Desolate Site

Site Details

Desolate Site
Type	Unrated Complex
Rating	Unrated
Found in	High
Max ship size	T3 Cruiser
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Sig. strength	10% in Null Sec

Desolate Site is an Unrated Complex found in high sec and low sec via exploration.

You must be flying a T3 cruiser or smaller to enter the acceleration gate.

Walkthrough

On warp in:
Rogue Drones are unpredictable, pilots are advised to tread with care.

Initially there are only two groups on grid. Third group consisting of a frigate and a destroyer appears in few seconds. You can ignore the groups that have destroyers or drones. Destroying the group with frigates only will trigger additional waves.

The first and second spawns appear by the Warning Sign structure.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	2-3 x Drone Drone Harvester
	8 x Frigate Silverfish/Decimator/Harvester/Sunder Alvi
	1 x Destroyer Dismantler Alvin

If using drones, recall them when the next wave spawns, since they will target drones when spawning.

first spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	3-4 x Frigate Devilfish/Barracuda Alvin
	3 x Destroyer Ripper Alvior

Finishing first spawn can trigger escalation.

second spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	3-4 x Frigate Hunter/Barracuda Alvin
	1 x Commander Frigate Sentient Devilfish Alvin
	2-3 x Destroyer Ripper Alvi

Loot

• Salvage: 814K-1.42M
• Loot: (sentient drone) Drone Capillary Fluids + Drone Synaptic Relay Wiring (~5m). Possible Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip (~50m). Sentient Modules (~100m) (very rare).
• Bounties: about 50k (defenders) and 80k (reinforcement)

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
May 2020	Sentient Drone Damage Amplifier	146M ISK
March 2021	Sentient Omnidirectional Tracking Link	23,7M ISK
May 2020	Drone Capillary Fluid	3.5M ISK
August 2020	Drone Capillary Fluid	1.35M ISK
January 2021	Drone Synaptic Relay Wiring	63K ISK
February 2021	Drone Capillary Fluid	2.59M ISK

Escalation

Mare Sargassum

At first it seems strange the drones have picked this barren and resource deficient place to build a new hive. But then again, while you were blowing up the place, you noticed a few vessels that might have been used as transports, indicating the drones were pulling in the materials they needed from someplace else. As to compliment you on your reasoning, your communication systems start indicating several different incoming transmissions in drone beeps and clicks and after a while you manage to coerce your instruments into pointing out an approximate spatial origin of the message.

Destroying the first spawn group or sentient drone can escalate the site to Mare Sargassum.