Salvage Research

Main article: Homefront operation

Gallente Algos flying Salvage Research

The pocket contains 30 wrecks that must be salvaged within 20 minutes. Mobile Tractor Units (MTU) and tractor beams do not work on the wrecks—you must approach each wreck and use high-slot salvage modules or salvage drones directly. Be aware that hostile ships can target and destroy salvage drones.

Hostile ships will spawn and engage you. These can be ignored if your tank is strong enough, speed-tanked if you’re fast, or destroyed depending on your fleet composition.

A Malfunctioning Werpost is located in the pocket. It can be activated with a Data Analyzer module; once online, it will attack enemy ships with its disintegrator weapon. For more info please read: Hacking.

Salvagers must have at least a 20% Access Difficulty Bonus to function (Salvaging IV or a rig is required). At 20%, these sites are quite difficult; 30–35% is recommended. For more info please read: Salvaging.

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  Salvage Access Difficulty

Fleet size & composition

• Optimal fleet size: 3 ships
• Fleet composition: T1 Frigates, T1 Destroyers fit for salvage / tanking / speed-tanking / hacking / killing enemies.

Type of ships allowed

The operation takes place in a deadspace pocket with an acceleration gate. The gate allows these ships:

• T1 Frigate (including Navy and Faction)
• T1 Destroyer (excluding Navy and Faction)
• Venture

Note:

You can view in-game ship restrictions for each Homefront Operation by opening the Opportunities window (ALT+J) and double-clicking on a mission.

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  Homefront ship restrictions example

Mission parameters

• Wreckage: 0/30
• Time-limit: 20 minutes

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  Salvage Research: Mission Parameters

Salvage Research in different empires

Salvage Research sites have no regional differences.

Hostiles

A fleet of 8-10 Ashes of Turnur frigates and destroyers will be in the site on arrival. They will focus on a single capsuleer ship at a time, starting with the first ship to land in the site, and will occasionally switch targets as a group. The exception to this is ships with the Atgeir name prefix who will immediately begin shooting any drones that are launched, but will shoot the currently focused capsuleer ship if there are no drones in space.

Hostile damage types & EWAR:

• Ex Kin
• ECM

The hostile fleet is composed of a random selection of the following ships. The composition from site to site varies widely, for example in one site there may be 4 Skald Bursts and in the next none at all.

• Atgeir Rifter: shoots drones
• Atgeir Thrasher: shoots drones
• Blight Vigil: ECM
• Blight Wolf: ECM
• Blight Talwar: ECM
• Skald Burst: remote shield repairs

Malfunctioning Werpost

A single Malfunctioning Werpost sits in the site. Hacking the Werpost gives no loot, but activates its weapon. It works similarly to the entropic disintegrator turrets found on Precursor (Triglavian) ships, it is single-target with spooling damage. The Werpost will pick a target to shoot and switch to a new target when the first is destroyed or after about 1 minute. The amount of damage it deals is relatively low and is not enough to overcome the repairs from 4 Skald Bursts

The hack is of medium difficulty, with a gold System Core.

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  Malfunctioning Werpost In Space
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  Malfunctioning Werpost: Description

Finding sites

Homefront operations are Cosmic Anomalies located in empire owned High Security systems, mostly focused around trade hubs or career agent systems.

• Opportunities window > Homefront Operations tab: will render a list of the available homefronts within a limited range.
• Agency window > Homefront Operations tab: will give you a more detailed filtering ability that allows you to search any region.
• Probe Scanner > Displays all available anomalies in the system, including their distance in AU, with options to warp or align to them.

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  Opportunities > Homefront Operations
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  Agency > Homefront Operations
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  Probe Scanner > Homefront Anomalies

Rewards

Rewards for Salvage Research sites come in two forms: (1) ISK payout on site completion and (2) site-specific items salvaged from the wrecks. Each pilot must salvage at least 1 wreck in order to be eligible for the payout, and the payout amount is determined by the number of pilots being paid. The highest payout is with 3 pilots, giving 11,025,000 ISK per pilot upon timely completion of the mission.

The 30 salvaged wrecks each yield one Encrypted ‘Istina’ Data item, it can be sold to NPC buy orders for an additional 3,000,000 ISK (100,000 ISK each).

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  Encrypted Istina Data Salvage

The hackable container gives no loot or ISK reward, see Malfunctioning Werpost

Homefront Operation: 3 pilot mission ISK payout

Gallery

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  Salvage Research - Site Overview
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  Transmission: Arriving at the gate in Gallente space
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  Transmission: Landing in the site in Gallente space
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  Transmission: Werpost hacked in Minmatar space