Eve Online "So Long and Thanks for the Vagas"

So this is my first Eve story on this blog.  This was back in 2012 while I was living in a Class 4 wormhole. For anyone that doesn't know the entrances and exits to wormholes change after a set amount of time or if too much mass passes through them, so the systems next to you are constantly changing.

I logging into Eve one night after work, it was late and when I got online only one of my corp mates was still online, McBobtronic.  He told me that the wormhole next door was inactive, only a AFK pilot in a POS and a few unpiloted ships floating.  They had an exit to a lowsec system and Bob had found a Harbinger battlecruiser killing NPC rats in asteroid belts.  It seemed an easy target and something to do so I got into a shield fit DPS Hurricane (Bob was in a Myrmidon) and headed out towards the lowsec exit.  I reached the lowsec wormhole and out of habit I checked the mass on the hole to check it before jumping.  When I did I warned Bob that the hole had already been reduced by the mass that had passed through, straight away Bob told me that the hole had just opened when he scanned it down and it hadn't been reduced 10 minutes earlier when he went through.  We knew something else had come through the wormhole and Bob asked me to d-scan the POS that was in the system because he remembered what ships had been floating there.  When I told him the results he told me that an Orca had left the system.

This was a much better target than the Harbinger so we changed our plans straight away.  We checked the maps of the region the lowsec exit was in and found that it was only a couple of jumps through lowsec before you could get into highsec space and from there the nearest trading hub was Amarr.  We had no idea if the Orca had gone there or if it was coming back but we had to check.

Eve Online

I used to play Eve Online a lot, I haven't in a while because I went for a long time with a temperamental internet connection that wasn't great for online gaming so stopped my subscription.  For those that don't know Eve is a science fiction MMORPG where you take on the role of a pilot flying various space ships around a whole galaxy.  It's a sandbox and you can do anything you like within the game mechanics.  The economy is almost completely player run and is designed that even though area's are safer than others no-where is completely safe, even in the safest areas of the game other players won't be stopped from attacking you without provocation, only punished when they do.

I think it is one of the best and most interesting MMORPGs out there and one I played for years.

My main character was Karloth Valois and in my time I have done a lot of different things in game.  I lived in Providence 0.0 space after only a week in game, I moved back to high-sec space and ran missions and tried industry, I lived in low-sec space as a pirate, High-sec as a pirate and war dec mercenary, I have flown in 0.0 sov wars with Fatal Ascension and the CFC and have lived in both high and low class wormholes.

For anyone interested my killboard link is Eve-Kill it isn't the most impressive and I don't claim to be the greatest PvP player.

I decided to start telling a few stories from my time in Eve on this blog since it falls under gaming.  These may not be the greatest stories ever told in a game that is famous for player driven content, but they are some of the experiences I had in the game.