W-space.

Well, hell.

Wormhole space is the best and worst of known space poured into a vat, melted down, mixed up, and poured into the mold of insanity.

Let’s start with the good: Resources. Since we’ve set up our latest control tower configuration, we’ve been hauling out more resources – gas, minerals, and some electronics components I can’t recognize for my life. My corpmate is going nuts over them, though.

Then there’s the bad side. Let’s start with those aar-svik Sleepers. Aside from aggressively responding to the presence of our ships in special locales such as asteroid belts and gas clouds, I have recently begun noting a tendency of sleepers to actually locate vessels floating in deadspace or around planets or moons and attack said vessels. I don’t know whether they do this the way we do – that is, by launching probes to look for our power emissions – or with some exotic new process (given what else I’ve been pulling out of Sleeper drone wreckage, I wouldn’t be surprised). Bunch of their cruiser-sized craft dropped in on me as I was writing the last log. Not really a major threat, but my shields collapsing in under four seconds was enough to grab my attention.

What I do know is that the Sleepers are in some ways worse then the more aggressive capsuleer organizations. Smarter, too.

Then there’s the loneliness. I’m not going to lie – being out here, somewhere probably beyond the galactic limits, your feel awful disconnected from everyone else. All the stuff on the news feeds, all the stuff in the common discussion channels… it seems so distant.

Unlike some of the others, I am not particularly interested in the Sleepers’ nature – they are just another threat in a universe of terrorists, warmongers, and pirates of every stripe. No, I’m not like Julianus Soter, that former shield-carrier of the Federation. He’s turned his sights fully on uncovering every secret of the Sleepers, and seems to come up with a new theory about them – and the Seylinn incident. He’s digging up pretty interesting stuff – and pulling together an interesting bunch of people around him – but that stuff just isn’t my calling.

Oh well. Should be back in ‘known’ space soon.