Serpentis Vigil

Site Details

Serpentis Vigil
Type	Unrated Complex
Rating	Unrated
Found in	High, Low
Max ship size	Battlecruiser
Faction	Serpentis
Best damage to deal	Kin Th
Damage to resist	Th Kin
Sig. strength	2.5% in High

Serpentis Vigil is an unrated combat site belonging to the Serpentis Corporation pirate faction. It can be found via exploration by scanning anomalies in high security and low security systems. It is presumed that Battlecruisers (and their Tech 2 equivalents) are the maximum ship class allowed to enter the site. Completing this complex may award the player with valuable Shadow Serpentis faction modules, as well as Tech 2 implants.

This combat site consists of two deadspace complexes, the second of which hosts Tago Uriken, the site's overseer. Access to the second complex is given either by destroying the Core Drug Trader battlecruiser and all remaining hostile ships at the first complex, or by using a Serpentis Gold Tag to unlock the gate. Defeating Tago Uriken may escalate into the Booster R&D expedition.

On warp in:
Previous explorers have commented that one of the gates requires a passkey. Alternatively, it can be bypassed by convincing the commander to unlock it.

Walkthrough

First Room

The gate in first room can be unlocked by killing all ships. Note that even though the message after Drug Trader is killed suggests that the gate unlocks you still need to kill all remaining ships. Very rarely no Drug Trader spawns and a serpentis gold tag is required to proceed.

Astero

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	1-3 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Safeguard/Protector
	5-6 x Battlecruiser Corelatis Captain/Platoon Leader

There are three spawns that appear to be timed.

Spawn #2

		WD	EWAR	L
	2-3 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Patroller/Watchman
	1-2 x Destroyer Coreli Cannoner

Spawn #3

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Battlecruiser Core Drug Trader

Message on Drug Trader death:
Strange sounds emit from the acceleration gate as soon as the Core Drug Trader vessel is destroyed. Perhaps the locking mechanism was in some way connected with the ship's computer.

Message on fourth spawn:
Core ships have undocked from the nearby Serpentis Hangars, with guns flaring.

Spawn #4

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Elite Frigate Coreli Guardian Patroller/Watchman
	2 x Destroyer Coreli Cannoner

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	1 x Acceleration Gate
	1 x Serpentis Hangar
	30 x Plagioclase
	16 x Pyroxeres
	45 x Veldspar

Second room

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Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	5-7 x Battlecruiser Corelatis High Captain / Captain Sentry
	3 x Sentry Tower Sentry Serpentis III

Overseer Spawn appears after destroying one of the sentry towers.

Message after destroying one of the sentries:
Tago Uriken: Arg, do you know how expensive those sentry guns are? You just cost me a fortune! I'll have your head mounted on a pig-pole for that, scumbag.

Overseer Spawn

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Frigate Tago's Escorter
	2-3 x Destroyer Corelior Infantry
	1 x Commander Cruiser Tago Uriken
	2 x Battlecruiser Corelatis Captain Sentry

Structures

		WD	EWAR	L
	102 x Veldspar

Escalation

This site can escalate to Booster R&D.

Expeditions: Booster R&D

Going through the items found in the Serpentis outpost, you notice some unused boosters still in their original packs complete with documentation and bear the seal of the Serpentis Corporation. The documentation notes further that these boosters as "Field Test" material and not for common consumption and at the bottom there is ordering info, stating item number and the makers electronic address. Feeling it is worth a shot, you set your communication instruments to emulate those of the Serpentis facility you just laid to waste, feed in the booster factory addy and hit send. And lo and behold, you get an instant reply, a sleepy sounding female voice says "SC medical research 504, good day. How may I help you? Oh! It is Vigil 15? I have a message for you from the supply office, they say you are late. Get to G5, pick up the materials and get here as soon as possible" She adds information on the location and tells you to talk to Nadir, also at G5 if there is anything. And with that she is off the air.