After wrapping up a short move (Oursulaert to Villore), I thought I’d go exploring and relax a little. So I jumped out to my exploration Drake in Hostni, finished final preparations (refitting the probe launcher, refining some trash loot I’d picked up, selling the minerals), and immediately tracked down a wormhole in the same system.
As soon as I jumped into the class 1 system, the wormhole collapsed behind me. That seemed like a little bit of a shame, since Hostni didn’t have anyone in it. But at the same time, it meant that perhaps it wouldn’t have any K-space openings and I’d fly in peace.
The system didn’t have any podder activity in it that I could find, and it had over 20 signatures plus several anomalies. The signatures all led to gas or mining sites, plus another class 1 W-space system. So, instead, I just ran a Perimeter Camp anomaly, picked up 5 melted nanoribbons, and eventually probed out an exit to Amarr low-sec.
In fact, I ended up in the famous Dead End system, so I went out to 5-5 and visited the monolith. I like the proportions, in relation to squares of the first three integers (1:4:9). We don’t see much of that sort of simplistic elegance these days. I docked up in Angur to rest for the night.
After all that, I thought I’d fly back out to Rens. I dodged an overly-anxious Rapier but got caught on another gate camp who really got fortunate with the loot drop. So the whole operation met a “Dead End”. Hope the crew got away before the local slavers descended upon them…
I did make it to Rens safely in my pod, though, where I can make preparations for my next little project.
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