The Missing Convoy

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Destroy the Lesser Drone Hive, loot the special delivery package (0.1m3), and then report back to your agent.
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Ship suggestion	Batttlecruiser

Mission briefing

We just received an incoming transmission from one of our personnel convoys traveling through <System>. They reported that they were under attack by unidentified craft which refused to reply to their attempts at communication. Soon afterwards the transmission was cut off, and we haven't heard from them since. Normally I would send a reconnaissance mission to the last known location of the convoy and scout the area before attempting any further action, but this situation is different. The convoy that was destroyed was carrying a very valuable artifact which must be retrieved at all cost. It is sealed in a booby-trapped special delivery package. I require you to head out there and look for it, if fortune shines on us today then the attacker and our artifact will still be close by. Do this for me and you shall be rewarded, <Pilot>.

Blitz: Destroy the lesser drone hive, pick up contents (from cargo container).

No hostiles at the initial gate

Single pocket

• After warp-in, only three towers, groups spawn every few seconds
• No aggro on warp-in
• Aggro on any group except towers does not trigger others

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Lesser Drone Hive (Shielded)

Other structures have no loot

Group 1: 30-45 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Battlecruiser Defeater Alvatis

Group 2: 35-45 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Cruiser Violator Alvum

Group 3: 45-50 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Cruiser Violator Alvum

Group 4: 55-65 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Cruiser Wrecker Alvum

Group 5: 65-75 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Cruiser Wrecker Alvum

Group 6: 90-95 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Sentry Sentry Drone II

• Attacking the towers aggros entire pocket

Group 7: 95-100 km

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Cruiser Annihilator Alvum

Choice of aggro: shoot the shield before the last group spawns, and you will only have aggro from group 2 until the shield dies (then groups 6+7 join in); alternatively, wait until after the last group spawned before shooting the shield for full stage aggro and safe drone usage.

Asteroids:

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Veldspar