So I was about three jumps out in low sec, in a Griffin, looking for factional warfare trouble, or whatever else I might find. Warped to a gate and there, about 12 km away, was a giant secure container, a huge secure container, and a corpse. That, to a salvager’s eye, is a promising debris field.
So I scooted over and checked the containers, they were full of an unfamiliar (to me) substance called Vanadium Hafnite. Moon minerals I assume, or reaction products therefrom. I checked the market, and discovered I was looking at 12 million ISK worth of goodies, plus of course the value of the containers. Hmm, this sounds like a job for a Badger!
So, back I went to high sec, grabbed an old Badger I, fitted it for maximum agility and slipperyness, slapped on an extra coat of dark grey lubricated paint and a pair of medium shield extenders, and blasted out through the Tama gate into hauler hell.
Amusingly, I never saw a war target the whole way. It was smoother than a trip to Jita, just zipped out there, scooped the cans, and zipped home.
Well, to the extent that a Badger ever zips. But you know what I mean.
The empty containers alone were worth the price of the ship and fittings. The Vanadium Hafnite? A nifty bonus!
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July 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 am
I thought secure containers were, well, secure.
How can you take them and open them?
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
They are secure if two conditions are met — they must be anchored, and they must have a password set. Anchoring takes a skill and 30 seconds.
If they have no password set, anyone may open them and remove the contents. If they are not anchored, anyone with a sufficiently large cargo hold may scoop them, return them to a hangar, and repackage them, dumping the contents out.
Interestingly, scooping an unanchored secure container is not a criminal act of any kind, and you do not flash red to anyone for doing it.
What I found were the containers that fell out of an industrial after it got popped by (presumably) pirates. Being near a stargate, they were not (and could not have been) anchored.
Hope this answers your question Robert!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
@Marlenus
That is super useful info! I didn’t know any of that, and it’s awesome that I do now.
Thank you very much!! :)
July 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am
You’re welcome Robert, happy to help.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Is there a way to get anchored cans? Say, a codebreaker of some kind?
July 25th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Well, if you know the password, you can empty the cans. But even then, you cannot unanchor them. (I know this because at one point during the INDY war, AC-ME posted the password to all of its Isaziwa anchored ore cans in an unsecured public forum.)
There is NO in-game mechanism for hacking or breaking into secure cans, except for good old-fashioned brute-force password guessing.