Wormholes

I was part of some high sec mining corp when I first started Eve. Most of the dudes just wanted to eat rocks in high sec, but one of the dudes always talked about making isk in wormhole space. I decided to tag along once. Ended up in a site, minding our business when angry Russians came and shoot at us.

After blowing up their legion and only having a drake with a probe launcher on it, we ended up scanning all day to find a route out. We saved our 40mil in sleeper loot too haha!

My first time in a wormhole was shortly after their introduction. A few friends and I playing around in a small highsec corporation thought we'd try our hand at living in a wormhole. We found a C2 and threw up a POS and a couple mods. We lived in there about five or six weeks before we were promptly evicted. It was fun and we learned a great deal in a short time.

We eventually came back, a tad more prepared...

For my first I did some studying and put together what I felt was a reasonable fleet. With 5 accts I put forth an Orca, 3 drakes and a Tengu, within the Orca a Cormy for salvage and a buzzard for probing. I found my first hole and for the first week, I carefully maneuvered that fleet through a series of systems. Some days I would stop and run anoms.. some days I would hit the radar and mag sites.
More than once I would catch someone trying to gank me on the D-scan and get out on a frogs hair. Eventually I did lose the Tengu, so I scaled back and made it a drake. I also found out one day the power of a local armor rep vs sticking the Orca out of the small pos I carried to rep a drake and how fragile those Orcas really are.
Eventually I found a C3 and set up shop. Anchored a large POS , bought a Noctis and inside I built Rorq and a Chimera. I was thinking I could use the Chim to escalate as I had been reading about it , I thought it would be a way to make things more interesting. Imagine my disappointment when I found C3's would escalate. It took a while to build those caps. I brought in all the mins on expanded Iteron V's sometimes jumping blind, and yes I did lose a few.
Eventually I burnt out, and could only bring myself to run 3 sites a day, I didn't mine and I didn't gas harvest and I was getting tired of playing an MMO by myself .. I had alts in other corps..so I decided I would sell the hole for the price of the caps.

I tried to revive this last week.. but it's not the same .. the magic just wasn't there..

First time I ever visited a wormhole was soon after I began EVE. It was a quick jump-in-jump-out experience after a friend probed down a static entry and we jumped in to find it all bubbled up.

Some months later another friend found a C1 system inhabited by a solo German player. After some negotiations he agreed to allow us (a small alliance of 3 corps at the time) to move in and set up towers of our own, and so we did. Months went by, social differences and arguments caused our little alliance to split apart, and most people moved out from the wormhole - except me and the crazy German.

I remained in the C1 with my German friend's one-man (and alts) corp, and still have a POS there to this day. Over time I'd go on to learn a lot of lessons about w-space the hard way, losing a ton of ships, having my tower seiged along with numerous (failed) ransom attempts. All the while sharing these experience with my mad German neighbour. He was a crazy-industrialist, but not shy of PVP. With more money than sense he would run anoms in a faction-fit Myrm and lost one almost every week. It didn't phase him in the least though, although from each loss he'd come back twice as angry and had a habit of yelling at people who entered the system in local chat as well as naming his ships such things as "Get out here" . He never ran from a fight though, and although he'd almost always lose we formed a strong friendship from working, living, laughing and dying together on an almost daily basis.

He was a lot of fun to live with and really knew his wormhole stuff though, I learned a great deal from him over time.

My friend eventually went inactive, said something about German Police siezing his computer (again) and trying to frame him for child porn and I never saw him online again. Probably biting pillows somewhere from the sound of it.

Since that time I've gained new neighbours in that C1, spending time sharing it with several new corps who'd come in and negotiate to live beside me, as well as returning myself from periods of inactivity to find new towers setup. That little C1 has been a fantastic experience, made a ton of weird and wonderful friends in there, learned all about what not to do, and most importantly lost a **** ton of ISK (WH's aren't about making money though, are they?? ).

These days my corp has expanded a little. We've sinced moved numerous times and lived in several other C1 and C2 systems, today we're based in a Class 2 with several other allied corporations. Despite this I've always kept a tower fueled and running in the ol' C1 for sentimental (and strategic) reasons, and always will.

I got into Wormhole space ( a c2) 2 months into the game with basically no skills.

In the early days I spent most of my time mining with an Apoc fit with 8 mining lasers....

That was until our director gave the POS password out to.some randoms who stole everything, then let the tower run out of fuel

Man I was such a scrub :P (and nothing has changed my corp will say)

Sith

Am quite the noob so went into one.... bigger ships were waiting on the other side at -1.0 secutiry so I quickly went back out.

Next time I went into one, again -1.0 security but no ships so I flew around a little. Found another wormhole and went through it and was back in high sec space far away. Then the damn hole collapsed :( I didn't even know they could collapse.
So had to fly the long way back to my home station.

Be in Null space, be minding my own and mining, corpmate talks to me.

Corpmate: "GoGet, poke your head into that WH I bookmarked earlier and see if anything is in it, I won't be able to check it out for a bit."

Me: "Righto."

Corpmate: "Do you see anything?"

Me: "Nope, no one even in local."

Corpmate: "...use D-Scan."

Me: "Yup, still nothing."

Corpmate: "What type is it?"

Me: "Uh...what?"

Corpmate: "What special effect does it have? Find a colorful spot in there and tell me what it looks like."

Me: "Oh! Bluish!"

Corpmate: "Oh, alright, it's that type. I'm here, you can get out now."

Me: "Okay."

Corpmate: "It isn't blue...you idiot."

Me: "Well sorry for being new."

Some time later.

Corpmate: "Uh...GoGet?"

Me: "Yeah?"

Corpmate: "I forgot to bookmark the inside, can you come and give me a warp in?"

Me: "Righto...idiot."

As you can see, I've yet to lose anything in WH space or spend a good deal of time in them. I'm hopping that changes and I learn some things.

First time in a WH was a "eh, **** it" experience. I had no idea what was going on as my character was maybe 2 or 3 months old at the time. Took a large fleet of ~10-15 people, all noobs as well, into a C2, ran 1 or 2 sites, then left. On the way out, the hole collapsed and trapped one or two people in there...

Bit after that, found a C3 > Null (Not the best), setup a POS in there for a week, then died horribly upon leaving (make sure you don't leave ships floating when you offline a POS...). After that experience, left BNI, made JHole, so forth, so on. It's been a good time so far.

THERES JUST SO DAMN MANY!!!

Came back to the game after an absence and a friend scanned out a wormhole. We warped to an anomaly where he lost his Anathema and my Coercer barely made it out in structure. Thankfully he remembered to bookmark the inside or we would have been taking the pod express back home.