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