Never rush a WH collapse

Never rush a WH collapse, at least that's what we've always gone by, since our move in we have built the obligatory spreadsheets that seem to power all of Eve's none shooty things.

But then there is always times where you slip up. This was one of them.

Now since our entry into our WH we have always been careful with our trusty space whale, it helps close WH's fast, can keep all valuables stored safe when we're not online, basically we have found it essential to our WH lives. Well we got lucky and got a High sec link, opened by a curious (if stupid) explorer, but thats another story.

So we used this high link to get our T3 manufacturing setup up to scratch so we can manufacture on site, we already react, this was just the next logical step. however once we were all back nice and safe in our WH we go to close the WH and screw up the calculations.

Orca now stuck in high sec, which isn't terrible at least it's not low/null/another wormhole.

But we now have the problem of getting it back into the wormhole or attempt to do things without it. Since our previous attempts to move the orca through low sec have had mixed success we weren't too keen on a repeat of that, however our high sec links are once in a blue moon event so we had little choice.

So we plan our route to avoid major gatecamp gateways (got to love 2d maps, makes route planning alot easier) and we setup an escort of a couple of webified stealth bombers, with dual purpose of helping the orca get to warp speed and high dps defence that we can scout with easily.

We made an uneventful trip to low sec gateway and then started the nerve racking process of moving the orca through low sec planet bouncing and aligning cloaked, scouting ahead. Everything that we should have done the first time. Fortunately this time we had a clean run and got the space whale home.

One thing we did learn is webifying an orca into warp is alot faster than it running an AB to boost to 75%. From the stealth bomber side as soon as the web is activated you lose your lock, definatly a must for future orca ops.