I flew out to Jita last night. Far from my favorite place, but sometimes you have to go to the market first in order to bring the market to you. Still running some numbers, but it seems that various reactions can produce profit on the margin in terms of the reaction items themselves. I’ll need to account for fuel costs and a risk premium, but we’ve discussed this internally quite a bit and I think we may finally pull the trigger on that project.
In not unrelated news, I’ve replaced my Prowler (with a few improvements other pilots have suggested) and the Matrix Inversion made her maiden flight last night back to Hatakani. Endless tinkering with blockade runners is still fun, and this one will fall right into line.
In a larger sense, though, now that major nullsec powers (like IT Alliance) seem to have moved on from Syndicate, we feel confident about our ability to move back into our home region as a corp. We’ve come up with some short and mid range plans that should address what most of the corp wants to do.
I don’t want to put everything into the public, of course, but for those interested in the Back Alley Trading Company, I’ll lay a few things out here.
Enforcement operations will focus directly on combat. We will run missions for Syndicate agents in small squads, which should help with security as well as improve everyone’s standings with them. Additionally, we will run patrols and roams focused on finding pilots attacking Serpentis ships in belts and similar locations, as part of providing defensive services to our patrons.

These asteroids are actually more fun.
Commerce operations should directly generate revenue and will fall under my direct supervision. Given that the Syndicate region does not have arkonor, bistot, or crokite (to my knowledge), we expect to find resources in other ways, including gravimetric and ladar sites as well as wormholes. From these resources, and others acquired via the market, we will carry out a number of industrial processes, including gas reactions, as well as consumable items like ammunition and drones.
Clearly, these goals will provide lots of room for participation from all of our pilots. Please note, pilots do not have to limit themselves to one area. Many of us have skills and interests across the board, so everyone can participate in operations that interest them (or help schedule them if they haven’t run at convenient times).
Now let’s fly wreck less out there.
Image credits duncan and drewish