Rampant Drone Fabricator

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Site Details

Rampant Drone Fabricator
Rating	NA
Found in	Lowsec, Wormholes, Pochven
Max ship size	Ungated
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	EM Th
Sig. strength	5% in Low/WHs/Pochven

Rampant Drone Fabricator is a cosmic signature that appears in low security space, wormholes and Pochven during the Gallente Election YC128 event. The site appears as a combat site of level II scanning difficulty.

The site has three "tiers" of difficulty depending on location. The easiest variant is in C1-C3 Wormholes, the medium difficulty one in lowsec, C4s and Pochven, and the hardest difficulty is in C5-C6s.

Notes

• The site is an ungated single pocket, not deadspaced. The most prominent landmark of the site is the Rampant Drone Fabricator, which will be at 0 on the warp-in and projects a visible area-of-effect field of ~50 km that prevents smartbombs and micro jump drives from being used.
  • Destroying the Rampant Drone Fabricator ends the site. The Fabricator wreck will project its own separate disruption field that prevents warping and cloaking - it must be either destroyed or salvaged to safely leave the site.
• The NPCs are in their own unique entity category (Fabricator Rogue Drones). Make sure to set it to visible on your overview to see them.
• Not advisable to use drone boats in the site since they will be very aggressively targeted by Corrupted drones. Larger ships will require significant damage application support as many of the smaller ships will orbit at 20+ km away at high speed and have small sig radius.
• Each wave will be indicated by a relative difficulty level in the Opportunities window (Minimal/Moderate/Severe). Bringing a battleship or equivalent will cause the site to bypass the Minimal difficulty and immediately start at Moderate.

Site

The site will progress through 30 waves of hostile Rogue Drones of increasing strength. They all do purely EM/Thermal damage, and a lot of it as well. They follow the same resist profiles of normal K-Space Rogue Drones (weak to EM/Th, strong against Kin/EX). The drones have a behavior and naming convention very similar to those in homefront operations, shown below:

Prefix	Role
Corrupted	Drone aggro
Alienator	Webs
Blackout	ECM
Cascade	DPS [Verify]

The site is considered complete when all 30 waves are cleared and/or the Rampant Drone Fabricator is destroyed by the player. The Fabricator is invulnerable by default and can only be damaged for a short 20 second interval after the current wave of Rogue Drones is defeated. The structure itself has ~15000 shield and armor and very low structure hitpoints with 0 resists. It will slowly accumulate loot over time with each successive wave and it must be destroyed to retrieve the loot.

At random during any one of the waves, one of the Nanoswarm structures will become vulnerable, indicated by its overview icon turning red (no site alerts or local messages will pop up to inform you). Destroying it will cause it to provide a random buff to your ship depending on the specific type of nanoswarm destroyed.

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Rampant Drone Fabricator
	10 x <Role> Nanoswarm

Hostile waves (1-5), total ~1-3 ships

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-3 x Frigate Corrupted Handler
	0-3 x Frigate Blackout Driller/Handler/Loom
	0-2 x Destroyer Corrupted Sweeper
	0-2 x Destroyer Blackout Sweeper
Waves 6-?? (4-5 ships)
	0-1 x Frigate Alienator Manipulator
	0-1 x Cruiser Corrupted Divider
	0-1 x Cruiser Alienator Crusher/Divider
	0-1 x Battlecruiser Corrupted Sorter
	0-1 x Battlecruiser Alienator Sorter
Waves ??
	0-2 x Battleship Cascade Principal/Manager
	0-2 x Battleship Corrupted Manager