T3 Time!

OK so I can finally use a T3 Cruiser.  Proteus me up baby!  While it isn't known to be all that good in a PVE sense, the WH effect we are under could bring it up a bit in that regard.  It is currently fitted for T1 weapons as that is all i'm skilled for.  Early days but I encountered the first hurdle already.  I shipped the Proteus in all packaged with some subsystems and fittings.  ACE!

The problem:  You can't assemble these bastards in wspace, or in any space.  You can't assemble them in a CHA or SMA either.

WTF!?!

Now I have to jump out to Nullsec and find a station that I can dock in to assemble the ship.  Out I go with Luskette scouting in an Imicus.  I've never tried to dock at a NS station before.  Do the station guns fire if you're not in the alliance?  I have no idea.  After getting denied at 2 or 3 stations, I find one a few jumps out that allows me to dock.

Out I go with Lusankya in the hauler after I switch Luskette into the Helios.  The systems were all empty when I went through before, let's see what happens.

Through I go and straight to the station.  Whew, made it.  I assemble the ship and leave as the coast is clear.  I store the ship in the SMA and pod back to pick up the hauler.

In and out and back in again with both toons and we are back in the hole with an assembled T3.  Nice!

Now to try it out.........

2 man 4 man team

Well Lan and I are online.  We have 2 WH so I put Luskette on one and Gerond's alt on the second.  We think we'll try running the combat sites, just the 2 of us.  I'll use the Megathron, Lan in his new Legion with his 2 Remote Reppers in their Guardians.

Exploration of another C3

So we had a hole to a C3 today.  It went to J152741.  This system looks deserted.  There are multiple dead sticks, some with many, many defenses around them including bubbles galore.  I was in my Megathron and Lan was in his Legion.  We take out a few Mobile bubbles (3 between us) and hit the POS for a bit.  We figured if someone was notified and wanted to get back in we could sell them the current LS Static location of Naka.

Gerond brought in his Typhoon and Lan his 2 Guardian alts as well.  We tried doing some C3 sites in a standard environment.  Our WH is a Wolf Rayet, which has bonuses to armor resists (and nerf to shields)  We hadn't tried doing our C3 sites without the added WH Effect bonuses.  We needed RR on the battleships that's for sure.  On the flip side it looked like the sleepers also went down quicker.  The resists must apply to them as well.

No one ended up sending us any messages.  I've been thinking lately that we've had a good run with our current hole so far.  While it was occupied when we settled, those owners haven't been active at all.  When they do become active at the end of their summer, we might very well be on the receiving end of a Russian Siege.  Maybe we should keep that in mind and keep our eyes open for a suitable uninhabited hole.

Fuck Fuck Fuck Warp!

I mentioned in a previous post the Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Warp.  This is when you're under attack and just want to GTFO.  Sometimes this can land you in a situation worse than the one you were in, sometimes you might not actually reach warp in time.  Others you may just scrape through with some skin left on your ballsack.

Let's try something new

So Lan is on grid with a POS in our wormhole.  It's just a small POS with 4 artillery for defenses.  There is a Corporate Hanger and Ship Maintenance Array there but as we have just discovered, it has no shield.  The Artillery is Anchored but not Online.

Current Wormhole Status Update

So we have been in the wormhole for a while.  There was already a POS setup in the hole, and from the can they've left near a bubble on grid with their POS they are Russian.

Kronos Expansion - Going Live!

Haha, 10 to 10 and the servers are still down. Oh wait, what's that in the latest news?

Kronos to be deployed on June 3rd from 11:00 to 14:00

Well looks like I was lucky getting the Drone Training completed on my main before the Kronos patch. I can't remember how far I got with my Alt though. :/