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After activating the Spatial Rift, you land in the main area. You are in no immediate danger, but you have a couple of important tasks to perform.

At the warp-in where you just landed, you should drop your mobile depot. Bookmark it. While the timer on that is counting down, head over to the Remote Defense Grid Unit nearby you:  

| style="padding:8px;" | WARNING: ''Failure of the data hacks can cause the sitewide Alarm Level to increment. At Level 5, the Alarm '''will''' trip, however it may also trip at lower levels. I have obtained alarm trips at Level 1, 2 and 3. An image of the Alarm tripping [http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/File:3P38_Standard_23.png at Level 2 is here].''

'''CAN DIFFICULTY: 8/10 [RED HACK]'''<br />

<span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> In the back area which you'll be warping to in a bit, one Sentry Gun will be deactivated (1 out of 3) and its place, another one near the Tractor Beam will be activated. You won't be going over to the Tractor Beam just yet.<br />

<span style="color:red">FAILURE:</span> Overall, the Site has a "sitewide" Alarm Level. Failing this hack (or the other one down below) will raise the Alarm Level by 1. You start out at 0 out of 5. At Alarm Level 4, you should slow down and think carefully. At Level 5, the Sleeper Engineering Stations will spawn in each mini-room (the warpin, the Tractor Beam mini-room, and the Back Room mini-room) to generate highly dangerous Area of Effect Damage Clouds; though the Alarm can also trip at lower levels.

| style="font-size:90%; color:#FFFFFF" | {{{1|When the Extermination units first spawn, they generate a smaller radius cloud. I don't know the exact radius of it (it's not as big as the expanded clouds are), but I do know the damage per second. Here is the damage report of an Astero with just an Anti-Explosive armor rig and a Damage Control II equipped (near the end I dip into structure):

Now, once the damage clouds have enlarged, their radius of damage effect is about 67km. I was in a battleship, so I couldn't just fly around at will to test it from all sides, but 67km is about the cutoff. Assuming roughly 63% resistances to all damage types, the expanded cloud does about 354 damage per second. Using EFT or Pyfa's calculations of Effective Hit Points per Second (EHP/s), 900 EHP/s won't get you killed right away (the fit I used which tanked the damage shown below repped 963.9EHP/sec with one repair module) and was...Okay. 1200 EHP/sec is probably quite sufficient to tank the clouds indefinitely. Curiously, the Spatial Rift near the Calibration containers didn't work with the Engineering Stations spawned...Also if you want to MJD to the back room while tanking the damage clouds, you must account for the sentry tower damage. Output from the expanded clouds ([http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/File:3P38_Standard_13.png image for reference]):

Now, head over to the three Coordinate Plotting Devices on your right as you landed in:  

'''CAN DIFFICULTY: 7/10 [RED HACK]'''<br />

<span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> The coordinate for the can which you just hacked is added into your cargohold. You do not need to "Open Cargo" on the can as you normally do.<br />

Obtain all three coordinates. Place those three Coordinates (there should be X, Y, and Z Coordinates) into the High Power Calibration Unit can, which is near where you are. Just get within 2500m of the container (it looks like a jetcan), do an Open Cargo on it, and place the Coordinates from your ship's cargo hold into the container. A message on the screen will inform you of the event. Go back to your mobile depot. Remove all unnecessary cloaks, probe launchers, unnecessary cargo, and travel-fit modules and pack them into the Mobile Depot itself. Refit into one of the fits specified above for running the back room with an afterburner.

The reason why we must take the Spatial Rift is because simply burning 200km to the back room will not go unnoticed by the 3 Sentry Towers in the back enclave. At the distances involved, your effective transversal will be low, and they can strike out to 250km, meaning that frigates will be toasted before they even make it halfway. In fact, a frigate with a Microwarpdrive on when the initial alpha strike happens could just alpha the frigate into a smoldering wreck. '''Also be warned:''' There is a hidden Restless Sentry Tower that can be activated by proximity to the Tractor Beam zone, right next to the Tractor Beam itself. It is activated by a ship being somewhere around 20km of that object, although the exact activation proximity is uncertain. This Sentry Tower is a duplicate of one that is activated by hacking the RDGU in the back enclave.

As I discussed earlier, those fits shown up above are specific to this next room you'll be warping to. The Afterburner is vital for keeping yourself moving; the EM and Thermal hardeners are there to resist the damage types of the Sentry Guns hostile to you: the buffer tank is there to absorb one or two or maybe 3 hits at the most. The Data Analyzer is there to hack the can. The guns and the drones are there to kill one of the Sentry Guns. By the way, I have used a fit for a Heron using a Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, you can try that if you want. But don't forget that your buffer is what makes your resistances worthwhile, as the damage has to sink into something: frigates and destroyers don't really have the native HP to make tanking unbuffered alpha damage worthwhile (that's a cruiser and above concept); therefore it's easy for one solid whack to alpha your ship off the site. You could also try using two Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcers and one T2 active EM hardener, which might make it so you can fit a shield booster. Start with my fit first and see how it works for you. Experimenting with a friendly Bantam or Inquisitor pilot can help, or bring a Scythe for extra drone damage. (Use light drones. The 50m signature radius of the Towers means medium drones can hardly track them.)