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20. Hack all loot containers at your leisure. Do not approach the Plasma Chambers nearby. Use "Keep at Range" (2500m) for the can closest to those chambers and approach slowly with no propulsion module active.<br />

::<span style="color:green">SUCCESS:</span> A Pristine Storage Depot and possibly one or two lower grade containers are spawned. The locations of the hidden mines are revealed and deactivated.<br />

# Drop all loot and unneeded modules into the Mobile Depot. Alternate choice: Use a Small Secure Container instead.

# Refit into the appropriate fit. For frigates, that would be the generic site running fit shown above. For ships that are intended to handle the Archive Room, having that fit on standby is important too. Experience will direct you what to do past the second site or so.

Assuming a successful hack of the Sentry Repair Station, simply sit near the Repair Station and wait for the hostile Towers to be eradicated. Do not approach the 3 Unstable Plasma Chambers located north of the warp-in. Getting too close to these could be fatal, and will also trip the alarm.

The following fits are intended to tank all the Sentry Tower damage in this room. Any cruiser or larger ship with ~900-1000 EHP/sec repairs against EM and Thermal damage can survive here as long as it is capacitor stable. Armor tanked ships are the obvious choice because of the default resistance profile of armor, and because the Relic Analyzer won't interfere with capacitor modules or tank modules in the mid slots, as it would with shield tanks. That's not to say a [[Tengu]] or [[Sleipnir]] is bad, but just that armor is easier.

 

Choices include any ship with a bonus to repair amount, resistances, or both (e.g. T2 hulls with the T2 resistance profile). [[Maller|Mallers]] make a good choice for both low cost and ease of entry; for battlecruisers, the [[Prophecy]], [[Brutix]], and [[Myrmidon]] are all respectable. Battleships usually have no problem fitting a tank along the suggested lines.

 

 

 

 

Also any fit that can survive the Archive Room indefinitely (repping in excess of 2000 EHP/sec) won't have a problem, and may simply continue on hacking as if nothing happened.

Therefore, the basic strategy is to ignore the Remote Defense Grid Unit hack entirely, and hack only the Storage Depot.  

If there is doubt as to whether the Alarm is active or not (i.e. if someone else may have tripped it), it's possible swap out the two armor repairers for a pair of 1600mm plates and have a look. There is enough buffer to survive without reps for about five minutes. If the Perimeter towers are not active, but all 10 proximity towers and the initial 6 towers are, then the tank should last for about 6.5 minutes. Using Pyfa's numbers, one [[Exequror]] can repair about 2000 EHP/sec onto a plated fit using the right hardeners and may be a good alternative. As long as the logistics ship does not steal aggro (just sit near the beacon), this approach should work nicely. This also has the benefit in that an overtanked [[Maller]] may only need to swap out for all EM and Thermal Hardeners, as 90% resists are pretty effective at reducing the incoming DPS.

:# Lock up one of the Unstable Plasma Chambers. Make sure you have some kind of high slot weapon: drones will not work. Even a 125mm Autocannon on a Nestor is enough. A target painter is even easier. But do not shoot it yet.<br />

Just after you finish the hack, watch Local to see when the message pops up informing of the activation, wait about 2 seconds, then quickly shoot a Plasma Chamber. The Vessel Rejuvenation Battery's mad reps will protect you. Quickly turn on the Microwarpdrive over to the now-revived Hyperfluct Generator. There are just 60 seconds to attempt a successful hack before the Perimeter Defense System comes online, if it was not before. When that happens, 16 new Sentry Towers appear. Frigates will be destroyed. Ships that can run the Archive Room fine will be okay to repeat attempts until the Rift is generated.

Once the hack is completed, take the Rift into the Archive Room itself.

It is advisable, but not required to shoot the Sentry Towers that lie around the perimeter. As they have a 50m signature radius, Light Neutron Blasters and light drones are recommended, or sentry drones. Depending on the ship's fit, their absence can be enough to make sure your tank lasts long enough.

Place 3 Cerebrum Oscillation Fluids into the Central Archive Cerebrum; more is unnecessary. When this is done, a couple of things are initiated: first, the Central Archive Cerebrum will eject Storage Depots of varying grades, and shockwaves will begin to occur after about 2 minutes or so. The first set are tankable fine in a standard Tech III Strategic Cruiser, though the double massive shockwaves will most likely be more than most fits and skills can handle. The basic idea then becomes a question of how many cans can be hacked and looted before the incoming damage is more than can be safely tolerated.