You wanted an U574? Take some!

Sunday afternoon, time to see what EVE will provide today.

As starters, our C4 static is gone, so I get my alt Kippel with his cheetah and send it to scan. It doesn't take long to find it. I warp to the signature and jump into.

As always, first thing do to, check dscan, nothing, so lets see what we can find in this hole. A quick look shows 24 signatures! This is going to be a long while scanning.

I deploy my Sister Probes and start scanning, some gas.... and a weak signal of a wormhole, perhaps it's the static of this system, an U574 (C6). I continue focusing on that signal and I resolve it, yes, the static, I add a bookmark and continue scanning.

Further scanning shows another U574, and another, and another, WTF?! It seems this is a bugged C4, and it's not the first time it happens according to my corp colleagues. This C4 system is connected to a lot of C6 systems so it becomes like hub for them.

C4 with bugged static

There are still a lot of signatures to resolve and as we continue scanning, we keep finding more. So far, I only have seen activity in one wormhole and an Anathema cloaking at J144420. I wait a few minutes and I decide to take a look into that system again to see what kind of activity - if any - is there.

Reinforced POCOs at 2DWM-2

I log in and notice the Instrumental site is still in the system. Someone was mentioning yesterday in the corp channel about cleaning the sleepers from the site, so I wonder if that did happen and if there is at least the cheap C-540. Sometimes, some of my colleagues don't consider worthy their time and effort to suck that one, compared with the C-320.

I warp to the site, and confirm there are no sleepers, and still plenty of C-320. Time for Venture fleet!

I grab both ventures and I warp to the site and without hesitation, I start to harvest the gas meanwhile I watch d-scan.

A few minutes later, silent terror logs in and confirms there are new signatures in the system, and suddenly, sleepers show up in my gas site. What? I thought they were gone!

Silent terror explains me that they "return home" after downtime, so even if the site was triggered, as it was yesterday, it's like a fresh site. A new thingy learnt, and always learning. This is EVE.

So, I warp squad the ventures back to the tower, and I get Kippel into the cheetah and start to help Silent to locate the new signatures.

Besides the new static C4, we have a null inbound (2DWM-2). I jump in, and I see at least two POCOs are reinforced and their timers will end in about 2-3 hours. The locals are aware, and greet me in the channel.

Retriever in d-scan

Another day in wormhole space... our chain was gone and we had to start to scan it again. I had already scanned our C4 static two hours ago, but did not continue further because I had to leave to solve a few things, kids stuff, they always have priority over EVE.

When I came back, Raul is in the C4 scanning the rest of the chain, I join him. A few gas sites and a C4 inbound and a C3. Raul jumps to C3 and I do to C4z.

In C4z there is an unmanned retriever in a tower, and it looks it has been there for some time, nothing else of interest in the system. We had two bookmarks in siggy for two towers but they were gone, so I update siggy, removing previous towers and adding the new tower that Elder found quicker than me.

Meanwhile, we were having a good discussion how he knew it was a C4 site without jumping in, and Raul gave me a good lesson about finding the wormhole class based on its colors. To be honest, I had read about that in the past, but I never have been aware of it, or never tried to identify it. I remembered reading about it at Penny's blog, and with some googling I found the post: http://www.tigerears.org/2011/04/24/wormhole-colours.

                Raul Itinen > c4 - very orange + Green
                Raul Itinen > our c5, black + red
                Raul Itinen > srsly try it

Trying the Nereus

My colleague Brother Chaplin a few days ago showed me a great YouTube video from Marlona Sky doing PvP with an industrial ship, a Nereus. Since I saw that I wanted to try that hilarious experience and for that reason I had acquired a Nereus and fitted it.

Today we had in our chain a low-sec entry and it was a good opportunity to put in practice the Nereus. I did ask Brother to join and he gladly did it.

The lowsec system was Shalne, and there was nobody in the system so we decided to jump to Gonditsa.

At Gonditsa, we warped to the gate that leads to Bherdasopt - a high sec system - trying to find criminals or suspects to shot. And we did, because as soon as we arrived, we found a suspect Drake Navy Issue owned by K'Dra, that started to shoot us with Heavy Assault Missile.

Mister Commander and his Arazu

After a few buys days only updating PI and skills, I find some time to be more active. Mick and Bolinar were rolling our static C4 and I join them with my rolling-100MN-rupture, and we do the usual stuff, jump with the afterburner on to increase the total mass and jump back with the afterburner on. The wormhole goes puff as it should be.

We only have one relic signature at home, so the new one it has to be our static C4. I recently have trained my alt Kippel to Astrometrics 5, so it becomes more easy to scan, good thing, because the older, the lazier. Kippel gets into his cheetah and starts to scan. With some small RL interruptions to provide "IT support" to my wife, I finally find the wormhole.

C4a has been active recently, Commander Predator has lost an Astarte and his pod, so I try to be more careful, just in case the system is still active. There's a tower in dscan and I start to search for it. Two manned ships in the POS, Prophecy and Arazu, being in the Arazu Commander Predator. Then, he was podded and came back. They seem to be afking.

Meanwhile Raul has been scanning and got the static C3, nothing else in the system besides a gas site and our own wormhole connection to home. We jump to C3. I see in dscan an online small tower. Using dscan I find it and warp to it. It has some ships, but only one of them manned, just a Cheetah.

To my surprise, all the defense mods are offline, and two of them are incapacitated, so perhaps the tower has been in siege recently? Or the owners are not very skilled in POS defence techniques?

No active defenses?

Nothing like a good motd

I log in back from dinner, just expecting to do some boring stuff, like updating PI, when I am quickly greeted by Mick asking for interdictor support.

Chuck Turing > hi again
Mick Straih > hi
Mick Straih > get a dictor, get it to 3a asap
Mick Straih > can you?
Chuck Turing > yes
Chuck Turing > sabre
Mick Straih > go go go

I swap ships and get into my Sabre. The target is in C3a and has been already killed twice by Mick, first in a retriever and second in a vexor. According to Mick he thought he was baiting before, so we were wondering what was he doing now.



Following Mick's instructions I warp fast to the Low Sec wormhole and cloak, waiting there in case he gets aware of our presence and tries to flee through this connection. D-scan shows he's back with a Venture, but this time he's not in the Ore site, but probably harvesting some gas.

Mick decide to throw Combat probes to locate the venture, meanwhile I wait for any signal to bubble up. Mick warps to the Venture and finish it. Then Mick tells me he is warping back to Low Sec with his pod, I bubble up with the Sabre. Wolfram Ulv arrives and is slowed by the bubble giving us enough time to catch him.

Perhaps we should not have killed the pod, and he would have brought another ship? Who knows, in any case, Mick updated channel MOTD with the following funny text that gave the name for this post.

Kronos in C4a

After two days waiting in Hisec due a forced trip, I was able to return to my home system. The highsec system that was connecting the chain was not far, neither the chain was looking dangerous.

I had bought a new venture and fitted it again with the gas modules and some agility rigs, so perhaps next time I am more bright and I warp away.

At home there was not much to do, just a few people online, and probably half of them AFKing. I did check my PI, updating the extractors timers and moving products to the POCOs. Nothing really exciting, and neither I was in a mood to explore the chain.

I was about to join the AFKers team when suddenly tgl3 said in the channel: "Kronos in C4a running sites". PVP mode quickly triggered, fleet advertising, pings through Jabber announcing a possible target, comms, Guardian pilots requested... and update status in the channel:

Jabber ping did work, Mick and later Omaristos logged in and joined the fleet. We got a good set of ships, logis and DPS. I was sitting in my Hurricane and my alt Kippel was flying the second Guardian, being Mick in the other Guardian. A must to be able to cap transfer and hold the possible damage from the sleepers and Kronos.