I know I said nullsec blocs were not for me, but I do have a single character who has been a member of Pandemic Horde (one of the nullsec corporations) for the past year and a half. It started as an experiment, I was looking for simple ways to make ISK and there was a YouTube video promoting Pandemic Horde and how they would supply you with ships, and you could just spin a vexor (and later an Ishtar, and eventually a Praxis) and make money in their nullsec systems. I had never belonged to a nullsec corporation before so I made a brand new character on a new account and started from scratch.
Back when I joined, things were different than they are now. A lot has happened since then. It took me a lot of time to get over the basic atmosphere (a lot of ‘bro’ type chest smashing, some not-so-polite conversations, etc) I don’t know if it’s the same for all nullsec corporations as this is the only one I have any experience with, but there’s a lot of misogyny in EVE to begin with. It can be incredibly uncomfortable and I’ve definitely had some moments of “why am I even here”. Anyway. I’m not really sure why I never wrote about it much, a lot of covert ops stuff goes on and I suppose I was slightly worried about that, but life’s too short, so expect an onslaught of posts – though I will do my best to keep things paced as ‘events that have already happened’ and not ‘down to the second releasing potentially important intel’ though to be honest I’m a tiny bean on a long pole of more important beans, so nothing I know about is important news anyway.
The point of this post? We got word we’re moving staging – again. We just moved in the summer from our longtime home of MJ-5F9 to E8-432 and now we’re off again. Moving is a huge complex event with a lot of parts. During the first move I actually took it as an opportunity to shuffle 90% of my stuff back to a safe NPC station in highsec (we were not at war at the time, thankfully) and so now I have limited ships to move this time. I’m glad that’s the way I decided to do it. I also moved all of my clones, which was a bigger issue because they’re quite valuable. My preferred method was of course to use wormholes. I scouted out a wormhole close to MJ (where my clones were stored previously) and followed the chain until it jumped out into highsec. Found an NPC station, dropped off the clone and a ship, self destructed back to MJ, rinse repeat.
This time around I have even less ships to move, because I’ve been leaving my PVE ships in the systems I hang out in, so I think I only have some expedition frigates to move, if I even decide to do that. I do have a bunch of NBI gifted ships but those are not worth much at all and I won’t bother moving them.
There are a bunch more posts I want to make, and I may even share some spoof posts I’ve made in the past on another site, but for now I’ll leave it at that. Life in nullsec is very different than other places I play, but I think I’ve done OK with it.
As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.
A Pixel Nomad 