Noob Eyes

The first time I ever heard about a wormhole was back in 2010, maybe a few months after I started playing EVE. Up until that point I'd be running missions and I think I had already started my own "elite" corp, Dead Pool Syndicate, which was pretty awesome at the time because the initials spelled out "DPS" and we all know what DPS means. So cool, right? How could anything go wrong?

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So back to wormholes... Some EVE veteran in our corp (he had well over 10mil SP so that made him a veteran) knew a little about exploration and he asked if I'd ever been into a wormhole before. I probably said something to the effect of "Uhhh, what do you mean?"

He gave me the run down and I was game so he, another corpie and I hopped into one. I don't even know what class WH it was. He pointed out that we could tell the WH was about to collapse because it was "shaky." I nodded and pretended to understand what he was talking about.

Anyway, I think I was in a Vexor or something equally useless at this point, but you know how nubs are: "This meta2-fit ship is 1337! How could anything go wrong?"

While my corpie and I sat on the WH like a couple of douches our explorer "vet" scanned down a site then warped fleet. It should go without saying that I didn't know anything about bookmarks at the time.

We land on grid and I'm convinced today that it was a C1 because we survived the sleepers. I should also mention here that I was thoroughly disappointed by a lack of ransoms for sleepers. "How is this supposed to be profitable?" Our guide had no answer for that brain-buster.

After collecting what loot we could we headed back to the wormhole... and the safety of hi-sec space. I hadn't quite realized it until I got back how much wspace had put me on edge. The idea the wormhole could collapse at any minute trapping me or that we could be attacked by a roaming horde of marauding wormholers gnawed at the back of my head the entire time without me realizing it.

It was another few months and several corporations before I ever stepped foot into a wormhole again. When I did it was for good. Now I'm one of those marauding wormholers roaming Anoikis in search of plunder and tears.

In fact last night we took this fleet in search of those very things.

Strategic cruisers. Logistics support. Dreadnoughts. Unbeatable. What could go wrong?