Minmatar COSMOS: Difference between revisions

Like all of the other COSMOS constellations throughout New Eden, there are beacons in each solar system where you can find so-called COSMOS agents in space. All of these beacons are landmarks in the systems that each tell a story of its own. COMSOS agents belong to a NPC corporation in a faction, like the normal agents you find in stations, and offer series 2-5 mission long one-time mission chains. The reward of the missions are often storyline blueprint copies. Every series ends with an important storyline mission that will give a nice boost to faction standings. While some of these missions are like normal encounter or courier missions, most of the missions need a special item to finish. You have to search for these items in the various COMPLEXes and LANDMARKs in the constellation.  

The COMPLEXes and LANDMARKs in the constellation come with different DED ratings, like other COMPLEXes throughout New Eden. This rating indicates the difficulty of the COMPLEX as well as the ships allowed by the entrance gate. All COMPLEXes in the constellation are somewhat meant to support more than one pilot at once, resulting in fast respawn rates and large pockets with a lot of NPCs. Some of the COMPLEXes, LANDMARKs and COMBAT SITEs are hidden and have to be scanned down with scan probes before they can be accessed. Furthermore, some of the COMPLEXes have special pockets with cans that need the hacking skill or the archaelogy skill to access them. While there are very few agents that demand items you can find in these cans, all of the BPCs you can get as rewards from the COSMOS agents need items out of these cans to build.

* Storyline blueprint copies: Agents often give blueprint copies as reward that can't be found anywhere else. Items made from these blueprints are meta 6 items. While these modules often have weaker stats than tech 2 or even meta 4 modules, they have considerably lesser fitting requirements. The production of the modules is very costly. You need unseeded skillbooks like Sleeper Technology as prerequisite and special items only found in the COSMOS COMPLEXes to build them. Thus the items can be very expensive on the contract market but don't have much movement.

The interesting part starts once you are sent into the various COMPLEXes, LANDMARKs and COMBAT SITEs.

There are visible COSMOS COMPLEXes, e.g. the 4 COMPLEXes in the constellation that have a beacon and are shown on the ingame map, as well as hidden COMPLEXes you have to scan down first to warp to the entrance. LANDMARKs, both visible and hidden, that are not shown on the ingame map (Please note: The Sispur's Estate is only a LANDMARK, even it is shown on the ingame map). And there are COMBAT SITEs without any acceleration gates and without any beacons to warp to. If you need to go to a hidden location, bring a ship with a Core Probe Launcher fitted, preferably a scanning frigate like the Minmatar Probe.

Every COMPLEX and LANDMARK, hidden or not, have a DED rating that tells you what ship hulls can use the acceleration gate. As examples, the COMPLEX in Inder has a DED rating of 3, which only allows cruiser sized ships, the two visible COMPLEXes in Hjoramold and Traun have a DED 4 rating and allow up to battlecruisers and the Tvink COMPLEX (DED 5) allows battleships (Don't believe the DED ratings given in the ingame maps, they often are wrong). LANDMARKs are generally easier to clear and thus can be done with smaller ship hulls, but for the COMPLEXes I recommend to bring a ship that matches the DED rating. The difficulty of the COMBAT SITEs vary strongly, from "Easy as pie" to "It's a trap!" difficulty. Please refer to the more detailed descriptions of the various sites further down the guide.

I strongly recommend that you have some experience with at least level 3 security missions before you venture into the COSMOS COMPLEXes. You also should be familiar with the concepts of aligning, kiting and drone aggro. You must be able to fit a very good tank (preferably tech II) on your ships, especially when you are alone. I can't stress this out enough. While there are large groups of NPCs in the pockets to begin with, they also have a very short respawn timer. Due to the low respawn rates I also recommend to bring tech II or high meta armaments to clear the rats fast.

While most of the NPC rats you will find in the COMPLEXes and LANDMARKs are from the Angels faction, there are also some other factions present, even from empire factions. Please refer to the detailed site descriptions to learn about the opposing factions and try to fit your tank accordingly. However, sometimes it is not that easy to tell what exact faction you are facing and thus fitting your tank against the expected damage type can be difficult. I generally fitted armor and kinetic hardeners to my armor tanked Hurricane and Tempest (as long as the NPCs I was facing didn't use lasers against me) and two invulnerable fields II with one emp shield rig on my Drake with acceptable results.

As the COMPLEXes can be quite big, I recommend to bring propulsion mods on any ships you use. Preferably a MWD, as they work in all the COMPLEXes and LANDMARKs. If you are interested in the hacking and archaelogy cans in some COMPLEX pockets you obviously have to bring a relic or data analyzer module.

==COMPLEXes, LANDMARKs and COMBAT SITEs==