Journey Started in Rifter and Ended in Clone Vat

Starwalker noticed from his journal that he had accummulated some 200 mechanical datacores from an R&D agent in Tividu. Since he had no particular plans he thought he would make the journey over there and pick them up. Undocking in a trusty Rifter Starwalker set off from Heild without a care in the universe.

It all seemed to be going very well until the jump into Amamake, where a gate camp was waiting. Starwalker decided to hit warp and hope that nothing was sensor boosted, quick off the mark or wanted the Rifter. No such luck, the Legion was quick enough to stop the Rifter and before long he was hitting warp simply to get the pod away, which did so.

It seemed pointless to return to Heild in the pod and so Starwalker continued on to Tividu, where on arrival he contracted his datacores to StarStepper. The replacement Ibis was in station and so he undocked it and started to make the return journey.

Of course, the Ibis was not destined to get back to Heild as the reason Starwalker had used it was to try the Self Destruct feature. He had never used that command and wanted to see it in action; there was certainly no point in self-destructing a Rifter or better.

The countdown every ten seconds proved remarkably uninteresting and whilst waiting Starwalker thought that it might be better to be outside of the ship. Using eject was hardly any more exciting than the countdown itself and so he decided to head back to Heild in his pod.

The return journey went back through Amamake but Starwalker decided that his pod would get through any gate camp and so continued onwards. That might have been true, except a smart bombing Hyperion was waiting on gate and as Starwalker landed he was immediately sent to Heild's clone vat.

The journey had been a complete waste of time, the self destruction of his Ibis had been unexciting and whilst the 200 datacores were worth around 40m ISK, the loss of the Rifter and pod had exceeded that. The only good news was that Starwalker was back in Heild.