Friday, August 22, 2008

New Low-Sec Home

Once I got back from my holiday and saw the possibility of defending low-sec space I logged on and got right down there! With the 2 reliables in the vent Pew-Pew channel we wandered from belt to belt killing True Sanshas.

I even switched off the warning that says - you are about to enter a low sec sector - do you want to continue?

The trip down was easy, only saw one person flash red while transisting a low-sec system, apparantly everyone's autopilot is NOT the same. I jump cloned before coming down here so that there would be no great loss if I got podded.

I brought my trusty Thorax set up for gank - with 5 Hammerhead II and blasters I can kill 3 belt rat cruisers before they get me. If I end up chasing a pirate then I hope to hide in the crowd!
What I have noticed is that most my ships are 20 jumps away so I will have to build a secondary depot down in Sukanan. That gives me something to spend money on at the local supermarket. I'll have to check out how this compares to Dodixie.

One of the good things abut the move is that there is a Gallente corp called Chemal in the constellation. The same corp has a presence back in the Gallente home-systems. In Sukanan they have L1, L3 and L4 agents, mostly administration. Note the missing L2 agents. To make things worse, the L3 agetns are quality 20. I suspect that it is going to take a lot of grinding L1 missions in Sukanan to get access to the L3 agents.

I noticed that the local alliance channel is full of pirate chasing - at least I hope they are pirates and that the system for setting a corp to red is reliable. A bit more investigation into this required.

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