I have recently decided to go back to EvE Online's Hardmode Living. That's right, Wormhole's. After a short, 2 day search, I finally found what I was looking for; a smallish corp living in a good hole that could actually use my skills.
See, i've spent most of my EvE life either being totally solo or being apart of larger groups where there are 10+ people who can do what I can, leaving me essentially anonymous. That's fine, but not very useful. So, I found a corp (sorry, no intel for you here) that could actually use the tools I bring to the table.
Now, after my initial interview, I was told I would probably be brought in a week or so down the road as they had 'fleet ops' going on. I was curious about the fleet ops because it is was a smaller corp, so what could they possibly be doing other than mining? How about just getting moved into a new C4?!? I mean just getting going too. Popping up a POS to stage while they try and coordinate an astra drop!
I know this because, after a review of my experience and skill set, corp leadership decided to bring me in early and get some help with this moving operation. So they did, and I did. We were able to anchor the citadel a full day earlier than planned and started getting corp members trickling into their new home.
So, we fast forward a couple days and we finally get in contact with the original owner of the POCO's in our new space. After some negotiating, we settled on a price, I provided corp with a loan to finalize purchase and and suddenly, PI was a new reality for the corp. We even got a free medium POS out of the deal. Next up, a dead Citadel.
So, it took a while, but we finally heard back about a dead citadel. We were already organizing a bash because we had heard nothing and the corp was small. But just then, the owner gets back to us with some rather ridiculous demands. He tried to play himself off as being rough and full of friends willing to save his property. It didn't work! We just finished blasting away his Armor!
How this all came to be is that this little corp is actually a member of a coalition of J-Space corps. So instead of only fielding 4-9 pilots, we were able to hit the dps max for the medium citadel while others kept an eye on holes and supplied logistics.
The downside is that the target was smart enough to time tank his property, meaning our fleet had to be up early in order to bash on it. The upside, the only support the enemy has is the willingness to control the astra while it dies. So we keep getting bombed and scrambled and disrupted. None of it matters though because logi is keeping the bombs in a state of irrelevant use and we don't even need to move so webbing and scramming the fleet is just pointless. I suppose it would be fair to give the guy some credit, he is at least willing to spend money on fighter drones and bombs to pretend he has a chance.
All in all, it's been a great first week in this corp. We've had a couple fights, some interesting diplomatic issues and I've even had time to huff 3/4 of a bil in gas!
