Staging redux

Well, I certainly chose an eventful time to join GSF. Before I could even get on a fleet in Delve, our foes variously chose to flee, disband, and/or abandon sov and reset everyone. Having defended the invasion, we're leaving Fountain and, unless this is a gigantic troll, changing the coalition name and rearranging who is in it.

Meanwhile I was lazy ratting during conference calls and so on, and found myself a billion isk up, even after buying a couple of taxi-ceptors, my ratting ship, and some doctrine fleet fits. It's funny, all I wanted to do was get engaged in activity and I more-or-less accidentally made a lot of money, much more than I made in over a year in BNI. It's down to great true-sec and amazing intel channels, to which I am happy to contribute.

But this morning the ping went out to fleet up in 4-EP12 at 19:00 to move for the next phase of curb-stomping. And even though it was an awkward time, and I almost didn't make it because of a problem at work,  I decided to :getin:. One nice thing about flying a Harpy, or any frigate, is it's not too painful to move the thing around. 

So I logged in, left my ship, opened my character sheet to the jump clone section, paused my training, and jumped. Normally that's when I resume my training. This time, nothing. Nothing. Hover over jump again... hit it. Session change already in progress... oh. TiDi. 

Lots of TiDi, we were getting 10-25% of normal cycles. The harpy fleet I wanted to fly with was also out of station, and was actually staging for departure in the next system on the way, via jump bridge. After a minute or two of undocking, I trudged across the system and jumped through the bridge, feeling that twinge of guilt for not having any fuel to drop in. I aligned out with everyone and we soon got underway, the inevitable stragglers catching up. I had a chance to take some great shots of some of the larger ships in the game, which I'll probably save for a reasonable time. This one isn't mine, it was posted on the subreddit:

Imperium Army Relocate! by demonsmaycry

We chased some interceptors around, I gather they were looking to tackle a titan and maybe get a drop going, who knows though.

Finally, we resumed the trip and learned our destination: Sakht! The same station BRAVE evacced to from Catch before they realized that living there would be stupid. Happily, we're not living here, and being one jump from 1-SMEB in Delve is perfect. We can hell-camp the station there and then return to the luxury of an unassailable station to stage from.

I went out on a Harpy station camp tonight as well. We spent about three hours bubbling things up and popping people who stuck their heads out. Station services are already taking a beating, fitting and repair are down. I'm sure they didn't want that station anyway.