Like Drones to a Cloud

Level	4
Type	Mining
Objective	Defeat all drones; harvest 425 Chartreuse Cytoserocin (4,250 m3).
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Ship suggestion	Cruiser, though a properly fitted Venture may work

Mission briefing

Drones scare the daylights out of some people. To be completely honest, the big hives even scare me a little. The smaller drone groups are annoying, but more manageable. Usually. Anyway, there's a Chartreuse Cytoserocin cloud over in <System> that seems to be attracting these wild drones. We keep clearing them out, but new drones just end up replacing them. We've figured out that, for whatever reason, they're attracted to the gas. So the best solution is to just remove the cloud: no cloud, no drones. If you can harvest that cloud out, it'd be a big help. You must own and be able to use a Gas Cloud Harvester to complete this mission. If you do not or cannot, please just decline; note that you can decline one mission every 4 hours without standing loss.

Rogue Drones

Rogue drones and "wild drones" are the terms used for advanced drones that have mutated out of control. A few years ago, a respected Gallentean inventor had the idea of creating super-advanced drones that could think and act on their own in every sense like a regular space ship, except for being computer controlled, and hence unmanned. Unfortunately, the drones became unruly, then unmanageable, and soon developed the ability to "infect" other drones, and eventually even ships, with their capricious artificial intelligence. Needless to say, Gallente soon abandoned this line of research.

Warning: You must own and be able to use a Gas Cloud Harvester to complete this mission.

Unlike most mining mission, who have only a chance of belt rats showing up, this mission has its own rats.

Ungated normal space pocket. The rats spawn near a drone structure. The spawn appear at 5 minute intervals.

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Chartreuse Cytoserocin
	1 x Lookout Tower
	1 x Wall Elevation
	1 x Wall Junction
	3 x Wall
	1 x Bunker (LCO)

First spawn (3 ships)

		WD	EWAR	L
	1-2 x Frigate Hunter/Silverfish/Devilfish Alvi
	1-2 x Destroyer Shatter/Ripper Alvior

Second spawn (2 ships)

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-2 x Frigate Infester/Splinter Alvi
	0-2 x Cruiser Wrecker/Destructor Alvum

Third spawn (2 ships)

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-1 x Frigate Devilfish Alvi
	1-2 x Cruiser Wrecker/Destructor Alvum

Fourth spawn (1-3 ships)

		WD	EWAR	L
	0-2 x Frigate Devilfish/Baracuda Alvi
	0-1 x Destroyer Ripper Alvior
	0-2 x Cruiser Wrecker/Destructor Alvum

Fifth spawn (Optional?)

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Destroyer Shatter/Ripper Alvior