Minor Serpentis Annex

Site Details

Minor Serpentis Annex
Type	Unrated Complex
Rating	Unrated
Found in	Low
Max ship size	Unknown
Faction	Serpentis
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Th Kin
Sig. strength	5% in Low

Walkthrough

Database Information
Previous explorers have commented that one of the gates requires a passkey. Alternatively, it can be bypassed by convincing the commander to unlock it. The overseer guards the Smuggler Gate vigorously. There must be a way to lure out some of his guards before engaging him though ...

The site is very similar to Serpentis Watch.

First Pocket

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Kill points, approach the gate, use Serpentis Crystal Tag - voilà, you are in Second Pocket. Or kill Core Militiant Commander.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	2-3 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Initiate/Scout
	4 x Destroyer Corelior Sentinel/...
	1 x Cruiser Corelum Scout
	6 x Battleship Core Port/Rear/Vice Admiral

Wave 2

		WD	EWAR	L
	? x Elite Frigate
	? x Battlecruiser
	? x Battleship

Wave 3

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Elite Cruiser Corelum Guardian Chief Guard
	3 x Battlecruiser Correlatis Captain Sentry
	5 x Battleship Core Rear/Port Admiral

Acceleration Gate Proximity Wave (Wave 4)

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Cruiser Militant Commander's Escorter
	1 x Battleship Core Militant Commander

Second Pocket

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Smuggler Gate Operator:
Intruders! Defend the gate!

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L Notable structures on site
	1 x Smuggler gate
	3 x Serpentis Tower

Shooting any of the Serpentis Towers triggers Tower wave. Shooting the Smuggler gate triggers gate wave. If you shoot at the gate before triggering tower wave then tower wave is also triggered (verify).

Spawns can be grouped differently depending on what order they are triggered in. The following is from shooting one of the towers before shooting at the gate.

Initial Defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Destroyer Corelior Artillery/Cannoneer
	4 x Battlecruiser Corelatis High Captain/...
	5 x Battleship Core Port/Rear/... Admiral

Tower wave triggered:
A distress signal is sent when the Starbase Control Tower is attacked! Hostile reinforcements are incoming!

Tower Wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Cruiser Corelum Guardian Chief Infantry
	3-5 x Battleship Core Vice/... Admiral

Reinforcements:
A group of Core activists have jumped through the stargate to defend the Starbase Control Tower

Reinforcements to tower wave arrive few seconds later.

Reinforcements

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Battleship Core Gate Guardian

Smuggler Gate Wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	7 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Agent/Spy...
	5 x Frigate Supervisor's Henchman
	4 x Destroyer Corelior Artillery/...
	3 x Battlecruiser Corelatis Squad Leader
	14 x Battleship Core Rear/Vice/... Admiral

Core Militant Overseer:
Imbeciles. I'm surrounded by imbeciles! I spent a fortune on this place and you can't even defend it from some rag-tag outsiders. Pfft! I'll deal with you all after I mop the floor with these pests.

Core Militant Supervisor Wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	4 x Elite Frigate Overseer's Henchman
	4 x Battlecruiser Overseer's Guardian
	1 x Battleship Core Militant Supervisor

Commander:
The Overseer has come to defend the stargate! Prepare for a fight.

Commander Wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Commander Battlecruiser Shadow Serpentis Wing Leader

Loot

Commander and other valuable loot

Item Name	Est. Value	Note
Shadow Serpentis Gold Tag, faction ammo	1.5M

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
Nov 2016	Shadow Serpentis Gold Tag, faction ammo	1.5M	Can be done in a Cruise-Phoon with auto-missiles, but takes forever and you're always worried of getting jumped. Not worth the effort? Will try again. Bounties and salvage seems decent if you run in a group and clear it quickly.
Oct 2017	No commander spawn, escalation did trigger.	15M+ in Bounties	Fairly significant DPS on the smuggler's gate wave, including scram elite frigates. Completed in a 100MN HAM legion with no issues.

Escalation

Serpentis Owned Station

To your surprise, the Overseer seems to have spent the last moments of his life sending some message to your ship on a private channel, a fact you learn from a blinking entry on your communication panel a few seconds after his innards slid across your windshield, bounced along your fuselage and were sucked into your thrusters. It appears he wanted to save his life by telling you the whereabouts of some place you could load your cargohold with riches, but before he could get very far with his offer, his journey ended. All you have is some hysteric babble about a hidden mining station at a certain location.

Can escalate to Serpentis Owned Station