02 Safety Protocols

I was just on my way to Kamela to pick up some 75er Cap Boosters. One of those market activities of mine with which I try to establish a monopoly within the Bleak Lands. Buy goods that are sold way below production price and resell them for a suitable price. But as so often, I forgot to pick up some documents an agent had handed over to me just before leaving the station. Funny guy he was. Very small and a bit absent minded. The typical archivist you could say. Blabbering something about important requests, declassification notes and wormholes. Did sound too weird to me to be really important and the payment wasn't one of those that let you dream of carriers anyway. But for the fact that I had to go to that station for my marketed goods I would have been stupid not to pay the contract insurance of a few several thousand ISKs and grab the papers.  And now - now I get this safety warning that prevents me from redocking!

"Jesus, if you cant handle a little traffic go route the dinner queue in an retirement home!"
Honestly reflecting I am cursing myself for again being such an forgetful idiot and not the station's docking officer for loosing precious time over and over again.

On the other hand, if its just loosing time instead of loosing ships out of pure idiocy my anger really shouldn't get me through the window of my cockpit. Like on my first attempt of some Jaspet testmining-operation. Not with one of the Barges we already had lost - no, that was before those incidents. For those more or less unattended mining actions or belt scouting operations I prefer to use an Cruiser of the Arbitrator-Class.

Fit two mining lasers, load it with tons of combat and mining drones, give it some extra cargo space and two warp core stabilizers. Depending on your training with Drones you can handle pretty much any typical pirate down to 0.4 sectors and drill a few holes into asteroids meanwhile with that fitting. Ok, I have to admit by now that this is hell of an equipment to really get a flow of Jaspet going. That stuff is way to hard for a tiny tier one setup. But still - good enough for some production testing that involves zydrine. And it is a cheap and easily replaceable setup to pay tribute to the wise saying: "Only fly what you can afford to loose!"

In New Eden Proverbs such as this one do not come from nowhere as another test-trip to the Uusanen area recently had thought me. I was sitting on the bridge really popping my eyes out on the radars, sensors and screens, with my fingers ready to push on the manoeuvring controls. And swoooshh - only half an hour after I had started mining something approached incredibly fast onto my ships location. And guess what? It was flashing as red as an caldarian New Eden's Eve tree! I almost broke my fingers when I tried to turn the cruiser around to approach the station. Yeah, I know. I had forgotten to align to it upfront to enable a single push on the warp button to do the job. But guess what? ...

Comlink is establishing

"HMS Tritanium, you are clear for docking. Please proceed immediately. Thank you for your cooperation".

Aye, that is my call. The end of this story has to wait for the next time, when I again forget half of my brain in a station and get unasked spare time for playing the annalist. "Computer? Save entry".

(Recovered blog-entry from 2009)