That is the amount of time between my last two ship losses. You could say that it has been a matter of risk management, basically because I have avoided any serious risk for a considerable length of time (except for a dicey run through null-sec with ruskies all over the place, but I was in a Hound, so it wasn’t that risky), but that has had its downsides.

Like the ship loss I experienced 2 days ago.

Recently, I packed up my meager belongings in my High Security hiding spot and decided to plant roots in a new section of New Eden, only now in Low Security space.

While I had thought that it was time for me to look for a new corporation a short while ago, I found a new reason to stay the CEO of my tiny little corporation in the form of the Copernicus Coalition, an alliance of small corporations and solo pilots trying to help make low-sec a much more livable place. Having fellow capsuleers to interact with makes the loneliness of space much more bearable, while allowing the freedom that being in such a small corporation allows, but I digress. I believe I was talking about the loss of my Hurricane.

Being a little bored, I felt the need to perform a little ratting. I had seen a pirate pop in and out of system a few times, had been keeping an eye on my overview just in case. He never showed up close, left the system and came back a few times, and, much to my regret, I had become mildly complacent, thinking that he was just going to ignore me. Was I wrong.

While slow-boating over to a wreck, I had my overview switched to an old tab that did not show any ships on it, and didn’t even know that he had warped into my belt until i was being webbed and scrambled. No speed module. Passive shield tanked with hardeners. A recent loss of ship board function and I had NOT turned the hardeners back on, not that it would have mattered much against a dedicated capsuleer killer, and my Hurricane went down. I did at least manage to get him into 50% armor.

What has this 70 some odd million isk loss taught me? Fix your overview, dumb ass (which I have already done).

For the sake of humour, here is our post fight conversation in Local:

[ 2010.07.19 01:09:33 ] Sir Quentin > gf
[ 2010.07.19 01:09:36 ] Krispy Dingo > gf
[ 2010.07.19 01:11:10 ] Krispy Dingo > thanks for freeing up time for me to go fold my laundry :D
[ 2010.07.19 01:11:31 ] Sir Quentin > ;)

Next time I see Sir Quentin, his ass is mine.