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'''Abyssal Deadspace''' is a mysterious area of isolated space which players can enter to try to complete time-limited PvE combat challenges in order to obtain lucrative rewards.   

== Abyssal mechanics ==

=== Entry ===

* A single Tech 1, Tech 2, Navy Faction or Pirate Faction cruiser; [[Strategic Cruisers|T3 Strategic Cruisers]] cannot enter  

* Up to three frigates, at the cost of 3 filaments

Activation can be carried out anywhere in space, as long as the following conditions are satisfied:

* No Gates, Stations or [[Mobile_structures#Mobile_Depots|mobile depots]] at less than '''1000 km'''.

* No other Abyssal trace at less than '''1000 km'''.

* The player does not have a capsuleer log-off timer active.

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=== Abyssal layout ===

=== Loot ===

[[File:Triglavian Bioadaptive Cache.jpg|thumb|200px|'''Triglavian Bioadaptive Cache''' contains the loot for each pocket.]]

Cache wrecks can be salvaged for Triglavian materials, though the time- and ISK-efficiency of doing this is dubious.

=== Time and space limits ===

'''The deadspace instance is stable for only 20 minutes. If you are still in the pocket after 20 minutes your ship and your pod will be immediately destroyed'''.

You must clear the three pockets and exit within the allocated time, or you will lose both your ship and your pod. The third pocket gate returns you to the location in space where you activated the filament. To finish the Abyssal run within the 20-minute limit, you must achieve a faster average pocket clear time than 6.66 minutes.

[[File:Triglavian_gates.jpg|thumb|750px|center|Three types of gates you will encounter are: Triglavian Origin Conduit, Triglavian Transfer Conduit, and Triglavian Proving Conduit. These gates will be folded closed until all enemies have been destroyed, after which they will (quite spectacularly) open and energize. A gate with a triangle in the center means you still have more pockets to go! (Note that at the time of writing, fall 2021, the Proving Conduit does not appear; its mechanic has been replaced by the Triglavian Proving Grounds.)]]

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| style="padding: 8px;" |'''WARNING:''' Any ship and capsule should be considered potentially lost the moment a player enters Abyssal Deadspace. Abyssals are unforgiving to inexperienced, ill-equipped or foolhardy pilots. If your ship is lost inside the site, you will lose your capsule, clone, and any implants equipped as well. Running Abyssals can be a fun and profitable challenge, but '''do not enter Abyssal Deadspace with a ship or with implants that you [[Golden_Rules#Be_able_to_afford_a_loss|cannot afford to lose]].'''  

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| '''Electrical''' || [[File:Icon resist em.png|32px]] -30/50/70% EM Resist || [[File:Icon capacitor capacity.png|32px]] -50% Capacitor Recharge Time

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| '''Gamma''' || [[File:Icon resist exp.png|32px]] -30/50/70% Explosive Resist || [[File:Icon shield.png|32px]] +50% Shield HP

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=== Localized Effects ===

Localized Clouds:

* Filament Cloud (orange): Penalty to Shield Booster boosting (-40%) and reduction to shield booster duration (-40%). If using a conventional (not Ancillary) shield booster, in effect this does not weaken your shield booster, but rather increases its capacitor cost per second by 66%. If you rely on a shield booster to survive, you should avoid entering these clouds.

{{expansion past|In September, 2020, the Tachyon Cloud was introduced, replacing the older Caustic Cloud. The Caustic Cloud applied a -80% penalty to local and remote Armor Repair modules, making it a death sentence for armor tanked ships. However, the cloud was very rarely seen.}}

Triglavian Towers:

** Medium-Range Deviant Suppressor will attack all drones, missiles, and rogue drone frigates within 40 KM

== Enemies ==

Unlike in most other regions in EVE, Abyssal Deadspace NPCs have very clear naming patterns and will have either a prefix or suffix that states what special abilities they have.

You should also pay attention on whether dedicated remote repair ships are on grid; if you can't kill other frigates before repairs land, prioritize killing remote repairs first. After the dangerous EWAR and remote repair ships are dead, you can focus on the damage dealers in your preferred order.

The Rogue Drone Battleship deals Kinetic and Thermal damage, and the Battleship found in Tier 5 and 6 sites also has a Stasis Webifier, which helps counteract its poor tracking.

Rogue Drone Frigate names have the suffix '''Tessella'''. Rogue Drone Battlecruiser names have the suffix '''Tessera'''.

| Blast || [[File:Icon damage exp.png]]Explosive Damage

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| Snarecaster || [[File:Icon stasis webifier i.png|32px]] Webbing

This can be very irritating, as it forces you to fly all the way back to the exit gate after the battleship finally dies. During the time spent chasing the battleship, you are vulnerable to its poorly-tracking but hard-hitting turrets. The strength of the battleship varies with the level of the Abyssal filament; higher-level filaments feature more damage and HP. Thankfully, the Drifter Battleship here does not come with either a Doomsday Weapon or any EWAR abilities.  

'''Drifter Cruisers will all be named '''Scylla Tyrannos''', and so their ''type'' must be checked to see their abilities.'''

=== Sleeper Drones ===

Sleeper drones fire EM/Thermal turrets (and the cruisers have irritatingly high tracking and range), and Kinetic/explosive missiles (with poor flight speed and application).

=== Triglavian Collective ===

Triglavian ships almost all feature Remote Armor Repair abilities, and mount the widest range of EWAR of any Abyssal faction.

| Rodiva || [[File:Icon target cruiser.png|16px]] Low-damage remote-repair cruiser

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| Starving || [[File:Icon_energy_neutralizer_i.png|32px]]Energy Neutralizers. No Remote Repairs.

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| Anchoring || [[File:Icon_warp_scrambler_i.png|32px]] Warp Scramblers

| Ghosting || [[File:Icon_track_disruptor_64.png‎|32px]] Turret and Missile Disruption

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=== Sansha's Nation ===

All Sansha's Nation ships have the '''Devoted''' prefix.

=== CONCORD ===

CONCORD rooms are generally feared by many Abyssal runners due to their high damage and heavy damage-application support.  The sheer incoming DPS, combined with the multiple Webs and Target Painters, makes passive or active tanking in these rooms extremely difficult.  Because of this, Marshal rats (especially Drainers) are often targeted first to reduce incoming DPS.   

While the EDENCOM ships offer no EWAR, they bring very high alpha damage on very slow fire rates, meaning that the combination of Marshal DPS and EDENCOM alpha can easily and unexpectedly break an Abyssal runner's buffer.

# Vorton Projectors will chain their damage to ''any'' objects within 10km of your ship, and can thus be exploited into dealing friendly fire damage to other enemy CONCORD/EDENCOM ships

All CONCORD and EDENCOM ships have the '''Disparu Troop''' suffix.

| (prefix) Enforcer|| [[File:Icon damage therm.png]] or [[File:Icon damage exp.png]] 130 DPS Heavy Assault Missiles

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=== Angel Cartel ===

[[Angel Cartel]] rooms are the bane of fast and evasive ships. Angel Cartel ships have extremely high flight speeds, rather small signature radii, good range, varied damage types, and varied EWAR. The Cynabal is especially problematic, as it features all of these abilities combined in one ship.

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| (Elite) Cynabal ||  Heavy damage dealer; high range & tracking  ||  [[File:Icon stasis webifier i.png|32px]][[File:Icon_energy_neutralizer_i.png|32px]] || [[File:Icon damage em.png|24px]][[File:Icon damage exp.png|24px]]<br>

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| Fury || Energy Neutralizers || [[File:Icon_energy_neutralizer_i.png|32px]] || [[File:Icon damage exp.png|24px]][[File:Icon damage kin.png|24px]]

| Medusa || Sensor Dampening || [[File:Icon_remote_sensor_dampening.png‎‎|32px]] || [[File:Icon damage kin.png|24px]][[File:Icon damage therm.png|24px]]

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| Swordspine || Target Painting || [[File:Icon_target_painter_i.png‎|32px]] || [[File:Icon damage kin.png|24px]][[File:Icon damage therm.png|24px]]

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== Damage to deal ==

* Rogue drone ships have wildly varying resists. Damage-dealing and EWAR frigates have the same natural resists as a Tech 1 hull from one of the races. Repair frigates have 0 resists. Battlecruisers are slightly weak to EM/EX, and slightly more resistant to TH/KIN.  

If swapping damage types (i.e. through missile reloads) is possible, it should be done for these battleships. Their Shields are weak to EM damage, and the following chart lists their Armor weaknesses:

The pilot of the ship carrying the filaments can then use them and select the Activate For Fleet option. Doing so will consume the filaments, and rather than pulling the ship into the abyss, it will open a limited-use acceleration gate that leads to the abyss. Fleet members can then activate that acceleration gate and launch themselves into the abyss.

To compensate for the increased filament consumption and the loot being split across 2 or 3 ships and pilots, the Biocombinative Cache found in multi-ship pockets contains significantly more loot than the ordinary Bioadaptive Cache.

But that does not mean you are wholly safe. Once the filament has been used, a rift appears that can be combat scanned by anyone in the system and can be warped to. It also appears on the directional scanner of anyone who has not filtered it out. This makes it possible for people to camp the exit and shoot whoever comes out.   

You will be invulnerable for a short time when you leave the Abyss. If you leave the rift and find yourself being camped, pause to assess your best options, and stay calm. One survival tactic is to quickly activate a new filament, but players who know you can do this will anchor a mobile depot nearby, preventing filament activation. Based on your assessment of the situation, you will have to decide.

Abyssal Deadspace is dangerous, but the rewards can be worthwhile. Abyssal Deadspace is the only source for many valuable items found in the Caches and Extraction Nodes/Subnodes. No wrecks are left behind by any NPCs, and all drops come from these two listed cans.

* [[Mutaplasmids]] that can be used to change the stats of certain modules. Which mutaplasmids are able to drop depends on the weather selected:

** '''Electrical''' sites can drop '''capacitor''' related mutaplasmids - S/M/L Cap Battery, S/M/L Energy Neutralizer, S/M/L Energy Nosferatu

** '''Exotic''' sites can drop '''tackle''' related mutaplasmids - Stasis Webifier, Warp Disruptor, Warp Scrambler

** '''T6 filaments''' can drop '''capital module''' mutaplasmids - All capital-sized versions of the modules above, plus Ancillary Shield Booster/Armor Repairer, Heavy Warp Disruptor/Scrambler, and Siege Module

* Precursor ship and weapon skill books, disintegrator specialization skill books

* Blueprint copies required for the production of Triglavian hulls, weapon systems, modules and ammunition:

** [[Entropic Disintegrators]]: Weapons with unique properties and only usable by the Triglavian ships

** Mutadaptive Remote Armor Repairer: A special remote armor repairer module used by the Triglavian Rodiva and Zarmazd logistics cruisers

** Perun Heavy Mutadaptive Remote Armor Repairer - a faction version of the Mutadaptive Remote Armor Repairer

* Triglavian Survey Database: often referred to as "red loot", this item is an ISK token item similar to Sleeper "blue loot" and Overseer's Personal Effects in that it can be sold to unlimited NPC buy orders for a fixed price, in this case, 100,000 ISK/ea

* Abyssal Filaments:

** it is therefore only by running Abyssals that the filaments for higher-tier Abyssal runs can be found, and there is a busy market in retrieved filaments

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