Rampant Drone Fabricator

Site Details
Rampant Drone Fabricator
Found in	C1-6 Wormholes
Max ship size	Ungated
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	EM Th
Sig. strength	5% in WHs

This article should be cleaned up or improved.
The reason is: Update notes and site mechanics for Version 24.01

This article should be cleaned up or improved, as of July 2026.
The reason is: Check/update "caegory". Gallente Election YC128 is over but the site is still being worked om in patches.

Rampant Drone Fabricator is a cosmic signature that was introduced as part of the Gallente Election YC128 event, and appears solely in all classes of wormhole space. The site appears as a combat site of level II scanning difficulty.

Notes

The site is an ungated single pocket, not deadspaced. The most prominent landmark of the site is the Rampant Drone Fabricator, which will be at 0 on the warp-in and projects a visible area-of-effect field of ~50 km that applies a -95% damage reduction to Smartbomb, Bomb and Vorton Projector damage to all NPCs.
- Destroying the Rampant Drone Fabricator ends the site. It is recommended to damage the Fabricator early to make it easier to destroy when you need to complete the site. The Fabricator wreck will project its own separate disruption field that prevents warping and cloaking within 20 km of the wreck - it can be destroyed, salvaged or simply burnt away from until the field effect drops. The wreck has 20,000 structure HP with 0 resists.
- If all players in the site either leave grid or cloak up after the NPC waves have begun to spawn, a 30-second stability timer will begin. If no player reenters the circle around the Rampant Fabricator before the timer ends, the Fabricator will deactivate and the site will despawn.

In Version 24.01 Release 2026-07-28.1: Stability can now only be lost from wave 5 onwards.

The NPCs all do 60% EM/40% Thermal damage, and a lot of it as well (exceeds 1000 DPS by wave 8). They follow the same resist profiles of normal K-Space Rogue Drones (weak to EM/Th, strong against Kin/EX), and have a strong armor buffer tank with moderate active shield repairs. The drones have a behavior and naming convention very similar to those in homefront operations, shown below:

Prefix	Role
Corrupted	Drone aggro / DPS ^[1]
Alienator	Webbing
Blackout	ECM
Cascade	Energy Neutralizer
Bewildering	Sensor Dampening
Scrutinizer	Target Painting

^ Frigates and destroyers with this prefix will shoot drones. Cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships with this prefix are DPS only (only confirmed for light drones).

The NPCs are in their own unique entity categories (Fabricator Rogue Drone <Ship Class>). Make sure to set them all to visible on your overview to see them.
The NPCs do not leave wrecks or loot, nor do they have any bounties, much like Abyssal enemies. The sole source of loot in this site is from the Rampant Fabricator.
Not advisable to use drone boats in the site since they will be very aggressively targeted by Corrupted drones. Larger ships will require significant damage application support as many of the smaller ships will orbit at 20+ km away at high speed and have small sig radius. Cruisers and battlecruisers will attempt to kite out to 30+ km with the exception of webbing ships, which will orbit at 15 km.
- Fighters will not be targeted. Space Superiority fighters will deal full damage to all NPCs and structures in the site.
The site difficulty is determined by a "Rampancy" level which is added to based on the types of player ships in proximity to the Fabricator. Rampancy is added in different increments with each wave depending on the number of ships and specific ship class:

Ship Class	Rampancy Modifier
Cruiser (T1/Faction)	1
Logistics Cruiser, Heavy Assault Cruiser, T1/Faction Battlecruiser	2
Command Ship	3
Strategic Cruiser	4
T1/Faction Battleship	6
Black Ops	8
Marauder	12
Force Auxiliary	36
All other capital ships	72

The site will "escalate" three times, at 12, 36 and 72 Rampancy, denoted by "Moderate", "Severe" and "Critical" threat levels, respectively.

In Version 24.01 Release 2026-07-28.1 the NPC spawns were rebalanced to favor larger ships. Maintaining the total amount of incoming DPS and reducing the total amount of ships (e.g. fewer frigates and cruisers, more battlecruisers and battleships.

In Version 24.01 Release 2026-08-08.1 A new NPC was introduced. Infested Drone Naglfar spawns during "later" Severe and Critical threat waves and is equipped with a Capital Energy Neutralizer. (Overall incoming DPS remains the same, number of NPCs reduces.)

The site waves will spawn new and more powerful drones after a long enough time, with each new spawn representing a significant increase in incoming DPS. (Likely outdated ^[Verify])
- - Waves 1-3 will usually be only frigates and destroyers. Expect about 100-300 incoming DPS. ECM jamming ships can spawn in any wave.
  - Waves 4-8 will begin to spawn cruisers and battlecruisers in addition to any ship types from the previous spawns. Webbing ships will begin appearing. Expect about 600-800 incoming DPS.
  - Wave 8 and after will begin to spawn battleships in addition to any ship types from the previous spawns. Cruiser and battlecruiser types will begin to spawn in pairs on wave 8. Wave 8 will average 1000-1200 incoming DPS.
  - Up to wave 8, the spawns will never be any more than 5 ships per wave. After wave 8, the site will incrementally increase the size of each new spawn in all waves afterwards, capping at ~5 battleships past wave 20, plus any additional escorts.
If you are planning to progress past wave 8 (earlier if you are using battleships or capitals), make sure your ship is fit to withstand a lot of neut pressure over an extended period of time. The Cascade Manager and Principal battleships do quite heavy neuting, roughly 25 GJ/s each, on top of dealing 600-800 DPS each with a strong buffer tank. Additionally they have extremely high tracking speed (50, equivalent to medium-sized blasters) and an 80km optimal range, meaning speed-tanking fits will not be helpful in mitigating the incoming damage.
- Capitals and large marauder fleets should be on the lookout for the Infested Naglfar that spawns during the tail end of Severe and Critical threat waves. It neuts roughly 90-100 GJ/s (4400 GJ per 48s) drains subcaps within two cycles, and deals 3800 DPS. It has relatively small signature radius for its size (1600m) and a turret tracking value of 10, similar to long-range cruiser guns.

Site

The site will progress through 100 waves of hostile Rogue Drones of increasing strength. The site is considered complete when all 100 waves are cleared and/or the Rampant Drone Fabricator is destroyed by the player. The Fabricator is invulnerable by default and can only be damaged for a short 20 second interval after the current wave of Rogue Drones is defeated. The structure itself has 2000 shield, 14000 armor and 4000 hull hitpoints with 0 resists. It will slowly accumulate loot over time with each successive wave and it must be destroyed to retrieve the loot.

Two of the Nanoswarm structures will become vulnerable on waves 5, 10, 15, 25, 35, 45, 65 and 85, indicated by their overview icons turning red. Destroying one will cause it to provide a buff to your ship depending on the specific type of nanoswarm destroyed, while the other nanoswarm will self-destruct. Clearing the current wave without destroying either Nanoswarm will cause both to self-destruct and give no buffs.

Prefix	Effect (20%)
Clarifier	Scan Resolution Bonus
Energized	Capacitor Capacity Bonus
Focuser	Turret Optimal Range Bonus
Light Squadron Nanoswarm	Light Fighter Damage Bonus
Masker	Signature Radius Reduction
Overclocker	Overheat Benefits Bonus
Patcher	Local Armor Repair Amount Bonus
Predictive	Tracking Speed Bonus
Prolonging	Missile Flight Time Bonus
Rapid Squadron	Fighter Velocity Bonus
Rapidity	Ship Velocity Bonus
Reflective	Local Shield Boost Amount Bonus
Suppressive	Missile Explosion Radius Reduction
Thermal Sink	Heat Damage Reduction
Trans-Patch	Remote Armor Repair Amount Bonus
Trans-Reflect	Remote Shield Boost Amount Bonus

Field Commander Sarva Burman (Upon entering the site)
That Fabricator is producing escalating waves of Rogue Drones, but every time it resets, it dumps valuable assets. Stray too far, and it will deactivate. Don't let that happen. Survive its attacks as long as you can, then destroy it to claim its contents.

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Rampant Drone Fabricator
	12 x <Role> Nanoswarm

Hostile forces

		WD	EWAR	L
Waves 1-3
	0-3 x Frigate Corrupted Handler
	0-3 x Frigate Blackout Driller/Handler
	0-2 x Destroyer Corrupted Sweeper
	0-2 x Destroyer Bewildering Sweeper/Lathe
Waves 4-8
	0-1 x Cruiser Corrupted Divider
	0-1 x Cruiser Alienator Crusher/Divider
	0-1 x Battlecruiser Corrupted Sorter
	0-1 x Battlecruiser Scrutinizer Manipulator/Sorter
Waves 8+
	0-1 x Battleship Cascade Manager
	0-1 x Battleship Cascade Principal
	0-1 x Battleship Corrupted Manager
Dreadnought spawn (Only at late-stage Severe/Critical threat level)
	1 x Dreadnought Infested Naglfar