Ships & Modules

Either you're trolling or your ********. 2-3b in a badger is class A gank bait. A single Tornado would be enough to take you out

get an orca, fast.... put a DC on it, and you've got 100k EHP... on top of that you can do re enforced bulkheads (assuming you active pilot and warp to zero).

Only the 40k m3 corp hangar is unscannable, and drops nothing.
On top of that you've got a 50k m3 ore hold, and a 37.5 k m3 (at level 5) standard cargohold (and a 400km3 ship hangar that only takes assembled ships with nothing but charges in their cargo).
The 37.5k m3 cargohold can be increased to over 60k m3 with cargohold expanders, but this decreases your tank considerably.
Combined with the corp hangar, you can get over 100k m3 of cargospace for standard items, carry many rigged and fitted frigates and a rigged and fitted battlecruiser, and 50 km3 of ore space... and again, a way better buffer than the badger (though using 2 cargohold expanders, and thus no DC, more than halves your buffer, as hul is the large majority of its buffer).
Obviously, you'll want to put the highest value items in the "secure" space that is the corp hangar.

I put 1x 100mn AB on it (I might want to try a MWD), and cycle it once to get it into warp faster.

I don't think I'll ever use an industrial again since getting my Orca.

You can also use a Reactor Control Unit and a Damage Control II with the 100MN MWD; most of the Orca's hitpoints are in its structure, and even with imperfect skills, that plus Tech II shield hardeners (dual Invuls and one EM are a good set) will get you well over 170,000 effective hit points even if gankers are shooting at your weakest shield resist. That's a lot of Tornados, or a metric crapload of gank Catalysts, and you can still pull off the MWD trick to warp from a standing start in about 10 seconds.

(The secret: turn off auto-repeat on the MWD. Align, click the MWD once, and once it cycles off, you're in warp and gone, no muss, no fuss. This assumes a standing start, but whenever you jump into a new system, you're at a standing start anyway.)

This fit. All day. Anyone scans this thing down for a gank moves on to an easy target they might make some isk on. Do not fit for Max cargo...ever. If you need that much room hire red frog.

3 things you'll notice in all of the above fits. Always fit a speed mod, ALWAYS fit a dc2, never use the cargo hold.

Whether you prefer mwd or ab, get a Shadow Serpentis. They're reasonably cheap and give enough of a performance boost to be worth it.

The mwd typically cuts 5-7 seconds off your align time, but leaves near zero pg for much else.
My current preference is to run a Serp AB with dual invul 2's and an xl ASB with a dc2 and dark blood reactor control.

The DC2 by itself, and not afking will make you a less than desirable target to most gankers. An empty cargo hold should seal the deal.

The reason you fly an orca is so you can dump 50bil of loot in the corp hanger and auto pilot to jita.
You can also move ships which is very handy.

*facepalm* "Hit jump". Yeah, that's what I meant - and would have said if I hadn't suffered a brain cramp. For undocking, maybe it's best to warp to the closest-to-course celestial or bookmark you can find. (I have a series of instawarp undock bookmarks for Jita and home stations.)

Question, are the ship hangar and ore bay scannable? do they drop anything? or is it only the corp hangar that is secure?

I can confirm that an Orca with ships in its hangar shows as empty to a T2 cargo scanner. I strongly suspect that the contents of the hangar won't drop, but I don't have the means to test that.

You're getting into warp in 10 seconds instead of about 35, regardless of which MWD you use (as long as it's 100MN and not civilian).

You can fit the MWD without the Ancillary Current Router: just fit a Reactor Control instead of the bulkheads in a lowslow. You'll have less EHP, but there's very little chance that you'd get ganked anyway.