Covering your Tracks (Level 3)

Level	3 Storyline
Type	Encounter
Objective	Destroy the bounty hunter and his cohorts near the casino, retrieve the special delivery(0.1 m3) from the wreckage of their ships, then report back to your agent.
Faction	Mercenaries
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Kin Th
Warp disruption	Mercenary Wingman
EWAR	Web by Mercenary Wingman
Ship suggestion	Battlecruiser

Mission briefing

Nice of you to drop by, <Pilot>. And what an uncanny coincidence... <Corporation> has a slight problem on its hands. One of our agents sent a certain mercenary on a very important courier mission to deliver an item of great value to our headquarters. This was a few weeks ago, and this mercenary never showed up at his destination. At first we thought he had simply run off with the goods, but upon further investigation that proved not to be the case. His ship had been destroyed, though, we received no transmissions from him, and we found clues at the site linking the crime to a certain pirate who also happens to work as a bounty hunter. I have no doubt that some pirate organization put him up to it, but that is of little importance compared to retrieving the item that was stolen. Now we looked up this bounty hunter and we discovered something that will interest you, no doubt. What we found was that he is currently on an assignment to kill none other than you, <Pilot>. Who hired him we do not know, but considering your past I'm sure you have a few suspects in mind who might pull something like this off. Now that we have a mutual target, I thought, "Why not ask <Pilot> to take care of the job?" And then suddenly here you are. By doing this assignment, you'll not only rid yourself of a rat who's on your tail, but you will retrieve the item that we're after. I'm sure you're willing to get the job done, eh? I'll upload the pirate scumbag's current location into your NeoCom; he's out in <System> hanging around a casino. He's a pretty tough nut to crack, I hear, so you may want to bring backup with you just in case.

Warp-in

Structure

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Casino

Initial Group (auto-aggro)

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Frigate Mercenary Wingman
	2 x Elite Frigate Mercenary Elite Fighter
	1 x Cruiser Mercenary Lieutenant
	1 x Cruiser Ytari Niaga/Zerak Cheryn/Kuran "Scarface" Lonan

Notes

• CAREFUL: Kuran does Large Explosive Damage.
• Kuran "Scarface" Lonan has a small chance to drop an implant worth approximately 20 mil ISK.
• Ytari Niaga has a small chance to drop Dread Guristas Co-Processor / Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher
• May (fleet) warp to desired distance.
• The last rat killed will drop a container with 1 unit of Special Delivery that is required to complete the mission.

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
27 January 2024	Zainou 'Deadeye' Rapid Launch RL-1003	20,599,605 ISK	Drop from Kuran "Scarface" Lonan
5 September 2024	Zainou 'Deadeye' Rapid Launch RL-1003	17,564,063 ISK	Drop from Kuran "Scarface" Lonan