New Frontiers 1-7

New Frontiers is a level 3 mission series (Mission chain) consisting of 7 missions (4 encounter, 1 mining and 2 courier).

Summary:

• All gates in the missions are unlocked.
• Several missions have pairs of Energy Neutralizer Towers that do 5gj/s each.
• Damage can get quite high for a level 3 in later stages, especially if blitzing.

Raw Materials (1 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Mining [Verify]
Objective	Mine 235 m3 of Green Aristite
Faction	Mercenaries
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Kin Th

Mission briefing
Excellent. The famed Dr. Lamia Calus is one of our top nanite research specialists. She has entered a requisition for 47 units of Green Arisite for her research. If you can procure this substantial quantity of mineral, I'm sure you'll be adequately rewarded. The sooner, the better.

You must mine the Green Arisite yourself, buying it will not complete the mission. While mining, 3 non-elite frigate rats will spawn^[Verify].

Blitz:

• Mine the Green Arisite while tanking.

Warp-in

There are two reinforcement chains. The Mercenary Miners will warp out after a bit if not killed. Triggers are last kill of specified ship type.

Initial Group

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	3 x Cruiser Mercenary Miner
	3 x Frigate Mercenary Elite Fighter
	2 x Cruiser Mercenary Lieutenant

Reinforcement 1-1 (On Initial Group Frigate Destruction)

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	4 x Cruiser Mercenary Commander

Reinforcement 1-2 (On reinforcement 1-1 Destruction)

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	5 x Frigate Mercenary Fighter

Reinforcement 2-1 (On Initial Group Cruiser Destruction)

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	3 x Frigate Mercenary Elite Fighter
	2 x Cruiser Mercenary Lieutenant

Reinforcement 2-2A (On Reinforcement 2-1 Frigate Destruction)

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	4 x Cruiser Mercenary Commander

Reinforcement 2-2B (On Reinforcement 2-1 Cruiser Destruction)

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	4 x Frigate Mercenary Fighter
	2 x Cruiser Mercenary Commander

Mad Scientist (2 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Retrieve Professor Kajurei Delainen (1 m3)
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
EWAR	Web, energy neutralizer

Mission briefing

You might remember the preeminent scientist, Dr. Lamia Calus, from your previous mission. Her mentor was the famous particle physicist and AI specialist, Professor Kajurei Delainen. Perhaps you've heard of Delainen's "Seven Pillars of Artificial Intelligence"? No? Well, no matter. A number of years of ago, Delainen disappeared. He was supposed to report to his laboratory at the appointed time, but he simply never appeared. His living quarters were cleared out and his bank accounts emptied and closed. Yet no evidence of criminal wrongdoing was ever found. In such a vast universe, it can be easy for a person to disappear. In any case, evidence has just surfaced that he in fact still lives ... and in this very system! Now Dr. Calus has reached a critical stage in her research, and Delainen was once the galaxy's foremost expert on both quantum particle physics and artificial intelligence. He claimed that the two fields were more closely related than anyone realized. His expertise would be invaluable to our current research. Your mission is to bring him back here. One hitch, though: It is very possible that he will not come willingly. Don't take no for an answer.

A passive tanked battlecruiser is a good choice for this mission due to energy neutralizers.

Blitz:

• Go straight through gate, blow up Professor Delainen's Lab, and loot the cargo container spawned.
• Destroy Stasis/Energy Neutralizer towers as needed.

Warp-in

All enemies will aggro immediately. Destroying the two drone bunkers can stop additional reinforcements. Waves 2 and 3 are likely timed.

WARNING There is a chance that an Alvus Controller battleship will spawn after the initial frigate spawn. Frigate Strain Sunder Alvi, which warp disrupt, might spawn as well.

Initial Group

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	11-12 x Frigate Raider/Sunder Alvi

Wave 1 (On Attacking Initial Group)

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	2 x Cruiser Bomber/Disintegrator Alvum
	2 x Destroyer Shatterer/Ripper Alvior

Wave 2

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	1-2 x Frigate Devilfish Alvi
	1-2 x Cruiser Violator Alvum
	1 x Elite Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum

Wave 3

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	1 x Destroyer Shredder Alvior
	1 x Cruiser Bomber Alvum

Battleship spawn

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	1 x Battleship Swarm Preserver Alvus

1st Pocket

Warning: You will be webbed and neuted immediately after warp-in. Make sure you have weapons/drones capable of hitting the towers at about 50 kilometers or you will be stuck while being neuted and fired upon.

Neutralizer towers will be capping you for -10GJ/s each, -20GJ/s total. Reinforcements do not always spawn and may be prevented by destroying bunkers at warp-in.

Upon landing, Kajurei Delainen writes in local:
"Delainen: I can't go with you, I'm afraid. I have some new friends here. They like me. They don't bother me. I help them. They help me. You cannot imagine the things I have discovered, free from human interference. Now, I'd advise you to go away."

Structures

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	1 x Professor Delainen's Lab

Initial Group

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	4-5 x Frigate Decimator/Raider Alvi
	2 x Battlecruiser Defeater Alvatis
	2 x Sentry Drone Neutralizer Sentry I
	2 x Sentry Drone Stasis Tower
	4 x Sentry Tower Sentry Drone I

Wave 1 (On Neutralizer Sentry Destruction)

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	1 x Frigate Devilfish Alvi

Wave 2

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	2 x Elite Frigate Strain Sunder Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Devastator Alvum

Wave 3(On Attacking the Lab)

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	5 x Frigate Raider/Silverfish Alvi
	2 x Destroyer Shatter Alvior

Toward a Solution (3 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Courier
Objective	Deliver item 0.1 m3 cargo

Mission briefing

Well, Dr. Calus is not ready to reveal the nature of her project, but rest assured that it will be huge. However, the good doctors require some critical datacores to help them put their ideas into physical form. Sometimes scientific ideas race ahead of one's ability to fabricate the results effectively. We need you to go pick up a unique Mechanical Engineering datacore put together for the project by one of Dr. Calus's colleagues not far from here and bring it back as soon as possible. You will be rewarded, of course, as usual.

The Unveiling (4 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Retrieve item from Delainen-ROM Symbiote
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th

Mission briefing

Well, that thing is gone, so the station is safe for now. The breached districts have been sealed off until repair crews can get in there. But I suppose you're wondering what happened. Let me back up for a moment. Dr. Calus's original goal was to create a ship energy system that used advanced nanites to harvest the energy that binds subatomic particles together. The amount of energy that could be produced would be staggering. Think of it. The offensive potential of our ships and weapons systems could be increased a hundred-fold at least, maybe a thousand-fold. But somehow Delainen subverted Calus's research. He spent years living in close proximity to a nest of rogue drones; he even claimed to have struck up a beneficial relationship with them. Who knows what that does to a person? They inserted the nanites, programmed by Prof. Delainen, into the battlecruiser's systems, but the things immediately began to malfunction. In less than ten minutes, they had changed the structure of the ship to … something else. The security 'reels show a flash of light, almost like a jump gate activation, and then Delainen just disappears. Then, immediately, the metallic beast begins to move. We have heard of massive rogue drones, but this is different. The ship actually spoke to Calus, who was injured during the ship's violent transformation. It said its name was "ROM." Then it blew a hole through the wall of the station into open space and blasted out of there. Everyone in the lab was killed, including Calus. We believe that the nanites somehow merged Delainen into the ship they had created, making it some sort of bizarre biomechanical symbiote. But we need to know what happened for certain, and this ― well, this Delainen-ROM symbiote, I guess, for lack of a better name ― is the only thing that can give us the answers. We want you to go out there and confront it; we've tracked its location, and it's still in this system. I'll send the coordinates to your NeoCom. Destroy it if you must, and then sift through the wreckage to find its central AI core. Bring that back for further study.

Damage is primarily thermal.

Blitz:

• Kill Delainen-ROM Symbiote, loot Elite Drone AI, and warp out.

Warp-in

Mission objective is contained in the cargo container created on destruction of Delainen-ROM Symbiote. Destroying the Drone Bunker can cause multiple waves to spawn. Triggers are last kill of specified ship type.

After starting to shoot the Delainen-ROM Symbiote, in local:
"Delainen-ROM Symbiote: You puny humans have no sense of humor."

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Group 1
	1 x Battleship Delainen-ROM Symbiote [Alvus Ruler/Supreme Parasite]
	3 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery
Group 2
	10 x Frigate Render/Splinter Alvi

Wave 1 (On Group 1 Destruction)

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	2 x Destroyer Dismantler/Marauder Alvior

Wave 2 (On Group 2 Destruction)

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	2 x Frigate Render Alvi

Wave 3 (On Boss 75% Shields)

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	2 x Elite Cruiser Strain Annihilator/Violator Alvum
	1 x Battlecruiser Defeater Alvatis

Wave 4 (On Boss 50% Shields)

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	3 x Cruiser Devastator Alvum

Wave 5 (On Boss 50% Armor)

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	3 x Elite Frigate Strain Raider/Sunder Alvi
	3 x Destroyer Predator/Shredder Alvior

Wave 6 (On Boss 50% Hull)

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	1 x Frigate Silverfish Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Annihilator/Devastator Alvum

An Unexpected Twist (5 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Retrieve item from the Drone Battleship
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
EWAR	Web, energy neutralizer

Mission briefing

Yes, I did. The good Dr. Calus ― whose value to us necessitates our keeping a clone in place for her ― is studying the Delainen-ROM's AI "brain" as we speak. But there's something else we'd like you to do. Delainen apparently formed some sort of bond or relationship with the rogue drone colony near his previous home. But it's worse than that. Even now there are ongoing subspace transmissions taking place between these drones and the AI unit you recovered ― the thing's intelligence core is most certainly not dead. The drones have moved around several times, but they're remaining near, for whatever reason. Go to the <System> system and destroy that rogue drone colony once and for all. The hive mind CPU and construction center is in the central hive structure. That is your target. Once the drones there are all destroyed, salvage the hive mind CPU and return it to us.

Energy Neutralizers combine for -15gj/s and have a range in excess of 120Km. Web towers have a range of about 30km. If you are active tanked focus down the neutralizers first.

Blitz:

• Kill Group 2 to trigger Wave 1. Kill the battleship, loot the can, warp out.

Warp-in

Mission objective is contained in the cargo container created on destruction of Wave 1 Drone Battleship.

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Group 1 (55-60km)
	3 x Sentry Drone Energy Neutralizer Sentry I
	2 x Sentry Drone Stasis Tower
	3 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery
	2 x Sentry Tower Sentry Drone I
Group 2 (Spawn after ~45sec)
	1 x Frigate Render/Sunder Alvi
Group 3 (Spawn after ~1min 45sec)
	3 x Frigate Render/Sunder Alvi
Group 4 (Spawn after ~2min)
	2 x Destroyer Shatter/Shredder Alvior
	2 x Cruiser Destructor/Violator/Wrecker Alvum
	2 x Elite Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum

Wave 1 (On Group 2 Destruction)

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	1 x Battleship Alvus Ruler/Supreme Alvus Parasite

Wave 2 (On Neutralizer Sentry Destruction)

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	3 x Frigate Devilfish/Silverfish Alvi
	4 x Destroyer Predator/Shredder Alvior

Wave 3 (On Attacking A Stasis Tower)

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	3 x Frigate Raider Alvi

Wave 4 (On Attacking Second Stasis Tower)

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	2 x Elite Frigate Strain Raider Alvi

Wave 5 (On Destroying A Tower Sentry)

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	2 x Elite Frigate Strain Raider Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Annihilator/Devastator Alvum

Wave 6 (On Boss 25% Armor)

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	2 x Cruiser Disintegrator Alvum
	2 x Battlecruiser Defeater Alvatis

Nanite Express (6 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Courier
Objective	Deliver item. 50 m3 cargo

Mission briefing

We've completed Dr. Calus's study of the Delainen-ROM symbiote's AI core and the CPU you got for us. They're like nothing we've ever seen before. A strange combination of human thought patterns, atomic-scale nanites, and constantly evolving neural networks. And the thing wouldn't stop telling bad jokes! But if those nanites were ever loosed, they could easily latch onto the nearest ship and reconstitute themselves. Er, itself. Well, whatever. We just can't risk that happening … again. Which is why it's too dangerous to study further ― the chance of a breakout is just too high. But it's also too valuable to destroy. We have placed the items in a special cryogenic container for temporary cold storage. The closest station with an adequate facility for long-term cryogenic storage is in <Station>, though. Please take the container over there for safekeeping.

Ascendance (7 of 7)

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Destroy Delainen-Solar Entity
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th

Mission briefing

Yes. Very astute, <Pilot>. Do you recall that green goo in your cargohold a while back, when you returned with the drone AI core? That material was far more dangerous – and far more cunning – than we first realized. The nanites in the symbiote's AI core were the size of molecules, with atomic-scale manipulator arms. And because they are so small, they are practically undetectable. A billion of them could hide in the crevices of a speck of dust. Are you frightened yet? You should be. Because they are loose. Those nanites – perhaps even the self-same ones from your cargohold – somehow made their way onto a battleship called Solar Cinder, which blasted out of its hangar, with no crew, just a few minutes ago. We don't know what to call this thing now, but it is sentient, and shows many similarities to the Delainen-ROM symbiote. But this is a battleship. An uncontrolled battleship with human-patterned AI ... and capable of self-replication! Given time, it could lay waste to an entire planet! We need you to get out there and destroy it! The military is on the way, but they will not be here in force before it has time to escape, if that's what it intends.

Blitz:

• Jump through first gate, kill Delainen-Solar Cinder Entity, warp out.

Warp-in

Gate is not locked. Delainen-Solar Cinder Entity will make a short appearance before using the acceleration gate. Enemy ships spawn in over the first 20 seconds.

Inital Group

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	15 x Frigate Decimator/Render Alvi
	14 x Cruiser Annihilator/Devastator Alvum

1st Pocket

On entry only Delainen-Solar Cinder Entity will be present. Group 2,3 and 4 rapidly spawn in over the next ten seconds.

Upon landing, Delainen-Solar Cinder entity writes in local:
"Delainen-Solar Cinder entity: You are persistent, for a human! Commendable. But no living creature in the universe is as persistent as a machine. Now, meet your Maker"

Structures

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	1 x Infested Station Ruins

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Group 1
	1 x Battleship Delainen-Solar Cinder Entity
Group 2
	3 x Frigate Devilfish/Hunter Alvi
	3 x Cruiser Violator Alvum
Group 3
	3 x Frigate Barracuda/Devilfish Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Vilator Alvum
	2 x Elite Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum
Group 4
	5 x Frigate Devilfish/Hunter/Silverfish Alvi
	3 x Cruiser Violator Alvum

Wave 1 (On Group 2 Destruction)

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	3 x Frigate Barracuda/Devilfish Alvi
	3 x Elite Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum

Wave 2 (On Boss First Hit)

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	3 x Frigate Barracuda/Devilfish Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Violator Alvum
	2 x Elite Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum