The Great Migration

As you learned about a week ago, I joined EVE University.  Wanting to be an active member of the corp and not being particularly happy with my slice of Caldari space around Jita, I moved down to their headquarters in Aldrat.  I sold everything nonessential, including my Tristan and Navitas, and went cruising through the galaxy in my Thorax.  I set up shop, bought a new Tristan, and then laid low for a few days.  Now that I was down here, I realized that there wasn't much to do.

Today, I decided that I'd take advantage of their Jump Clone program, having listened to a recorded lecture on the subject already.  I began to head up to Isikano, where the Uni has high standing with an out-of-the-way NPC corp.  On the way, the corp chat channel started buzzing with word of a Sansha's invasion of Urlen.  Intrigued, I fleeted up with three corp members and headed for the action.  After jumping into Urlen, I aligned for warp and appeared in the middle of a giant blob.  Red Sansha's vessels, mostly neutral players, and a bunch of yellow wrecks littered the screen.

The only useful fittings on my Tristan were the two blasters and the webifiers.  I started by webbing some Sansha's Tyrants, which I firmly believe allowed some people with real ships to kill them.  After that, I started focusing on Sansha's Loyal Raveners, which were webifieing my fellow capsuleers.  I would web them and then orbit at 500m, tearing them up with my blasters.  I did this to a couple ships, but while I was intently pecking away at my fleet chat box, I looked up to see that I was taking massive damage.  In a matter of seconds, I had gone to half armor.  I quickly activated my armor repairer, turned on the Afterburner, and warped to a station.  There, I quickly recovered and returned to the fight.  By the time I returned, it was over.  Apparently, a final Sansha's Carrier had come and been destroyed by the capsuleers.

I surveyed the battlefield, which was made almost entirely of yellow wrecks, which I could not have.  By scrutinizing the overview, however, I was able to find one white wreck from a Ravener that I had destroyed.  Overjoyed, I flew to it and found a shield recharger and some cap charges.  When I docked into the nearest station to log off, I found that I was the proud owner of a million ISK for bounties.  Lots of excitement with pay?!?  Overall, not a bad day.

Fly safe!

-Stevie