{"id":2844,"date":"2011-10-31T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2012-01-16T19:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T19:43:40","slug":"life-in-a-wormhole-back-to-normal-eveonline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/life-in-a-wormhole-back-to-normal-eveonline\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in a Wormhole: Eager Defenders #eveonline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning in the ‘hole, and with the wardec over and mining ops closing down, I’m ready to explore our connection to class-two wormhole space. Sounds great, except for the fact that our connection leads to a very<\/em> alert system. In the ten minutes during which our wormhole connection appeared in their system, I jumped through, passively scanned, and located a few of the (many) online towers, the locals have detected our wormhole entry point, scanned it down and — just as I land outside one of their more heavily populated towers — warped off toward it with a number of pointy ships.<\/p>\n

I’m concerned about imminent invasion, and fly back to the wormhole to see what’s going on. On scan, I spot a Raven-class battleship, Manticore-class stealth bomber, and Heron-class frigate (probably the ship that scanned down the hole in the first place). While I watch, the space around the Raven distorts, and the ship is sucked through the hole into our system. Not good.<\/p>\n

But not as bad as it seems, as the Raven returns to the system less than a minute later — barely time to have even a cursory shufti, let alone any kind of serious recon — it looks as though the locals (no strangers to PvP shenanigans) plan to slowly close the hole with repeated jumps back and forth with the Raven.<\/p>\n

Actually, I spoke too soon; as I watch, the Raven is joined by a Dominix, Scorpion, Magathron and two Typhoon-class battleships. It looks like they’re going to close the wormhole fast<\/em>. I’m a bit surprised at the sudden arrival of the BBs, but given that the system (itself a class 2) has a persistent connection to class 4 wormhole space where battleships are far more useful ships to fly, the fact they have so many on hand isn’t as odd as it seems at first.<\/p>\n

The big ships fumble around the wormhole for a few minutes, looking unsure of themselves and generally confused, compared to the speed of their decisive arrival, but I believe I can reconstruct the conversation that’s brought them to this point.<\/p>\n

Scout:<\/strong> We have an inbound wormhole!
\nEveryone:<\/strong> Where? What’s going on?
\nRaven pilot:<\/strong> I’ll take a look… yeah. Nothing over there but deathstar towers, and no sleepers. I’m going to collapse it.
\nEveryone:<\/strong> I HAVE A BATTLESHIP! I WILL COME HELP!
\nRaven pilot:<\/strong> No, but…
\nEveryone:<\/strong> *arrives*
\nRaven pilot:<\/strong> *sighs* Okay, let me do the math…<\/p>\n

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Battleship pilots, waiting for math.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Slowly, jumps start to happen, but I remain cloaked up with an eye on the wormhole. I don’t know if I’ll get the timing right, but given that the other exit from this wormhole is to highsec, I’m not terribly worried in either case.<\/p>\n

My patience pays off, and the moment I see the wormhole become critically unstable, I warp directly on top of the connection, my velocity bumping the Dominix battleship to the side, and jump through, leaving our brief neighbors on the wrong side of a very unstable hole with no viable way to pursue. Works for me.<\/p>\n

Em and I decide to leave critically unstable wormhole alone for now, as we both have places to be. Hopefully, there will be better options when we return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morning in the ‘hole, and with the wardec over and mining ops closing down, I’m ready to explore our connection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-play","category-mmos","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}