Svipul Refit... meh!

[Svipul, Snarkhunter]
Internal Force Field Array I
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II

Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I

200mm AutoCannon II
Expanded Probe Launcher II
200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II
[Empty High slot]
200mm AutoCannon II

Small Core Defense Field Extender II
Small Core Defense Field Extender II
Small Core Defense Field Extender II

~~*****~***~*****~~

So readers, with the recent nerf I had to tweak and hammer different things in to get it to work again... I've been able to maintained my DPS (about 330), the loss of PG and CPU have led to a loss of agility due to the need for the MAPC (T2 isn't needed but it is what I had,) to fit a second medium shield extender, that said it still needed to be down graded along with the DCU, so the tank also takes a hit, but not as big of one as I had though at first but still enough to hurt. CPU is too tight to fill that second utility slot.

I'd like to see a CPU buff per level specifically for fitting a Cloak. NOT a Cov Op mind you, just a regular T1 and T2, maybe add a reduction in speed penalty while cloaked. That would mean not warp cloaks, but stealthy hunting could still work. In w space the cloak is a survival hi-slot for the solo pilot being able to warp off and cloak up is necessary. Cloaking and having some amount of mobility also gives a huge boost to survival. I know most people will say just go YOLO and go balls deep into the fight. BUT sometimes it's smarter to hit then run than to stay and die needlessly.

Notice please readers, I never say I want a CovOp cloak, a reduction to sensor re-calibration  or targeting times. I simply want the other cloaks to have a more useful reason to fit for w space. I dunno probably a terribad idea, but still just my thought, otherwise something needs to be addressed about that useless utility slot.

Snark Hunting

[Svipul, Snarkhunter]
Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium Shield Extender II
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I

200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II
Expanded Probe Launcher II
200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II

Small Core Defense Field Extender II
Small Core Defense Field Extender II
Small Core Defense Field Extender II

Republic Fleet EMP S x10000
Republic Fleet Fusion S x10000
Republic Fleet Phased Plasma S x10000
Sister's Combat Scanner Probe x8
Sisters Core Scanner Probes x8
Nanite Repair Paste x100

250mm Light Artillery Cannon II x6

Data Analyzer II

Relic Analyzer II

Expanded Cargohold II x4

Mobile Tractor Unit (Snarksukka)

Mobile Depot (Billiard-Marker)

Salvager II x3

Small Ancillary Armor Repairer

Small Hull Repairer I

Small Secure Container x6

~~*****~***~*****~~

So readers, first I want to apologize. My last post was sort of dark. I was angry, scared... and well lets face it, who isn't a little grumpy when they wake up in the morning. I mean really.

But my plan remains. I'm leaving k space again, but this time without a corp. I don't know if it's me, or others, but I don't think I am made for dealing with, or depending, on others. New Eden is a strange and dangerous place, I applaud anyone that can make it here. It is never easy, nor is it something that many can do alone. I barely make enough to cover my losses. Often less.

But sitting in a fleet for 2 hours waiting to get organized enough to run a site, or go on a roam, isn't for me. I'm happy to sit in my PI interface moving things around but that only lasts so long, but I really need a crew that can at the drop of a hat, (or at least on short notice) be ready to go have fun for a half hour or two, and then go back to their own things. I'm willing to do the same. But honestly everything corp takes so long. AND don't get me started on corp leadership, I mean, seriously. I have a job already, I don't want another one... and one that pays considerably less and results in being the one that gets blamed for everything wrong and taken advantage of when people need something, and ... I think I've may have gone far enough there. In my last corp I sunk over a billion into in 3 months, and I was a director, I didn't eve want the job.I never saw the profits from my participation because it went to POS fuel and replacement of corp losses. Who pays the corp members went the hauler full of blue loot gets ganked? You guessed it, they don't care that they loot was stolen or blown up, they just want their cut. Well I'm done with it. If I ever find another corp to fly with, my requirements are: NO RESPONSIBILITIES. NO ROLES. NO WALLET ACCESS! Sorry I'm not gonna corp thief, but I'm not gonna do any thing that warrants actually be any thing other than a grunt. I'll run ops, man up for offense and defense, even pay tax, but leave me out of the job side of it.

Does this make me a bad person? Does my lack of Social or Corporate responsibility mean I am of little value? No, I just don't want to be the one taking the shit anymore... and I know it can go both ways so I don't want that either.

I guess readers, this is why I am striking out on my own. ME, against the unknown. No one to blame or take the blame for but myself. If I succeed I do on my own merits. If I fail that is on me too. 

Wish me luck, or at least feel free to make suggestion on things I might have forgotten to include in my cargo hold. It is gonna be a long time before I come back up for air this time.

Fit the 8th: Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

[Spider Domi, Dominix]

Drone Damage Amplifier II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Damage Control II

Peripheral Weapon Navigation Diameter
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

Drone Link Augmentor II
Large Remote Capacitor Transmitter II
Large Remote Capacitor Transmitter II
Large Remote Armor Repairer II
Large Remote Armor Repairer II
Large Remote Armor Repairer II

5x Warrior II
5x Hobgoblin II
5x Salvage Drones
5x Hammerhead II
5x Calari Navy Warden
5x Federation Navy Garde

Mobile Tractor Unit
A winning personality

~~*****~***~*****~~

Well readers a lot has been happening. We have three of the 7 POCOs replaced and things are getting into a good rhytem in the hole. AND I know what you are going to say, and you would be right so  consider this my apology for not keeping you up to date on my activities. Over the last two weeks thing have picked up and I've made and spent almost a billion isk. I flew then bought and fit my first battleship, and it is interesting because it wasn't a Matari ship. I feel sort of conflicted over that. I mean I can fly every races ships. At several points I've flown frigates or cruisers from the various races. AND I admit to having had a Drake period in my past. But I always thought Matari would be my first battleship, so went our fleet doctrine for C5 sites was set as RR Rattlesnake or Domi, I had very few options. Now I am not saying I don't like it but I always feel like I need to roam in Bandersnatch afterwards. Bandersnatch has still been very useful in the C1. For our C5 sites though we have been running small fleets of 4 or 5 and these Domis seem to be very good at getting the job done. Though admittedly we went to the Domis after we had 3 rattlesnakes stolen.

Readers, after a purging of the corp with glorious fire and pain our membership is much more active and trustworthy. We have brought in a few new members and they seem to be good additions to a band of misfits. Now my own solo past still persists and I tends to run sites alone when I can and jealously guard my safes and bm's to lucrative sites in our statics. I also get inpatient while waiting for everyone to get organized for fleet ops in the C5. I can only image the pains a FC in a 20 man fleet must feel, let alone a 70 man fleet. I am not sure I want to move into a larger corp. But I suppose if I have more time I wouldn't feel that way, maybe.

The other night we had a fleet enter our space and start running our gas sites! Now at this they must have thought we would roll over and let them have our resources since we where a small 10 man corp and they were... a force that dwarfed our entire seatable fleet. A corp mate moved his cloaky scan ship in to watch them, but noobed it and bumped a gas cloud and was popped. He and myself  grabbed our stealth bomber and got to show them what a red giant effect does for bombs. They all got out and ran, rolling the hole they had used to enter as quickly as they could... I was inclined to let them because I'd only had 2 bombs at the time, but the funny bit was the absolute horror in their reaction as they realized each bomb incoming would do 17k+ in damage. This was perhaps the moment that I realized I could never truly return to K-space. Well not for any real amount of time.

Anyway readers, I am alive and doing well. And for these two reason I am so very very scared. Bob only knows what horrors the future has planned for me now.

Fit the Seventh - Bob giveth and Bob rippith away in violent fire and pain

[You Ain't nothin but a , Hound]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Co-Processor II

Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher, Nova Torpedo
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher, Nova Torpedo
Prototype 'Arbalest' Torpedo Launcher, Nova Torpedo
Expanded Probe Launcher I (off-line)

Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
Small Bay Loading Accelerator I

450x Nova Torpedo
8x Sisters Combat Scanner Probe
Mobile Depot

~~*****~***~*****~~

Last night, dear readers, I  found a lovely Wrabbit-Hole. It was full of luminous glory and no one I could see. Half an hour of scanning found me every POS and anomaly. I noted location and makeup for each. Ships sat docked but no one seemed to be about, I scanned I checked, I set warp away bm. All was ready. I was ready, so away I jumped to get my Bandersnatch.

All was fire and isk, readers. My sacrifice to Bob was the first spawn's top wreck, destroyed unlooted and unsalvaged, and there was also a cake. If you are interested in this ancient Minmatar recipe it is very simple, and quite healthy too. You take one Quafe, whatever flavor you like, I use Zero because it seems to be Bob's favorite; one unit of wheat, ground in to a fine powder; one unit of dairy product, I prefer to get it fresh, but the freeze dried is just as good in a pinch; mix the ingredients together well using a Khumaak and place all into a jetcan and cook at the sun. Make sure to use Inferno Missiles or phases plasma, laser or hybrids will only char the cake leaving a carbony aftertaste.

Happily, readers, did I cleared sites for almost two hours! My cargo wasn't nearly full and I had about 70 million in blue loot and nanoribbons. Though I am sure you know, that higher class holes yield much more and faster than a lowly C1, but in all it beats mission running hands down. And readers, I was doing it, I was soloing a hole all by myself. Watching my d-scan and ready to jump at a moments notice. I took my loot back to my station in k-space because I had other things requiring my attention, but planned to return afterwards.

Two hours passed and I was back in EVE. I when back to the same hole, checked it briefly, no activity is seemed.  But while cleaning up my first sites wrecks, only worth a miserly 7 million, I suddenly noticed was jump by a Stratios with ogre II's and trinity tackle and Nemesis as back up.

Now readers, you know me, I own my mistakes. I am not one to cast blame and cry that i was caught unfairly, or subject crippling lag, such terrible awful lag slowing my ability to react! I was caught with two of my guns offline and the Ogres ripped up my poor Bandersnatch. 

Now my day started with me earning enough to replace my poor BC, but, dear readers, I am sad to admit that I wasn't satisfied. Fire burnt within my heart and the blood of my Matari ancestors demanded vengeance. Back I raced in my pod to grab another ship. My hound-dog I thought would do the job. In it, I rushed back silent and sure. To my wreck I jumped. I had hurt the Stratios earlier and he'd needed to repair, I had hit his hull before he finished mine. I jumped in too close though, and as I landed so did the Stratios, with his insta-lock he grabbed my Bandersnatch's defiled wreck pulling it unwittingly into my hound-dog. Suddenly there I sit dear reader, in my glass cannon, no time to lock and fire, though I tried. I was soon in my pod and running. At my wormhole back home sat a camp of his mates, but I had bm'ed off far enough to see them before they could come for me and I kept moving. They should have bubbled the hole, but they didn't. I survived. 

You see dear readers, this tail of woe is not because of cursed lag, but one of deeper and darker stuff. The human heart is seems is a terrible place full of greed. I should have been satisfied  with what i had, but instead my losses ended up greater than my gains. Bob has shown me the errors of my ways yet again, readers, dear readers, I was blinded and wrong. But now I know, Now I see. There is but one truth, I must be more vigilant against the darkness. I must burn all I see just as the wheat that I so loving add to my cakes so to must I mix the blood of those I see white their own ashes so to purge their greed from them... Or at least that is the lesson I think Bob wanted to teach me, readers, so pray you see me before I see you next time.

Fit the sixth - Praise Bob

[Banersnatch, Hurricane]

Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Relic Analyzer I

425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
Improved Cloaking Device II

Medium Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

1x Warrior II
5x Salvage Drones

Mobile Depot
Mobile Tractor Unit
Medium Armor Repairer II
Large Shield Booster II
Large Shield Extender II
2x Salvager II
'Arbalest' Heavy Missile Launcher
500x Nova Heavy Missiles
10,000x Republic Fleet EMP M
(No Sacrifice for Bob! Whatever was I thinking)

~~*****~***~*****~~

I, dear reader, must apologize. It has been so long you must have thought me dead, or at there least infected with maladies to numerous to survive. Neither is the case reader, I yet live unaffected. My absence  was not truly voluntary, life it seem has been tag teaming with fate to make difficult  my time spent in EVE.

Late last night I was able to creep back though. I scanned  and found in my home system a C1. I ventured in for some recon and found many sites to run to my liking.

I prepared my Hurricane, Bandersnatch, and jumped in. Direct to the first site I flew, it was a relic site so the hardest first I thought. Sleeper went pop wave after wave, only once did I jump away on the final wave to let my cap restore from their neuting of me. Through all this I had my MTU gathering the wreck with a BM so I could just away then straight to it if the need raised. Always I watch D-scan and my PvP overview for others, nothing at all was seen. I quickly salvaged the wrecks with my drones and my salvagers (more savings, more doing that's the power of the Mobile Depot,) And I turn my attention to the relic cans. Now in the past these have lead to my dark demise, I cannot count the ships or pods that low-sec has claimed from this action, and you have already read of my misfortunes in w-space during such attempts (unnamed Tengu and Logi how I loath your surprise attack! My fist I shake at you for vexing me!) But this night I was lucky, not a blip or peep, all was silent as sheep. Three cans for me to loot.

Then as I opened the final can, tragedy most foul, my cargo hold was full. I had brought too much with me and the hour was already late, and my day starts so early... I admit, dear reader, even now as I scribe my woes to you my eyes droop and my head nods. The phone from my hand nearly drops. I knew then and accept now that that would be my only site that night, my only trip to and from. Forgive me Bob, I forgot to appease you! But in his wisdom and mercy he let me take my keep. In His loving way he reminded my who gives, and requires blood so that we may receive, 30m3 of Republic Fleet EMP was jettisoned and sacrificed in electrical fire from their brother.

So my loot was blue and plentiful, though not overly grand (it was a C1 after all) and the lose equaled the gain. Last night I was reborn and must continue to dive into w-space. Sink or float in that ocean of stars I will never know, but with luck and Bob maybe one day, dear readers, I will find a way to leave k-space behind and bloody myself upon the shores of the unknown.  

Fit the Fifth - Lessen on the same.

[Fit the Same as before... such a silly mistake, Hurricane]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II

Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Medium Ld-Acid Capacitor Battery I

425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP M
Core Probe Launcher I, Sisters Scanner Probe

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Projectile Burst Aerator I
Medium Projectile Ambit Extension I

3x Warrior II
3x Salvage Drones
(Cake - 1x Quafe, 1xWheat, 1xDairy Product, mix well, jetcan and cook at the sun)

~~*****~***~*****~~

Apologies first, second and third. I have been away quite a bit as of late. Traveling here and journeying there and time for EVE not a bit. SO my exploits and fancies as I cut though the stars has been on unwanted hiatus.

Towards the end of last month while trying to hone my combat ready skills. When on a whim I scanned down a hole and went in. This tail I've related to others, though uneventful as it was, I will recount it here before more woeful disasters I share.

A day-trip and a little recon was my goal. Hoping to find those who lived in a hole and perhaps share a nice cake to Bob.

I jump in flying my COVOP and First thing I see is a BC just sitting there camping the hole. I BM the hole (so I could make it home unless it got rolled,) launch probes, hit MWD and cloak. Jump to 100km off the nearest anom and start scanning down every sig I could find. The system was big (10 Planets with moons, 20 POS in all (5 or 6 were more than just a tower), 7 Sigs, and another 10 or so Anoms, I though all that took close to an hour.)

I'd scanned for some time not a sight of another soul but some ships parked at their POSes. And in all that time that BC has just sat there, hadn't moved, not eve a twitch. The BC has me nervous, my COVOP had not tank, nor offense or defense. It was little more than a Styrofoam shell with enough to be speedy if I needed it. I have the skills trained, I have the bling, but I don't have the instinct I guess. Because I stat watch him do nothing at all ans wondered what I should do next.

I warp to a 250km BM off the WH back to Kspace, aligned to a 1000km BM at max (non-mwd) speed so I could away jump fast if I needed. I check his pilot info and corp, I uncloak and waited then waited some more. I cam within 30km of him sitting there. From him I got nothing, no response, not a move.

I'm considering jump out, y own Hurricane(though unhappy with it since I lost its twin a few days ago on a day-trip to a cloaky SC with Logi support.) I had this gnawing feeling like Ackbar before me, and "its a trap!" just rung in my head. But my uncloaked baiting for response got me so close and I saw nothing and was able to cloak back up without trouble.

So away I jumped, saying next time I will try it in a bomber should the situation present itself  again.

So on to last night and my embarrassing plight, gas farming I thought could be fun. In jumped the sleeps, out jumped my Venture, and I come back with the Hurricane for some fun. But to my surprise I was neuted, scammed and totally out gunned. The sleepers made quick work of my little BC, a chance I never did have. That was when I realized I was in a C4.

 So always remember to check the systems level before you start to run the sites!

Fit the Forth - the Storm on the Waves

[Fit the Forth, Hurricane]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II

Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Medium Ld-Acid Capacitor Battery I

425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
Core Probe Launcher I

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Projectile Burst Aerator I
Medium Projectile Ambit Extension I

~~*****~***~*****~~

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

I had scanned many days, I have scan many weeks. Seven days to a week I allow. But still I was never able to lovingly gaze on the isk these trek should be making me.

It was last week in a whole I though vacant I took my Hurricane to pop sleepers for my first time. A C2 relic site was my goal, and I though I might find some loot worth while. I've oft heard talk of "blue-loot" so I drop my MTU and started shooting. 6 then 7 million in CONCORD research was my reward then, the double BS spawn had took me the longest. I jump away to fit salvages but should have expected a back-stabbing.

A Loki and his mate decided to take my spoils and my ship. Though sleeper BS I'd easily dealt with, I barely damaged their shields. And in my pod again I was forced to run. Jumping home with more lost than I'd been able earn even on the loot if I'd had it.

And this brings us to the present day, I sneak through every Wrabbit-Hole I may find. I am scannign down POS's and POCO's and ships, deducing threats as I go. Never quite sure how to address, asking fora job in their pocket of w-space.

Fit the third - O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!... no perhaps not

[Fit the Third, Venture]
Shield Power Relay II

Medium Shield Extender II
Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
Survey Scanner II

Gas Cloud Harvester I
Gas Cloud Harvester I
Improved Cloaking Device II

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I

~~*****~***~*****~~

Upon my third venture into the place between waking and dream, I scanned and sought out clouds. I has check it quite thoroughly, just me with bell to toll, no one around all was safe and sound. I proceeded to net the green candy floss that floated in whiffs about me. As I filled my Venture's hold I caught sight of sleeper's arriving in my little site. So I simply jumped away.
So back to my station I ran, with unknown bounty in my hold. I though would bring me some solace, a few pretty thing it should buy. I had finally succeeded, even though I'd retreated...

Three week have I waited, and still none have shown interest in buying the stuff. So I now tell you, what you take has small value if you cannot get it to sell.

Fit the Second - Gimbling in the wabe

[Fit the Second, Rupture]
650mm Artillery Cannon II, EMP M
650mm Artillery Cannon II, EMP M
650mm Artillery Cannon II, EMP M
650mm Artillery Cannon II, EMP M
Core Probe Launcher, Sisters Core Scanner Probe

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Large Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
Medium Neutron Saturation Injector I

Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Projectile Collision Accelerator I
Medium Projectile Metastasis Adjuster I

~~*****~***~*****~~

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

On my second trek in to the great unknown of the places behind the looking glass, I found a quiet C2 with an empty POS and several sites. Noone to be seen, not a pilot in sight, so I though to myself it would do. I bookmarked my exit, then proceeded to scan what I could.

A relic site to gimble was my 'splorer's delight, but when I brought in my Ruppie to clear it, sleepers out at 80 km brought tears too my eyes. I had barely the time to flee them. Asleep or awake, I really cannot say, but they are deadly foes. I had to run, which wasn't much fun, but at least I still had my hull.

The moral of this is - never to miss, jump to the range of your guns, give 'em all barrels, avoiding such perils and having to turn and GTFO. Also... know you rats!

Fit the First - Down the first Rabbit-Hole

[Fit the First, Probe] 

Improved Cloaking Device II
Expanded Probe Launcher I, Sisters Core Scanner Probe
[empty high slot]

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I 

Data Analyzer I
Relic Analyzer I
Cargo Scanner II

Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II
Small Armor Repairer II

Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I 

Small Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I

[empty rig slot]

3x Hobgoblin I, 3x Warrior I

~~*****~***~*****~~

I am a simple Bellman, all praised to the skies-- such a carriage, such ease and such grace! Such solemnity, too! One can see I am wise, the moment one looked in my face! I have but one notion for crossing the oceans, and that is to tingle my bell.

I have little care for, or more accurately I have little knowledge of the good of Mercator's, North Poles, Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines. So I sail with a map I well understand, a complete and absolute blank.

A few weeks ago, four weeks and a day if you must pry, I discovered the art of exploration. 20 million sp seemed quiet enough to me, so I dove into Rabbit-Hole exploitation.

I scanned half the hour, many systems I searched, from hisec C2's  are easily found.  So down in that Rabbit-Hole I slipped, to take a quick look about. I'd not read a guide or wiki or some other source, I simple jump through on a whim,  and found a small paradise, a scanner delight, I  launched probes and sat 20 km the first planet I saw, though bookmark my out I did forget. As I scanned I had forgot to activate my cloak, a rookie mistake I admit. I sat just off the planet not bothering to orbit or fly and before I knew it a Tengu came by with blood in his eyes and I was locked and couldn't jumped away from my position. The frumious Tengu was faster than me and pop went my Probe before drones could engage. Spamming my jump button for the sun, my pod and I jumped safety away. Lost in that starry ocean, no knowing whither to go. I tried to d-scan down my exit... but in only my pod I'd that point was moot I had no idea how to get back now. I suppose I had one option, though I can honestly say since I've rarely had cause to use it, self destruction of my pod just never came to my thoughts, so on the sun I just waited... and back in a clone vat I was.

GF the Tengu did eve-mail, though trite as it was, I must say, I was never a threat after all, but whatever my losses were reasonably small, the venture was not a total loss.