Askgar

I’ve been a bit lax in writing up the past 2 weeks wormhole outings, partly because I have been busy but mainly because they were pretty uneventful. I’m going to do a quick roundup of the highlights of each evening and explain, for the second especially, why there isn’t much to talk about.

7th July:

One of our members has been out and scanned down a class 3 wormhole, however it is through another wormhole (class 2 I think, anyone else in the group please correct me if wrong). We had all of the sites already scanned down for us so it was simply a case of grabbing a can full of bookmarks and whizzing, clearing out sites.
We work through some radar and mag sites, with me on unlocking duty, getting all of the containers for analysing or code breaking. We did a few in the c2 wormhole before moving forward to the c3. After a couple of sites in c3 we noticed a couple of random ships occasionally showing up on directional and a few of our more experienced members noticed combat probes out, obviously out to find us.
It was now a race against time, how long do we give them to find us, we decide that I’ll finish unlocking all the cans at this site, grab the loot and then run.
At this point I wish I could write some epic story about our escape, barely making it out alive, etc. But actually all that happened as we went through the 2 wormholes and got out safely, we even had a backup route out of the first wormhole to hisec in case something had gone wrong.
It was a very uneventful escape but because of the number of radar and mag sites we hit we had a good amount if loot to sell, making it quite profitable.

14th July:

The call went out, our scanner had found a pos that had run out of fuel! This meant that we had basically found an undefended space piñata! It was 2 deep in wormholes so we race across, blow up a command centre, with a huge amount of crokite and othe assorted things I missed because I didn’t have a large enough cargo hold. There was also a hanger, can’t remember the name, but when it went pop, 4 ships popped out.
Me and another member stayed behind to protect the site while the others left and dumped there ships and came back in pods to pick up the other ships, among them were a frigate, a drake, I think, and a mining barge, which wouldn’t fit through the wormholes so in an act of pure evil, we made it go pop for the 40% base insurance payout. And even more evil, but following the corp policy of nbsi (not blue shoot it), any loot we couldn’t carry was destroyed, the cargo container it was in was blown up.
The rest of the evening was rather uneventful, we spent a while searching down a new wormhole and all we could find was c2s, and c2s in c2s. We eventually went into a relatively quiet one, clearing a couple of sites but then, the inhabitants stirred. Every so often one of them would jump into one of the sites we were in, the jump out again, we kept trying to jump them but unfortunately they were warping in too far out for us to web and scram them and they kept getting away.
After this happened a couple of times one of our member went and found their hangout and monitored it from a distance, we didn’t really know what to expect from them and even with some extra research carried out on external sites we couldn’t get much information about them so decided in the end that we would get out before anything too bad happened.
We jumped out, transferred the loot to one person, and kept the earlier acquired drake for the ship replacement fund, as a number of people use them. The take for this night is probably not much different to last weeks, but most of that will have come from the pos destruction, where we found a lot of what we would usually get simply from doing sites. I did acquire most of a barge fit from the exploded barge which I will use once I’ve trained up the remaining skills I need to fly the middle barge!

A good bit of fun the last 2 weeks however this week was a little bit of a letdown, we only had a c2 to work in and, despite being entertaining, the giant space piñata felt very underwhelming, despite it’s good payout.

Oh, and most of these recent posts have been written on an iPhone so if there are any oddities please let me know and I’ll correct them.