Second system just like the first

Alone in an empty system, it's time to look for wormholes. It's getting busy in the home system, a whopping eleven sites scattered around, cluttering up my display with bookmark pins. And another site has spawned! I resolve the new ladar site and set the gas to self-destruct, which I've done with all the rest, although the clouds are tenaciously clinging together in the vacuum so far. I only find the single wormhole again today, giving us no new visitors or current threats from behind, so I jump in to explore our neighrbouring class 3 w-space system.

Two towers and no ships appear on my directional scanner. There is also nowhere to hide in this small system, and the presence of a mere three moons makes finding the two towers pretty easy. I launch probes and start a blanket scan as I warp off to the first of the towers, finding two crappy anomalies and eight other signatures present in the system. That's not much good for profit, and it doesn't offer much hope in the way of further exploration either.

I've found both towers, and warping between them blips a warp bubble on my overview. I think a bubble has to be on-grid for it to drag ships out of warp, although I'm not quite sure why the locals would want to stop anyone warping between the two towers anyway. For a start, unless there is someone monitoring the bubble a little delay will only be a frustration more than a danger. On reflection, considering that a few of the defences on the second tower are incapacitated, and as both towers are owned by the same corporation, the bubble may have been anchored there by a hostile force looking to cause trouble. Then again, I've also seen corporations inconvenience themselves with warp bubbles of their own. I ignore the ineffective warp bubble and concentrate as much attention as I can muster on scanning.

Two wormholes in this C3 are interesting, but that's all that is. The rest of the signatures are rocks and gas. And as the only anomalies left here are two low-quality ones I am guessing that along with an exit to empire space I'll find a K162 from w-space reaching the end of its natural lifetime, raiders having swept through here some hours before to leave the system bereft of profit. I'm only half-right, though, as the static exit to low-sec is accompanied by a K162 also from low-sec, and one that still has some life left. That's even more dreary than an EOL K162 from w-space.

It's time to collapse our static wormhole, and I am happy to have glorious leader Fin here to help. We can kill our wormhole and find riches to be plundered through a new connection! We use the collective mass of our Orca industrial command ship and Widow black ops ship to collapse the wormhole in short order, a couple of return trips each being all that it takes, and I effectively start the evening again. The new static wormhole is resolved and we jump through to explore the connecting class 3 system.

Two towers and no ships appear on my directional scanner. There is also nowhere to hide in this small system, and the presence of a mere three moons makes finding the two towers pretty easy. I launch probes and start a blanket scan as I warp off to look for the first of the towers, finding two crappy anomalies and five eight other signatures present in the system. That's not much good for profit, and it doesn't offer much hope in the way of further exploration either.

Two wormholes in this C3 are interesting, but that's all that is. The rest of the signatures are rocks and gas. And as the only anomalies left here are two low-quality ones I am guessing that along with an exit to empire space I'll find a K162 from w-space reaching the end of its natural lifetime, raiders having swept through here some hours before to leave the system bereft of profit. I'm right only half-right, though, as the static exit to high low-sec is accompanied by a K162 from class 4 w-space that is EOL also from low-sec, and one that still has some life left. That's not worth exploring through even more dreary than an EOL K162 from w-space.

If w-space can simply give me essentially the same system to explore twice I don't see why I can't recycle too. Fin points out that we still have time to collapse the wormhole a second time, and whilst that's true I'm not sure how much time we'll have after that to make use of what we find. I doubt we'll get lucky and pop a careless planet goo collector, and if all we can manage is to clear two crappy anomalies then maybe we should just shoot the Sleepers we have in our current neighbouring system. But, ultimately, empty space has worn me down tonight. I'm going to hit the sack and hope for a better day tomorrow.

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Tags: eve online, mmorpg, orca, penny ibramovic, scanning, w-space, widow