Ticket express to highsec

I was kinda bored, not many people online and I decided to do some exploration in the chain. We had a C6 inbound at home, so it seemed to me like a good opportunity to see if there were some Vital or Instrumental  gas sites.

C6a was looking good, no active towers in the system and only one connection to another C5 wormhole, that was also inactive.



 

I scanned all the signatures in the C6 with my alt Kippel and I found two Vital Core Reservoirs. Those have some nice C320 and C540 gases, the most expensive. I know I couldn't harvest the complete sites, because I am not still able to deal with the sleepers, but at least some quick "ninja-harvesting" would be feasible.

I came back to the tower and I offered in the corp channel the chance to join my fleet to harvest some. Only Avam TheRock joined, and we jumped into the C6.

We started with the C320, and meanwhile Avam was showing me how faster his Venture was compared with mine. The reason behind was the rigs he was using. I told him I'd have to plug some of those on mine also to gain that improvement. I found later, they proved useful.

We finished with the C320 and we moved onto the C540 from the first Vital site. A few minutes later, I found Sisters Core Probes and Tengu in dscan.

Through my alt Kippel, I triggered the warp squad out of the site to the Sun, meanwhile I warned Avam in the channel. Those probes could easily be working in getting into our site.

I told him to return home to be more safe, Kippel fleet warped all of us (Avam and Chuck) to the C6a->home wormhole connection and we jumped.

Now here starts the "fun". There was a small group waiting in the other side, with sabres and they bubbled up. I was suddenly dual boxing with two chars in a bubbled situation. I admit I got surprised and somehow blocked, I thought to myself "I am fucked", and instead of burning away with the microwarpdrive (as Avam wisely did) I freaked out and jumped back to the C6 with Kippel and Chuck. Wrong decision. In the other side, there were another two Sabres and more bubbles. Again, I freaked out and I did nothing thinking I couldn't escape from the trap.

Obviously I got my ticket express to High Sec for Kippel and Chuck.

Perhaps if I would not dual-boxed I'd been more aware of my options. And I had more than I thought, but somehow I surrendered myself too fast. When I think both Ventures were stabbed, or that I had a cloak on them, I think "OMG! Why am I so bad at EVE?!"

I have escaped from more difficult situations and in the easy ones I don't... this is EVE.

PS: The same guys that attacked me, also got some love from our tower: Helios.