Ruins

Site Details

Ruins
Type	Unrated Complex
Rating	Unrated
Found in	Low
Max ship size	Unverified
Pirate faction	Rogue Drones
Damage to deal	Varied
Damage to Resist	Varied
Sig. Strength	5% in Null Sec

Walkthrough

Single ungated pocket.

When you warp in only frigates are on site. Rest of the initial defenders spawn shortly. Only some of frigates with a different model have warp disruptors or webs.

Initial defenders

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Frigate Salvager Drone
	6 x Frigate Silverfish/Hunter Alvi
	2 x Elite Frigate Strain Render Alvi

Additional defenders on short timer

		WD	EWAR	L
	5 x Cruiser Infestious Drone

Additional defenders on timer

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Battleship Swarm Preserver Alvus

Wave #2

		WD	EWAR	L
	1-2 x Elite Frigate Strain Barracuda Alvi
	2 x Battleship Alvus Controller/Swarm Preserver Alvus

Wave #3

		WD	EWAR	L
	2-3 x Elite Frigate Strain Hunter/Silverfish Alvi
	2-3 x Battlecruiser Exterminator Alvatis

wave #4, commander wave

		WD	EWAR	L
	2 x Battlecruiser Striker/Exterminator Alvatis
	1 x Commander Battlecruiser Sentient Defeater Alvatis
	3 x Battleship Alvus Controller/Swarm Preserver Alvus

wave #5

		WD	EWAR	L
	3 x Elite Frigate Strain Sunder/Raider Alvi

Message in local:
We will move elsewhere.

Escalation

Menacing Mechanics:

This drone operation was so small that it could hardly be called a "hive", there were no substantial assembly plants or other major factories here. It looked more like a maintenance station, something that does not rhyme with what you have heard about drones and how they operate, as they usually are confined to self sufficient hives and perhaps operating small resource gathering satellite ops. But a drone maintenance station, servicing several other hives or passersby is almost unheard of. After scanning through the remaining debris, your instruments gather some service logs, further supporting the idea this was an open maintenance station. Most of the serviced ships seem to have been standard drone vessels, but you can also see some entries naming ships used by humans, even though it does not say anything about who was flying them. Some of the log entries contain extra notes on these customers and among them you find something that looks like coordinates in a system not too far away.

Site Details

Menacing Mechanics
Type	Expedition
Rating	Unrated
Found in	P1- P3 Low, P4 Null
Max ship size	Unverified
Pirate faction	Rogue Drones
Damage to deal	Varied
Damage to Resist	Varied
Sig. Strength	Escalate from Ruins

Can escalate to Menacing Mechanics.