A Wormhole last night.

So last night Gerond found a wormhole 1 jump from our Manufacturing Station. Turned out to be a Class 3 wormhole that appeared to be devoid of settlement.

Gerond did an initial scout of the system in his Manticore. I think there were about 4 Unidentified Cosmic Signatures.

I joined him with my Thorax (Cruiser).  This was the second time I was going into a Wormhole.  I had been in another one earlier in the week, but I was too scared as I didn’t have T2 frigate skills let alone Cloak IV for Covert Ops cloaking yet.  It was still intense.

We decided to try mining some of the ores that were present. Gerond was organising an Alt on his second account (We'll call it Pommie) in a procurer. I hung around cloaked in the Thorax at the asteroid belt as Gerond had sighted rats but they weren't around anymore.

When the 2 sleepers appeared, Gerond was a bit too close to them and got himself uncloaked.  He had to escape quickly and warp away. I managed to take them out which took 10 minutes or so and didn't realise that Gerond had his own fun in the area he had hastily "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Warped" to.

With him getting hit once or twice and being down to armor or hull before warping away, maybe he shouldn't have warped to an anomaly site with Sentry guns that target at a good 170km range.  With those and 5+ other enemies.....

RIP Manticore

With Pommie in the procurer mining away, Luskette making trips in and out hauling Omber and Crokite, Gerond managed to lose a scanner ship trying to get to his wreck to loot his stuff.

He ended up planting a Mobile Tractor Unit further away and letting it tractor the wrecks further away. He had to re position it again to get the wrecks a good 250km away so the mobs wouldn't aggro.

After that he brought a retriever in and mined some more.

Gerond ended up leaving Pommie in a scanner ship cloaked in the system and we thought we'd see where the system ended up later today.

While the Class might be a bit high for us, it certainly gave us access to some null sec ores and high level rats a few jumps from HQ.

I don't think that I could have taken 3 rats out in my Thorax.  If the mob had have contained 3. I thought I might look at using the Talos. I'll play with fits as it has 8 high slots so I should be alright with 6 Large Hybrids, cloak and a Probe Launcher so we don't need the scanner ship.

Of course if others were around we might have had more selection regarding providing security and getting a few more options.

Gerond read that the awakened drones (rats) don't respawn, and we didn't have any new ones respawn while we were there. We don't know for sure about that though.

I would have needed a bigger ship to take out the groups of 4 and 5 rats at the other mining sites in the system. It was good fun, and the huge unknown factor of operating in there kept me distracted from trying to watching TV.

It would be good to be able to refit. There isn't something like a mobile tractor unit that you can deploy and park up at and refit? How many ships like the orca have the ability to provide this sort of service?

Mobile Depot.  OK I’ll have to get myself a few........