Apr
7
Wormhole Extreme
Yes…I found my first wormhole in Eve:
Pretty little thing, ain’t it.
I must have looked at it for a good 5-10 minutes before deciding what to do about this discovery. Do I move on…satisfied by the fact that I just found one? Or…do I grab a ship that I can afford to loose and jump right in to see what’s in there? I opted for the later…of course 
Hmmm…what can I loose. Ah yes, my Caracal. Nice little cruiser that it is, I was in no mood to lose my fully fitted mission running Drake nor my newly acquired, freshly painted CNR. So…off I went into the great unknown taking comfort in the fact that I will die. Basically, the mission that I set out for myself was this: warp to every planet and see if somebody finds me and ultimately, teaches me the lesson of how cold space really is. I warped to all 4 planets and….nothing. Nobody home apparently. Ok then.
Next mission I gave myself (…cause that’s what you do in Eve…) was to do a scan of the system, just to see what is out there. Ahhhhh ha! A sleeper “Outpost”. That sounds like fun. So I warped over there and I found one Battleship and three stationary turret guns. I decided to go ask for directions. They didn’t know where the local 7-11 was, but they did know how to reduce my shields by 50% in one shot. I kinda warped outta there very quickly as it was now clear that I was severely outclassed in the cruiser.
I found myself sitting outside the wormhole wondering if it was worth it to raise the stakes a bit. Obviously, the CNR was out of the question. There is no way in hell that I was risking that ship. I have plans for that ship. So, that left the Drake. As my main mission ship for the last year or so, I knew that it could probably handle these guys. So, I got the Drake out and went back. Turns out, I was incorrect. As much as I think my Drake kicks ass, I could not hold my tank with these guys…so, I warped again. Failure…thy name is sleeper. Adam decided to join at this time…so now we had a Drake and a Golem. I think we just didn’t have the coordination right, but we both ended up warping outta there as well.
I think I am missing some skills that would help make handling these guys a bit easier. I’ll have to look into that a bit. Suffice to say, The Sleepers are some tough little buggers and I wouldn’t recommend trying them on your own unless you know what you’re doing…and clearly, I do not.
D out
