Oh Trinity, Trinity, wherefore art thou Trinity

I guess I just didn't have what it takes. I walked into her life a little over a year ago and watched her from afar. And then she was gone. Oh, I'd run into her occasionally, you know, around Jita, sometimes outside the War Academy in Onnamon. Just passing glances and often nothing for months at a time.

This time she walked right into my life. POW, there she was. We hit it off great and I was sure she was going to join up with us. She was talking about how she needed to make some ISK and I of course offered her a great position on the board of directors. She could manage the hi-sec mining operations and be rich.

It seems though that someone else had other plans for her. He sweeps in when I turned my back ever so slightly and stole her away to the dark side. Promises of money and riches beyond her dreams I bet is what he offered her. He must have bewitched her and he certainly betrayed me. First he would not join me on my quest and then he steals her away! All after I reached out my hand and offered him safe haven.

Oh Trinity, Trinity, wherefore art thou Trinity....

*curtain closes and the night grows silent, and dark.

The Mighty Hulk Falleth

Strike up another one for Eve. I had this one coming though as I was rather stupid. We were mining the belt on our first night back in the hole with a Hulk and an Osprey with a Badger hauling when he wasn't watching the WH that went to another wormhole. Sure enough we catch a ship leaving the hole and red alert back to the POS and my crew and I hopped into the bomber.

I sent the intruder a message along the lines of hey we saw you what do you want or are you just passing through? He then replies, was looking for some PvP and saw you guys in your mining ships. The hole is about to close so i won't be bothering you again.

Well, I did watch the hole for a little bit as we went back to mining. I missed him coming back in and he warp scrammed me in my Hulk and blew it to smitherens. As I'm out here in my space suit washing the windows all I can think is I had this one coming to me.

Home Sweet Home

We've successfully inserted our team into Zaniverse for Operation Money Maker. It's a training run for the noobs, nothing like on the job training for breaking them in. The hole has been really active in gas production for a change so we'll see if we hit the lottery with the right combination of gases. Our new production plan of weapons and probes still remains to be proven but we'll see how it goes.

The crew seem at home again and fell right back into the rhythm, let's hope the skies stay clear and the seas calm.

Gate Watching

We're setup 204 km off a low sec gate all cloaked up observing traffic for a group making local deliveries. I left the bridge for a few moments to perform a bio elimination process and of course this put my first officer in charge.

A few moments later I return to find my bridge crew frozen almost stiff and my first officer whispering commands for everyone to keep calm. "What the hell is going on here?", I bark.

I am immediately shushed by the first officer. "That's Shhhhh, Sir number one, or will it soon be number 2?" I remind her and follow-up with, "Now I asked you a question, what in the gorram hell is going on here?".

"Sir", says my first officer, still in a whisper, "We have 4 pirate vessels sitting on all 4 sides of us each of which is within 3,000m." Anything that passes within 2000 meters of us will cause us to decloak. If these pirates see us, we're dead.

A brief glance at the sensor panel told me all I needed to know. "So, why the hell are you whispering? Sound doesn't travel in space, they can't hear us. Helm, 90 degree down angle and full speed ahead. Our cloak is holding and we have enough room to duck under and out of them."

Immediately the crew sprang to life and we managed to get enough distance between us and the pirates to take a breath and start watching them. Had they known we were there we would be dead now. The crew, with the exception of my incompetent first officer, handled things really well.

I just don't know what to do with her, my first officer that is. I'll have to spend some extra time getting her to remain cool and collected under fire. Some one on one drills will help her a lot most likely, she is new to being a command officer.

Back to my Roots

Due to an unexpected layover in Hi Sec I've set up small scale mining ops. I now have a empire mining setup including a Hulk and a new friend Finn Morgan to haul. Stonecold Riddick, myself and Finn took everything but the Veldspar from a belt last night. Today, Lance and Finn have killed it and Stonecold Riddick is helping to bury the body!

Sovereignty Blockade Unit Killer Fleet

This good sized fleet was engaged in taking out a Sovereignty Blockade Unit when I happened by and started watching the action.

WRFL... Radio Free Lance

Pushing out the propaganda and tunes to the sleeper horde nightly!

Our comms are now up and active!

Event Horizon

Exploring other Wormholes always has a sense of adventure to it. None more so for me than sitting on the event horizon watching a black hole.

Gas Harvesting

The Osiris hard at work

Back on the Rim

I was able to get off the planet this weekend although I must return tomorrow. It is enough time for my crew and I to harvest the gas sites in the hole. This should allow us to get the reactors going once again. We really burned through the minerals we mined. Those are all processed and ready to go.

One more week of planet-side duty and I'm free again to soar into the verse. Things have been held together pretty well in my absence. The corporation speaks for itself and is going along nicely. All we need is some fine tuning and recruiting and we'll be good to go!

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.