My salvaging career started slowly, I chose a level 4 agent and travelled to their system.  It seemed to be full of people who were either afk or travelling in and out of the system.  The sheer boredom of waiting around to get a response in local led me to start fiddling around with probes and my scanner.  I thought I might as well go find them if they would not talk to me.

It took a while to get back into the knack of moving the probes around the system, especially with my incomplete skills.  I was working with an expanded scanner probe launcher using combat scanner probes.  I managed to scan down several interesting signatures.  I was first and foremost interested in getting into a mission runner’s pocket so set up my overview with a custom ‘mission’ setup. I found an ‘Armageddon’ on my overview, now bearing in mind I have no clue what an Armageddon actually is, nonetheless you have to agree that it kinda sounded promising. So I started focussing on narrowing down my scanning onto that signature.  Within minutes I was flying gleefully towards it thinking of all the ISK I was going to make from the wrecks.

It didn’t quite work out.  I landed on grid within meters of an afk Armageddon as it travelled away from the station.  Bugger.  So it was back to the drawing board.  I popped back out to the same place and started scanning again.  This time I managed to land on a Noctis that was doing exactly the same thing as the Armageddon in the previous scan. “What is it with these people!” I was grumbling.

It seemed no-one was in space doing anything other twiddling their fingers.  So I started to focus on scanning down complexes and other anomalies.  This bagged me a couple of Angel hideouts where the loot was mediocre.  It was better than nothing but I was not making a lot of ISK for the time spent scanning.  In the end I just gave up and decided to look at one of the ‘unknowns’.  Eventually I zoned in on a wormhole.  It is so hard to get across the excitement and feeling of foreboding.  All of the ISK I had was in my ships and I had to make those ships work for me.

I chatted to the guys in “The Autocannon” about my options.  Go through get blown up.  Go through end up in 0.0 and stuck.  Tgl said “make sure you have an updated clone”. Great! As we talked about it is became clear I could get back out when I went in so I went and got ‘Slaughterhouse’ and flew back to my bookmark.  I sat pondering what might happen, the adrenalin was amazing!  I could lose all of my stuff here and end up back where I had started.  But I am here to explore and so I clicked on the link and went through.

The excitement continued, I mean nothing had happened but I could lose this ship and I needed it.  I was sitting at a computer keyboard with my heart in my mouth.  As the screen loaded the space in front of me was very silent.  TGL3 told me there had been ship kills in there in the last hour and to be very careful.  I sat about for a short while scanned the area and noticed ship complexes which were obviously belonging to The Sleepers.  In the end I borked out, going back through the rabbit hole, and the safety and comfort of high sec space.  The whole insecurity and instability of the situation really got to me.  There is no doubt I will be after more such experiences as soon as possible.