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The '''Superior Sleeper Cache''' is a [[Cosmic Signature]] that can be found in known space using core scanner probes. The Superior Sleeper Cache is the most difficult of the Sleeper Cache sites, and is a rather challenging site to complete thoroughly. Pilots will be risking their ship when trying this or any other Sleeper Cache - but an experienced pilot will find the site worthwhile to complete.  

All Sleeper Caches require both Data and Relic Analyzers. All ships except Capital ships can enter the site. The minimum probe strength to scan down the site is 104 (Scanning difficulty of Level V).  

Those adventurers who are unfamiliar with the basic concept and principles of these sites should read through this [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/3P38_Sleeper_Nexus#Sleeper_Caches:_A_Preamble basic Preamble] to get up to speed first. It should be pointed out that downtime does affect the site noticeably -- some containers will have to be re-hacked, and Intravenous Oscillation Fluid may have to be sourced from somewhere, because previously hacked containers of it will be empty.

6. Open container, and observe the "disc" it grants you. It can either be Infrared, Gamma or X-ray.<br />

7. There are three containers in this room. Place the "disc" into the container which matches the name of the disc. This will align the Solray Power Terminal, which considerably reduces the damage it deals.<br />

12. If you're in a frigate or cruiser that has less than 70,000 EHP of omni-resists, consider skipping Phase 3 and proceed to Phase 4, as failure in that stage will cause you to lose your ship. Take the Spatial Rift near the Gamma Ray container into the Turret Room.<br />

13. Hack the Remote Reroute Unit.<br />

14. Take the Rift nearby to head back to the Rift near the Solray Observational Unit. Take the rift near that object (the Infrared Alignment Unit container is nearby). You may incur some damage upon entering, but is should be manageable.<br />

16. If successful, hack the nearby Storage Depots.<br />

18. Upon entering, look for the nearby Remote Defense Grid Unit. Select "Keep at Range" (5000m) on it. Start hacking it. '''{{co|gold|Note:}}''' Only Tech II hacking modules are able to successfully hack while orbiting at this distance. Tech I modules will require a closer orbit.<br />

19. Upon successful hack, immediately burn with the Microwarpdrive to the right towards the Sentry Repair Station. You have enough time for about 2 hack attempts. Hack it. Wait for all Sentry Towers to be eradicated.<br />  

20. Hack all loot containers at your leisure. Do not approach the Plasma Chambers nearby. Use "Keep at Range" (2500m) for the can closest to those chambers and approach slowly with no propulsion module active.<br />

:'''A strongly tanked Tech III [[Strategic Cruiser]] or battleship is required to handle this room, with at least 2000 EHP/sec active reps and minimum 50K EHP of buffer. You must be able to both repair and tank considerable damage. A overtanked cruiser or battlecruiser (such as a [[Maller]] or [[Prophecy]]) may be capable of surviving for a time with proper use of the Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries but will not survive Colossal Shockwaves very well: in that case to ensure that loot is not lost in the event of failure, eject loot at regular intervals to be returned to later.'''<br />

32. At this point, start watching the messages in Local more intently. Storage Depots will begin to spawn nearby. Damage from Shockwaves will also commence after a short time, and increase in magnitude. Sentry Towers can also be ejected from the Archive Cerebrum. There may be one Depot which is distanced afar from the regular group. You may cargo scan containers to evaluate their worth. When finished (or dead!), warp out of the site, wait for it to despawn. Warp back to any bookmarked containers left inside the site, and continue on.

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| notes=As long as you have Capacitor Systems Operation and Capacitor Management to II, you may simply swap the capacitor recharger for a Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery, but the Afterburner will have to be used only when needed. </li><li>As long as the fit can sustain about 40 EHP/sec (EFT/Pyfa figures) indefinitely, it's good enough. </li><li>Also make sure the Analyzer(s) are set to Auto Repeat OFF. </li><li>Cargo scan the containers before you use this fit to identify which ones are junk and which ones are not (use a fleet of yourself to allow tagging of containers)

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Magnate comments: As noted in the [http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/3P38_Sleeper_Nexus#Sleeper_Caches:_A_Preamble Preamble], you may still scan down a Superior Sleeper Cache with armor tank rigs if you use three Scan Rangefinding Array Is, but it'll be rough. 2 Auxiliary Nano Pump Is and 1 Anti-Explosive rigs are more of a Limited Sleeper Cache thing anyways.  

The main problem with it is that its armor tank is not suitable to running the Archive Room or a tripped Turret Room. A tripped Turret Room can be managed with outside logistics or a very expensive deadspace armor tank which can't run the Archive Room in the first place. It can survive for a span of time in the Archive but once the Colossals start it will falter very quickly. Use the Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries (keep a desk timer on hand), a MWD, cargo scanner and fast hacking, and don't risk the ship needlessly. You have roughly 6 minutes until the Colossals start, with good piloting, a solid tank setup to handle the Sentry Towers (shooting them beforehand is a good idea) it can be possible to get most of the good stuff out in time.

Most people think this ship and this site were created for each other. While the site can be done fine with a Nestor, the problem is that as it is a battleship, and a slow one at that, it may more pragmatic to use a properly fit Tech III Strategic Cruiser instead because it is easier to fit one up with the required tank levels which makes them suitable for this site. "Properly fit" usually means deadspace repair modules and other expensive modules which -- can be used for other purposes -- combined with their PvP prowess and travel capabilities makes them more useful for this site. The one major problem with them now is that they can't run the Covert Reconfiguration subsystem to get a virus strength bonus -- so hacking is not any better than an unbonused ship.

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It can be helpful to use a Small Secure Container (anchor it and set a password!) more so with the Magnate than the Heron. Leave the Secure Container in the Solray Room and bookmark it, and store the loot, cloaks and probe launchers inside it. Bring the Mobile Depot into the Turret Room to refit for the Cargo Scanner after the data hacks are finished.

Look for a Hyperfluct Generator can. If a Spatial Rift is already up, then someone is there, or has been there.  

Upon successful hacking loot the Solray Observational Unit. It will contain one of three Alignment Discs. Zoom out to locate the correct container to place the alignment disc. There are three: Infrared, Radio and Gamma Ray Alignment Discs. The Infrared Alignment Disc goes in the Solray Infrared Alignment Unit, the Gamma Ray Alignment Disc goes in the Solray Gamma Alignment Unit, and the Radio Alignment Disc goes in the Solray Radio Alignment Unit. Collect the disc and burn over to the appropriate container. To load the Radio Alignment Disc, simply take the rift near the Solray Observational Unit to warp over to that container, then take that rift back over to the main area.

Afterwards, refit back to the generic site running fit with a Microwarpdrive and both Analyzers.

::<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> No penalty.  

::<span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> A Pristine Storage Depot and possibly one or two lower grade containers are spawned. The locations of the hidden mines are revealed and deactivated.<br />

After failure of the Remote Defense Grid Unit, a [[Maelstrom]] sustained 11760 damage with the Multispectrum Shield Hardener overloaded (59/56/67/72 resists). Log:  

11760 damage taken in total. If 11760 is divided by 560, the answer is 21. 21 mines? Possibly. The damage left the brick-tanked Maelstrom (79k shield EHP) with the ship with 62% shields. Using a Maller with rainbow active hardeners and 2 T2 1600mm plates (rigs were 2x Auxiliary Nano Pump and an Thermal Armor Reinforcer rig for running the Turret room tripped), the detonation put it into 23% armor from full shields.

Immediately after hacking this container, active the Microwarpdrive and burn towards the Sentry Repair Station located near the right of your present position. Hacking the Sentry Repair Station will cause it to provide armor and shield reps to the friendly Tower. (The friendly Tower cannot receive remote repairs from ships.) There is enough time for 2 hacks, maybe 3 fast hacks, before the hostile Sentry Towers destroy the friendly Tower:

|You have successfully turned the focus of the repair facility to the rewired sentry gun. This will not only repair it from incoming damage, but also speed up the destruction rate of the hostile sentry guns now that they no longer enjoy the benefits of the repair station.

Assuming a successful hack of the Sentry Repair Station, simply sit near the Repair Station and wait for the hostile Towers to be eradicated. Do not approach the 3 Unstable Plasma Chambers located north of the warp-in recklessly: exercise great caution, moving about 100m/sec and no prop mods. Getting too close to these could be fatal, and will also trip the alarm: blazing all over the site with a MWD will not go unnoticed. These Chambers are very similar through the ones found in Limited Sleeper Caches except they are ''considerably'' more powerful than in this site.

Hacking the Sentry Repair Station before the Remote Defense Grid Unit does nothing, although a message appears in Local: "Hacking the repair station has no discernible effects on anything in the vicinity. The station continues to provide repair services to to the nearby sentry guns."

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Also any fit that can survive the Archive Room indefinitely (repping in excess of 2000 EHP/sec) won't have a problem, and may simply continue on hacking as if nothing happened.

Therefore, the basic strategy is to ignore the Remote Defense Grid Unit hack entirely, and hack only the Storage Depots.  

If there is doubt as to whether the Alarm is active or not (i.e. if someone else may have tripped it), it's possible swap out the two armor repairers for a pair of 1600mm plates and have a look. There is enough buffer to survive without reps for about five minutes. If the Perimeter towers are not active, but all 10 proximity towers and the initial 6 towers are, then the tank should last for about 6.5 minutes. Using Pyfa's numbers, one [[Exequror]] can repair about 2000 EHP/sec onto a plated fit using the right hardeners and may be a good alternative. As long as the logistics ship does not steal aggro (just sit near the beacon), this approach should work nicely. This also has the benefit in that an overtanked [[Maller]] may only need to swap out for all EM and Thermal Hardeners, as 90% resists are pretty effective at reducing the incoming DPS.

The Perimeter Towers (and the initial Towers if the alarm is tripped) themselves have an activation range of 120km. Beyond this point, they will switch from a red box to a yellow box, but will re-engage if a player approaches within that 120km limit. Because of this, a sniping battleship can be used to clear out the Sentry Towers if desired, however this does take some time. To do this, when landing on the beacon, immediately turn the ship around 180 degrees from the area near the Storage Depots and then hit the Micro Jump Drive. (This allows for the maximum distance jumped from the rest of the Towers: hopefully only three or four Towers will still have active aggression.) Use 1400mm Artillery, Sentry Drones or probably large beam lasers. Then it's a matter of carefully positioning around to make sure the Towers in aggression range are limited so it doesn't break the tank, yet still engaging them within optimal of the battleship. Attack battlecruisers like [[Oracle|Oracles]] won't work because those cannot fit MJDs.

:# Make your way over to the Vessel Rejuvenation Battery, and start the hack process, but do NOT finish the hack. When you find the core, and are 1-2 clicks away from success, get ready for the next bit below. Ensure the ship stays within 5km or so of the Battery unit.<br />

Just after you finish the hack, watch Local to see when the message pops up informing of the activation, wait about 2 seconds, then quickly shoot a Plasma Chamber. The Vessel Rejuvenation Battery's mad reps will protect you. Quickly turn on the Microwarpdrive over to the now-revived Hyperfluct Generator. There are just 60 seconds to attempt a successful hack before the Perimeter Defense System comes online, if it was not before. When that happens, 16 new Sentry Towers appear. Frigates will be destroyed. Ships that can run the Archive Room fine will be okay to repeat attempts until the Rift is generated.

|The area you're entering was a massive archive, storing and recording millions of objects and items from around New Eden. Someone or something recently went through the archive like a tornado, leaving it almost completely ruined. It is possible though that something can still be retrieved, but it all hinges on whether the archive system can be made operational again.

There are several obstacles in the Archive Room which cause damage: Sentry Towers, damage clouds near various objects (Smoldering Archive Ruins), and shockwaves.

A successful hack also has the opportunity to spawn a Pristine Storage Depot nearby. You may hack it and loot it. Otherwise it shows up later once the Cerebrum is fired up.  

The Sentry Towers may spawn after three triggers: 1) Any failed hack; 2) Any successful hack; or 3) About 30 seconds after activation of the Cerebrum. Two messages in Local indicate their spawn: "Your actions have activated the defense system in the area!" or "The archive workers have ejected a functional sentry gun into space!" They can be shot with sentries or other guns. They have a 40m signature radius.

::<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> 4 Sentry Towers may spawn. Messsage in local says: "Your actions have activated the defense system in the area!"

Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries will also be ejected from the Cerebrum itself (details in collapsed "Archive Room Damage" infobox, below).  

151.6 DPS average, although 131 may a more accurate measurement&mdash;that hit for 146 throws the average off. A dual-rep [[Stratios]] with roughly 350 EHP/sec lasted about a minute before it failed to repair enough, and exploded.

The Vessel Rejuvenation Batteries are ejected periodically. When they are hacked, they generate a cloud which provides ''serious'' repping power. It was enough for a [[Hyperion]] to tank a colossal wave (and more) and not sustain any shield damage. The shield remained at 100% regardless of the shockwave damage, and it also fixed armor as well. These repping clouds last for about 90 seconds before they expire.

Now. You may curious as to why I used a dual rep shield booster Maelstrom in the images. The first was because that's all I had (at the time the images were made), and the second was that was the best candidate I could use, as I had no deadspace modules to use. Now away from the experimental fits and concepts to the real stuff.  

Recall as before that the minimum specified is 2000 EHP/sec cap stable active reps (10 minutes or so is good enough, you can turn it off when there is no damage and single massive shockwaves aren't that bad) and 50K EHP of buffer in the designated tank method. The reason is that 2000 EHP/sec allows for a comfortable margin of tank to tank most of the incoming damage (but not tank against it), not bleed into armor (or hull for armor ships) and fix all the damage before the next wave comes in. It's not the single massives, or even the double massives that are the problem, it's the Colossal waves and especially a Colossal with a pair of massives at the same time.

Pith X-Type EM Ward Field<br />

Pith X-Type EM Ward Field<br />

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Let's talk about the Tengu. Running a fit as shown for the Archive, it was perfectly fine without any implants or drugs. Adding High-Grade Crystals meant it was pretty much harder repping but it couldn't rep up against the incoming damage. Only with a Blue Pill and an overloaded shield booster would it face-tank it hard enough (around 4500 EHP/sec). The Large Shield Extender is mandatory because without it, the incoming DPS will overcome the repping power: the incoming damage is simply too strong just ignore buffer. The extra capacity is insurance against back-to-back Colossals and Colossals stacked with double massives. Triple Massives aren't that common but they do happen - not to mention the possible presence of Sentry Towers '''and''' any damage from Smoldering Archive Ruins.

Some pilots like to dance between the trio of Rejuvenation Batteries (which only work once for 90 seconds each, and I've had one fail to function) using an overtanked ship like a Stratios with loads of buffer. I tested this with an overtanked Prophecy and it was able to handle 2 Colossal shockwaves but was on a very thin rope doing it. The problem is just not enough time and the lack of a hacking bonus makes it difficult to blitz through the hard hacks under the 90 second limit. So it is possible but it's just very difficult.

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