Chemical Yard

Site Details

Chemical Yard
Type	Unrated Complex
Rating	Unrated
Found in	High
Max ship size	Cruiser T1/Faction
Faction	Rogue Drones
Best damage to deal	EM Th
Damage to resist	Ex Kin Th
Sig. strength	5% in High

Chemical Yard is an unrated combat site that can be found by Probe scanning in high and low security regions. The acceleration gates in site allow only T1 and pirate faction cruisers and below to enter.

Walkthrough

First Pocket

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Frigate Raider/Sunder Alvi
	7 x Elite Frigate Strain Infester Alvi
	2 x Cruiser Drone Guard

In local (reinforcement trigger)
reinforcement group present

Reinforcements arrive once all cruisers from initial defenders are destroyed.

Reinforcements

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Frigate Strain Hunter/Silverfish Alvi

Second Pocket

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The group nearest to warpin aggresses as you land. Destroying this group triggers commander wave. Destroying the reinforcement wave from group 3 is most likely second escalation trigger.

Each group aggresses when approached or attacked. Groups 3 and 4 are far enough that they will not aggress unless specifically approached and can be ignored. Group 4 spawns differently sometimes, it may have 2 cruisers and 2 battlecruisers or 3 cruisers.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
Group 1 nearest to warpin
	5 x Frigate Drone Harvester
Group 2
	5 x Frigate Digger Drone
Group 3
	3 x Elite Frigate Strain Infester Alvi
Group 4 (~60 km off)
	2 x Cruiser Bomber Alvum
	2 x Battlecruiser Defeater Alvatis

Commander wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Frigate Silverfish/... Alvi
	3 x Destroyer Marauder/... Alvior
	1 x Commander Destroyer Sentient Shredder Alvior

Reinforcement wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Frigate Silverfish/... Alvi
	2 x Elite Frigate Strain Barracuda/... Alvi

Loot

Commander and other valuable loot

Item Name	Est. Value	Note
Drone Parts		100% drop rate
Rogue Drone chips		From Sentient Shredder Alvior

Exploration logs

Date	Loot	Est. value	Comments
Nov 2014
Aug 2020	Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip	47.5 Million
Jan 2021	Rogue Drone 46-X Nexus Chip	47.5 Million

Escalation

This site can escalate to Hunting the Drudge Factory.

Hunting the Drudge Factory
As you decimate the last remnants of this rogue drone base, your sensors come across some old transportation data; lists of materials, modules, ships and locations. The only reason this is a kind of odd is that rogue drones usually are very self sufficient, making in situ what they need for their colonies. Perhaps this is nothing...