Emergency Aid

Main article: Homefront operation

Your aim is to keep a friendly target alive for 10 minutes. You can provide either shield boosts or armor repairs as you wish. You will have several rats on grid with you. Killing those rats simply results in new replacement rats spawning.

This means the Emergency Aid site can be run solely with Logistics ships. T1 Logistic cruisers like Ospreys or Augurors work well.

Fleet size & composition

Optimal fleet size: 5 ships
Fleet composition: T1 Cruisers (DPS), T1 Logistic Cruisers (Logi)

Type of ships allowed

This homefront operation takes place in a deadspace pocket with an acceleration gate that has ship restrictions.

Tech 1 frigates, navy and pirate frigates
Tech 1 destroyers, navy and pirate destroyers
Tech 1 cruisers
Tech 1 haulers, including Squall
Ventures

Note:

You can view in-game ship restrictions for each Homefront Operation by opening the Opportunities window (ALT+J) and double-clicking on a mission.

Homefront ship restrictions example

Mission parameters

Mission succes timer: 10 minutes
Friendly asset HP

Emergency Aid: Automated Factory - Mission Parameters
Emergency Aid: Clan Holding - Mission Parameters
Emergency Aid: Convoy - Mission Parameters

Emergency Aid in different empires

There are regional differences in the site’s description, hostile damage types or EWAR and friendlies.

WARNING: Ship fittings are region-specific. Each faction has unique resistances and damage types. An improper fit can cost you your ship.

Region	Site	Damage types	EWAR	Weakness	Friendlies	Enemy Faction
Amarr	Emergency Aid: Holy Mission	Th Ex	ECM	EM	Holy Mission	Disciples of Purity
Caldari	Emergency Aid: Convoy	Kin Th	ECM	EM	Charon Repatriator	Guristas
Gallente	Emergency Aid: Automated Factory	EM Th	Webs	Ex	Master Controller	Rogue Drones
Minmatar	Emergency Aid: Clan Holding	Ex Kin	Paints	EM	Clan Commons	Angel Cartel

Hostiles

A fleet consisting of frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers will be present upon arrival. They will concentrate their fire on one capsuleer ship at a time, beginning with the first vessel to enter the site, and may periodically switch targets as a group.

An exception applies to hostiles with the Corruptor, Extinction, Smuggler or Wrathful prefixes: these will immediately target any drones that are deployed, but will revert to attacking the currently focused capsuleer ship if no drones are present. It appears that they never switch aggro to another drone after they pick one.

Emergency Aid: Holy Mission
Prefix	Info	Weakness
Annihilating	Friendly aggro	EM
Shrouding	ECM	EM
Wrathful	Drone aggro	EM
Righteous	DPS	EM
Preaching	Logi	EM

Emergency Aid: Convoy
Prefix	Info	Weakness
Smuggler	Drone aggro	EM
Ransacker	Friendly aggro	EM
Blindsider	ECM	EM
Grim	DPS	EM
Sawbones	Logi	EM

Emergency Aid: Automated Factory
Prefix	Info	Weakness
Machinist	Logi	Ex
Extinction	Drone Aggro	Ex
Proliferator	DPS	Ex
Alienator	Webs	Ex
Vitiator	DPS	Ex

Emergency Aid: Clan Holding
Prefix	Info	Weakness
Corruptor	Drone aggro	EM
Devastation	Friendly aggro	EM
Malignant	Logi	EM
Persecutor	Paints	EM
Slayer	DPS	EM
Sundering	DPS	EM

Finding sites

Homefront operations are Cosmic Anomalies located in empire owned High Security systems, mostly focused around trade hubs or career agent systems.

Opportunities window > Homefront Operations tab: will render a list of the available homefronts within a limited range.
Agency window > Homefront Operations tab: will give you a more detailed filtering ability that allows you to search any region.
Probe Scanner > Displays all available anomalies in the system, including their distance in AU, with options to warp or align to them.

Opportunities > Homefront Operations
Agency > Homefront Operations
Probe Scanner > Homefront Anomalies

Rewards

Rewards for the Emergency Aid sites come in the form of ISK payouts on site completion. Payout amount follows the standard 5-pilot Homefront Operation payout structure, giving the maximum payout per pilot of 15,486,410 ISK with a fleet of 5.

To be eligible for payout, pilots need to contribute to the mission.

Dealing 1000 damage to hostiles
Remote shield or armor repair 1000 hp

Any pilots in the site who did not contribute will not get paid and will not count in the calculation for the rest of the fleet. For example, in a fleet of 5 if one pilot does not contribute, the remaining 4 pilots would be paid 11,614,810 ISK instead of 15,486,410 ISK.

Homefront Operation: 5 pilot mission ISK payout

Gallery

Emergency Aid: Automated Factory - Site Overview
Emergency Aid: Convoy - Site Overview
Emergency Aid: Clan Holding - Mission Defeat
Emergency Aid: Convoy - Friendly Under Fire
Emergency Aid: Convoy - Transmission: Mission Failure