Work Daze #13

 Wairua,

Congrats; you've really stepped in it. On the upside, I had bet your father-in-law 100K ISK that Gabi was already pregnant, but something tells me I'm not going to bowl around to collect for a hot minute.

Seriously, though, congrats on the wee one. I'll start stashing skill books for his eventual education, and you'd better start stashing heaps of ISK, though pretty sure you've been doing that already. My brother will both be thrilled and keen as to dote on a grand-nephew. Sure as, he'll find more frequent excuses to bowl around, beyond the ice and mining possibilities down there.

Your uncle's still packing a sad about his workshop getting carked, but the ratshit bastards have let the wardec off, so now we figure out how to keep moving forward. I know he's talked about building you more ships as you train, like that Jaguar, we just need to find a new place for the yakka. The corp is a choice crew, and they'll pull together to move forward.

So, you've been offered some yakka that you can't refuse, especially since Gabi's now expecting and her folks might look askance at the skint ratbag that just married their daughter. We'll see what we can do to make everyone happy.

First of all, we'll probably need to quit bowling around and hiding the Serps for a while, since they're sweet as with Intaki interests. I wouldn't call it a veiled threat, outright, but I can read the writing on the wall as clearly as you already squiz.

Operating in Syndicate, as you already reckon, is going to be heaps more challenging. Knuckle under on the prep work, and it will help in the long run. You're not sweet as to fly a Stiletto or other interceptor yet, so you'll need to fit up a Slasher or Rifter with cloak, nano, stabs, nozzles for flat out, off the gate speed. Use that to pre-scout the systems you'll be operating in, set up gate perches, tacticals, instadocks, and safes. I would do that in each system within 6 jumps of the station where you'll be working out of. Yes, it's a lot of yakka, but the Intaki bosses aren't going to accept getting ganked as an excuse. Find a station with a cloning bay nearby, call it home, and stock it with a couple extra ships, just in case.

Since you're not into blockade runner hulls yet, I'd take your Sunesis, fit it like as to the frigate for flat out GTFO, for your initial delivery runs. She'll be right, no worries.

Time for the next level, son. You got this.

Love,

Dad