Mining Expedition

Myself and two other pilots brought in 164,688 m3 of Arkonor and 126,208 m3 of Bistot. Not a bad night for 3 miners, one of which was showering for the majority of the time and was afk. Anarith's name will go unmentioned for this of course, he did put in a lot of time in the op.

Excellent night of mining. Refining go well.

Planetside

It's strange how small a planet can feel after spending months in the void that is space. Traveling on this planet looking for corporate backers almost doesn't seem worth it. If it wasn't for the fact that I am getting loads of skill training in place without the disruption of the crew I'd say screw it.

I am back in 'verse for the weekend though, gotta make sure my crew is staying on their toes and my corp isn't throwing any wild free-for-alls at the POS while I'm out. Everything looks good so far. Put the crew on full alert as we found a Badger in the hole, was ready to blow it to bits before we got its transponder code back and found it was a friendly. It is nice having some help in the hole.

Roids, Roids, Everywhere

This is a fairly common site in our little home of a hole.

At the end of those lasers is my Hulk and the big starburst looking thing is the arkonor roid my strip miners are digging into. It's strange, empire pilots have to go looking far and wide to find this stuff, we just have to warp out our backdoor and there it is. Is really making us spoiled to some extent.

Oh well, let's mine!

The Main Bridge

Here's a shot of my main bridge and where all operations on the ship are controlled.

It's not the most technically advanced but it suffices nicely.

We've got Gas

Not my first officer, the hole has gas and we're busy harvesting it. After a two hour battle with the sleeper Sirius guns we managed to take them all down. My crew is going back to training once these clouds are harvested. There is no reason it should take 2 hour to take down 5 Sirius guns. All in due time though, at least we can train around the clock.

We have some friends coming into the hole to join us. It will be nice having some allies to help us out in here. Another POS and gunships to help out in times of need. Plans are coming together nicely and there's no substitute for pilots you can trust.

Headin to Town

Made a supply run into Jita today. Picked up a couple more ECM batteries, implants and POS Fuel. Fairly uneventful trip which was nice. It's good to have slow languorous journey sometimes. I do like it when we make it back home unscathed.

920 pilots in Jita, not as crowded as I have seen it but still, when you're only used to seeing no one to 5 pilots in a system the sky seems really crowded. You have to be on your toes in Jita, no time to take in the sites. Many a pilot has gotten lazy in Jita and paid the ultimate price. You find scammers, pirates and spies as well as your honest traders and miners. Trouble is, you never know who is who. I like to get in and out of Jita as quickly as possible.

Once the supplies were had we headed home. Stopped at Caldari Navy station before leaving Caldari space and had a few drinks. The crew needed to relax, we'd been on high alert for a week and a half. It felt good to laugh for a bit.

After a few drinks we were all business again. We only had a few low-sec jumps to make but just one can do you in. Luckily we didn't run into any trouble, and made it back into the hole. The new ECM units are online and it's time to catch some z's.

The Truth About War

Turns out we got pretty paranoid during the wardec. It now appears that it was just some good spirited fun by the opposing corporation. They were just bored and looking for small corps to wardec and we won the lottery. Not really because we were small but they had one of our pilots on their list for stealing from one of their cans!

This news came to us from a conversation from one of their pilots after the war had been declared invalid. It was a good conversation and was them saying thanks for being good sports. They have even said that if we needed help in the future to give them a shout and that they'd run missions and the like with us. I believe them, you learn to get a feeling for conversations in this verse and this one seemed sincere.

That's part of what keeps me coming back to this verse, it comes at you from all angles. We were looking for spies and old pilots who might have had a grudge. By it's very nature this game makes you paranoid and it's all part of the game.

Hopefully we learned a lesson or two and will now have some experience under our belts for the next time war comes our way. In this game it seem inevitable that war will come our way again. Live and learn, fly another day.

Wardec, Week 2

Who knew war could be so boring. The guys who have wardeced us will not follow us into low-sec, they do little to harass us in hi-sec and the spy they have in the wormhole is actually amusing in his little ship. He will say something in local to get our attention and then hide for the night. Life goes on pretty much as normal for Inner Sphere Industries. Short of our hi-sec pilots having to be a little more cautious operations continue uninterrupted. Seems like an awful waste of ISK to me, but we're not paying for the wardec.

The wormhole is producing well now and harvesting operations continue. Keeping a more watchful eye on the scanner is necessary but then again, when is it not in wormhole space. We're testing out a new production process which I think will be very profitable and, life in and out of the hole goes on.

Evidently they agree that it was a waste of ISK and had very little profit potential, war has just been declared invalid by Concord. That means they didn't want to renew the war declaration. And life continues to go on.

War has Come

Another corp decided to wardec us. At first it seemed to be a pretty even match up as they show as having 10 pilots in their corp. Looks can be deceiving in this game it appears even when presented with pretty straight forward seeming information.

Hi-sec pilots from our corp decided to meet them in what was to believed to be a head on engagement. It was then we learned of their devious tactics and the not so smallness of their corp. Their main corp may only have 10 members but it seems they have plenty of friends and allied corporations ready to assist them.

In hi-sec engagements you pilots of warring corporations can target and attack each other without intervention from Concord. If you target and then fire upon any corp not part of the wardec then Concord can and will blow you into tiny floating bits. These guys have their allied corpmates target and shield rep and repair them while we are engaged in combat with them.

These tactics work well in hi-sec but will not work well in low or null sec. We stand a better chance there than in hi-sec.