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* Looking at the signature as you scan it down. If you're at 1 A.U. and it's still only showing Data Site as the classification, you're probably looking at one.

* Normal cosmic signatures almost always spawn within 4 A.U. of a celestial. This can be a moon, stargate, planet, station or the Sun. But Sleeper sites, as I have come to understand, may spawn 5 or more A.U. away from a celestial.

* Normal cosmic signatures almost always spawn within 4 A.U. of a celestial. This can be a moon, stargate, planet, station or the Sun. But Sleeper sites, as I have come to understand, may spawn 5 or more A.U. away from a celestial, though less than 8 A.U.

* As far as I know of, Sleeper sites only spawn in Known Space. If you like real adventurous PvE content like this stuff, you should look at C5 and C6 wormhole "combat data sites" which have a nice Sleeper presence to welcome you. Bring lots of friends.

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Some trick, you say? And why not use a shiny ship? Well, I'm a cheapie, and my reasoning is if I can do it with a Tech I frigate, why not do it with a Tech I frigate? Indeed, you can run all the Sleeper Sites, to a point, with just a Tech I frigate. I will show you how.

Some trick, you say? And why not use a shiny ship? Well, I'm a cheapie, and my reasoning is if I can do it with a Tech I frigate, why not do it with a Tech I frigate? Indeed, you can run all the Sleeper Sites, to a point, with just a Tech I frigate. I will show you how to run each one of these sites with a Tech I frigate.

First to scan the site. While the Dual Triangle Formation can yield, according to my testing, the strongest strength, it is rather difficult to set up. You may have heard of custom probe formations before, and while scanning Sleeper sites down is an excellent time to work on two formations: a generic cube formation, and a "max strength" cube formation. The cube formation is the easiest formation to make that yields the best scan strength. How did I make mine? Well, awhile back I couldn't scan down a Sleeper Site, but I still found one to set my probe formations up and test them. There's also the Diamond formation, but I find that the cube formation has been the easiest and has worked every time.

Here's some fancy images to show you:

{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;"

|[[File:3P38_Supplement_58.png|thumb|none|alt=A|There is a Superior Sleeper Cache here]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_51.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Remember the 4 AU standard]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_43.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Another obvious Sleeper Cache site]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_48.png|thumb|none|alt=A|And another one]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_49.png|thumb|none|alt=A|A site showed with a pure red bubble]]||

|}

Looking at those images above, the one on the far left: There is a Sleeper Cache there, and I can tell without even scanning anything. It's not the one on the far left, nor the one one in the middle. The other images are helpful images that demonstrate what distinguishes a Sleeper Cache from other signatures in the system: if you're at 1 AU and still not even 50% scanned down, it's probably one, particularly if it's more than 4 AU from a celestial.

So when I identify a Sleeper site, I normally start with 4 A.U. regular old default pinpoint formation. As you might imagine, my astrometric skills are somewhat high, so I don't have as much of a problem as back when I was wandering around in wormholes on my trial days. (I actually did hack a relic site or two back then.) I then jump to 1 A.U. size, refine, scan, then .25 A.U. and really make sure I get the location accurate. Once I get that result, I switch it over to the maximum strength cube formation preset, center it up nice, and scan...boom, result. No fancy costly Sisters launchers needed -- why would I buy one of those, when if I lost my ship, that module alone would cost more than three times the total value of my ship? I don't know why people buy those. Too shiny for me.

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Ships -- now's a very good time to start talking about them. There are two Tech I exploration frigates I recommend, and frankly, if it's not listed here, there is a very good set of reasons why it is not.

The Heron is what I normally use for exploration. It is both cheap, capable, works good for combat probing detail, and works well enough for the job. Its slightly longer targeting range (it's not much, but I do like it) and higher top speed (with a MWD, about 300 m/s versus the Magnate) means that combined with the other purposes I use it for, makes it well suited as my default exploration vessel.

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 * Looking at the signature as you scan it down. If you're at 1 A.U. and it's still only showing Data Site as the classification, you're probably looking at one.
-* Normal cosmic signatures almost always spawn within 4 A.U. of a celestial. This can be a moon, stargate, planet, station or the Sun. But Sleeper sites, as I have come to understand, may spawn 5 or more A.U. away from a celestial.
+* Normal cosmic signatures almost always spawn within 4 A.U. of a celestial. This can be a moon, stargate, planet, station or the Sun. But Sleeper sites, as I have come to understand, may spawn 5 or more A.U. away from a celestial, though less than 8 A.U.
 * As far as I know of, Sleeper sites only spawn in Known Space. If you like real adventurous PvE content like this stuff, you should look at C5 and C6 wormhole "combat data sites" which have a nice Sleeper presence to welcome you. Bring lots of friends.
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-Some trick, you say? And why not use a shiny ship? Well, I'm a cheapie, and my reasoning is if I can do it with a Tech I frigate, why not do it with a Tech I frigate? Indeed, you can run all the Sleeper Sites, to a point, with just a Tech I frigate. I will show you how.
+Some trick, you say? And why not use a shiny ship? Well, I'm a cheapie, and my reasoning is if I can do it with a Tech I frigate, why not do it with a Tech I frigate? Indeed, you can run all the Sleeper Sites, to a point, with just a Tech I frigate. I will show you how to run each one of these sites with a Tech I frigate.
 First to scan the site. While the Dual Triangle Formation can yield, according to my testing, the strongest strength, it is rather difficult to set up. You may have heard of custom probe formations before, and while scanning Sleeper sites down is an excellent time to work on two formations: a generic cube formation, and a "max strength" cube formation. The cube formation is the easiest formation to make that yields the best scan strength. How did I make mine? Well, awhile back I couldn't scan down a Sleeper Site, but I still found one to set my probe formations up and test them. There's also the Diamond formation, but I find that the cube formation has been the easiest and has worked every time.
 Here's some fancy images to show you:
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;"
+|[[File:3P38_Supplement_58.png|thumb|none|alt=A|There is a Superior Sleeper Cache here]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_51.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Remember the 4 AU standard]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_43.png|thumb|none|alt=A|Another obvious Sleeper Cache site]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_48.png|thumb|none|alt=A|And another one]]||[[File:3P38_Supplement_49.png|thumb|none|alt=A|A site showed with a pure red bubble]]||
+|}
+Looking at those images above, the one on the far left: There is a Sleeper Cache there, and I can tell without even scanning anything. It's not the one on the far left, nor the one one in the middle. The other images are helpful images that demonstrate what distinguishes a Sleeper Cache from other signatures in the system: if you're at 1 AU and still not even 50% scanned down, it's probably one, particularly if it's more than 4 AU from a celestial.
 So when I identify a Sleeper site, I normally start with 4 A.U. regular old default pinpoint formation. As you might imagine, my astrometric skills are somewhat high, so I don't have as much of a problem as back when I was wandering around in wormholes on my trial days. (I actually did hack a relic site or two back then.) I then jump to 1 A.U. size, refine, scan, then .25 A.U. and really make sure I get the location accurate. Once I get that result, I switch it over to the maximum strength cube formation preset, center it up nice, and scan...boom, result. No fancy costly Sisters launchers needed -- why would I buy one of those, when if I lost my ship, that module alone would cost more than three times the total value of my ship? I don't know why people buy those. Too shiny for me.
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 Ships -- now's a very good time to start talking about them. There are two Tech I exploration frigates I recommend, and frankly, if it's not listed here, there is a very good set of reasons why it is not.
 The Heron is what I normally use for exploration. It is both cheap, capable, works good for combat probing detail, and works well enough for the job. Its slightly longer targeting range (it's not much, but I do like it) and higher top speed (with a MWD, about 300 m/s versus the Magnate) means that combined with the other purposes I use it for, makes it well suited as my default exploration vessel.