Portal to War (1 of 5)

Main article: Portal to War

Level	3
Type	Encounter
Objective	Clear the entire area of rogue drones
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Ship suggestion	HAC, Battlecruiser
Extra	Decimator/Sunder Alvi will target drones

Mission briefing

I was assigned a mission from a colleague of mine in <Corporation>, who apparently hasn't been able to solve the investigation of a certain deadspace area in <System>. They found an Amarrian slaver compound inside, as well as a few groups of Caldari State combat ships. Obviously this is a threat that must be dealt with. There are two questions we must answer, how did our enemies manage to get all their equipment and ships into Servant Sisters of EVE space, completely avoiding our surveillance systems at the stargates. And how big exactly is their complex inside the deadspace area which they've been hiding in. Our problem right now is that the path into the deadspace complex is blocked off by a large armada of Amarrian ships. I seriously doubt you'd be able to handle them, no offense. So your first task is to discover an alternate route into the complex, to avoid direct confrontation with their fleet. I've located an old, abandoned acceleration gate leading into the deadspace area, which I'm pretty sure the Amarrians are not aware of. The only problem is that it leads to an area infested with rogue drones, who nearly wiped out a mining colony there many years ago. You will have to deal with them when you warp inside. After you have used two acceleration gates, you will find yourself in a room with the final gate, which leads to the drone hive itself. Do NOT go through it, under any circumstances. Your task is to simply eradicate all of the rogue drones inside the first few rooms and then report back to me.

Video: [Cerberus April 2014]

Warp-in

Drone Transmission
bzzzzzt*010100000101001001000101010100000100000101010010010001010010000001010100010011110010000001000100010010010100010100101100001000000100111000110000001100000100001000101110

• The Rogue Drone transmission is binary and, when converted to ASCII, says "PREPARE TO DIE, N00B."

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Cruiser Destructor Alvum

1st Pocket

All groups contain the same ships and missile batteries.

		WD	EWAR	L
1st Group, 10-30km (auto-aggro)
	3 x Frigate Decimator/Sunder Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum
	1 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery
2nd Group, 55-60km
	3 x Frigate Decimator/Sunder Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum
	1 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery
3rd Group, 60-65km
	3 x Frigate Decimator/Sunder Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum
	1 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery
4th Group, 65-70km
	3 x Frigate Decimator/Sunder Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Viral Infector Alvum
	1 x Sentry Drone Light Missile Battery

2nd Pocket

Initial Group, 20km

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Battlecruiser Drone Watcher
	1 x Sentry Drone Watcher Post

Mining

1st Pocket

		WD	EWAR	L
	9 x Veldspar
	18 x Scordite

2nd Pocket

		WD	EWAR	L
	36 x Veldspar

Agent hand-in message
Good work. I've notified our engineers which were on stand-by near the deadspace area to warp inside and start modifying the gate which leads to the Drone Hive. After the modifications it should lead you to the Amarrian complex instead …

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