight away: “very much looking forward to ’27, Motty had me sold with “I have been the happiest i have been in years”” (TNF Does Fanfest 2026). And when a kill comes with a side of fury in the corp channels, Lex answers most of them with a GIF of salt raining from the sky.