Rogue Trial Yard

On warp in, the following message is shown: Little is known about rogue drones except that they are aggresive and highly territorial.

Locating & Difficulty

This is a complex that can be scanned down with scanner probes, and can be found in low security space. Its signal strength is high (20%), making it easy to scan down.

The site is a deadspace pocket accessed through gates. Access seems restricted to battlecruisers and below.

The Site Itself

No hostile on warp-in to initial gate

Pocket 1

Initial Group

• 3x (Frigate) Digger Drone
• 2x (Frigate) Harvester Drone
• 3x (Cruiser) Devastator Alvum

Wave 2 (trigger on time?)

• 2x (Frigate) Hunter Alvi
• 2x (Elite Frigate) Strain Silverfish Alvi
• 6x (Cruiser) Assault Drone Alvi

Access the next pocket by jumping through the Spatial Rift.

Wave 3 (May be triggered by approaching the Spatial Rift Gate. A message No further will appear in local.)

• 2-4x (Frigate) Strain Silverfish Alvi / Strain Hunter Alvi / Hunter Alvi / Barracuda Alvi
• 0-6x (Battlecruiser) Drone Assault Drone (no battlecruiser spawned for the writer)

Pocket 2

Initial Group

• 9x (Frigate) Sunder Alvi / Render Alvi / Decimator Alvi (15 - 25 km from warp in position)
• 3x (Frigate) Marauder Alvior (50 to 65 km from warp in)

Wave 2 (trigger?)

• 4x (Cruiser) Violator Alvum
• 1x (Commander Cruiser) Sentient Viral Infector Alvum (may produce Tech 2 salvage)

Wave 3 (trigger?)

• 3x (Cruiser?) Crippler Alvatis / Striker Alvatis

After the last ship is killed the message We will go elsewhere. appears.

Accessible Containers

• 5x Container with blast marks (may or may not contain something (never did for the writer))

Wave 4 (may triggered by accessing one of the container)

• 2x (Battlecruiser) Drone
• 3x (Cruiser) Drone

Total bounty about 1.8 M ISK.

On warping off after completing the site, everything despawned, including unlooted wrecks, so loot worth is not known.

Escalation

Killing the Sentient Annihilator Alvum may start the escalation chain Moving Day. The following message would then be shown: Mid fight you noticed a transport ship coming in from warp accompanied by a few drone escorts and after some targeted scans your instruments get a suspicious reading along their incoming warp trajectory.