I had found a sweet spot for occasiaionally LvL 4 mission running with my alt but i was a little disturbed about the local. 35 peeps in a system everbody would say in the boondocks is understatement. That made me curious and i checked the system and to my surprise there is an Ice Belt filled with Mackinaws.
Sure i'm a lowsec pirate but i didn't know anything about highsec ganking so it was time for that experience. To have a slight challenge my goal was to find the smallest ship able to kill a Mackinaw in a 0.5 and 0.6 system and with the latest buff in Destroyer surely they would be a good candidate. So i started my own test runs, to determinate the EHP of different fitted Mackinaws and how many volleys of a specific weapon system could get fired until Concord will show up.

For my first gank i started with a 1400mm Arti fitting on a Typhoon and yep the Mackinaw popped and surprisingly the local dropped more or less instantly from 35 to ~15. You can draw your own conclusion for me it was a nice side effect.
After some more runs i finally thought i determinated the fitting of a Mackinaw my Trasher, Cane and Tornado can and cannot handle in a 0.5 and 0.6 system. While doing the test runs i was thinking what would i do and how i would fit a Mackinaw to avoid being ganked randomly under the assumption that any ship is gankable even with a bloated tank. My first thought was proper tank fitted mackinaw, my second a fleet booster and miners obviously know about that option because of the Orca but are they using the Orca just to boost mining or more?

I was going to find out that soon. I was pretty confident about my knowledge in ganking Mackinaws and the other day i found my next target. A nice tanked Mackinaw to heavy tanked for my Trasher with Condord already in the belt and myself to lazy to get them i out, i jumped into a Tornado. Everything was in position and i fired the guns but something wasn't right that Mackinaw didn't die to my Alpha Tornado.
I scanned the surviving Mackinaw again which was in half Armor to check if i missed something but no that fitting used to be gankable with my Tornado. Now i was really curious and i scanned the nearby Orca and hell yes that ship had fitted a "Siege Warfare Link - Shield Harmonizing II" mod.

I smiled and left with the thought, why the hell not more miner just use their Orca for some extra tank boost. That boost gives you at least 2k extra EHP, enough to survive a solo ganker. A Tengu booster with a Mindlink and a good Mackinaw fit can get you up to 18k EHP (no imps) to gank that you need at least 2 Tornados. A booster isn't a small Investition skillwise but you need only one to boost at max 250 miner.

Why not more highsec miners get social and combine their resources to be more safe? Is highsec in this regard antisocial because there is no force to adapt and the result is solo running the PvE content (except Incursions) or are highsec peeps just refusing to adapt and insisting the rules have to change so they haven't to adapt the slightest?
It is possible to adapt example is the guy which used his Orca to boost his tank.