Come back, find a fleet willing to let you stay as lone wolfy and independent as you like that is stocked with Advanced Fleet Weapons and the Fleet ship variant of your choice, retool with those and see if logistics mini-games are your thing (what Starbase projects amount to - refining DOffs in the grinder, timing recruitment missions and Foundry dailies, and funding EC based provisions with the one PvP in the game that is fair and balanced: The Exchange).

Otherwise, consider poking your head in when the new Reputation system hits in S7? Maybe pickup a timeship in between?


(But no, we aren't much further along than when you left)