I say, if you want to go to Null, just do it & have fun.

I did not say that getting into null was going to be easy. There has to be an expected level of skills & committment. Moving to null as a lonewolf can be lonely at times hence it is good to share this ambition with your corp. Eve is a multi player experience after all & what better to share this progression with your corp & have friends around you. There is much more to Eve than running level 4 missions in empire.....wait till you see your first Titan or witness an epic cap battle in null.......

Thank you for your interest.

This character is an alt as posting with my main might be asking for trouble, walls having ears and all that.

Out of our 60 player corp we see regulary 20 or so people who are the hard core of our corp. Most of these are vets in the 20-100 million SP range so would not be adverse to coming to the rescue of our POS in null if the poo did hit the fan. A call to arms would generate the entire active corp. But, and this is a big but, the POS is not the be all of our experience. It is just a vehicle to help our corp do something other than dream about null. It establishes a home away from home in null.

If the POS got wiped out, it is no big loss, we keep nothing of value there-we would just move somewhere else as most of NPC null is empty.

So to answer your question. We would defend our POS & have fun doing so, we are not just a bunch of care-bears who have left empire to go on a jolly but hey that is the fun of Eve......sometimes having a jolly is cool and this looks like our biggest adventure.

Not to put too fine a point on things, you have not thought your response through very carefully. Do you honestly think that a huge fleet is going to amass to knock out one POS in NPC null space which is occupied by a few guys trying to scratch out a living & not particularly harming anybody.

I am completely gob smacked that because you live in null space you think that every system you occupy is owned by you, your corporation or the alliance you belong to. I have news for you- lots of people think they "owned" their space & just as quickly they were evicted, just look at the swings & tides in Dotlan.

We WILL continue to have fun in Null & if you don't like it **** OFF back to empire.

If your in a medium size corporation & want to get to Nullsec this is how we accomplished that goal. Despite all the myths about it being hard to get to null & establish yourself it was not that difficult but you need a plan. It will help considerably if your corp has a capital capability and a Rorqual & carrier will be a godsend as you will see later.

We planned the move to Null 3 months in advance. We knew that we did not want to be anybodies pet at this stage so the option open to us was NPC null. We also knew that we did not want protracted logistics so null had to be one cyno jump from our staging point. This helps massively with logistics and getting your corp into null.

We anchored a POS in a lowsec system within range of our selected nullsec location, which had already been scouted & a suitable moon selected. All that we needed to do was to get a covert ops ship into the nullsec system which carried a cyno & fuel. This pilot then purchased a frigate, fitted the cyno & we were in business for stage one of the nullsec plan. From the lowsec staging point we cynoed a carrier into the nullsec system which carried the tower to be anchored, a small amount of fuel & a tec2 transport ship which was also able to be used by the cyno pilot. The tower was placed in the tec2 transport then anchored & fuelled for a couple of hours. We then jumped a Rorqual into the safety of the nullsec POS shields & properly fuelled & stronted the POS.

The Rorqual carried blocks of seven jump clones for our corp members who cloned jumped into the new system then established 24 hours later jumps back to empire. This allows us a strong nullsec prescence and our corp members can move at will between null & empire thus avoiding gate camps.

Okay, what helped us was the skills from our corp to fly the Rorqual & carriers but these skills are not difficult to get even within a 3 month time plan for advance pilots.

We now have a POS that allows us to do some moon mining, ratting & a PI staging system. It is all that is needed to grow into Null.

I say, if you want to go to Null, just do it & have fun.

We did not look too closely at who lived in the region we were planning to occupy. The lowsec POS was already in situ so it made sense to select a null location within jump range of that location. The most important concern was that it had to be within one cyno jump of a level 5 jump drive calibration pilot both for Rorqual & jump freighter.

A location was selected and a covert ops corp toon member scanned all the moons in the target location & came up with a number of moons that allowed multiple moon harvester arrays to be anchored. This provides us with products for a reaction back in our lowsec location.

I am conscious of the interest in this thread and I honestly wish that most of null was not geared to burning down your ranch. I would love to give more information about the location but at this moment in time we are too weak to make a difference.

If you can find a low sec location that is also within 1 jump of high-sec (and there are a lot) then you will be able to easy move the goodies you acquire in null into high sec by jumping from POS directly to the hi-sec gate. This minimise risk & the whole experience has been about minimising risk & cost.

On the subject of making friends we hope to establish some contact with the locals & eventually look to working with them for a common goal of mutual interest & support.

If we can hold out until the patch becomes live defensive issues will become much easier with the nerf to super caps, particularly as we have a number of HIC & cap ship pilots ready to come to our aid which is a step we would rather not take.