Put One On The Board

On Saturday, I joined Signal Cartel, a member corp of the EvE-Scout Enclave alliance.  One of the services that the EvE-Scout Enclave provides to New Eden is a listing on EvE-Scout of all the wormholes into and out of Thera.  Thera is unique, not only for having a name, but as the only wormhole system that has stations.  Stations attract capsuleers and so we go out and try to make accessing the stations just a little easier.

Of course, members to a new corporation want to contribute, and the most visible way is to help maintain the list.  So yesterday I set out to actually probe down and submit an exit to EvE-Scout.

I'm new to wormholes, so veterans of w-space will probably laugh at my technique.  Because I wanted to find a new exit, I first needed to purge my scan results of all the known exits.  The only way I knew to do that was to just go down the list of exits on EvE-Scout and ignore the results for each signal.  That left me with only 4 signatures to scan down.  None of them were wormholes.

Disappointed?  A little.  But that just meant I could do a little sightseeing while I waited for a new signature to spawn.  So I finished scanning down an ore site and took a look.

Sleepers Never Sleep

Yeah. Occupied with Sleepers.  Wormholes are a little bit tougher than low sec belts.  Unlike their Circadian Seeker cousins, they didn't notice my cloaked Cheetah, so I took the opportunity to take a couple of screenshots and exit the site.

Our Home Station

Did I mention that Thera is a beautiful place?  Well, in a creepy sort of way.  After leaving the Sleepers, I headed to our home station to watch some frigates wandering around.  I think an Ares was making bookmarks around the station.  After figuring that no one was actively trying to search out cloaked ships, I got close enough to get within vision distance of our home station and get a screenshot with planet 12 offering the backdrop.

With no new signatures appearing on scan, I headed to the Epicenter.  Yes, another site protected by Sleepers, but very pretty all the same.  I imagine that the wormhole in the screenshot above had something to do with the devastation in Thera.  Then again, with a site name like Epicenter, that's an easy assumption to make.

Finally, a new signature appeared.  I quickly probed it down and found a new exit.  I jumped to within 100 km of the signature and calmly (yeah, right) wrote down the signature name and wormhole type while crawling to 150 km so I could complete the warp to the wormhole.  I probably should figure out a better way, but the travel gives me time to make my notes.

A Pretty Site From Sovereign Null Sec

I then jumped though and found myself in The Kalevala Expanse and Shadow of xXDeathXx space.  No problems, though because I was the only one in the system.  So I completed gathering the information needed for entry into Tripwire, entered it into the intel channel, and poked Mynxee asking what happens next.  I didn't need to worry, though. Helios Anduath had already seen and submitted the site.  That's why you keep the intel channel clear.  If the tab only flashes with important information, then people will act on it quickly.

With my self-appointed goal complete, I then headed back to my low sec station.  I did half a data site on the way, but then for some reason I couldn't click on my overview.  So I just abandoned the rest of the site and docked up at the nearest station.  Turns out my anti-virus had updated.  I figured Bob was giving me a hint so I just stayed logged out.

All in all, a pretty satisfying night.  Now I just need to get even more adventurous and start exploring null sec space.  Hopefully the Russians won't mind.