Today was supposed to be a slow day.

Yesterday we had a major Gas Harvesting op in the nearby Class 5. 10 Ladar sites. Yep we got ‘em all. I was really looking forward to put the Orca into some good use and yesterday we filled her up twice with Gasses. Lots of C540 finally – damn that thing took us almost 5 hours to gather it from 3 sites… Got about 18.000 units though which should be enough for the T3’s we have planned for production…

But today was supposed to be a slow day…

So I am scanning down the new C5 opening and find a very nice C5 system. 9 PVE sites (2 Core Garrisons, 7 Core Strongholds) and 2 Magnetometric sites. There is another signature here. I scan it down. It’s a wormhole. Leading to a Class 6. Niiiice!!!

Now if it was any other day I’d probably not even jump in the C6, really no need bothering with 2 Mags and so many lovely PVE sites to farm, but being a slow day and all – no planned ops for today – I go for it.

I bookmark everything and then jump into the Class 6. Very small system, no more than 30 AU in diameter. I fire up my directional and – WTF?!

I immediately de-cloak and launch a combat probe.

Lesson Learned (unrelated to this post but now is a time as good as any):

We have seen too many people who keep using normal Core Scanner Probes instead of Combat Probes when they are in hostile wormhole territory. Launch a Combat Probe instead people!! It can find everything a normal core probe can and will tip you off any ships / structures (hint: POS) and drones in a system. If you are not paying any attention to your directional scanner and use core probes, there could be an un-cloacked fleet right next to you and you wouldn’t have any idea until it’s too late. Yes, I am probably on the side of the fleet hunting you down with my combat probes.

The combat probe confirms my directional scanner. No POS inside here, no ships, just lots and lots of drones.

I am thinking to myself. This could very well be some trap or… a shitload of ISK just waiting to be scooped to cargo.

I pin down these signatures. They are scattered in 5 different spots inside the system. Vessper logs and we quickly jump in the Orca, a Bestower and an Iteron V. Few minutes later, we are back inside Planet Risk.

We got: 4 Beserker II, 5 Bouncer I, 9 Ogre II, 1 Ogre I, 2 Hornet EC-300 and 24 Einherji.

God I love wormhole space! Each day something new! EVEHQ reports that today’s 30 minute op net us around 344M ISK according to current Jita prices.

Now the only question is what we should do with those Fighters… 5K m3 each (120K m3 total) is a bitch to take out and sell… Should we refine them instead? The minerals would be nice… Any ideas here?

Quite nice for a slow day – don’t you think?