My Life As A New Wormhole Corp Founder. Or How NOT To Begin Wormhole Living.

Funnily enough this happened a few days ago.

Me and a friend have started our own wormhole corp. After finding, scouting and seeding a wormhole of choice, we waited for a couple of days to get an exit somewhere near highsec. Finding one, we fit a Wreathe big enough to carry an Athanor and plopped it down, anchoring.

23 hours later I jump on my seeded character to scan a way out, and noticed an Astero 2 holes over. It gave chase into the hole next to ours and then I lost it, before logging off in a safe spot in our new home.

Log into my main and another alt, one in a Megathron, the other in a sub 2s Sunesis, carrying the quantum core. Thinking ahead, I park the Sunesis in the last highsec system on the route to get into our wormhole, and take the Megathron through. All looks good as I park the Megathron next to the anchoring Athanor, ready to dock it up and bring the Sunesis in.

30s on the clock, dscan looks clear... Until... A sabre warps on top of my Mega and bubbles. Fuck.

Before I know it, I have 5/6 people burning down my Mega in Drekavacs. I had no chance. They killed the Mega, the Heron in the escape bay and sent me out of my new home via the Jita Express.

Now, my friend had come with me in a Stratios and had seen the encounter from about 70km away. Naturally, he didn't decloak since that would have been suicide. He was, however, streaming - giving me a perfect view as the Dreks turned their aim to the now anchored Athanor.

We thought all hope was lost. A week of preparation and 1.1B in isk down the drain due to the combined price of the Athanor and Mega (thank God I left the Sunesis out). Then, one of the guys attacking inspects the structure, looks at the corp, CEO and hits "start conversation".

'1.5B or we blap it'.

Nope. No chance. We're not paying twice the price of an Athanor for them to potentially blow it up in the end anyway. Not happening. They are open to negotiation though... During negotiations we dropped a link to the stream and they tuned in to watch, as we watched our Athanor's structure health bar drop.

Backwards and forwards went the conversation. The stream was blowing up, the attackers were finding mercy, and I'd already changed my boxers twice.

'700m and we let you put the core in, and make sure you don't get 3rd partied'

Well, we were losing 700m either way, may as well take the chance. Isk was sent and the attack stopped, and not a moment too soon.

I brought the Sunesis through and dropped the core in. Of course, in doing so I had to take control of the Athanor.

2%

2% is all that was left of the structure.

I'd like to thank New Jovian Collective for providing a night of content, but mainly for staying true to their word. Yes, we were ransomed for 700m isk which taught us lessons we will remember when anchoring structures in the future, but NJC stuck around for the core timer, and warped off as the Athanor finally hit low power mode and healed itself.

NJC, fly dangerous. o7