Getting to Fountain

After waiting a few days to actually get into Dreddit, obessively checking the queue to see if it progressed at all (it only seemed to be getting longer), I finally got my acceptance letter.  I don't know why I was so excited to get into a corp that had absolutely no joining requirements other than not being an idiot, doing the application correctly and being a Reddit memeber for a months. . . but I was.  Deal with it.

However, never having been to 0.0 space I was a little nervous.  First, I jumped into my trusted Rifter, El Duderino (somehow this survived that last 4 RvB battles I had been in), traded the rest of my possessions to my trader alt and then read up on how to get to Fountain.

Reading up made me even more nervous about going out there.  So many tips on how to jump around in there to avoid warp bubbles (I had never seen a warp bubble because they are only allowed in 0.0 space) and how to use local chat (kind of used to this from my days as a low sec pirate).  It was the same feeling I had the first time going into Ashenvale in WoW . . . I had heard all these stories, read all these things about what happened in PvP zones and I was sure I would die in a matter of seconds.

My trip from high sec to fountain took me about 33 jumps, most of which were through low sec and null sec.  Once I hit low sec I was on high alert.  Every jump I was sure would be right into a gate camp.  One other person in local chat freaked me out.  At least i knew I was flying an inexpensive ship so that I wasn't too afraid of getting killed, but I still didn't want to worry about being popped and losing my implants.

Low sec was not a problem at all.  I saw a couple of pirates in a few local channels, but knowing a bit about how they think, I was fairly confident that I could make it out alive in my quick little Rifter.

Null sec was a different story.  As i said, I had no experience here.  Most of the systems were empty, so I didn't have to worry about jumping straight to next gate because there was little to no risk of warp bubbles.

However, after a few jumps into low sec, I was getting pretty comfortable and confident.  I jump into an empty system, and immediately warp to the next gate.  Oh crap, a warp bubble.  But there is no one in local.  Are they waiting on the other side of the gate?  Are they about to jump in and nail me?  I frantically point back to the gate and enable my afterburner.  The whole time my heart is beating pretty quickly.  Why am I so freaked out?  This ship is worth almost nothing.

Of course, nothing happens.  It must have been a bubble from an old gate camp, the campers long gone.  For all i know it could have been Testies who had set it up.

I continue my trip.  As I close in on our home system, local gets more and more populated by corp mates and alliance members.  Even though they don't offer much security, I did feel more secure which is all that matters.

Soon I reached the station.  Welcome to your new home, Cadaverous.