Operation Wyrmslayer

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Faction: Serpentis
Mission type: Encounter
Space type: Deadspace, no gates
Damage dealt: Kin/therm
Extras: Damp
Web/scramble: Stasis Towers.
Additional: Missile Batteries.
Recommended damage dealing: Kin/Therm
Recommended ship classes: Dominix/Ishtar with Logistics support (Dominix), speed tanking Ishtar with dual MAR, Active tanked Tengu
Recommended generic setup:

Single Pocket

Direct warp into ungated deadspace. Full room agro on first shot.

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You will see 2 groups of ships each consisting of:

2x Frigates, (Coreli Guardian Protector)
6x Battlecruiser, (Corelum Chief Infantry, Coreltis Wing Leader, Corelum Chief Infantry)
4x Battleships, (Core Grand Admiral)

Additionally there are 2 groups of towers each consisting of:

1x Serpentis Stasis Towers
4x Serpentis Heavy Missile Battery

The first timed spawn consists of about a dozen mixed frigates: some guardian, some not.

Destroying the non-elite (not Guardian) frigates of that spawn causes a random Shadow Serpentis Battleship to appear which must be killed to complete the mission.

After the frigate spawn there will finally be another tower spawn:

2x Serpentis Stasis Towers
8x Serpentis Cruise Missile Battery

Note that the time that this second tower spawn occurs is independent of the Shadow Serpentis spawn.

Blitz:
Shoot the initial frigs and the Maulus frigs that spawn in order to spawn the Shadow Serpentis BS. Kill this BS to trigger completion.

Notes:
- This mission is easy to solo and the lack of Neut towers makes it active tank friendly.
- The Shadow Serpentis BS can drop Snake implants and several Shadow Serpentis modules.
- Bounties from the rats are approx. 20 mil.
- The Stronghold takes very long to destroy and does not drop good loot.