The Proposal

[Morganti]

The Proposal -

He entered the darkened room as one of many, head and body covered in heavy robes and silent as the vast space that loomed outside the reinforced windows surrounding them. Moving slowly but steadily to the front of the room, the man had gained the attention of the rest of the men and women in the room whose conversations had all but disappeared.

Turning to face the small crowd, he threw back the cowl from his head and faced them with his white on white eyes. A small light blinked on above him, and the crowd shifted almost imperceptibly as they got a better view of those hollow eyes that had been witness to so many mysteries years ago. Dominic Morganti, former lost soul of the dark voyage, now an overlord who was known to strip entire planets bare of their resources, wiping out millions of the inhabitants in the process. The crowd wondered as one exactly what the hell was going on.

"Friends", he began, spreading his arms wide. "I welcome you to my humble home. I appreciate your showing up in person in these dangerous times, and hope that this will be a most productive meeting for all involved. You'll notice that each group here has had their identities hidden from the other, and you can rest easy knowing that I alone know the corporation names and un-incorporated individuals gathered around you."

"But yet, I need you to understand this: you were not chosen at random." he continued. "Some of you may know the incidents surrounding the origins of the Endless Corporation years ago, and some may not. While a story for another day, those of us on that lost voyage long ago were marked. And those few of us who were chosen were spoken to across the distances of time and space." As he spoke, Morganti's voice became distant, like the retelling of a dream, and his eyes cut to the reinforced windows and out into the void. He stood staring at the blackness for some seconds, transfixed. Finally a cough from the crowd brought him back.

"Until recently, those voices from the past had gone silent for years...nearly a decade now even. But they remain silent no more. You may wonder where I got the names, random and seemingly without purpose or connection, for the group that sits here today. Wonder no more. Ladies and gentleman, my proposal is this: I have been directed into the darkness, and I wish you to join me. I search for a wormhole system that holds a certain Sleeper ship, the "Macross". We all know the power of the Sleepers, but this ship is special. It contains something....something that even I am not privy to. It is well known that there is wealth to be had in these wormhole systems, but this is something bigger. Fortune and glory is what I offer you. There is much wealth to be had in the process of searching for the "Macross", and that is what I offer everyone here a share of. Fly with me into the darkness. Let us discover the secrets of the void as one."

With that, the light above Dominic Morganti snapped off. "If you choose to join me on this adventure please remain in the room. Any that find the thought of the danger inside wormhole space too much to bear, please feel free to make your exit now with no hard feelings from me."

In the back of the room the door snapped open revealing harsh white light from the hallway. It was time for people to make a choice...

[Souca]

Sounds good. I'll see if I can't get a carrier BPO or BPC ready for the trip.

- Souca -

[RobinGBrown]

I'm in. Not sure which of my pilots is brave enough to volunteer, but there's a decent range of ships/skills combinations including Hulks, Orca, Freighter/Jump Freighter, and Battleships. Let me know what you need.

[Morganti]

Slow response day. Methinks folks are scared of wormhole space!

[Meeo]

i once lived in wormhole space for over a year, it was a blast, it was a mess, and it was amazing. At this time i actually have a Wormhole Deployment container with my POS+Mods initially targeted for a Class 3 Wormhole, once i found one.

With the changes a month or 2 ago to the way the sleepers work, they harder they got. When they "fixed" the sleepers neut'ing ability, the price for Tech 3 Cruisers went up dramatically, due to less people wanting to face a much harder sleeper then they were before.

I wouldn't mind going back into a wormhole for a bit, im ion a semi hiatus right now, all my guys are in Low-sec chilling while i play Rift, but i restarted my training on my toons a few weeks ago, in anticipation of getting back into the game.

[Morganti]

I did wormholes pre neut boost to the sleepers, but from everything I've seen passive Drakes are still soloing c1-c3's with a warp out or two. Shouldn't be anything a single boxer would sweat that much. Word on the street is if you are cap stable at 60% you're generally ok.

We do need to decide if we're going to look for a home system in a c3 or c4 (or even c5 if you guys really wanna get ballsy and bring in some big guns). A home system requires a large death star POS, and preferably fit for killing cruiser sized ships (the WH pirates tend to expect POS's to be hardened for BS sized ships and run in T2 cruisers). A carrier would be nice if for nothing else than defense, but I don't expect anyone to put a carrier in a c3.

The other option is of course being more mobile. We can strike out of hisec and clean house on c1-c3 wormholes and once we clear one bounce back out to hisec to look for another and sell.

Thoughts? Advice from those with WH experience? I'm open to suggestions for pretty much any angle here.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'd definitely love to tag along, though I'm a complete noob, never seen a L4 mission before, I'm poor and I have crap for skill points (just finished T2 shields and T2 drones about a week and a half ago). In addition, I have completely unreliable play times with work going crazy lately. If we get enough interest and things stabilize a bit, I can probably adjust to be around when things are happening. I'm usually 9pm-1am CST (GMT-6) if work issues are behaving.

[Grondir]

I'd love to tag along too, but I don't think I have the skills yet (4 poorly equipped/skilled Drakes and an even worse Dominix). In a few months i'd definately be up for it .

Just waiting to see how my PI experiment works out and wether or not I should stop training all my accounts as miners and shift some of them to PvE/PvP pilots.....

[Morganti]

A passively tanked drake (t2 especially) is a good ship to take into a hole. It's not overly expensive if you lose it in pvp, sturdy enough to deal with the super-rat sleepers, and has lots of hi slots so you can get a probe launcher on it. The downside is dps, but hey, if you bring an army of them dps goes up right? If you want to mine, go with a retriever as a cheap but nice miner for holes.

I'd like everyone interested (even if you think you're underskilled) to post their playtimes and time zones. I know one downfall of a lot of corps I've been in is people who want to do something, but are never on at the same times.

[Meeo]

With what i hear Morganti, its probably best to find a Class 3 with people not being full T2 skilled even in drakes.

Class 4 and 5 you run the risk of getting dropped in on by other peoples carriers/BS Fleets trying to gank your steal your stuff, without a decent team to constantly watch the pocket a class the leaves you with room to sleep with a bit more sound of mind. LOL.

I may be able to come with a toon or 2, i usually play GMT-6 as well, but im on usually between the hours of 5 pm CST to 1 or 2 am, when im on.