Stories

Standard Sleeper Cache - Most interesting content in Eve

2015-06-16 01:39:01 -0500

Wow. Color me impressed, but I never thought that I would find content anywhere near as curiosity inducing, time-stressing, adventurous, and mysterious in New Eden. In the middle of randomly scouting around in high-sec I located a Standard Sleeper Cache right in my home system. I had to pull out my Buzzard to get it pinpointed, and to unlock the initial gate (I had found one before, and upon failing the first hack, was locked out entirely, piquing my interest all the more).

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"Free Willy" or "The Desperate Flight of the Orca"

2009-08-24 05:59:05 -0500

Thought I’d regale a crazy experience from earlier this week about a frantic escape from wormhole space with my Orca.

For back-story, my Corp (SAATF) ran a wormhole op into a WH system with a black hole, and nothing but portals outbound (and the single anomaly we hit up for loot). After the op, we were dawdling in system deciding what to do when we were ambushed. Long story short, half our crew got podded, and our center of operations, our Orca, remained cloaked in system alone, without a bookmark to either of our discovered WH exit points. When we hopped back through the WH to give the Orca a warp-to target, we appeared in an entirely different WH system. It was officially ‘Lost in Space’.

This saga begins roughly 6 hours later, on my Orca flying account. The Orca had a cloak, Salvager, and Tractor Beam fit.

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