Carebear in disguise

As anyone who even glances at this blog before should realise, I have been dragged into so many wars this year it is just not funny anymore! We were at war with The Blood Wraiths who our alliance management felt were beneath our notice. Personally, I thought they had some decent stats, but my opinion may not carry much weight when I am wearing my carebear hat and I was living (relatively safely) in a wormhole.

The war lasted a few days, and the alliance management found a diplomatic solution just after I exited the wormhole to go and help my allies in their difficult battles. (I had just lost that gas mining cruiser in the wormhole to an incredibly quick use of combat probes, too, so I was feeling a bit grumpy at the time.)

Then, as I figured I would have to wait for a few days to get back into the wormhole as the corporation as a whole employs a lot of radio silence to keep our position relatively safe, I found a few things to occupy myself with. But another war was declared within two days! Another one!! Oh this is annoying.

I was going to take a very active role in this war and take out my frustrations on these new bullies (who were in four different wars at the time), so I got myself setup in the systems they occupied most frequently and went to sleep for the night. When I awoke, I found that the alliance had been disbanded by the alliance management and now the corporation was alone again! The reasons given for disbanding was that there had been too many wars, which is a lame excuse I reckon. (They’ve had three wars this year, I’ve had seven!)

So here we are again, a small group of snaggle-toothed carebears left alone to fend for ourselves until we either find another alliance to support us, or disband ourselves. As the name of the corporation is TransMiners, I suppose it gives an impression of weakness to anyone who sees it and attracts these war-deccing bullies, so perhaps we need to change it. I have a lot of thinking to do in order to keep myself sane and my corp buddies safe.

/save and exit

The w-space we try to occupy seems reachable most often from Amarr space. It is as if the wormholes have a preference of ideaologies, or some other bias. For the past three months, whenever I asked for an entrance location from whoever was in there, I was invariably disappointed to learn that I would need to transfer my ship equipment more than 20 jumps! Maybe I’m lazy, or just impatient, but that is too far for a journey in an orca or obelisk, and remaining sane would be very difficult.

Last night the entrance to the w-space opened only 4 jumps away! Needless to say, I grabbed my wormholing gear and got setup immediately. It’s the first time I’ve been in this new w-space and the wolf-rayett star makes the visuals very distracting, but still beautiful in their own way. I felt like handing out cookies in celebration of the beauty and the success of finally returning to the sleeper systems.

I fully aim to resuscitate my plans for building a Tech 3 cruiser or two for use within the w-space we are in – I have all the concord-sanctioned skills necessary, and they took time out of my training queue that I could’ve put to more practical use, so I am going to make a big effort this time.

When I’ve made the first strategic cruiser, I was going to name it after the system it was created in… Maybe I should think of a name for the w-space system and just impose my will on the sleepers until they see sense and change the system info broadcast. It might happen!

Choices for names, though? There is a great book created a long time ago, before the New Eden wormhole collapsed, that was very popular. It may have been non-fiction, but I can’t see it somehow. It was the most popular book of it’s time, so may have been the basis for some obscure religion or two, but I just find it a great escape into much simpler times. I shall draw a name from that book and hope that Tolkien does not smite me for my impudence in using His work (as some of the less restrained news media outlets would have you believe is possible!) Lothlorien? Mordor? I’ll have to read it again for the perfect name.

/save and exit

The question posed to me last night was: “Is this possible?” Is the turnover of sleeper salvage and data in a class 2 wormhole large enough to actually support a tech 3 production line? The production line would have to be small, obviously, but I think it is possible.

It is possible to produce tech 2 ships in high security space, although you need to purchase the moon materials required for component production. Is it the same for tech 3 production in a quiet class 2 wormhole? I think this question needs to be answered, and that is going to be my little project for the next few months.

I bought the skillbooks to fly a Proteus and a Loki, and the skillbooks to invent and build the hull and subsystem blueprints from sleeper salvage. I just need to get all these booked into the queue. I love being a capsuleer! You can’t even imagine learning new skills this way if you are a planetsider!

/save and exit

Always make sure that your ships overview shows the sleepers! If you forget this, you may pop without realising you are under attack!