My empty wormhole

The next day was a typical day for J210355. Niccolo feigned activity by warping around occasionally, but generally did nothing. From the night before I knew that they were willing to pay to get out, but not 130M, which is understandable, they don’t even know for certain that I will let them go after being paid, which for the record I would have. As I said before though, it was never about the money, it was about the power I wielded over this unfortunate corp. So I decided to show them one last time just how much power I really did have over them and sent Nic an email:

You may take yur tower down without any involvement from me or any of my associates. Failure to do so in a timely fashion will see my return. It was a rousing game of cat and also cat. good luck in future endeavours

Jarg0n would have been all over me on that email. After sending the email I logged both character out for the first time in about a week. Of course there is two sides to every story and the other side to this one is that I was mentally beat. Camping these guys constantly and living on wormhole timers for days on ends had run its toll and I was ready for it to be over, but too proud to just leave, so if there was a chance to see this end with me on top I was going to take it. My wife of course was ready for it to be over too, I typically play eve a couple hours a day often while watching shows with her on the couch. She wasn’t exactly thrilled that I was constantly logged on even if not actually active. I’m sure her favorite was the occasional d-scan during dinner. My wife is incredibly forgiving and down to earth and realized that this was important to me (probably more important than it should have been), but she was getting fed-up and I don’t blame her.

I logged back in a few hours later, on my prober only so as not to unduly scare them, and found that they had only one more gun to unanchor and the tower to offline. I watched the rest of the dismantling from the comfort of my cov ops. I felt very much like an evil overlord watching the locals on their death march from my perch on high. Now I am not so naïve to think that I was the only reason they left. I already had indications that the corp was struggling and the sites had started petering out. However, I do believe that I was a big part of the reason. Although they may have run the occasional lucky site while I was inactive they didn’t accomplish much in the week I camped them. In total I killed 7 ships and 4 pods totaling about 120M plus the pods and Zephyr, they burned 7 days of wasted POS fuel and I disrupted a week worth of wormhole operations. I’m sure they were missioning or doing exploration back in high sec, but their hole had become my hole. Nic and the majority of his peeps turned out to be decent guys and I do hope they have success in the future. For all I know they just put the tower up one system over in another class 2, but quite frankly I couldn’t care less, I’ll chalk it up as a victory. I had to log to watch some hulu with my wife before they actually finished unachoring the tower, but the next morning I logged in to an empty system... my system.