#dronelands

Our work in the Drone Regions is done for the most part.  The Imperium did not burn down every single structure.  I am sure there are still Athanors, Raitarus, Skyhooks, and other medium structures left over from PanFam’s time in the Drones.  You stay some place for as long as they did and you start to collect stuff… and even more so when you’re renting space and every renter feels they need…

It was a long week in the Drone Regions burning down the remaining PanFam structures, and I was a good soldier over most of the time, getting in fleets when I could and setting timers without getting on very many kill mails.  You do the work first and worry about kill mails later. That said, I was determined to get on one particular kill mail.  I wanted to get on the kill for the Keepstar in…

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” -Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises. One of the crazy aspects of the collapse of Pandemic Horde as an alliance has been how suddenly everything fell to pieces for them. As with the Hemingway quote, they seemed to be failing slowly for quite a while… pulling back as we moved forward, giving up whole…

Up until about a week ago I had an alt out in Malpais and Oasa regions in the Dronelands, that swathe of space that make up the eastern side of null sec where drones are the primary NPCs to fight.  There had been a call last November for characters you could afford to “coffin,” which is leave locked up in a ship in space, for an extended period of time.  The requirement was that the character…