Vein of Life: Logistics

*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*BEEP*
The alarm rings beside the bed.
Time to get up.
Look out the window, a fine central California morning.
Rub the sleep from your eyes.
Now your ready to face the day.

After logging into EVE, I see Corp channel going crazy, one of the scouts just found a C1 full of sigs and no owner. As soon as i make myself known, "o/ morning corp-ies" I'm told to grab the Itty V (almost 39,000m3 of sexiness) and check the wallet blink. Directors had allotted me 150,000,000 ISK to grab a small POS setup. WE WERE MOVING IN!!!

So begins my morning of epic logistics action. I use the POS Honey to figure a simple setup as well as fuel for a week long stay:
-Coolant x336
-O2 x1176
-Enriched Uranium x168
-Heavy Water x946
-Mechanical Parts x336
-Robotics x168
-O2 Isotopes x18984
-Liquid Ozone x5176
These plus the small tower, corp hanger array, ship maint array, ECM batteries, small rails filled the cargo hold of H.M.N.S. Worm to around 3/4 capacity. After an hour of jumping system to system in Verge Vendor & neighboring regions, I'm ready to join the 2 corp members already inside clearing the Radar & Mag sites. Our HAC Pilot ejects and meets me (As well as the mining/scan alt in his Covetor...more about that here in a bit...) at the K-SPace entrance in his Pod. I hop the Itty thru, ALT+TAB to the Alt in his mining barrage, move to hop thru and am told that my ship is to large...so you mean to tell me CCP, that my Covetor CAN'T go thru, but an Itty V, fully loaded now w/ POS, fuel, extra TIII subs, & ammo CAN?!?! Oh, the agony!

After Beginning to anchor the tower, I ALT+TAB again to the Alt, buy a Retriever & begin the jumps to, well, Retrieve it. About this time the tower is anchored, I start adding the fuel to its bay. Now to online this puppy, ERROR. Hmmm, lets try that again...ERROR, alright maybe I should read the ERROR mssg. No O2?!?! OK, must have forgot to add it, open the Itty's cargo hold, rummage thru it:
-Hanger Array
-Maint Array
-Ammo
-Sub Systems
-Distinct lack of O2...
Yup I forgot it, you guessed it. Well this isn't good, but I have the the Alt & Retriever outside right? Sure do but this wouldn't be worth telling if it had been that easy. Only O2 in Verge Vendor? 1,000,000 ISK PER UNIT. F#ck me right? So here we go again King of Logistics, jump time. 18 jumps later I find O2 at around 100 ISK per unit, hop back to the WH and online the tower. Now while this was all going on, I managed to bring the mains Helios, Passive Mrym, and salvage desy into the WH, finishing just 15 minutes before todays extended maint shutdown.

Last night I ended the post w/ a lessons learned section, think I'll make that the anchor tonight as well. Lesson #1? Make a list and check it twice, hell check it 15 or 100 times, it will save you time, and your WH extra mass passing thru it. Know your ship restrictions on the C1, will save you time, that's #2. Now the last one didn't happen today, but #3 is this; ALWAYS check the unit / price before buying, you don't know how close I was to paying 1 mil ISK per O2 before i caught it. Shame on you Mr. Random seller...

Well that covers today, I'll update as we clear sites over the next few days.
o/ Fly Safe!