The Mordus Headhunters (Level 4)

Type	Encounter
Objective	Destroy Mordu's Legion ships
Faction	Mordu's Legion
Best damage to deal	Kin EM
Damage to resist	Kin Th
Warp disruption	Elite frigates
Extra	Strong enemy battleships

Mission briefing

We have an unfortunate situation on our hands. One of our officers has apparently been targeted by a Mordu's assassination squad. We aren't sure who hired them, but we suspect that it's an internal dispute, i.e. they were hired by someone inside the Gallente Federation. We need the bounty hunters eliminated ASAP, before they are able to do any permanent damage. We would rather that the Gallente Federation's good relationship with the Mordus Legion will not be tainted by this incident, so keep it clean and leave no evidence of the battle behind if possible. The Mordus Legion are a powerful mercenary organization that we sometimes rely on, but obviously that does not deter all of their members from targeting our people if the price is right... Just a word of warning though, these Mordus goons are no laughing matter. Don't underestimate them.

Video: Cerberus, Rattlesnake, Nightmare, Vargur, Kronos, Gila, 20-03-2021]

The Mordus headhunters has some of the hardest combat among L4 missions. Each pocket of this mission involves drone aggro and proximity aggro groups. However, in each stage it's possible to position yourself so that you can happily take out at least the first group without aggro from the others. The battleships deal decent damage and have strong tank.

Blitz:

• 1st Pocket: Kill all the ships.
• 2nd Pocket: Kill the group 3 (with the Mordus Mammoth). To avoid getting stage aggro, fly towards the right edge of the group and wait until the group aggro your ship. You can then attack the ships without aggro from the rest of the room.

No hostiles at initial gate.

1st pocket

Group 1 autoaggo, groups 2 and 3 proximity aggro ships and drones.

		WD	EWAR	L
Group 1 (12-30 km)
	5 x Cruiser Mordus Leopard/Lion
	3 x Battleship Mordus Phanti/Gigamar/Sequestor
Group 2 (65-90 km, Minmatar Mining Station Ruins)
	4 x Frigate Mordus Gladius
	2 x Elite Frigate Mordus Bounty Hunter
	5 x Cruiser Mordus Puma/Lion
Group 3 (75-90 km, Minmatar Trade Station Ruins)
	6 x Frigate Mordus Katana/Gladius
	4 x Cruiser Mordus Bobcat
	2 x Battleship Mordus Sequestor

2nd pocket

Group 1 will auto aggro, other groups will proximity aggro.

		WD	EWAR	L
Group 1 (16-20 km, Veldspar Asteroid)
	8 x Frigate Mordus Sabre/Katana
	2 x Elite Frigate Mordus Bounty Hunter
Group 2 (30-70 km, left Gallente station ruin)
	5 x Frigate Mordus Gladius
	12 x Cruiser Mordus Bobcat/...
	5 x Battleship Mordus Sequestor/Phanti/Gigamar
Group 3 (80 km, right Gallente station ruin )
	4 x Frigate Mordus Katana
	5 x Cruiser Mordus Leopard/Lion
	3 x Battleship Mordus Sequestor/Mammoth
Group 4 (100 km, center Gallente station ruin)
	5 x Frigate Mordus Katana/Mordus Bounty Hunter
	2 x Elite Frigate Mordus Bounty Hunter
	8 x Cruiser Mordus Cheetah/Puma

Mining

1st Pocket: 14x Plagioclase, 8x Pyroxeres, and 29x Veldspar asteroids (26- 81km).
2nd Pocket: 21x Veldspar asteroids (17- 101km)
(Possibly out of date - No ores were present on the last run I did) (Confirmed that there were no ores present when I ran the mission on 2021/11/17)
(Promitheas Pyroforos confirms that there were no ores present when I ran the mission on 2022/07/10)

Notes

• Mission reward and mission reward bonus is approximately 2.3M
• Approximately 10 million in bounties.
• Approximately 5 million in loot.
• Approximately 1 million in salvage.
• Group 4 in the second pocket doesn't have to be killed to complete the mission. You can complete it by killing the other 3 groups.