How to bookmark: a monograph by The Boss

Hey you! Yes you.
Do you know how to properly bookmark shit?

...neither did I. But then I read an illustrated monograph by my alliance Boss! Now I know what sort of crap I need to include in a bookmark.
"But Kel!" I hear you say "I have not viewed this monograph like you have. How can I too glean its knowledge?!"
Rest easy my friend, for I shall publish the very same monograph here for you to read. Now you to can learn how to bookmark like a boss.

People are still here? What do you mean people are still here? Oh, they need more? Fine! Here's my other set of notes on how to bookmark. Courtesy of a corp-mate.

The basic format for wormholes is as followed  < (Where it is) - [first 3 letters of scan signature] - [where it goes] - [additional details] >

So for example: "(Home) YAJ - C5a - rout to hs"

Now anyone else can look at that and know that this bookmark is located in the home system, its signature ID starts with YAJ, it leads to a class 5 wormhole, and is on a rout to highsec.
See? easy. If you dont know where it leads or are missing information on it, bookmark the sig anyway and edit the details in latter as needed.

For example: "(Home) XAJ - *** - static, unresolved"

Now anyone looking at that knows that this is the home systems static, but it is unresolved, meaning that it is untouched and unopened. Latter on we would edit this to something like: "(Home) XAJ - C5b - hostile". Now someone looking at that knows that it leads to a class 5 wormhole, but that the wormhole is likely camped, bubbled or both.

Bookmarking sites is just as easy. < (Where it is) - [first 3 letters] - [what sig type] - [what site type] >

so for example: (C5a) - BBJ - GR - UCD

This would translate to a site in the C5a, sig ID BBJ, its a gravimetric site (rocks) and is a Unusual Core Deposit, or an average C5 asteroid field. There are only 4 types of site signatures so its pritty easy to work out if its a Radar (RA), Ladar (LA) Gravimetric (GR), or Magnetometric (MA). In any case, these primarily serve to standardise how bookmarks are made, which is important when you need to share those bookmarks with your corp an alliance. Detail and brevity are the key factors here. People need to be able to look at a bookmark and quickly work out what it is and what it does.

...and now you too know how to bookmark like a boss!

K162: not a submarine movie.

Holy crap guys, wormholes are complicated!
So I've been in here with the alliance about a week or two now and it has been a rush of new information for me. For instance, I learned today what a K162 is and why it's important.

Wormholes come in several variety's, but in unknown space they can be broken down into 2 main categories. Inbound and outbound wormholes.
Wormhole systems will always have at least 1 "static" wormhole, that is a wormhole leading to a consistent location. The first thing that this "static" means is that you can in theory never be totally lost in wormhole space. As long as you have a probe launcher and at least 1 set of core scanning probes, you can slowly map your way back to known space. Class 1 and 2 wormholes typically lead back to high-security space, while class 3 to 6 usually lead to more wormholes. While its not a hard and fast rule, the lower the wormhole class the closer to safer space you are.
A side effect of this though is the K162. A static wormhole needs to lead out of a system and connect with another, be that in known space or wormhole space. However, until someone warps to the static entrance the exit will not form. That exit is a K162.
A K162 in your system means that someone has found a wormhole, warped to it, and possibly gone through it, all in the last 24 hours. If your in high-sec this might means that the wormhole your thinking of going through is probably inhabited. In a wormhole system it means you might have invaders! This is a problem since without a local channel to tell you who is in the system with you its impossible to know if you have an afk-cloaker in your home. Why is that a problem? Because there is no practical way to say, remove a covert-ops frigate if you don't know that they are there. You can look for evidence, but even if you know that someone has parked a cov-ops alt in your home there's still no way to remove them.
So finding a K162 in your wormhole is like having your doctor tell you:

"Hey! Its probably nothing, just a chest cold.
[beat]
...could also be cancer though."

So I have a blog now...

So I now have a blog. Yay me. Now that I have officially left highsec behind me I figured I might have some interesting things to talk about. Don't get me wrong, highsec is a nice place, nice enough to live in, but its nice in the same way a gated neighbourhood is nice to live in. Its nice because not a whole lot happens.

Wormholes on the other hand are like living in a post apocalyptic city. Its nice because you found some sweet loot the other day and a zombie didn't eat your face. Its interesting, its exciting, its an adventure.

So yes, in-case you didn't catch that, I joined a wormhole corp. Id love to talk about that more, but at the moment there is a kind of NDA on releasing information about our activity's so I cant. So yeah, the CAD comic is pretty damn accurate when it comes to wormhole corps. I wouldn't have it any other way now that I've joined though, knowing others had to jump through the same hoops makes me feel a little bit safer in here.

I've been stuck for something to write about however. While I would like to write about the events that have transpired since I joined there's been a general information blackout imposed for security reasons. Im not sure how much I should say even on that so I'll instead comment that even with security as good as it is now, it can always be better.