Exploited Sensitivities

name=Exploited Sensitivities, Level 4

Level	4
Type	Encounter
Faction	Caldari
Best damage to deal	kin/therm
Damage to resist	Kin/therm
Warp disruption	web+scram by Merlins
Ship suggestion	Ishtar, Dominix
Extra	ECM (Tendai, Daimyo, Shugo)

Mission briefing

There's any number of memorial sites from the Great War between us and the Caldari littered around our space. We've always honored the wishes of honest Caldari pilgrims wanting to visit these memorials; we even let them keep a small number of maintenance staff around on the bigger sites. It seems our trust in them was misplaced, however. I've recently received reports of their using their memorials, of all places, as staging grounds for production facilities inside our own space. Those profit-minded slime are seeking to benefit financially from these facilities, all without paying taxes… in fact, without any oversight whatsoever. We've asked them to withdraw all staff and take down their marketing facilities, but they're acting outraged that we'd even suggest it. Obviously it's a sensitive issue, but even the President has been vocal about the Caldari exploiting such sensitivity over the past war for commercial profit. Problem is, our requests are nothing but posturing without an independent like you to back them up: We can't send in any official forces to remove them. A capsuleer like yourself, though… that gives us some plausible deniability. Can we trust you with this matter, Hirmuolio Pine?

Space type: Deadspace without gates
Difficulty: Easy
Standings: Minor standings losses from destroying faction ships
Single Pocket, Single Group (delayed autoaggro):
All ships are named as "Unidentified Mercenary Frigate / Cruiser". Exact ship types in spawns vary but numbers and hull size does not. Initial spawn:

5x Cruisers:

-2x Taibu State Bajo (last triggers Spawn 3)

-2x Taibu State Oni

-1x Taibu State Kanpaku

5x Frigates:

-2x Taibu State Wakizashi

-1x Taibu State Suriage

-1x Taibu State Shirasaya (triggers Spawn 1)

-1x Taibu State Katana

Spawn 1:
(1st frigate reinforcement) 4x Taibu State Wakizashi (last triggers Spawn 2)
Spawn 2:
(final frigate reinforcement) 2x Taibu State Shirasaya
1x Taibu State Suriage
Spawn 3:
(1st cruiser reinforcement) 3x Taibu State Tendai (last triggers Spawn 4)
Spawn 4:
(final cruiser reinforcement) 3x Taibu State Bajo
1x Taibu State Samurai (triggers Spawn 5)
Spawn 5:
2x Taibu State Shugo
1x Taibu State Daimyo
The mission is complete when you destroy all hostile ships, including all re-spawns. or Every Frigate and the first cruiser reinforcement spawn. Structures drop no loot. Tags:
Caldari Navy Captain Insignia II x5 Caldari Navy Captain Insignia III x7 Caldari Navy Commodore Insignia II x38 Blitz:
Kill all ships in "initial spawn" and "Spawn 3"