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It was one of those WTF moments.

Posted in Caldari, Empire, Missions, Salvaging, Spaceline Patrol with tags , , , , on September 17, 2010 by Nick

So, I decide to run a couple missions last night, I get a nice easy milkrun (literally had to cart some dairy products around for someone) then I pulled Blockade (guristas) Level 2 mission. The offered rewards were nice, so I offered a corpmate to join in. He likes to blow stuff up, then come back and salvage. He’s fitted out in a nice ship easily capable of running L3 missions. He armor tanks but, won’t hold that against him.

I’m off happily popping pirates left and right, the final wave comes in, I notice that my buddy hasn’t been shooting as much as is normal. Probably had to deal with an incident elsewhere in the ship. My hobgoblin drones got popped during the second wave of ships, so it’s just me and my missiles against the last few ships coming in. They weren’t much, a couple destroyers and a cruiser. I have a habit of taking out the smaller ships first so that my shields can maintain longer against the larger ships. I can usually pop frigates in 1-2 volleys afterall. Each one down is one less I have to worry about shooting me. Takes me 4-5 volleys for the destroyers. I know.. i need to study more about missile operations, since that is my primary weapon. So I popped the last destroyer and was turning my sights on the cruiser when I see an explosion in space behind me. One I didn’t cause.. I check my scanners an see that my friend is floating in space in his egg. The cruiser had decided to work him over while he was doing something else. I started pounding on the cruiser which eventually folded like a sock. I go back to my friend’s egg and wait for him to wake up and smell the burnt circuitry. I snared the modules out of his ship, since I have had people come by and steal the salvage and loot from my missions before. He finally wakes back up and completely freaks out for a couple minutes. Then goes and gets his salvage ship and cleans up the place.  I still don’t see how he got popped.. unless he just didn’t have his hardeners running or something wierd like that.

well, live and learn.. the important lesson there is don’t go away from the console during a battle.

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A day of labors

Posted in Missions, Salvaging, Spaceline Patrol with tags , , , on September 6, 2010 by Nick

In space nobody can hear you scream, be it in rage, frustration or joy.

So, I’m puttering around doing missions for some entry level hack with Spaceline Patrol and since i’m leaving tons of small wrecks lying about I ask on the local comm net if anyone wants to collect the salvage. A random guy chimes in asking what lvl missions am I doing? Valid question, don’t want to blow up someone who’s pilot license hasn’t finished drying yet.

I reply that these are simple L1 Missions, the random person chuckled and said “come with me.” I joined their little fleet of two combat vessels and a salvage ship. He told me they were going to do something called “Angels Extravaganza” which I had hear of a couple times, but had little knowledge of beyond the name.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of my Caracal (named “The Bounty” in honor of the vessel that Kirk rode home in from Vulcan in ST4.) I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew with too strong of a misison. He was flying a harbinger. (i think) and was more than capable of doing the mission, but wanted a wingman to keep the small frigates off him. Frigates, I can handle.. 🙂

We burn through the mission and I notice my wallet display flashing. In the time it would normally take me to take a shower, I had more than doubled my finances. I started out the day around 2.5 Million ISK, and when all was said and done, including a second mission featuring gurista pirates, I had over 11 Million ISK. Needless to say, I am a happy pilot.

The pilot I was helping, indicated that mission running he could pull in almost 300mil a day. If I could do that, I would never have to pay for the game again.

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Through the looking glass (Wormhole N766)

Posted in Caldari, Exploration, Mining, Professions, Scanning with tags , , , , , , on September 2, 2010 by Nick

Allow me to introduce myself, I am Brusaoiri, a member of a Vivaldi Corp operating primarily in Caldari space. I am the company scout. My job is to find what is hidden that we may investigate and if possible exploit it for the greater good of the company.

I was scouting around a system (which will not be named to protect my finds.) and discovered a wormhole entrance. My readouts showed that it was a Class 2 wormhole, and as such was moderately safe to enter and have a peek. Before doing so, I sent a shout out to my company that I had found a wormhole and would like someone to back me up.

I fly a heron currently (I’m training to fly a Buzzard soon), and it is not really equipped for combat. Should there be hostiles on the other side, I need backup, preferably with big guns. Once my backup arrives, I proceed in and take a look around. Amazingly, there appears to be no trace of sleepers in this system. Tho I did discover a juicy gravimetric site. I warp over to it and take a look. No hostiles in view, all is quiet. I find several common ores, and then discover some rocks that contain Arkonor, and Bistot. I relayed the information and the comms went wild. Next thing I knew, the entire company had warped in to join me at the asteroid and were busy mining away. I wandered off and continued scanning but didn’t find much of anything useful. One of the rules of scanning is “First in Last out. ” Knowing that if my colleagues don’t have an exit route, all their work is for naught, I go find myself a pleasing planet to orbit and wait.

My alarm rang out in the cabin and brought me back to my senses, I checked the comms but there was no activity. Did they finish mining and leave, were they still there but asleep like I had been? I don’t know.. I went and checked the asteroid field and nobody is there, I did a quick scan of the region and discovered a sleeper outpost I had missed the night before. I didn’t want to risk my ship so I steered clear of them. Hours later, I get a message..

Brus, WTF are you still doing in that wormhole? We abandoned it last night around oh 200.

I muttered thanks for the message.. and went to where the wormhole entrance was.. it wasn’t there…

At least the only person left inside is the one person that can get back out… so I start scanning again looking for a way home.. I finally found a hole leading back to Hisec space, when I popped back into normal space, I found myself 18 jumps from home. Eventually I found my way home and docked. Completely worn out from all that travel..

I don’t know why, but every time I take a jump it feels like I’m getting stretched infinitely long and about a molecule wide and then get snapped back together. It really tires me out.. and 18 jumps, that’s a nightmare.

It turned out to be a profitable venture despite my discomfort, the corp harvested 50 Million ISK worth of ore, and will be turning that into many times that in manufactured goods.

I’ll relate some more adventures as they happen, for now, Good hunting. – Brus

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