== Pilot’s personal log extract ==
Over the past few days, I have seen more ships in wormhole space than I had in a long time. Three times I was hunted with combat probes, and once I found myself in direct sight of a pirate cruiser while scouting.
But let me put it all in order.
Day One.
Objective: find a high-sec exit within a reasonable distance from Osmon, where the rest of the fleet was based. A pilot needed to be left there to handle the legal formalities of corporation registration.
Our static led to a system four jumps away from Amarr. Too far from the objective, so I returned and continued scanning. In addition to the high-sec exit, I found two wormholes leading to C1 systems.
The first system turned out to be unexpectedly rich: multiple anomalies, two relic sites, one data site. But as I pushed deeper, combat probes appeared on d-scan. A clear sign the system was inhabited and its residents were not welcoming. I shut down my activity and returned home.
The second C1 provided the exit I needed. Day complete.
Day Two.
The objective became more complex: I needed two exits at once – one near Amarr to pick up a production pilot, and another near Osmon to return a companion.
From the very beginning, the day did not go as planned.
A Typhoon battleship appeared on d-scan. I checked combat anomalies and located its position. Unpleasant, but not critical, so I continued scanning, as unlikely he would be after me.
But then the situation escalated quickly. A Buzzard entered the system, launched probes, and cloaked. A few minutes later – an Anathema. And this time, with combat probes. I immediately stopped all activity, warped to a safe spot, and began observing.
Soon after, a full fleet entered the system: battleship, battlecruiser, cruiser, and frigate. The Typhoon did not last long: a capsule briefly appeared on d-scan and then disappeared.
Then the Anathema launched combat probes again. No doubt this time, I was the target. After several warps between safes, I saved all scanned signatures and slipped into hibernation.
Later that same day, I resumed the search. From the home system, I had exits to a C1 and a C2. I checked the C1 first: several wormholes, but while inspecting one of them, I encountered a pirate cruiser with an active suspect flag sitting on the wormhole. That was enough not to linger any longer.
I moved on to the C2. And there, I found a real surprise. It was a C2 with statics to low-sec and another C2 – exactly the configuration I had originally been looking for. Quiet, yet highly connected: at least two guaranteed wormhole systems at any time, which meant stable chains and likely access to high-sec exits. For a moment, I even considered packing up and relocating. The system was full of wormholes. But one of them eventually led to a high-sec exit just two jumps from Amarr, so I continued with the original plan.
Day Three.
Without major incidents, I opened another exit near Osmon.
== End of pilot’s personal log extract. ==
The Admiral paused for a moment. The first phase of the operation was complete. They were ready for the next step.