There were a few false starts (curse you HED-GP), but Tesla and I were able to make it to nullsec and settle in. I remember when I made the move out to our home system, I was pretty drunk. In my supreme wisdom, I decided to buy a GTC and sell a PLEX to support my initial move. I woke up the next morning and logged in to see if I had in fact done what I thought I had - activated a PLEX in nullsec. Yes, I did do that. I felt like I was recovering from being roofied.
After committing a massive facepalm, I sold the PLEX at a discounted rate and shipped out some hulls and command centers so I could set up some colonies to get a bit of an income stream. The production possible in nullsec colonies is ridiculous when compared to highsec and lowsec. If you are going to do Planetary Interaction, and you can set up in nullsec, don't hesitate. Just do it.
It took a couple of weeks to settle in. Tesla and I participated in a couple of mining ops (yawn). The ops were almost always cut short by a wandering neut in local. With our general lack of skills, Tesla and I teamed up with another corp member in an effort to scan down all the Alliance's systems and collect site data. We used a browser-based spreadsheet set up by our corpie to track all the signatures in our systems. While doing this, I indulged in my fascination with wormholes, diving into every wormhole I found and trying to navigate through to the end of the chain.
It was at this time that I discovered through our CEO that there was an opportunity for corp members to earn isk by transporting high value, low volume items from highsec through wormhole space. I jumped all over the opportunity, and was incredibly lucky my first few runs - I made it through the chains without even seeing another capsuleer. I even made a decent amount of supplemental isk from the endeavour (more than I had ever made in one shot in highsec, anyways). I also managed to sell an unoccupied class 5 wormhole during my travels - this was a huge windfall for me and was made possible by the awesome http://www.wormholesales.com/.
I somehow managed to convince Tesla that running through w-space was a viable career in nullsec, at least until we were able to fly the hulls we needed to make some isk from the local anomalies. Tesla's first attempt at traveling through w-space ended in disaster. While transporting approximately 200 million isk of loot, his newly launched probes vanished from space (he only had the 7 that were in space). He then had this conversation:
*******> o/
Tesla Uitra> WELL SHIT
Tesla Uitra> Didn't know that was a thing
Tesla Uitra> you learn something everyday
Tesla Uitra> Well I guess we are going to be getting to know one another
Tesla Uitra> So what do you guys do for fun round here?
* At this point he checks static mapper and sees lots of faction kills in the recent history of the system. *
Tesla Uitra> I see you rat quite a bit
Tesla Uitra> not so much today, but good job yesterday!
*******> where are you and what are you doing here?
Tesla Uitra> lol, I'm trying to find a way into nullsec
Tesla Uitra> I'm carrying skill books, my corp just moved because of the IRC collapse there
*******> There's only one wormhole
Tesla Uitra> I'm a noob. See, my buddy says: Transport skill books into deep null via WH for 10% profits, its fun. Now I've been lost for 5 hours!
* Tesla was conversing with me while this was happening, and was under the impression that somehow someone had stolen his probes. *
Tesla Uitra> And now someone nixed my probes, which I didn't even know could be done.
* Tesla receives a fleet invite from the talkative w-space resident. *
Tesla Uitra> I'm a little reluctant to join a fleet with you
Tesla Uitra> no offense
Tesla Uitra> you seem nice
*******> JOB-755 - single wormhole
* It is my opinion the wormhole resident just wanted Tesla out of the hole so he could have some peace and quiet. *
Tesla Uitra> So how do you steal deployed probes anyway?
Tesla Uitra> That was a neat trick
*******> Scan it
Tesla Uitra> I was stunned. Combat probes?
*******> I do not quite understand, bad English :(
Tesla Uitra> I was surpised!
Tesla Uitra> Next time I will bring spare probes
*******> why?
Tesla Uitra> I am not sure what to do now lol
Tesla Uitra> I can't scan my way home
*******> I can give you probes
Tesla Uitra> How?
Tesla Uitra> I've only been on for 3 months, still a noob
*******> you can scan?
Tesla Uitra> I have no probes now
Tesla Uitra> I used to be able to scan lol
* Tesla receives another fleet invite. *
Tesla Uitra> I am afraid you will blow me up if I join your fleet. Nothing personal
*******> join and warp at 100km
*******> I promise not to kill
Tesla Uitra> lol, that's the best I am going to get I suppose
*******> if you have no probes - you can not get out without help
Tesla Uitra> lol I know
Tesla Uitra> okay
* Tesla takes the plunge due to lack of other options. Keep in mind that he had the entirety of his wallet tied up in product he was shipping to nullsec. *
Tesla Uitra> Seems you are already near me somehow
Tesla Uitra> I can't warp to you.
* A cargo container is dropped by the resident, containing 20 sisters core probes. *
*******> probes in cargo container
*******> if you see
Tesla Uitra> Yes I do
Tesla Uitra> Thank you. Sorry to intrude
*******> take it and go in E175, perhaps there you will find the way out
Tesla Uitra> Thank you!!!!
*******> :)
The conversation carries on a bit further, mostly just Tesla expressing his unending gratitude. In a game that is pitched as a haven for people to explore their darkest side and generally act like dicks, this story is a nice relief. Needless to say, this was the only time that Tesla acted as a delivery man in w-space.
The end to my career came a little later, when I was caught on a hole by a Daredevil in my Buzzard with the majority of my isk invested into blueprints to be sold to my CEO:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=16447874
After that loss, I took a couple of days off from Eve. When I returned, Tesla and I re-evaluated our isk-making strategy. The first rule was any idea that I came up with should be regarded with suspicion.
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