An Early Morning in My New Home

As soon as I leave the station I notice that in my usually abandoned area of space there are 3 ships tooling around on scan. I immediately use my warp out as you never know who's cloaked above or below you and I jump out to my secret spot from there, carefully aligning myself as to not cross any major traffic points in the system.

I use my directional scanner and slowly rotate 360 degrees quickly making notes of anything interesting and getting a pretty good idea of where these pilots are loitering. Sitting there with them are a few warp bubbles and some ship carcasses that had the unfortunate luck of running right into this make shift gate camp. They are right out in the open which is how I like them. Visible.

I hate gate camps with a passion. I don't hate the fact that you can have a gate camp, during war this is a necessary tool. But to consign yourself to relentlessly smash on other pilots with your super quick locking time and linked up one shot ability must be more boring than ratting out the belts.

I prefer honorable duels, or fair fights to be honest, but this is the real world and that's not how it usually happens so you've got to be able to do what they do as well but better.

Over the course of the past two weeks I have integrated my corp. into this system somewhat under the nose of the locals and so far I haven't gotten any problem from anyone. I believe the fact that they already have a rather large alliance who has recently taken to dropping in the system and killing anything that moves has a big impact on their patrolling duties as of late.

Normally, I do avoid everyone around here so that I don't ruffle feathers or step on the wrong toes as I need to be here for a bit. We play our cat and mouse games daily, however when hot drop time comes, we all scatter. I like to hole up and spy as much of the activity as possible, hopefully to learn a tactic or two and also to help protect myself if I am ever in the middle of that hot mess.

All in all though, I'd have to say my new home system in null is about the perfect fit for me currently. Right at my level of experience and that is rare. There are so many places to blend into in Eve that it's hard a lot of the time to get the right feel for a place.

Before I took the plunge into the cold, dark immortal abyss I used to move around a lot for a mortal and I continue that even after knowing I will live forever.

I have successfully setup extraction units on all of the massively overburdened planets in the system. You would not believe how neglected the harvesting is here. No one seems interested at all, which I can understand, but there's usually at least one alliance or corp. member in a group that will do it. It's too much Isk just to leave lying around. Makes me shudder to think that it was all just sitting here waiting for me and my machines

The locals should really not have any problems with this over time as I always bring merchandise that's been created with these resources to sell locally first, intergalactic second.

My prices are reasonable and only reflect the price of the materials plus a modest set base markup that I use across the board barring a few exceptional items.

I am sitting here at my perch over-looking the camp at the gate. I make note of the pilots involved and also any pilot ship hulls I see floating wrecked around the gate in case I need to recruit help in the future on the fly. They pop the locals I take a note, they pop a stranger I write it down only if they are somewhat formidable and just got caught with their pants down at a gate which does happen to the best of us. The rest I just ignore as they shouldn't have been in this area of lawless apathy in the first place. Not unless they were just looking to die, which is fairly common around here.

Who's got the biggest blaster? We all do, it's just a matter of timing.