Ice Mining

The ice mining done by members of the AU-F thus far has been a story of success. I only had to purchase a handful of liquid ozone in order to fuel up all three POS this past week after we accumulated a whopping 300,000 units of helium isotopes, and other various fuel components.

I would like to personally commend the efforts of such members as Cmdr GAT, Meatay, Sarah Tuttle, and any other members I may have heinously forgot; don't hurt me!

Ice mining has become crucial to our development as we branch out, invest, and extend our reach into Providence over the course of the summer. We are running rather dangerously low on funds at the corporate level at this time due to having invested heavily in T1 BPOs and ships. The ships will return value to us when they are lost, but the T1 BPOs will return value only when we begin printing copies and selling them on the contractual market. So during this time of transition as we solidify our corporate portfolio, every unit of fuel counts.

But, to give everyone a better idea of what it requires to fuel our three POS, I will list out the various fuel components along with the rough estimate of how many units we need per month, the volume of those units, and their average open market values.



Helium Isotopes are used by our two Amarr towers.
Units/mo approx. 475,000
Volume approx. 71,250 m3
ISK/mo approx. 142,500,000.00

Hydrogen Isotopes are used by our Minmatar tower.
Units/mo approx. 325,000
Volume approx. 48,750 m3
ISK/mo approx. 97,500,000.00

Coolant is used by all towers.
Units/mo approx. 15,000
Volume approx. 30,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 22,500,000.00

Enriched Uranium is used by all towers.
Units/mo approx. 7,500
Volume approx. 7,500 m3
ISK/mo approx. 41,250,000.00

Mechanical Parts are used by all towers.
Units/mo approx. 10,000
Volume approx. 10,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 6,600,000.00

Oxygen is used by all towers.
Units/mo approx. 45,000
Volume approx. 45,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 4,500,000.00

Robotics are used by all towers.
Units/mo approx. 2,000
Volume approx. 4,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 13,600,000.00

Liquid Ozone is used by all towers and varies with use.
Units/mo approx. 300,000
Volume approx. 120,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 60,000,000.00

Heavy Water is used by all towers and varies with use.
Units/mo approx. 300,000
Volume approx. 120,000 m3
ISK/mo approx. 7,500,000.00


Totals:

Volume approx. 456,500 m3
ISK/mo approx. 395,000,000.00


By my estimates, as I have hauled all this fuel almost exclusively myself this month, so I have kept a keen eye on our input, is that our ice miners have collectively saved us around 175,000,000.00 ISK thus far through donating their time, effort, and ice as they mine in gangs a few times a week.

You guys are the best.

Cloaking

Anyone who plans on living in low or null security, and given recent developments within the corporation, this should be everyone, should train to use a Prototype Cloaking Device.


Skill(s):

Electronics V
Cloaking I

This training should take you all of five days if you have adequately trained your learning skills.

The reason for this is simple. Being able to warp to a safe spot and cloak up may save your ship and pod in a tough situation. Please use this module with discretion however, as it has penalties associated with it that are applied to your ship. For ratting, this module is a must have in any system that does not have an outpost to dock at or an AU-F POS to warp to. For PvP, please carefully consider and weigh the pros and cons of fitting this module to your ship, given the nature, purpose, and composition of the fleet, including the ship you yourself are flying.

T1 BPO Research

A few weeks ago, using both personal and corporate funds, I purchased a large majority of all the T1 BPOs in the game that cost less than 10,000,000.00 ISK per blueprint. There are multiple reasons why I did this, but the main reason is for our ship program. By the end of the week, all ships publicly available to corporate members through the replacement program will be fully T1 fitted for PvE, PvP, Salvage, Ratting, or Exploration.

The contracts issued to the corporation will inform you on how the particular ship has been fitted via the description value when you mouseover the contract link in your contracts window. The reason for this is so no one has to run to Empire to fit a ship on the fly, which as Dante noted last week, can be a real pain when you want to participate and have a good time, but suddenly find yourself trudging all the way back to Amarr for a new fit after losing your ship.

Please note that battlecruisers will continue to be available per request and eligibility only, and will not be publicly issued. These battlecruisers will be fit according to your specific request and purpose. Not all members are eligible for battlecruisers, so please ask ahead of time whether you are eligible.

Touring Providence

I know I have promised numerous times to take people out to Southern Domain and then into Providence itself, but this time it's gonna happen. For the next three days, for an hour or so a night, I am going to be asking everyone online who has not gotten an adequate tour of Providence to come out, even in a shuttle, and see the sights, and be given a brief on what there is to do out there in CVA land.

These tours will not last long, they will be rather short and sweet, but I wanna make sure all the new guys are given the opportunity to learn what we are all about. Until then, I am going to be asking people whether they have listened to Varian's audio blog yet or not, and if they have not, then they should. It is thirteen minutes of yummy goodness, ranging from everything to what we do here at the AU-F, to what Providence is like, and what you can expect from the space we inhabit.

See ya then!