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Revision as of 23:34, 30 June 2020
Hunting the Drudge Factory | |
Type | Expedition |
Rating | Unrated |
Found in | P1- P3 High, P4 Low |
Max ship size | Unverified |
Pirate faction | Rogue Drones |
Damage to deal | Varied |
Damage to Resist |
Varied |
Sig. Strength | Escalate from Chemical Yard |
Hunting the Drudge Factory is an expedition that escalates from Chemical Yard.
Overview
Expedition start message |
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As you decimate the last remnants of this rogue drone base, your sensors come across some old transportation data; lists of materials, modules, ships and locations. The only reason this is a kind of odd is that rogue drones usually are very self sufficient, making in situ what they need for their colonies. Perhaps this is nothing... |
Walkthrough
Location #1 (ungated)
Initial defenders
WD | EWAR | L
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5-8 x Frigate Devilfish/... Alvi | ||||
2 x Elite Frigate Strain Decimator/Infestor/Render/Splinter Alvi | ||||
4 x Cruiser Annihilator Alvum | ||||
1 x Commander Destroyer Sentient Marauder/... Alvior |
Sansha ships have been confirmed to spawn as of 8 June 2020.
Wave #2
WD | EWAR | L
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2-4 x Destroyer Centior Cannibal/Misshape | ||||
4 x Cruiser Centum Beast/Juggernaut |
Escalation message |
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Arriving at the most recent location in the files, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive, someone must have been here before you. Thankfully there are a couple of other locations in those files that make any sense to your navigation systems, the closer one being... |
Expedition dead-end message |
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Arriving at the only recognizable location in the files you found, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive. Whatever this once was, it obviously is no more.... |
Location #2 (ungated)
Initial defenders
WD | EWAR | L
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2 x Battlecruiser Defeater/... Alvatis | ||||
1 x Commander Cruiser Sentient Destructor/... Alvum |
Escalation message |
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Arriving at one of the remaining locations in the files, you come across a blown out rogue drone hive, someone must have been here before you. There is one other location here that makes any sense to your navigation systems. |
Location #3 (ungated)
Simple warp-in can trigger an escalation.
Initial defenders
Escalation message |
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Well, that was a surprise. Rogue drones, turned carebears and mining their cogs off! Why? Perhaps this navigational beacon will lead you to some answers. |
Expedition dead-end message |
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Well, that was a surprise. Rogue drones, turned carebears and mining their cogs off! Why? Perhaps this navigational beacon could have lead you to some answers, but it seems to have been damaged in the heat of battle. |
Location #4 (lowsec, possibly highsec, observed 6/5/2018, ungated)
Initial defenders
WD | EWAR | L
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0-3 x Elite Frigate Strain Barracude/... Alvi | ||||
0-3 x Elite Frigate Strain Decimator/Infestor/Render/Splinter Alvi | ||||
5 x Cruiser Violator/... Alvum |
Wave #1
Container #1 | Empty |
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Container #2 | Empty |
Container #3 | Empty |
Container #4 | 5th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects |
Container #5 | Empty |
Container #6 | 5th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects |
Item Name | Est. Value | Note |
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Drone Parts | 100% drop rate | |
T2 salvage | From Hive Overseer | |
Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip | 52M ISK | From Sentient drones |
Date | Loot | Est. value | Comments |
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June 8, 2020 | Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip | 52M ISK | From 1st location (Sentient Marauder Alvior) |
Expedition complete message |
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Rogue drones mining and gathering resources far and wide to supply a huge drone factory! This scale of operations does not seem to fit anything you have seen or heard about them before and this level of organization kind of takes the "rogue" out of "rogue drones". You are pretty sure that somewhere, some authority would love to get a report on this. But on second thought... all the paperwork involved would probably be enough to exhaust a black hole. |
Escalation
This site can escalate to Hunting the Drudge Factory again.