Settling In

It's been a while since my last post; no worries, I am still playing.

I have been getting back into the rhythm of wormhole life; logging in, checking the chain, verifying signatures, then seeing what trouble I can get myself into. I've managed to rebuild a collection of ships for almost any fleet we'll fly - save for a capital ship, which feels almost required, but is well out of my price range. I've also got my own POS set up again. That was, as always, tedious to an extreme but it feels good to have my own little bubble of space again. As I play I am also reminded again how pretty this game can be. Beyond the spreadsheets with their numbers and the cut and dried EFT fits, there are all sorts of things that just look cool.

My POS, orbiting a gas giant

System's sun. And no, this was before I put the guns on my tower.

I've gotten a little pew in, although not as much as I'd have liked; the last few nights I had free for flying spaceships also happened to be nights the corp wanted to run escalations, where I largely feel like a dead weight. Fortunately I have kept myself entertained, though, building ships and going out and hunting - in my first trip in a Flycatcher I caught a Prospect in a gas sight along with the 670 million isk pod, and just last night I combat scanned out a Raven with my Proteus, tackled it, and held it for backup - always a good feeling.

My last tower module has finished onlining, so it's time to get outside and enjoy some sunlight. Until later, pilots! o7

-K

Little Miracles

I resubscribed to Eve yesterday. Technically two days ago, as I am writing this at 1:00 AM, but regardless it has been a while. About 250-ish days, according to Eve. I activated two of my accounts, started the patcher, and renewed my API keys.

To my relief, I logged in to find I had been moved to my medical clone station in high sec - I had not been looking forward to scanning my way out of a C2/C5/null in a Rattlesnake. I checked my alt with my Orca, and sure enough it (and the Tengu and the HIC in the cargo) were parked in high sec as well. That was good, it was enough resources to work with and reestablish myself.

I had a good time chatting with the guys on Team Speak; it's always nice to know you haven't been forgotten, after all. While I was on hiatus, it seems that Sky Fighters have moved a couple of times; out of the old C2 into a C5, and then just recently into a new C5. As a second Eve miracle, as I was taking stock of what I had in my Orca and which assault frigates I still had where in high sec, Kynric asked if I might have left anything else behind in the hole. "Mmm... maybe a Stratios?" I distinctly remembered losing one shortly before I left, and I wasn't sure if I had replaced it or not. Sure enough though, in the pile of ships that had been left in a shared ship maintenance array and then drug out to high sec when Sky Fighters left the C2, was my Stratios:

I took it out for a joyride. I would have taken it into the new C5, but the only route was through a C13 frig-only hole (which was pretty cool to check out!), so I made do with ferrying in a few small ships into the POS.

I hadn't realized how much I had missed w-space. I cried just a little.

This is going to be fun.

o7
-K