A few days back, I was travelling through lowsec space, seeking out abandoned sites to explore for their riches. But as the day went on, no sites were scanned. The only thing my exploration ship ran in were wormholes...
Failing to locate the usual data & relic sites, I decided to jump in the nearest wormhole connection, seeing what was on the other side. perhaps a faraway link to another system in the cluster, or maybe a link to one of the numerous & mysterious Wormhole systems? Where sleepers guard their structures since millennia past?
Taking the blind jump through, the computer systems fail to identify the destination system, signalling I'm in one of the mysterious Wormhole systems, cut off from civilisation & Concord regulations...
A rapid scan unveils alot of sites & a Pilot Owned Structure & a few ships. Investigating the sleeper sites confirms my suspicion that my exploration frigate is unable to handle the large sleepers guarding these places, so shifting my focus to the POS & the scanned ships. However, seeing these age-old sleepers patrol... Running their ancient automated guardian protocols for what could be millenia always gave me an itchy feeling... as if we don't belong here...
Hinting at the number of visible sleeper sites, there's a chance the POS is no longer operational, giving an opportunity check for any valuables left behind! After all, for each successful group in the wormhole systems, there's many that fade in the dark, unable to find & capitalize on these riches... After all, Wormholes are home to the shattered dreams & lost hopes of disillusioned capsuleers who found out that settling deep space to become wealthy isn't so easy....
Approaching the scanned down POS, I rapidly found out it's abandoned, only housing a few ships. A Velator frigate, a Tarya transport and the main prize! A Crane blockade runner was also present & unguarded!
After an initial inspection of the ships, it was discovered none of them carried cargo. However, the Velator held a lone abandoned survivor... A janitor, left behind by his former employers when they left the system.
Coupled with his tales & the presence of the Crane, it's reasonable to assume the wormhole system was only abandoned a short while ago.
Shortly after claiming anything of value, I made the trip back to known space, leaving behind the Velator & Tarya. The Crane blockade runner however accompanied me back home, along with the rescued janitor! Such an advanced ship is always a nice catch to find! And the janitor can once more enjoy life in civilized space!
And so I left this wormhole system again... once more it was empty of any capsuleer presence, leaving behind the sleepers in their desolation and the POS & its remaining ships all alone, a metallic witness to the shattered dreams & lost hopes that claimed many a capsuleer in wormholes... Any future visitor to this system would never know I was here prior...
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