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# Foreign Service officer killed in Libya was influential figure in EVE ONLINE
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/foreign-service-officer-killed-libya-was-influential-figure-eve-online/
- Published: 2012-09-12T16:30:22.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:53:07.000Z
- Description: Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed last night at the consulate in Benghazi, was a long-time player of EVE ONLINE and a beloved member of that game’s player community. A devastating eulogy on The_Mittani, as well as a testament to the power of online gaming social networks: I’m clearly in s
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sean_smith.jpg)

Sean Smith, one of the four Americans [killed last night](http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-us-ambassador-killed/index.html?hpt=hp%5Ft1&ref=killscreen.com) at the consulate in Benghazi, was a long-time player of EVE ONLINE and a beloved member of that game’s player community. [A devastating eulogy](http://themittani.com/news/rip-vile-rat?ref=killscreen.com) on The\_Mittani, as well as a testament to the power of online gaming social networks:

> I’m clearly in shock as I write this as everything is buzzing around my head funnily and I feel kind of dead inside. I’m not sure if this is how I’m supposed to react to my friend being killed by a mob in a post-revolutionary Libya, but it’s pretty awful and Sean was a great guy and he was a goddamned master at this game we all play, even though a lot of people may not realize how significant an influence he had. It seems kind of trivial to praise a husband, father, and overall badass for his skills in an internet spaceship game but that’s how most of us know him, so there you go.

UPDATE 2:20: [Another eulogy](http://civic.mit.edu/blog/petey/the-ghosts-of-citizen-journalism-remembering-sean-smith?ref=killscreen.com), this time from Chris Peterson of the MIT Center for Civic Media and a friend of Smith’s from Something Awful’s discussion boards.