Who's a Chicken? ME!!

The other day I got an EvE-Mail from an agent asking me for a stack of Kernite, in return for which he will give me a coveted +4 willpower implant.

Kernite? I don't have that stuff laying around, it's only found in Low-Sec space so not much chance of me finding any of it. I dismissed it, even though that implant would be nice to have. I went on to other things, and found that I needed to fly through some 0.4 (low-sec) space to get a new rig for my ships. While flying through I found a system (Mara) that has no stations, just some asteroid belts with nice amounts of Kernite. Checked the local population, just me. Nobody around.
I flew to one or two of the asteroid fields. Plentiful, but the rats are a bit larger.

So I started to consider it, hey that +4 implant would be really nice to have!
I've been looking at the situation and I've decided that I would like to do this, but being just a 2man (both of them Me) operation is a bit dicey. Will have to fly one ship that is fitted for mining, and one ship that is fitted to protect the miner. And since there aren't any local stations, everything will have to be hauled through the nearest jump gate back to another solar system to actually dump off and store. So it's hauling x2.

So I fitted out a mining vessel with a Warp Stabilizer, because you don't want to get stuck not being able to run away. Then I started moving some stuff over to a system next to Mara. Piekura (where do they get these names?)

I grabbed a couple cheap ships and my characters jumped into Mara. Wanted to make sure they both have the same bookmarks for "Skram" sites. I've set up two pretty far from everything so that if something goes down I can just bug out to dead space. So while I was bumping around the solar system, I kept an eye on local.

Last time I was here a few days ago, the system was empty. Today it is NOT.
and the people that are here are pretty much all pirates. I would say that there were 14-18 people in the system, 4 of them branded as outlaws, a few with bounties on their heads (not much), and a few of them were in corps together.

So a bunch of PVP looking dudes, and me trying to run a mining operation by myself. Nope, not today! I bugged out of the system without ever coming close to any "action".

So that's me, I'm chicken.