Rendezvous

Gallente epic arc - Syndication
Chapter 2 - Scoping The Scene
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Type	Encounter
Objective	Retrive 1x "Ralie Ardanne's Belongings" (1.0 m3)
Faction	Pator 6 (Minmatar/Gallente), The Syndicate
Best damage to deal	Ex Th (minmatr ships), Kin Th (gallente/Serpentis ships)
Damage to resist	Th Kin Ex
Warp disruption	Elite Frigates
EWAR	Energy neutralizing and target painting
Ship size limit	T2 Battlecruisers and below
Rewards	25,000,000 isk + time bonus

Mission briefing

The bug appears to be working well. We've been picking up a lot of messages from the Pator 6. For such a relatively small-time gang, they have quite a large network established. I don't know why we haven't noticed them earlier. We'll have to keep this bug going for a bit. There are a few breaking stories in there, or at least some info we could sell. While the Pator 6 has a rather large foothold throughout the region, we heard one system repeated over and over again: Palmon. I asked some of my sources in that system, and they sent me the coordinates of some sort of junkyard with a lot of traffic from unlicensed Minmatar pilots. I have a distinct feeling that the kid is there, or at least he was at one point... Hang on. We just intercepted a message from our bug. Looks like the Pator 6 is expecting company soon. Time to crash the party. See who the meeting is with, and try to bring back something we can pin on the gang. We need evidence that Ralie was there if we're going to bust this case open. Gotta warn you, though: A battleship won't be much good here. From what I've seen, they have a means of keeping battleships out of their hideouts. Thus, don't take one on this mission.

The acceleration gate at warpin is locked. Destroy all NPCs to unlock the gate. No Faction Standing loss for destroying these ships. At the deadspace entry point there are four heavy missile batteries and four Pator 6 cruisers. They can deal significant damage, along with neuting and some target painting, but no points. You don’t need to destroy the missile batteries (These give a 3.0% standing loss with the Syndicate faction).

Defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Cruiser Pator 6 Ambusher
	1 x Cruiser Pator 6 Veteran Ambusher
	4 x Sentry Pator 6 Heavy Missile Battery

First room

There are a lot of ships here: 10 cruisers and 11 frigates, a mix of Pator 6 and Syndicate. Fortunately, they are easy to kite in a frigate if you have an afterburner and do good damage from 10km or more. After all ships are destroyed, Agent gives instructions to destroy Pator 6 HQ Structure. Destroying Pator 6 HQ flags the mission completed. Retrive 1x "Ralie Ardanne's Belongings" (1.0 m3) and return to Agent.

Defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
Group 1 (36 km)
	3 x Frigate Pator 6 Frigate
	5 x Cruiser Pator 6 Cruiser
Group 2 (44 km)
	3 x Elite Frigate Pator 6 Elite Frigate
	3 x Cruiser Pator 6 Common Cruiser
Group 3 (48 km)
	3 x Frigate Syndicate Frigate
	2 x Elite Frigate Syndicate Elite Frigate
	2 x Cruiser Syndicate Cruiser