The other day I found a wormhole leading straight to Molden Heath.
I, having only been there on the rarest occasion, decided to take a little vacation there form the Verge Vendor area. So I got me a Jaguar and a bunch of ammo and jumped through with the intent of staying there for a week. I made it three days before I decided to head back.
This is not to say that it was a wasted trip, or bogus in anyway. I just got antsy to be back with my fellow Tuskers. I came back with a Dramiel BPC and a stack of loot worth about 300mil in isk. Not bad for a spur of the moment trip like that. I also got some really good fights out there. Total tally for the trip was 13 kills to Zero losses. So it was fun.
The things is I could have done a alot better if I wasn't out there solo. The area has several large pirate groups already. They dont go about business as we Tuskers do, and they didn't seem as active as us. But when they did come out they came out in force, 15+ man fleets is their norm. Gate camping and locking down systems is what they do, and do it quite well. But it took me a minute to learn this.
When I first got there it seemed that the local pirates were jokes, no offense guys, but I couldn't get any of the people who were flashy to engage me. They kept warping off or failing to get proper tackle on me to gank me. It was really kinda sad. Then they would chase me around in Dramiel fleets and fail at that, probe me out and miss tackle all over. But I could never seem to catch them alone or in reasonable numbers to get a proper engagement from my prospective. It was getting boring even though I was having a blast soloing the noob battlecruisers and cruisers these guys seemed to be ignoring.
Then I was out hunting on the back side of the area away from Bosena and was having no luck at all finding any one. So I made my way around to find the Bosena, Oddelulf, and Atlar completely locked down by several fleets, all about 20 man strong. I also noticed that most of the people that I had been having problems getting to engagements with were in these fleets. These guys were fleet guys, and they were doing what they do best, gate camp. That scene of them camping the gates, and killing everything that came through, which was quite a lot, got me to thinking.
See if I were back in home with my fellow Tuskers, we would throw together a ragtag fleet with the sole intent of pulling one or two of them off the gate to gank and run. Which we would do until their fleet broke up or we all died in glorious fireballs. Dont get me wrong getting the hard gank on my own is what I prefer, but at that moment I really was wishing I could call for my fellows to form up for a good smash and grab on these guys. So while I have gotten to know the area out there, I have more importantly come to realize even more why I like being apart of the Tuskers and flying the way we do.
To us there is no target to large or untouchable. Those three fleets were all from three different corps, and while they had scouts out to watch what the others were doing, they weren't willing to take the fight to the other guys. Where as from my understanding of the Tusker way, the rest of New Eden is nothing but targets, and when opportunities arises for quick in and out ganks like that, we don't hesitate, we salivate. Which is why I got home sick and headed back.
Now I am back in Verge Vendor waiting patiently for my Dramiel to finish in the oven, pondering where I should wonder off to next. I am thinking somewhere in Amarr space.
