ESC

Empire Service Courier (ESC)
Final Rendition - The Promised Land

The ESC program has a rich history going all the way back to last fall when we first arrived in Domain, with our griefer WTs nipping at our heels the whole way, having already planned this exodus before they even declared war on us, we found ourselves out in low security space a majority of the time, nervous, apprehensive, and unsure of how to get materials from Empire to low security safely. This was when I began training towards Transport ships on Mendolus. Shortly after Christmas last year, I dinged Transports I. The rest is history.

Seven months later after working myself to near exhaustion doing well over half a billion cubic meters of hauling every month in the recent past with a ship that can only carry 12,000 m3 per trip, I am looking towards the future, where goods are jumped back and forth with relative ease, and I can breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Okay, so in less than twenty days, our corporation is going to be capable of jumping goods from Mista to Misaba and back at a cost of around 8,000,000.00 ISK round trip via the Ark, a Jump Freighter.

What does this mean for all the massive amounts of painstaking, debilitating, infuriating hauling that we have all had to do time and again? A majority of it will go up in smoke! Yes, you may rejoice. We will soon reach the Promised Land of hauling.

But, what does this change, per say? Everything.

From the moment the corporation acquires an Ark the following guidelines will replace all previous ones for how the corporation handles hauling jobs:

All goods for PERSONAL COURIER you need jumped from Mista to Misaba or vice versa, originate in these two systems ONLY. That means if you want goods delivered from Empire to Misaba, go out and purchase them, haul them to Mista, then set a courier contract from Mista to Misaba at the corporate level. 50,000,000.00 ISK collateral is still the rule. If ten people set couriers at max collateral, it will cost me 500,000,000.00 ISK to jump them all at once, I think you see where I am going with this. I may be relatively loaded, but go easy on my wallet okay? Thanks! If you want goods delivered from Misaba to Mista, those goods need to be contracted at Misaba. Yes that means you now have to haul your stuff from H9-J8N all the way to Misaba. Do not worry, there is a silver lining listed below.

All goods for CORPORATE COURIER will be handled at the corporate level and you will probably only know about how the process works if you are somehow involved in either the acquisition of those goods or facilitating the hauling of those goods.

Here comes the best part:

Cost: FREE!
Schedule: Weekly
Volume: Up to 50,000 m3 per courier
Collaterial: Up to 50,000,000.00 ISK per courier

If you notice, the volume limit will allow you to have packaged cruisers and battlecruisers delivered straight to Misaba. In addition to that, please also notice the schedule, it is going to start out as a weekly thing, one jump per week. If demand increases for this service, there will be two jumps a week, or three. If it really gets to that point, a small service fee will be taken out of corporate taxes to pay for my fuel, so you will NOT have to pay directly yourself for a courier.

*PLEASE NOTE: This service does not go into effect until the day the Ark hits my ship hangar and Maduin is able to pilot it.

AU-F Bazaar

AU-F Bazaar
Solar Ships

The ship replacement program is taking on a more streamlined form and function. Details below.

Okay so you want a ship built by the corporation? I thought about making a detailed, formatted, and professional list of all the options available to you, but I think I will just word it out. Here goes.



You want a frigate, guess what those are FREE! So you fly to MISABA, you post a contract at the corporate level at the only station in the system, and you make that contract for an Item Exchange, add the frigate you desire, and set no prices.

You want a cruiser for personal use, guess what those are AVAILABLE AT COST! So you fly to MISABA, you post a contract at the corporate level at the only station in the system, and you make that contract for an Item Exchange, add the cruiser you desire, and set that you will pay the same cost as the ship is in Empire.

You want a cruiser for corporate use, guess what those are AVAILABLE AT COST OF INSURANCE! So you fly to MISABA, you post a contract at the corporate level at the only station in the system, and you make that contract for an Item Exchange, add the cruiser you desire, and set that you will pay the cost of platinum insurance on that ship.

You want a battlecruiser for personal use, guess what those are AVAILABLE AT COST! So you fly to MISABA, you post a contract at the corporate level at the only station in the system, and you make that contract for an Item Exchange, add the battlecruiser you desire, and set that you will pay the same cost as the ship is in Empire.

You want a battlecruiser for corporate use, guess what those are AVAILABLE AT COST OF INSURANCE! So you fly to MISABA, you post a contract at the corporate level at the only station in the system, and you make that contract for an Item Exchange, add the battlecruiser you desire, and set that you will pay the cost of platinum insurance on that ship.



Rules And Guidelines
Oh hey look, there is fine print!

Personal Use - Fly it, ride it, smash it, sell it, lend it to your buddy, do whatever you want with it, it belongs to you, you paid for it after all.

Corporate Use - Do not take it out of low or null security, do not package it, do not insure it yourself, do not let anyone borrow it. This ship is corporate property and you have received it for cost of insurance. This is a company car dude, take it out and get it demolished, but only if you are the one driving!

Contract Duration - You need to set that contract to last for two weeks, I ain't a friggin magician, I need time to work this kind of magic, it is definitely not easy like Sunday morning.

Role - We are going to have T1 fittings out the turd launcher any day now, if you want to have your ride pimped be sure to list a role in the Description field of the contract you issue, such as PvP, PvE, Ratting, Salvaging, Womanizing. I will try to throw on a good fit for any role you list.

Cost Of Insurance, WTFBBQ? - It's easy, pop open EVEMon, open a plan, go to the ship browser, look at the first line on the ship description, oh base price! Platinum insurance is 30% of base cost. I am gonna leave the ball in your court on this one. Have fun!

Eligibility, I can haz? - Well, I hate to be a curmudgeon, but some of these ships eat up a lot of minerals to manufacture even with perfect manufacturing, so only certain people will be eligible for them. Who? Anyone can have frigates from day one, even that bug-eyed stranger lurking in the shadows who somehow slipped by Varian's screen of impenetrable interviewing! Cruisers, only those with the Member role. Battlecruisers, only those with the Soldier role. Do not fret, roles will be updated soon, as at the time this blog was written few people had the Soldier role.