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All W-Space solarsystems are null sec (0.0), even the ones you enter from empire.  This means anyone can shoot at you at any time with no response from Concord. You're on your own. PvP is only one cloaky ship away whether you want it or not. Prepare accordingly.

Every W-Space systems difficulty is identified through the class of the Wormhole leading to it. The class can range from 1 (easy) to 6 (insanely hard). See Wormhole information sheet below.

Another way to identify the W-Space systems class is to look up the Locus Signature of the system in a system database like http://www.ellatha.com/eve/WormholeSystemslist.asp

The only possibility to enter a W-Space system is through wormholes, it is not possible to cyno ships in or out, nor is it possible to clone jump into W-Space.

It is extremely possible to get stuck in W-space, if your Wormhole closes you will have to find another one via scanning, if your scanner ship isn't in W-space with you then you will be stuck and a petition to a GM will NOT get you out. You have 2 choices if you end up stuck and unable to scan down a Wormhole from within W-Space.

* Self destruct

* Wait until other players come in and hope they are nice enough to gang you and let you warp to them and allow you to leave via the Wormhole they came in on.

There are around 2500 W-Space systems, so there is plenty of space to get lost.

W-space can NOT be found in the EVE map, so you will not see where you are, you can however bookmark things the normal way.

Every W-Space System can spawn multiple exploration sites which can be scanned down with probes and the System Scanner.

Those sites are guarded by the remnant drones of the now vanished [[Sleeper]] race, which have a better AI then normal NPCs and can prove to be very difficult opponents.

Cosmic Anomalies are the equivialent of K-Space combat sites and can be found without probes via the System Scanner. Just warp to a planet and start the scan, if you havent found one, warp to another planet and repeat the process. Some cosmic anomalies can be heavily guarded, so be carefull if you warp to one.

Cosmic Signatures are again broken down in 5 types:

*Ladar - Those Sites will contain gas clouds, which can be harvested through a Gas Harvester. The gas is needed in [[Tech_3_Production|Tech 3 production]] and is lightly guarded.

*Radar - Radar Sites will contain locked containers, containing items like datacores, which can be unlocked through Hacking. Sometimes there will be a Talocan ship wreck, which can be salvaged and will drop ancient hull sections for Tech 3 Ships. The sites are heavily guarded.

*Magnetometric - Those sites will contain ancient relics in containers, which have to be opened through an Analyzer. Mag Sites are heavily guarded.

*Gravimetric - A grav site contains asteroids which can be mined. In higher class Wormholes the sites can contain enough ore to keep a dozen Hulks busy for days. A grav site can contain every known ore (even Mercoxit) and is lightly guarded.

In higher class wormholes it may happen that additional [[Sleeper]] reinforcements will spawn after you already are mining, gas harvesting or salvaging for a time. So be prepared and never go AFK while at a site.

All sites have a maximum life time which seem to range from 24-72 hours after they are found. The despawn timer of a site which was not warped to seems to be much higher. If a site despawns, either through completion of the site or expired time, the site will randomly respawn in other system of the same constellation as the W-Space system. This can lead to extreme rich systems where 20 or more cosmic signatures or anomalies are found. The downside of this is that a W-Space system which is farmed over and over again, will be nearly barren of signatures and anomalies because the sites will amass in other, not visted systems.

Exceptions of these rules are wormholes. Every W-Space system will have at any time at least one wormhole, their despawn timers are set through the type of the wormhole. If the last wormhole in a W-Space system despawns the "default" wormhole of the system will spawn nearly instantly. This wormhole will mostly have the same name, ie same mass and time limit though the destination will still be random.

Some W-Space systems will have a "default" wormhole which leads only to other W-Space systems. Those systems, called Hubs, will rarely connect to K-Space and can be used for extended W-Space operations.

You can anchor a POS in W-Space, however there are no ice belts in W-Space nor is ice found in the grav sites, which means you have to import the POS fuel from K-Space. A POS, correctly set up, is very hard to destroy in W-Space and in some classes (1 to 2) nearly impossible since the mass limit of the wormholes does not allow many capital ships in. It is not possible to bring Motherships or Titans through a wormhole due to their high mass. Though unconfirmed and only rumored a POS in a class 6 system can attract a [[Sleeper]] Dreadnaught which will raze the POS (even DeathStars) to the ground and is extremly tough to defeat.