The Anomaly (1 of 3)

Level	4
Type	Encounter
Objective	Rescue Fajah Ateshi
Extra	No defenders but you still need guns and tank

Mission briefing

Ever heard of The Anomaly? Lots of superstition around that name - it's one of our ships that vanished completely while testing an experimental jump drive. A trading vessel heard The Anomaly's signal last week and so we sent out a salvage crew, The Paryi, to investigate the site where it reappeared, but something went wrong. We received The Paryi's distress call yesterday and can't make sense of it. It seems some of them were killed in an explosion near The Anomaly, and the survivors escaped in life pods but are trapped there by gravity waves exuding from the ship. But the other things they said… well, some of them must have cracked under the stress. If there were any survivors from The Anomaly, they would've contacted us, after all. You need to rescue The Paryi's survivors, especially Dr. Fajah Ateshi. Once we learn what they uncovered, we'll have a better sense of how to proceed. The Anomaly was a very expensive project, and some very powerful people are invested in figuring out how it vanished.

Video: [Raven Navy Issue]

The agent sends you to rescue an amarrian scientist from an experiment site.

This mission is always followed by The Anomaly (2 of 3)

Tip:

• Fitting a Micro Warp Drive or Afterburner is recommended.
• Approaching the other four damaged Pods will also trigger a message and the Pod contains a Stranded Pilot (not needed to complete the mission).
• Using Combat Drones to kill the Debris Silo may kill them. Sentry Drones will take damage but survive.

Blitz: Bring Oura Madusaari to skip the life pods and go straight through the gate. Destroy the Silo closest to the Anomally and ignore the rest. Loot the container.

Warp-in

There are 5 Pods when you warp in, one of contains Oura Madusaari who is needed to get through the acceleration gate. The right pod's description reads "A life pod from a long since destroyed ship.". Rest of the pods contain jsut stranded pilots.
Approaching this pod will trigger a message and spawn a container. Loot the passenger Oura Madusaari, needed to unlock the acceleration gate. The Oura Madusaari is not consumed on use so you can keep her in your cargo for next time you get this mission. The pods are structures and can not be tractored with tractor beam.

Message from Ooura Madusaari
Are you real? I turned off my radio because they keep trying to talk to us, I can hear them begging, pleading, scratching inside my head… look, I locked the gate behind us but now Fajah's trapped there, at their mercy, because of us. I'll open the gate so we can save her, but please, don't listen to the other voices, don't listen to anyone except Fajah.

2nd Pocket

In the second pocket you will see the anomaly. It is an wormhole that based on the skybox leads to Caldari space. At the center of the wormhole is parked an Orca. You can access the Orda's cargo hold but it is empty.

You will encounter periodic damage from the anomaly from about 5km in, 5 hits of 200 to 400 damage each. Destroy the Pressure Silo Debris structures, the one closest to the Anomaly will drop 2 containers. Loot the objective item, Dr. Fajah Ateshi.

Structure: The Debris Silos drop T1 ammo, the explosion causes 800 omni damage.

As you destroye the containers you will receive transmissions:

Strange Transmission

They called me to identify the body, and I told them she divorced me last year but they didn't care because she had no friends, no family on the planet at all. I went in and they pulled back the sheet and she was there beautiful like she was asleep, and my full name was carved delicately into her left arm like calligraphy, the blood dried like rust on parchment. Every time I closed my eyes for a full year after I saw that. I still miss her.

Strange Transmission
"You have failed your family," he tells me with gentleness I know he's incapable of feeling. "You have dishonored us. You know what to do." And I know that the honorable thing is to fall on my sword like a good girl, so I take it out and push it through his chest and show him exactly what I think of his precious honor. I will never have to apologize again.

Transmission from the anomaly

He promised we would go to the beach on my birthday, so we went, even though it was raining, even though we didn't know where mom was again. I was collecting shells, and I found one that was perfect and round and smooth but then I looked back to the shore and saw him just standing there, the first time I'd ever seen him cry, and I wanted to say something but couldn't, just stood there, frozen, the shell crunching in my fist, and I looked down and my hand was bleeding but I didn't feel it at all.

Strange Transmission

//I'm naked and I'm walking the blue-painted halls at military academy, and it's okay because everyone gets hazed like this and I'm in better shape than all of them so I'm not ashamed, except this means they can see the scars twining from my back and down to my knees like snakes, and what starts as laughter turns into confused whispering and sounds of pity as they realize how recently I was a slave, and I want to kill them slowly just like I did the man who gave me the scars, but I just walk on, seeing only red.