Been thinking back on my career lately, and in particular places I have been to. While Jita 4-4 has its own charms, I found a quiet place far removed from politics it seems. Stou IV, Moon 1, the Nurtura Plantation. I have no idea what the place is like now, but when I visited, it was as far removed politically as you could get.
For example, the Concourse A food court in that station was nearly deserted, save for station personnel. It almost seemed like the station was running with a skeleton crew at times. I found it the perfect place to relax though, during my 2-week stay there between missions. I also loved spending time in the food production domes, which reminded me of the forests I used to explore as a kid.
Due to the proximity of the system to an island of lowsec, Amoderia, they occasionally got the odd Serpentis pilot who seemed to have a deathwish, as they were immediately blown to pieces by the station guns.
I grew up for some years in Atgur, on a tiny asteroid mining base doubling as a stairway exit. It was busy in my unmarked girl’s mind, but I now realize when I was running the dockside concourse, it was mostly empty, and that every ship coming in was the event of the week.
Several years back I made a [Translator: spirit walk, pilgrimage, voyage, path to nowhere] to the Great Wildlands. There was this one little station mantained by one of the local Thukker caravans, a sort of outpost for travelers. There was ever only a handful of people there at any given time.
A raiding base established inside an outer heliosphere comet within a Sinq Liaison system during the Independence War. It was just the twenty-four members of my Kestrel squadron and fifty-one technical and engineering staff.
I lived on that base for over four years. Probably some of the best and worst years of my military career.
I had cause to stop at the Imperial Shipment Storage facility in Lela a few months back. I swear I was the only person onboard save for the few members of the cleaning crew at that time. It was almost ghostly. I got some food from a vending machine and spent the night in my cargo hold. Maybe I missed the work crew, but I’d never seen anything like that before in my life.
A station in Gt-t5v in Delve. Sometimes I am the only capsuleer docked, and everywhere is empty. At other times, it is very busy, with hundreds of ships docked.