Invention is the easy bit, all a girl has to do it feed some documents and chips into the ACME™ Inventorium and wait. The hard part is sourcing cheap materials without getting suicide ganked in Jita. Well being a lazy cow I could not be arsed with running all over the place so I jumped in the rusty ol’ Obelisk and set Autopilot to lag central, aka Jita.
The worst part about Freighter flight is the damn speed of the things, if you thought a battleship was like a brick in toffee the neck-breaking speeds of an Obelisk bring a whole new dimension to slow. On the plus side I discovered the joys of drying paint en-route.

To cut a long story short (by about an hour) I made it all the way to Jita, and only got scanned twice.

After carefully studying the market (looking for the cheapest sell orders in Station) I spent out just under 2 billion ISK on materials to build 4 Golems and a few other bits and pieces.

I had called in a few favours to get an escort home from Jita, or even just a scout to check the route for gate camps around Jita, butwhen it came to the crunch everyone was too busy defending their Factions space. When will they learn that you cant rely on the powers that be and its every girl for herself!

Now everyone knows what Jita can be like for suicide gankers, especially outside 4,4 station, so being as cunning as a fox called Roger, I have an insta-warp bookmark in the middle of nowhere in line with the undocking lane. This got me clear of the station and warping safely to Perimiter gate for one of the scariest jumps in EVE. There is nothing quite like jumping into unknown territory with 2 billion ISK of cargo in almost a billion ISK ship (that’s on loan). Luckily for me when I arrived at the Perimiter gate out of Jita there was a queue of 3 Obelisks and 2 Charrons, so any suicide gankers on the other side would have a choice of 6 targets. Kinda reminds me of that legendary ancient game where people played a game of chance with a loaded firearm.

I will let you know who had the loaded barrel later……