I have enjoyed running shared cans at the AMC and with that said we finally decided to take the show on the road. This time we packed our Freighter with covetors and headed for the HSC. It took most of the day before the event to get all the gear in place. And when assembling the ships I noticed that we had forgotten to pack the mining crystals. Who does that? This guy!
I originally wanted to find a quiet system to mine in however the system I had picked was mined clean the day before the event. one character with a vacuum cleaner could have finished it off. So I made the decision to mine in HSC's home system, The whole time thinking "Well this is a good way to give war targets content"
The day of the event I finished getting setup and had Greagan do the belt scanning while I finished assembling covetors and filling them with mining crystals that Stasia had managed to round up and get to the HSC. In my rush I even made sure that the T1 Strip mining covetors had crystals. I vastly over estimated how many I needed.
This was also my first time as the freighter pilot for the big show. it was different and interesting. I did notice that this was a good job for the FC to have because after the cans are dropped I can do all the paperwork and not have to look at my mining lasers. I will do this role again.
We had a good mix of AMC and HSC folks show up. most of my covetors were loaned out and I should have planned for me T2 fit covetors. I had 4 T2 fit and 8 T1 fit. Turns out that I ended up sitting T2 capably pilots in T1 ships. this is a lesson for me and I think next time I'll make the split even. All ships were returned to me once I had a chance to check my main character.
The HSC folks are brave. War taregt in system and I'm hearing "Forget about it if he comes into belt the standing fleet will get him" Well thats different then the AMC. Well since most barges were mine I figured YOLO lets do this! We started mining the first 2 belts with a war target in system. they fell pretty quickly and war target left soon afterwards.
We continued to mine out 3 more belts, then magic happened. just as I was getting the fleet to move to the 6th belt of the night on my probe scanner window up popped a Average Jaspet Kernite and Omber deposit. Miracles do happen. Of course this new belt was fresh. I ordered the fleet to warp to the Orca once we had the Orca in place. initial reports were that we had a 100 Million Isk Spawn. I've done Shared Cans before but never had a fresh ore deposit show up. The deposit melted very fast. I was quite surprised. The Neutral that had also entered this deposit might have left a little disappointed, however they asked in local to salvage our wrecks and since we literally were mining the deposit out from under them I asked that the wrecks be abandoned to whatever fate the neutral had for them.
We then returned to the 6th belt of the night, and with the time coming to the end of my shared can we neatly packed it into freight containers once again proving there is no six.
Rumours abound that one silvery Omber got away, until next time my Omber friend.
Total Isk Mined:
For the second week in a row, the weekly shared can has smashed records. I think the ore deposit really helped out. We came so close to beating Tordormore's weekend shared can. Maybe one day I will get the keys back for the mining titan.
Last thing to note: If you would like a Covetor in HSC please send an Eve mail to Cryptic Sharvas. I am selling them at half price (which is the price I paid for them at AMC) this is being done so that I don't lose all the rigs by repackaging them. Please indicate if you would like a T1 or a T2 covetor. they will be available on a first come first served basis for the next 48 hours. when I move the hauler out, I'll be moving the covetors out.
Finally everyone will get paid once the buyback is completed.
