I debated if I wanted to remain in my WH for more than 90 days, but decided to take a little break – not from EVE, but just from the stress of leaving the Orca in a wormhole. It’s an expensive ship – and I rarely ever logged it in unless I absolutely had to, but that came with pros and cons (as does anything in EVE).
Overall, I absolutely loved my time living in jspace. I’d (ideally) like something more permanent – but nothing in EVE is permanent, and if you go at it solo (as is my way) you tend to get picked off fairly quickly. The goal with this challenge was to live in jspace using as small of a footprint as possible so that I wouldn’t draw attention to myself.
I made a LOT of ISK. Most of my ISK came from gas huffing and exploration (relic/data sites). A little bit of it came from running combat sites (I stuck to C1-C3), and a good portion came from PI. I’m not sure if PI counts because even though it IS in jspace, I’m using a wormlife freeport with a few alts rather than doing PI in the system I was living in. Once a week I’d collect my goods and move them to highsec, and then pick them up with the squall I eventually purchased.
I made a few friends out there – I joined up with a community of like-minded nomads, and watched a lot of videos and learned some things that I didn’t know before. I also figured out that living in jspace is absolutely my favourite place to be. I loved everything about it.
Taking my Orca home was rough, but not the part where I was moving it through jspace, the part that was rough was when I was trying to get back to my home system, in highsec. There were three gate camps going on when I initially wanted to move, so I had to wait those out and find a better time. It took days before I finally found a window to make the 35 jumps it would take to get back home. Ideally I should have just been patient and waited for a closer connection, but I was eager to move on to the next adventure.
The best thing I saw? Probably shattered wormholes. They’re beautiful. The scariest? Any time anyone showed up on d-scan. There were a few times I would leave my relic/data sites because I felt a weird feeling of being watched, even though I honestly didn’t know if someone was or not. I always used a perch to do my sites so that I spent as little time at the cans as possible. Oh, my favourite system is the one in the screenshot. It looked like an ocean in space, and it was beautiful.
Things I’d do differently if I were to do it again (which I might, I haven’t decided yet) – I THINK I’d like to anchor a small structure, or a POS. I know that it leaves a bigger footprint, but maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. I know lots of corporations live in jspace, but I’m really not interested in joining up with a whole bunch of people that I may or may not get along with. In any case, it was a fun 90 days, and it went by VERY quickly. I can’t wait for the next adventure.
As always, fly your way! o7
stargrace 
