Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation

Site Details

Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation
Type	DED Rated Complex
Rating	3/10
Found in	High, Low
Max ship size	Cruisers
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Sig. strength	10% in High and Low

Rogue Drone Asteroid Infestation is a DED rated combat site found in high and low security space. It is often regarded as a low value site as it contains no faction drones and has a very low chance to drop a single faction module.

There are minable asteroids of Omber and Veldspar, but the site will despawn shortly after the drones guarding the Scratched Cask in the last room are defeated, preventing them from being mined unless someone stays in the site, although you do have enough time to go to a nearby station to drop off.

Walkthrough

On warp in:

This complex was once the work field of a wealthy mining corporation. Funding got cut shortly after an architectural mishap, where the acceleration gates that were supposed to carry the massive industrial haulers got infected with a mysterious virus. The gates' power coils were severely drained and are to this day only capable of hurling smaller vessels between complex pockets. The ruins are now reputed to be infested with a strain of rogue drones.

First Pocket

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First Pocket

This pocket also contains 1 Omber (about 18k units) and 11 Veldspar asteroids.

Defending Group(auto-aggro)

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Drone Incubus/Termite/... Apis

Idling in this pocket (e.g. while mining Omber) can spawn 3 Serpentis corvettes

Second Pocket

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This pocket also contains 2 Omber (only containing about 500 units total) and 28 Veldspar asteroids.

On warp in:
This section of the complex was once a pocket of very valuable minerals. Most of the ore was mined away decades ago by the resident mining corporation, but the drifting hulks of rock are now kept company by another type of scavenger: rogue drones.

		WD	EWAR	L
	14 x Drone Arachula/Asmodeus/... Apis
	5 x Frigate Decimator/infester/... Alvi

The Black Drone Container is blocked from warp-in by a large, barren asteroid, requiring manual piloting to move around. The containers are locked until the rats by them are destroyed.

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Black Drone Container
	1 x Rogue Drone Container
	2 x Barren Asteroid
	1 x Acceleration Gate

Third Pocket

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Third Pocket

This pocket also contains 8 Omber (about 93k units) and 9 Veldspar asteroids.

On warp in:

This complex pocket once housed a thriving center for miners operating in the deadspace field. The old station ruins that still remain within the sector are evidence enough that some decades back, this area was highly valued by whatever mining interest controlled it. Multiple signals and reports of rogue drone activity have been detected around this central area. It appears these abandoned ruins have now become the home of a hostile strain of rogue drones who will stop at nothing to defend their harvesting operation.

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Render Alvi
	5 x Frigate Render/Splinter Alvi
	8 x Drone Asmodeus/Belpegor/... Apis
By the Scratched Cask container
	2 x Frigate Decimator/Render Alvi
By the Rogue Drone Container
	2 x Frigate Decimator/Render Alvi

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Scratched Cask
	1 x Rogue Drone Container
	4 x Mineral Container

Loot

Faction module drop is very rare.
Total of ≈112k units (67,000m³) Omber site-wide.

Item Name	Est. Value	Drops from	Note
5th Tier Overseer's Effects	180k ISK	Black Drone Container	100% drop rate
7th Tier Overseer's Effects	600k ISK	Scratched Cask	100% drop rate
Mineral Compound		Rogue Drone Container	Compound type varies
Nocxium, Mexallon, Pyerite, or Tritanium		Mineral Container	<100m³
A faction module		Scratched Cask	Very rare

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
Jun 2016	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals	850k	360k Salvage
Nov 2018	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals	680k
Nov 2018	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals	680k
April 2021	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals, Shadow Serpentis EM Coating	710k
Nov 2023	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals, Shadow Serpentis Kinetic Armor Hardener	1.95m
Nov 2023	5th & 7th Tier Overseer's FX, Assorted Minerals	680k

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