Wormhole Community Navigation

Introduction

Navigating in wormhole space is different than anywhere else in EVE. Nearly every object in space is constantly changing, and two systems are only adjacent for a dozen or two hours at most. Wormholers, including Uni’s wormhole community, heavily rely on communally-shared bookmarks and third-party mapping tools to move around and find their way home.

Because navigation relies so much on each other, it is imperative that each member of a wormhole group uses the same conventions, nomenclature, and practices. Without these standards, bookmarking would be chaotic and incomprehensible. This page describes the naming, bookmarking, and mapping scheme used at WHC.

Naming

Our home system is J105433, commonly known as “Cake”, in honor of WHC’s relocation on EVE University’s 20th anniversary. While each wormhole system has a unique identifier (usually called a “J-code” or “J-number”, as they always take the form “J123456”), navigating wormhole space solely by using these names would be a nightmare, as they convey nothing about where that system is relative to our home. Instead, we use temporary names which capture where a given wormhole or system is in the chain. Systems are always given the name of the wormhole that lead to it from our home.

Wormholes in our home system are each given a letter. The C2 static is called “A” or “Alpha”, the C3 static is called “B” or “Bravo”, and all other wormholes are given a different letter. System names always match the wormhole that lead to them, so every adjacent system to Cake is also named that letter. For example, the C2 system linked to Cake through the Alpha wormhole is also called Alpha. Every wormhole further out is given a number, which is appended to the name of the system it is in. For instance, the wormholes in Alpha might be named A1, A2, and A3, and the wormholes in the system called A3 might be named A31 and A32. If you run out of numbers, just start using letters (so a particularly well-connected A system might have A1 through A0 as well as AA and AB.

Bookmarking Wormholes

When bookmarking a wormhole, always warp on grid with it and bookmark the wormhole itself, not the cosmic signature found in the scanner results.

Every wormhole bookmark uses the following format:

[symbol][name] [sig letters] [optional class] [relevant flags]

Symbol: . or * WHC gives names to wormholes, and since each wormhole has two sides, any given name is used in two different bookmarks. The bookmark leading towards our home (which is located in the system further away) is prefixed with an asterisk (*), and the bookmark leading away from our home (which is locted in the system closer or even inside our home) is prefixed with a period (.). If you want to get back home, always jump the bookmark with a *. This is often called “following the stars home”, in reference to the symbol.

Name: a letter followed by zero or more numbers (or letters if there are too many wormholes) See #naming.

Signature letters: the first three letters of the cosmic signature

Optional class (outgoing or . bookmarks only): HS, LS, NS, TR, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 This describes the system that the bookmark leads to. This can be useful if a wormhole has not been jumped (and thus does not appear on the mapping tool), since this information can be gleaned without having to transit the hole. This information is not necessary to include.

Relevant flags: eol, shrink, crit Wormholes which are close to their end of life (eol) or have reduced mass (shrink for 10%-50% remaining, crit for under 10% remaining) should be tagged as such in the bookmark. If it is both, eol precedes mass.

Examples:

• .A12 ABC - a wormhole found in the A1 system leading away from Cake which has the signature ABC-123.
• *A12 XYZ - the wormhole in the A12 system which leads back towards Cake.
• .D36 GKU HS eol crit - a wormhole found in the D3 system leading away from Cake into a high-sec system. It has less than 10% of its mass remaining and is close to end of its lifetime.
• .D36 GKU - the same wormhole found several hours earlier, before many ships moved through it. This bookmarker chose not to add a system tag, which is perfectly fine.

Bookmarking Non-Wormhole Signatures

Any non-wormhole cosmic signature can be bookmarked directly from the scanning window without warping to it.

Non-wormhole cosmic signature bookmark is normally prefixed with a single letter and a space, followed by whatever the signature already was.

G: gas sites
R: relic sites
D: data sites
GHOST: rare Ghost Sites are prefixed with the whole word. These can be extremely valuable and are generally hacked as soon as possible after being found.

Examples:

• D ABC-123 Unsecured Frontier Database - a sleeper relic site.
• R XYZ-098 Ruined Angel Crystal Quarry - a relic site also found in null-sec space.
• G DEF-456 Barren Perimeter Reservoir - a gas site.
• GHOST KML-516 Superior Sansha Covert Research Facility - a Ghost Site.

Other Bookmarks

Bookmarks dropped in space for navigation, often called “tactical bookmarks” or just “tacs”, should be prefixed with a z and a space, followed by whatever the pilot wishes.

Tactical bookmarks dropped near a wormhole are still prefixed with z and a space, but are usually also given the name of the hole they are near. For instance, z .A21 200km might be a bookmark 200km away from the actual .A21 bookmark. Bookmarks very far from a wormhole but still on grid (commonly called “perches”) also generally use this scheme. For instance, z .A21 perch might be a bookmark 35,000km away from the .A21 bookmark.